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In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.
A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.
Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to do all that you could not do unloved.
Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.
Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.
The move to hide aging is sort of sad. But it's a wonderful thing to celebrate our aging.
Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley.
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.
But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings!
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.
He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.
Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.
License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.
The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.