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It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.
You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.
Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.
The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.
Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.
I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.
A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.
It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .
When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.
Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.
You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.
Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir.
Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.
The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.
Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.