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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]
Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.
We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.
The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]
Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.
In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor
I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.
He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.
You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.
Wherever something is "pinned down" there's a little hole - at least one - more likely many.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.