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And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.
Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.
The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just.
Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.
When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.
Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.
But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.
Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.
The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.
I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel
You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.
When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long.
stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands.
Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside
Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.