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Satisfy a few to please many is bad.
The dream is short, repentance long.
Bad men do what good men only dream.
All good things must come to an end.
Murder will out, this my conclusion.
There is no heaven like mutual love.
Step by step the ladder is ascended.
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
An old cat sports not with her prey.
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
You cannot know wine by the barrell.
Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.
God sends cold according to clothes.
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
The morning Sunne never lasts a day.
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
To a great night, a great Lanthorne.
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
Your world is as big as you make it.
Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
Where words leave off, music begins.
God will pardon me. It is His trade.
I was always influenced by language.
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
Who longest wait of all surely wins.
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
The young may die, but the old must!
In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.
I can think. I can wait. I can fast.
Get money first; virtue comes after.
He is not poor who has a competency.
A man of refined taste and judgment.
Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
There is nothing assured to mortals.
To know all things is not permitted.
Plant no other tree before the vine.
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
All unbelief is the belief of a lie.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
I have a plot, but not much happens.
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
I am not so think as you drunk I am.
Amazement awaits us at every corner.
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
My soul is not a palace of the past.
May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
I close my eyes, and think of water.
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.