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To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.
One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.
Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!
Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.
The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.
It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.
The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.
Carry on! Carry on! Fight the good fight and true; Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer.
You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.
I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'
But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.
Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people
Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.
Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.
Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.
Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.
Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless!
It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.