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Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.
That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.
I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.
Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.
Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.
The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.
Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.
Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.
It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.
Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, "where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?
Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.
The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.
It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.
This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.
Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.
It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.
Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.