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Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.
Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.
And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.
I salute my desires with a bow. were it not for them to come and play mind would be empty just like me.
There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.
Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.
Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream
There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.
Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.
When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.
What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.
In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.
All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.
Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.
If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.
You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way
The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.
The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.
Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.
I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!
There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!
Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.
O you beast! I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, That you shall think the devil is come from hell.
A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!
But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat.
Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.
But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!
Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.
Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.