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Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.
Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.
On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.
Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.
Cold metal walks across my forehead, spiders search for my heart. It is a light that goes out in my mouth.
"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]
He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]
Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. [Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. [When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.
O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.
Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.
See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!
Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.
I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough
Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.
We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.