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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.
While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.
To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that.
I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.
The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.
I am a secular rationalist Nationalist proud Indian who is inconvenient to both Hindu and Muslim communalists.
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.
If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
As humans, we're so easily persuaded. We join this cause or that cause, and suddenly the other thing is wrong.
Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?
Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.
Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.
Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.
What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?
I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.
Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.
The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.
…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?