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Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?
Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.
They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
When it's cold & dark at night, and we're alone together, I long to take you in my arms, and cuddle you forever.
I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.
How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.
The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
The race may or may not be to the swift, but tell me, is it likely that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.
I saw God! Do you doubt it? Do you dare to doubt it? I saw the Almighty Man! His hand Was resting on a mountain!
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.
I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.
I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.
If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.
The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.
When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.
If anything needs love it is reality, for it is reality that lacks it the most - I doubt that it was ever loved.