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Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.
The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.
Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.
Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
Un auteur ga" te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.
A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.
True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.
Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.
People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.
From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.
So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
Many people talk as if they have all the answers, whereas I know I don't. That's probably why no one listens to me.
Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.
Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.
There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.
Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.
The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.
Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.