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You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange.
You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.
Your heart mirrors not His love, Rusty with your sins it is, Remove this rust and you shall Perceive how Glorious He is.
If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.
Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!
Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.
Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.
There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.
Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain.... at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.
I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end.
One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.
Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs.
I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be easie.
I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.
I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.
As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"
Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.
Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.
Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.
August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.
Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?
come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.
But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.
In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.