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For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane
Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.
Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.
The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.
It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)
To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.
When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.
Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.
Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.
Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.
My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.
Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.
Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.
Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.
Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.
I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.