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But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.
We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.
Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.
No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.
In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?
There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.
The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate is sorrow
Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.
What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.
I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.
I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.
We accept the love we think we deserve. please help me to recognize the truth about myself,no matter how beautiful it is.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.
If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.
I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.
I'm quite good on the harmonica and can get a tune out of most musical instruments, so long as the tune is 'Oh Susannah.'
Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.
I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.
This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.