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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:  That word is Love.
-Sophocles

Shallow men believe in luck.
-Emerson

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on;
Judge not the play before the play is done:
Her plot hath many changes;  every day
Speaks a new scene;  the last act crowns the play.
-Francis Quarles

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; 
It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
-Shakespeare

One was never married, and that's his hell;
another is,  And that's his plague.
-Rob Burton

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane,
Clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
-Thomas Hobbes

The magic of a face.
-Thomas Carew

He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient
poets,  had the largest and most comprehensive soul.
-Dryden

The way you express your love of people is to give quality.
-Stanley Crouch

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and
the truth of imagination."
-John Keats

All love is sweet, Given or Returned.
Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever
They who inspire it most are fortunate,
As I am now, but those who feed it most
Are happier still.
-Shelley

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time;
The articulate audible voice of the Past,
When the body and material substance of it has
Altogether vanished like a dream.
-Carlyle

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
-Shelley

An idea, in the highest sense of the word, cannot be conveyed
But by a symbol.
-Coleridge

Beware the fury of a patient man.
-Dryden

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity.
It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts,
And appear almost as a remembrance.
-Keats

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and
The hour of my death.  O that I could have possession of them
Both in the same minute.
-Keats [to Fanny Brawne]

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end,
burn Human beings.
-Heinrich Heine

Every woman is the gift of a world to me.
-Heinrich Heine

Mark this well, you proud men of action:  you are nothing
But the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in
Quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings
In advance.
-Heinrich Heine

"Temptations can be got rid of."  "How?"   "By yielding to them."
- Balzac

O bed!  O bed!  Delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
-Thomas Hood

Oh!  Poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain;
It keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.
-Mary Howitt

Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom;
Lead thou me on!
The night is dark, and I am far from home;
Lead thou me on!
Keep thou my feet:  I do not ask to see
The distant scene;  one step enough for me.
-John Henry Cardinal Newman

Popularity?  It is glory's small change.
-Victor Hugo

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
-Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society
Of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
-Emerson

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
-Emerson

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
-Emerson

Time the consoler.  Time the rich
Carrier of all changes, dries the freshest
Tears by obtruding new figures, new costumes,
New roads on our eye, new voices on our ear.
-Emerson

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material
Force, that thoughts rule the world.
-Emerson

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
-Emerson

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
-Emerson

Everything comes if a man, will only wait.
-Disraeli

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-Friedrich Halm

A feeling of sadness and longing
That is not akin to pain.
-Longfellow

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
-Longfellow

Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute,
Which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion
To test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
The Black Cat
-Poe

Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively
Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?
-Poe

What!  Out of senseless Nothing to provoke
A conscious Something to resent the yoke?
-Edward Fitzgerald

A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.
-Tennyson

This is the truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
-Tennyson

O love, thy kiss would wake the dead!
-Tennyson

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
-Tennyson

Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill.
-Tennyson

Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain;
And sweet is death who puts an end to pain.
-Tennyson

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets, it has such
Affinity with the soul of man
-Theodore Parker

Would you have your songs endure?
Build on the human heart.
-Robert Browning

Oh, the little more, and how much it is!
And the little less, and what worlds away!
-Browning

Why stay we on the earth except to grow?
-Browning

Talk of mysteries!  Think of our life in nature - daily to
Be shown matter, to come in contact with it - rocks, trees, wind
On our cheeks!  The solid earth!  The actual world!  The
Common sense!  Contact!  Contact!
Who are we?  Where Are we?
-Thoreau

Love your life, poor as it is.  You may perhaps have some
Pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.  The setting
Sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly
As from the rich man's abode.
-Thoreau

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
-James Lowell

Taste is the only morality Tell me what you like,
and I'll tell you what you are.
-John Ruskin

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free
And own no superior?
-Whitman

War is at best barbarism Its glory is all moonshine.  It is only those
Who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the
Wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.
War is hell.
-William Sherman

Young blood doth not obey an old decree:
We cannot cross the cause why we were born.
-Shakespeare

To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the
Most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
-Henri-Frederic Amiel

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode
Of saying things, and hence its importance.
-Matthew Arnold

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love,
interest, and Admiration.
-Matthew Arnold

Didn't the Founder say that the outcast is the free soul,  The child of God?
-Ursula Le Guin

That power which erring men call chance.
-John Milton

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
 -Wendell Philips