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The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.
It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?
I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.
The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.
Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Blessed are those who imitate us for they shall inherit our faults.
The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate.
It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.
The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.
When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.
In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.
A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.
We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.
It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.