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The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.
There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.
It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.
Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
It is a profound mistake to think that every thing has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.
Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger.
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.
Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.
Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.
The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.
Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.
Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.
Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.