- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
- Best Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
- Dancer
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
In dreams begins responsibility.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
- Intensity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
And say my glory was I had such friends.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
- Ceaseless
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
An intellectual hatred is the worst.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020