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The splendid discontent of God
With chaos made the world.
Source: Discontent,...
There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.
Source: In...
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that flow.
'Tis the set of sails and not...
Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will...
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its...
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Source: In The Speaker's...
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Source:...
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm...
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left...
Come forth into the light of things, Let nature be your Teacher.
Source: The Tables...
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Source:...
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or...
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of...
Neither evil tongues,
Rash judgements, nor the sneers of selfish men,
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor...
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every...
Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make...
A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has...
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Source: In...