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The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day. Be famous then
By wisdom; as thy empire must...
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a...
The other shape,
If shape it might be called that shape had none.
Source:...
The troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming.
Source: Paradise Lost, Preface: The...
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
Source: Samsom Agonistes,...
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
Source: In...
If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
Some of the greatest love affairs I've known involved one actor, unassisted.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in...
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery -- even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly...
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value...
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither...
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from...
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
Source: The Picture of Little T.C. in a...
Self-preservation, nature's first great law,
All the creatures, except man, doth awe.
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.
Source: The...
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough...
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.