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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.
Exuberance is beauty.
He who bends to himself a joy<
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity's sun rise.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and only eating the top half of each one.
Never rail at the world, it is just as we make it,- We see not the flower if we sow not the seed; And as for ill-luck, why, it's just as we take it,- The heart that's in earnest no bars can impede.
Time to me this truth has taught, (Tis a treasure worth revealing) More offend from want of thought Than from want of feeling.
Weakness is Death
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.
No one knows what he can do until hetries.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of "the Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide.
Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware! Suffer not their shadow to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness will absorb thy being before thou hast well realized the black foul monster's presence.
The Lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual?s body.
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.
Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Advice you take from me comes to you crutched<
Property is not theft, but a good deal of theft becomes property.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
Fear is the mother of foresight.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Ah! curst ambition! to thy lures we o
A bird in the hand is safer thantwo overhead. All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
I am a part of all that I have met.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
He never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example of himself.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor?s art infinite.
I know what love is. It?s understanding. It?s you and me and let the rest of the world go by. Just the two of us living our lives together happily and proudly. No self-torture and no doubt. It?s enduring and it?s everlasting. Nothing can change it. Nothing can change us, Ollie. That?s what I think love is.
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
The play is done; the curtain dro
?T is said that absence conquers lo
The thrush in my back yard sings down his nose in liquid runs of melody, over and over again, and I have the strongest impression that he does this for his own pleasure. It is a meditative, questioning kind of music, and I cannot believe that he issimply saying "thrush here."
The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoary wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair.
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
'Tis easier for the generous to forgi
Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter; Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

Exuberance is beauty.

He who bends to himself a joy<

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity's sun rise.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and only eating the top half of each one.

Never rail at the world, it is just as we make it,- We see not the flower if we sow not the seed; And as for ill-luck, why, it's just as we take it,- The heart that's in earnest no bars can impede.

Time to me this truth has taught, (Tis a treasure worth revealing) More offend from want of thought Than from want of feeling.

Weakness is Death

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.

No one knows what he can do until hetries.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.

Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of "the Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.

When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide.

Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware! Suffer not their shadow to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness will absorb thy being before thou hast well realized the black foul monster's presence.

The Lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual?s body.

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.

Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Advice you take from me comes to you crutched<

Property is not theft, but a good deal of theft becomes property.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Ah! curst ambition! to thy lures we o

A bird in the hand is safer thantwo overhead. All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

I am a part of all that I have met.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

He never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example of himself.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor?s art infinite.

I know what love is. It?s understanding. It?s you and me and let the rest of the world go by. Just the two of us living our lives together happily and proudly. No self-torture and no doubt. It?s enduring and it?s everlasting. Nothing can change it. Nothing can change us, Ollie. That?s what I think love is.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

The play is done; the curtain dro

?T is said that absence conquers lo

The thrush in my back yard sings down his nose in liquid runs of melody, over and over again, and I have the strongest impression that he does this for his own pleasure. It is a meditative, questioning kind of music, and I cannot believe that he issimply saying "thrush here."

The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoary wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

'Tis easier for the generous to forgi

Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter; Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.