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For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.
Topic: May
Author: John Lydgate
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
Topic: Theater
Not worth the paper it's written on.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Topic: Death
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. - The Tempation to Exist.
Author: E M Cioran
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.
Topic: Boating
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
Topic: Instinct
The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see: Those be rubies, fairy favors; In those freckles live their savors.
Topic: Cowslips
The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.
Topic: Devil
Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Topic: Egotism
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.
Topic: Night
If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.
Topic: Dogs
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
Topic: Growth
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Topic: Contrast
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
Topic: Ideas
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.
Topic: Devil
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Topic: Experience
'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.
Topic: Wooing
Author: Bidpai