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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
Author: Bertolt Brecht
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Topic: Death
Author: Leonardo Da Vinci
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. - The Tempation to Exist.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: E M Cioran
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.
Topic: Boating
Author: Andrew Marvell
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
Topic: Instinct
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
Author: William Shakespeare
The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.
Topic: Devil
Author: Thomas Fuller M D
Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Topic: Egotism
Author: Barbara Stanwyck
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Nathaniel Branden
A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.
Topic: Night
Author: Samoan Proverb
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
Author: Phil Pastoret
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
Topic: Growth
Author: Johann Christoph Von Schiller
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Topic: Contrast
Author: Samuel Johnson
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
Topic: Ideas
Author: J Arthur Thomson
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.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.
Topic: Devil
Author: Minna Thomas Antrim
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Topic: Experience
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer