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to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
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What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
Fixed me in this parenthesis;
Horses fluent in the wind,
A place, a time gone out of mind.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, read more
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
It's the things I might have said that fester.
It's the things I might have said that fester.