"Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?"

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"Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?"

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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"Silence is the wit of fools."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future."

David Gerrold, American Writer

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"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that."

John le Carre, English Writer

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"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

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"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it."

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"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it."

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"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."

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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

"Silence is the wit of fools."

"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."

"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

"I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future."

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

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"But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space."

"More than kisses, letters mingle souls."

"But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner."

"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it."

"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right."

"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it."

"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."

"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."