"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

Design, Wisdom, Thought, Action

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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

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"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

Man

"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."

God

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

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"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all."

Hope

"In dreams begins responsibility."

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"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."

Politics

"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."

Thought

"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."

Poetry

"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

Love

"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"

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