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Quotes by Poet
"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers."
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"I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened."
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"The hearts that never lean must fall."
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"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
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"And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw."
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"Enjoy every bit of your life to the fullest. Your compromises and sacrifices will be rewarded."
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"Already the ripening barberries are redAnd the old asters hardly breathe in their beds.The man who is not rich now as summer goesWill wait and wait and never be himself.The man who cannot quietly close his eyescertain that there is vision after vision inside,simply waiting for nighttimeto rise all around him in darkness-it's all over for him, he's like an old man.Nothing else will come; no more days will openand everything that does happen will cheat him.Even you, my God. And you are like a stonethat draws him daily deeper into the depths."
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"For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen."
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"Meditation consists of generating three kinds of energy: mindfulness, concentration, and insight. These three energies give us power to nourish happiness and take care of our suffering. Suffering may be there. But with the energy of mindfulness, concentration, and insight, we can embrace and take care of that suffering and nourish happiness at the same time."
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"Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong."
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"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."
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"The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot."
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"I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out."
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"His imagination seemed still to exhaust itself in running, before it tried to leap the ditch. While he mused, the fire burned in other brains. Other hands wrote the books he dreamed about. He freely used his good ideas in conversation, and in letters; and they were straightway wrought into the texture of other men's books, and so lost to him for ever."
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"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."
Man,
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"Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety."
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"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"
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"I burn a hole through everything I stare, and it happens when I stand in front of the mirror too."
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"The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing."
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"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."
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"Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings."
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"Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment."
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