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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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.

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.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

In dreams begins responsibility.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

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.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

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

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, 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.

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

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

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