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- Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon…
- All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
- The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted…
- Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
- In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate…
- All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will…
- Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward…
- The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be…
- All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,…
- A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
- Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
- Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
- The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I…
- I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
- Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
- Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun…
- One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men…
- Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.…
- Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided…
- The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
- What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?
- That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,…
- So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers…
- Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a…
- When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle