Proverbs like the sacred books...

Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, ...

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,--
Can your lurking thought surprise,
And interpret your device,
. . . .
All things wait for and divine him,--
How shall I dare to malign him?

The gift, to be true, must be ...

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him.

Send them into everlasting Cov...

Send them into everlasting Coventry.

The true poem is the poet's mi...

The true poem is the poet's mind.

For it is not metres, but a me...

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.

It does not need that a poem s...

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem.

The finest poetry was first ex...

The finest poetry was first experience.

Go put your creed into your de...

Go put your creed into your deed,
Not speak with double tongue.

The charm of the best courages...

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions,
inspirations, flashes of genius.

The greatest man in history wa...

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Alas for the unhappy man that ...

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit,
and not give the bread of life.

And striving to be Man, the wo...

And striving to be Man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.

With every passing hour our so...

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation
Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist
that there is no such thing as progress.

One thing is forever good;

One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success.

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Born for success, he seemed

Born for success, he seemed
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that took all eyes.

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If the single man plant himsel...

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and
there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

If a man has good corn, or woo...

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his
house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments

The passages of Shakespeare th...

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted
until within this century.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Nor sequent centuries could hi...

Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.