If you had taken off the shoe ...

If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in
what part it pinched you.
[Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te
urgeret.]

Art and power will go on as th...

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of
night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Ants never sleep....

Ants never sleep.

Burly, dozing humblebee,
...

Burly, dozing humblebee,
Where thou art is clime for me.
Let them sail for Porto Rique,
Far-off heats through seas to seek.
I will follow thee alone,
Thou animated torrid-zone!

Seeing only what is fair,

Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
. . . .
Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.

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Out from the heart of nature r...

Out from the heart of nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old.

The word unto the prophet spok...

The word unto the prophet spoken
Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:
The word by seers or sibyls told,
In groves of oak or fanes of gold,
Still floats upon the morning wind,
Still whispers to the willing mind.

God offers to every mind its c...

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.

For the world was built in ord...

For the world was built in order
Around the atoms march in tune;
Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder,
The sun obeys them, and the moon.

Olympian bards who sung
...

Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.

He who has a thousand friends ...

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

When Shakespeare is charges wi...

When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor
replies, 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He
breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.'
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

It has come to be practically ...

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that
a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is
entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at
discretion.

Every sweet hath its sour, eve...

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

There is no teaching until the...

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same
state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place;
he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no
unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the
benefit.

Echo waits with art and care

Echo waits with art and care
And will the faults of song repair.

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Give no bounties: make equal...

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity
and you need not give alms.

Want is a growing giant whom t...

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
enough to cover.

A foolish consistency is the h...

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

With consistency a great soul ...

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . .
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and
to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though
it contradict everything you said to-day.