Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
The sewer is the conscience of the city.
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
Labor is life; thought is light.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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