All Quotes · Page 161
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“Evil seems good, soon or late, to him whose mind the god draws to mischief.”
“There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.”
“Knowledge must come through action; thou canst have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”
“Whosoever knows how to render benefit for benefit must prove a friend above price.”
“Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.”
“I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
“For everything that's lovely is but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight.”
“Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.”
“I would be — for no knowledge is worth a straw — Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.”
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”
“Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.”
“An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed.”
“Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or woman lost?”
“Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?”