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The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed.
East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.
The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din?
Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past!
I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door! Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole!
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist.
A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent
Dark-heaving;—boundless, endless, and sublime— The image of Eternity.
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.
It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd, To think their dolour others have endur'd.
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.