Soldier, scholar, horseman, he, As 'twere all life's epitome. What made us dream that he could comb grey hair?
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye....
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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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Two girls in silk kimonos, both Beautiful, one a gazelle.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.
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Caught in that sensual music all neglect monuments of unaging intellect
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, and what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magic illusions in the visions of truth in the depths of the minds when the eyes are closed.
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Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;...
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions
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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,And dream about the great and their pride;They have spoken against you everywhere,But weigh this song with the great and their pride;I made it out of a mouthful of air,Their children's children shall say they have lied.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills,...
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Ah! when the ghost begins to quicken, Confusion of the death-bed over, is it sent...
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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But all is changed, that high horse riderless, Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode...
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
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A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
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I am content to live it all again, And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
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The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Funny
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.
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And say my glory was I had such friends.
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All shuffle there; all cough in ink;All wear the carpet with their shoes;All think what other people think;All know the man their neighbour knows,Lord, what would they sayDid their Catullus walk that way?
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To live is like to love—all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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