All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
William Shakespeare
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The righteous man, to make him daily fall?
Were not, tha...
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William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Brief as the lightning in the collied night;
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,<...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wouldn’t put it past you,” Kaldar said. “Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?”
ILONA ANDREWS Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid
(as we're inclined to do),
I do not need a handsome man RUTH BELL GRAHAM You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.
All life does.
LESLEY LIVINGSTON The Rider
A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness c...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
wome...
LEONARD COHEN I will open my mouth in a parable
I will utter dark sayings of old.
Things that we have heard...
BIBLE The Little Boy and the Old Man
Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Sai...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality
EMILY DICKINSON You’ll have sweet dreams?” he asked quietly and sounding like he cared, a lot.
God b...
KRISTEN ASHLEY My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
S...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Dear Fellow Human Being,
You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!
Te...
JASZ GILL For strangely graven
Is the orb of life, that one and another
In gold and power may outp...
EURIPIDES A Woman's Question
Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by t...
JOSHUA HARRIS There's many a boy here today that looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.
G...
JOHN PODLASKI I thought you told me you loved stories Have you ever heard a story of an adventurer with a sane pla...
SABAA TAHIR I must admit that I haven't heard of the Duchess of Erat before."
"You're a fortunate man," Wol...
DAVID EDDINGS Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
...
JOHN KEATS Dear Fellow Human Being,
You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!
Te...
JASZ GILL Barter
Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
SARA TEASDALE The evening sky is gold and vast.
I’m soothed by April’s cool caress.
You’re late. T...
ANNA AKHMATOVA To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, an...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Behold,
A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
B...
WILFRED OWEN The Son of God perishes that we may not perish.
He rises that we may rise.
Tha...
DAVID HOLDSWORTH I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his ho...
MARGUERITE OGDEN BIGELOW WILKINSON Magic
Sandra’s seen a leprechaun,
Eddie touched a troll,
Laurie danced with witches...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN But what's worth more than gold?"
"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heav...
TERRY PRATCHETT Or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the musi...
T.S. ELIOT With Cats, some say, one rule is true:
Don’t speak till you are spoken to.
Myself, I do ...
T.S. ELIOT just heard a commercial
which told me
Farmer John smokes his own
bacon.
now, the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You do not have to be beautiful.
You do not even have to be intelligent.
All you have to d...
KAMAND KOJOURI 'Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air,
I heard a maid making her moan;
Said, ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living<...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Are you all right?” he asked Olivia. His heart was still racing with terror that she’d been hurt...
JULIA QUINN I had an accident."
"That seemes to happen a lot."
"It wasn't my fault."
...
RICHELLE MEAD This man has talent, that man genius
And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent g...
W.H. DAVIES THE ONE WHO STAYED
You should have heard the old men cry,
You should have heard the biddie...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I wen...
MARY OLIVER Said the little boy, Sometimes I drop my spoon.
Said the little old man, I do that too.
The li...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN THE BEST SINGERS ARE THOSE
WHO WERE TOLD BY "LIFE"
THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE A
REASON T...
QWANA M. "BABYGIRL" REYNOLDS-FRASIER Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid."
"What do you think?" his father as...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We often fear that the Revolution needed is too big for what we can give.
Too much change is re...
LUCY H. PEARCE I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.
You ask me what to do about t...
IDRIES SHAH The search began 10 years ago
To find a nasty viscous foe
They searched in caves and under...
PAPA G. THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE
Before you examine the body of a patient,
Be patient to lear...
SUZY KASSEM There is still one of which you never speak.'
Marco Polo bowed his head.
'Veni...
ITALO CALVINO My visage high above your city,
Shines like gold, but half as pretty.
Arms I've none, but ...
MEGAN FRAZER BLAKEMORE When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And When his win...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
Have I...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The rose has told
In one simplicity
That never life
Relinquishes a bloom
But to ...
NATHALIA CRANE Let My worship be in the
heart that rejoices, for behold,
all acts of love and pleasure DOREEN VALIENTE How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked.
I looked at her not knowing how t...
JULIE METZ Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror refle...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI "I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
...
ALLAMA IQBAL I know you think I am a bad
boy, a bad dog, Bang-Bang told him
with a pointed stare. He pl...
SUSAN GRANT you are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highw...
WARSAN SHIRE Looking for Your Face
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The houses have been condemned on Memory Lane
I’m tired of this struggle that leaves everythi...
DAVID LEVITHAN Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No I did not call in sick to work today
No I'm not out hanging with my friends
There's no ...
COLBIE CAILLAT Good folk, I have no coin,
To take were to purloin:
I have no copper in my purse,
I h...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Sending out the Disciples
Luke 10
1: AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED O...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN A Work of Art
... is not a living thing ...
that walks or runs.
But the making of a life...
LOUIS KAHN I cry often.
I cry and cleanse my
face with my tears and
swim to the center
...
A.P. SWEET Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do you think you might be able to love me someday?" He asked and heard her laugh softly.
...
JASMINE DUBROFF An Irish Airman foresees his Death
I Know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere amon...
W.B. YEATS The Way It Is
There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But i...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
"Yes."
"You called her a liar?"
"...
J.K. ROWLING It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to...
ROMAN PAYNE It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to...
ROMAN PAYNE Captain, you have heard the charges. How do you plead? Before you answer, you should know that if yo...
HOWARD TAYLER [I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at ...
HOMER I can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
d...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe i...
JOHN FOWLES Is it odd, my love,
that I envy others
who have not met you
for the intoxication t...
KAMAND KOJOURI Have to Find
...life
...is
...a—
...gamble
...after
...all.
ELLEN HOPKINS I yet beseech your majesty,--
If for I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose n...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gilded spiral
Of longings within.
Our very own cathedral
That points persistently...
SCOTT HASTIE Put on what weary negligence you please,
You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,
Making i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE String of love
Universe surrounds you
The Saints kneels to you
My freezin...
JHUNMAR SIMILA Take a trip in my mind
see all that I've seen,
and you'd be called a
beast, not a hum...
EDWARD HUMES Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?'
'Yes,' said Harry.
'You ca...
J.K. ROWLING HARRY: Voldemort is going to kill my mum and dad — and there’s nothing I can do to stop him.
J.K. ROWLING How do you feel when you want to stand and you see yourself on the floor?
Sometimes what God wi...
PATIENCE JOHNSON WHAT IS TRUTH?
Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM Magnus glared at him out of gold-green eyes. “If I wanted to lie on a couch and
complain to s...
CASSANDRA CLARE Beauty is frightening," they will tell you —
Lazily you will arrange
A Spani...
ALEXANDER BLOK gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold"
'Is there a chorus?'
"Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold".' ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
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an old tale that the verity of it ...
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And the...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears;
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(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
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What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
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Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
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Many a man his life hath sold;
...
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That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut lo...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE