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'T is better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perked up in a glistering grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.


William Shakespeare

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Inventory:

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
DOROTHY PARKER William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespe...
JOHN KEATS There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
DANTE ALIGHIERI Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if for cold it hap to die,
We'll bury 't in a Christm...
GEORGE WITHER 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON The King beneath the mountains,
The King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE -Desiderata-

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may...
MAX EHRMANN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE My featherbed is deep and soft,
and there I’ll lay you down,
I’ll dress you all in yel...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow.
Though I'll not sleep this night
N...
ANNE MCCAFFREY That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pe...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Inequality and poverty, health and wealth are hand in hand.
And if we are all born equal that ...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand.
And if we are all born equal ...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery--
DANTE ALIGHIERI I shall know by the gleam and glitter
Of the golden chain you wear,
By your heart's calm str...
ADELAIDE PROCTOR O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where the...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI HYMN OF THE DIVINE DANDELION

I am born as the sun,
But then turn into the moon, SUZY KASSEM If grief or anger arises,
Let there be grief or anger.
This is the Buddha in all forms,
...
JACK KORNFIELD Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON Discipline

I am old and I have had
more than my share of good and bad.

I'...
MERYL GORDON Look on beauty,
And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;
Which therein works a mira...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first sorrow of autumn is the slow good-bye of the garden that stands so long in the evening—a...
TED HUGHES My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.
DANTE ALIGHIERI Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labor...
MAX EHRMANN In a feast of fame and talks,
Scandal flashing, raising tongue and brows.
In a blast of bo...
ANGELICA HOPES ...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
ZORICA SAVRON Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are wa...
SANOBER KHAN The guilt you felt
when you were smiling
and others were suffering,
the guilt you ...
KAMAND KOJOURI grief is a house
where the chairs
have forgotten how to hold us
the mirrors how to re...
JANDY NELSON Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is n...
LAO TZU The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Not to be born at all
Is best, far best that can befall,
Next best, when born, with least ...
SOPHOCLES In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG I hold it true,what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lo...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved a...
ALFRED TENNYSON there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI leave me a smile
just warm enough...
to spend a million
golden afternoons in.
SANOBER KHAN Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God’s vessel
When God is finished molding me, I will be a beautiful vessel in his hands.
ELLEN JEAN BARRIER And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in
a merry hour.
BEA...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
SUZANNE COLLINS . . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us....
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbe...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW won't you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
b...
LUCILLE CLIFTON 7 Rules to a Happy Life:

1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT oh, how bitter
how bitter silent
the bewildered sorrow
of a texture too thick
to...
ANNA JAE Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good
death is better than a poor one.
MICHAEL MOORCOCK To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the begi...
OMAR KHAYYáM If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
Fo...
ROBERT BROWNING HAMILTON I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if...
WALT WHITMAN The man that is not moved with what he reads,
That takes not fire at their heroic deeds,
Unw...
WILLIAM COWPER The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -
But the pain of grief
Is only a s...
HILARY STANTON ZUNIN Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and gre...
H.L. MENCKEN Child of shadows, once born of flesh
Un-winged, amidst fear and agony

‘Fraid of th...
ZUBAIR AHSAN To every thig there is a season,a time for every purpose under the sun.
A time to be born,
ANONYMOUS For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand.
-Peeta
SUZANNE COLLINS Greater in battle
than the man who would conquer
a thousand-thousand men,
is he who w...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA You must be more alive than life.
You must see darkness dance
and hear silence sing.
...
KAMAND KOJOURI since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never whol...
E.E. CUMMINGS A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Soft you day, be velvet soft,
My true love approaches,
Look you bright, you dusty sun, <...
MAYA ANGELOU ...so i will greet you
in a way
all loved things
are meant to be greeted

w...
SANOBER KHAN NEVER GIVE UP
No matter what is going on
Never give up
Develop the heart
Too muc...
DALAI LAMA XIV (Streets of Sorrow)
Oh, farewell you streets of sorrow
Oh, farewell you streets of pain THE POGUES -A Word On Statistics-


Out of every hundred people,

those who always kn...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA It has often been said
there’s so much to be read,
you never can cram
all those wor...
DR. SEUSS You can be up to your boobies in
white satin, with gardenias in your hair
and no sugar c...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character)

I would be true, for there are those who trust me; JOHN C. MAXWELL William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
grav...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What is Friendship when complete?
'Tis to share all joy and grief;
'Tis to lend all due rel...
ANNE FINCH Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with pride
For they are the players of harmony.
KAMAND KOJOURI to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held d...
ELLEN BASS Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,...
SAROJINI NAIDU Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON Like a prisoner who dreams that he is free, starts to
suspect that it is merely a dream, and wa...
RENé DESCARTES Wake up.
If your eyes are sleeping
then wipe them gently.
You need to be awake for...
KAMAND KOJOURI What hope is here for modern rhyme
To him, who turns a musing eye
On songs, and deeds, and...
ALFRED TENNYSON Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.

It is a tru...
CHARLES DICKENS It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is bett...
E. LOCKHART American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100
degrees centigrade in pla...
UMBERTO ECO A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Whic...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In Memoriam A.H.H. Section 5

I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words t...
ALFRED TENNYSON It is the mission of each true knight...
His duty... nay, his privilege!
To dream the im...
JOE DARION Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Nachkland - Roland Leighton

Down the long white road we walked together
Down between...
ROLAND LEIGHTON If you prefer smoke over fire
then get up now and leave.
For I do not intend to perfume ADYASHANTI

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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...
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