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The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

The Complete Life of John Hopkins

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.

The Complete Poems

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

The Complete Poems

Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: The Complete Works PergamonMedia

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown..

The Complete Poems

And the Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

The Complete Poems

I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there; Nor tie to earths to come, Nor action new, Except through this extent, The realm of you.

The Complete Poems

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

The Complete Poems

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.

The Complete Astrological Writings

What’s wrong with being naked?” --Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston

Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic

I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.

Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary, the First Complete Edition

Teeth are alive, and given the proper environment, they can regenerate; this is why internal factors that nourish the teeth are so important.

Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums