Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power |
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power |
So, friend, when I first looked upon your face, our thoughts gave answer each to each. Opposed mirrors each reflecting each, although I knew not in what time or place, methought that I had often met with you, and each had lived in other's mind and speech. |
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. |
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. |
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. |
The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself |
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. |
Who loves not a false imagining, an unreal character in us; but looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our natures - not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be. |