I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?

Believe in yourself. Determine to pursue your goals.

Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream.

The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.