We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to fail) is itself a kind of prid….
No one can be cured of being who they are..
The great appear great to us..
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt..
I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something..
When pride retreats from a man, humility begins to dwell in him, and the more pride is diminished, so much more does humility grow. The one gives way….
It is by doing anything that we become anyone.
I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it..
Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack..
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Exampl….
Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves..
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they….
One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections….
Every intentional act is a magical act..
For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..
A text is evolutionary by its very nature..
The climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner..
how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride..
On the eve of this great adventure I send my best wishes to every soldier in the Allied team. To us is given the honour of striking a blow for freedo….
There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..