Category: poet
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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Horace
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
George Herbert
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D. H. Lawrence
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I teach that all men are mad.
Horace
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Maya Angelou
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Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Walter Scott
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Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Lord Byron