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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it doth singe yourself.
    --William Shakespeare 

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.
    --Virgil 

Dogs display reluctance and wrath
If you try to give them a bath
They bury bones in hideaways
And half the time they trot sideaways.
    --Ogden Nash 

To have died once is enough.
    --Virgil 

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
    --Robert Frost 

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
    --William Blake 

I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.
    --Ogden Nash 

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
    --Ogden Nash 

If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
    --Virgil 

Talkers are no good doers.
    --William Shakespeare 

Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light.
    --Alexander Pope 

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, But it's very funny -- did you ever try buying them without money?
    --Ogden Nash 

A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
    --William Shakespeare 

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.
    --William Shakespeare 

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
    --T. S. Eliot 

A fact is not a truth until you love it.
    --John Keats 

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
    --T. S. Eliot 

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
    --Carl Sandburg 

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
    --Ogden Nash 

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
    --William Shakespeare 

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
    --William Shakespeare 

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
    --Robert Frost 

Something's rotten in the state of Denmark.
    --William Shakespeare 

The one L lama, he's a priest
The two L llama, he's a beast
And I will bet my silk pyjama
There isn't any three L lllama.
    --Ogden Nash 

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
    --John Keats