“Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

The monster London laugh at me.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

Life is an incurable disease.

But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.

:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire

Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.

I take a lot less for granted.

I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

It doesn’t mean that I’m less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me.

This may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today .

We should all be more aware of what’s going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.

Because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to ‘this costs too much’ or ‘that’s impossible.’