H.W. Charles Quotes

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

Time stoops to no man's lure.

I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.

I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death

But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.

Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.

Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.

Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.

Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language.

The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.