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 | "Self reverence, self-knowledge, self control. These three alone lead
life to sovereign power." | |
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Found in the topic Self.
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| "Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept
- and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then
wept again the loss of all those years." | |
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Found in the topic Memory.
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| "The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their
burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And
after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I
wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him
falsely true." | |
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Found in the topic Honor.
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| "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,? These three alone
lead life to sovereign power." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in A thousand
years." | |
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Found in the topic Persecution.
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| "God?s finger touched him and he slept." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." | |
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Found in the topic Wisdom.
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| "I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most, "Tis
better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." | |
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Found in the topic Better.
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| ""Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at
all." | |
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Found in the topic Idleness.
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| "We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the
times." | |
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Found in the topic Times.
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| "The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long
descent." | |
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Found in the topic Adam.
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| "Like a dog, he hunts in dreams." | |
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Found in the topic Dog.
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| "More black than ash-buds in the front of March." | |
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Found in the topic Garden.
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| "Some one had blunder"d: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to
reason why, Theirs but to do and die." | |
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Found in the topic Oath.
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| "It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among
these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal
laws unto a savage race." | |
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Found in the topic Kindness.
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| "It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the
music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all." | |
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Found in the topic Trifles.
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| "For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul
within." | |
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Found in the topic Word.
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| "Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in
dreams?" | |
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Found in the topic Dream.
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| "I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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