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 | "Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in
suffering what they teach in song." | |
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Found in the topic Poetry.
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| "Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does
so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of
murder." | |
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Found in the topic Rights.
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| "Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to
natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the
root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human
race to misery." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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| "I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and
good." | |
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Found in the topic Solitude.
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| "For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no
tongue." | |
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Found in the topic Force.
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| "Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it
is lifted." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Oh, cease! Must hate and death return? Cease! Must men kill and die?
Cease! Drain not to its dregs the urn of bitter prophecy. The world is
weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!" | |
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Found in the topic Past.
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| "Hell is a city much like London - A populous and a smoky
city." | |
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Found in the topic Hell.
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| "Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the
imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful." | |
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Found in the topic Affection.
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| "Man"s yesterday may ne"er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but
Mutability." | |
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Found in the topic Yesterday.
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| "Familiar acts are beautiful through love." | |
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Found in the topic Familiarity.
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| "Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when
sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves,
when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved"s bed; And so thy
thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on." | |
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Found in the topic Memory.
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| "Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it
touches." | |
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Found in the topic Power.
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| "One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too
falsely disdained For thee to disdain it." | |
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Found in the topic Profanity.
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| "All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning
the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And
its familiar voice wearies not ever. ...... They who inspire it most are
fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier
still." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." | |
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Found in the topic Future.
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| "Heaven"s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through
which the moon"s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love
has spread To curtain her sleeping world." | |
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Found in the topic Grandeur.
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| "Kings are like stars,?they rise and set, they have The worship of
the world, but no repose." | |
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Found in the topic Kindness.
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