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A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants. - [Coquetry] A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,-- 'Tis but a name. - [Proverbs] A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely. - [Bigotry] A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground. - translation of Friedrich von Logau's "Sinnegedichte" [Fate] A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. - [Children] A word that has been said may be unsaid; it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow. - [Deeds] All is of God. If He but wave His hand, The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud; Till, with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo! He looks back from the departing cloud. Angels of life and death alike are His; Without His leave they pass no threshold o'er; Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this, Against His messengers to shut the door? - [God] All was ended now, the hope and the fear and the sorrow, all the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, all the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience. - [Death] Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave. - [Ambition] And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox. - [Conceit] And the maize-field grew and ripened, Till it stood in the splendor Of its garments green and yellow. - [Agriculture] And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence. - [Echo] And with childlike credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. - [Flowers] As the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. - [Age] As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease. - [Heart] As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. - [Poetry : Purity] Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air. - [Authorship] Ballads are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows, in leafy lanes and by-paths of literature, in the genial summer-time. - [Ballads] Behind the clouds is the sun still shining. - [Proverbs] Behold of what delusive worth The bubbles we pursue on earth, The shapes we chase. - [Proverbs] Beholding the moon rise Over the pallid sea and the silvery mist of the meadows: Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossom'd the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. - [Moon] Beloved country! banish'd from thy shore, A stranger in this prison-house of clay, The exil'd spirit weeps and sighs for thee! Heavenward the bright perfections I adore direct. - [Exile] By too much sitting still, the body becomes unhealthy; and soon the mind. - [Laziness] Death brings us again to our friends. They are waiting for us, and we shall not be long. They have gone before us, and are like the angels in heaven. They stand upon the borders of the grave to welcome us with the countenance of affection which they wore on earth,--yet more lovely, more radiant, more spiritual. - [Death] Defeat may be victory in disguise. - [Disaster] Displaying page 1 of 23 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
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