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A nation's literature is always the biography of its humanity. - [Literature] Alone! that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word--Alone. - [Alone] Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. - [Archaeology] Courtesy is a duty public servants owe to the humblest member of the public. - [Courtesy] Curses are, like young chickens, And still come home to roost! - [Curses] Despotism is often the effort of nature to cure herself from a worse disease. - [Despotism] For something in the envy of the small Still loves the vast democracy of death! - [Envy] Happiness and virtue react upon each other--the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. - [Happiness] In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. - [Adversity] In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As--fail. - [Failure] In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. - [Health] Life, that ever need's forgiveness, has, for its, first duty, to forgive. - [Forgiveness] Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame his lapse into the bondage of debtor. - [Debt] Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. - [Enthusiasm] Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. - [Health] The rust rots the steel which use preserves. - [Employment] The thing which must be, must be for the best; God helps us do our duty and not shrink. - [Duty] There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. - [Manners] That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pelf: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself. - A Great Man [Greatness] Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known. - A Great Man (st. 8) [Character] Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter. - Au Cafe (XXXIX) [Glowworms] It smelt so faint, and it smelt so sweet, It made me creep and it made me cold. Like the scent that steals from the crumbling sheet Where a mummy is half unroll'd. - Aux Italiens [Jasmines] And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!) And the one bird singing alone to his nest. And the one star over the tower. - Aux Italiens (st. 13) [Jasmines] We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny. - Clytemnestra (pt. XIX) [Destiny] There's nothing certain in man's life but this: That he must lose it. - Clytemnestra (pt. XX) [Death] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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