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A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity! - [Opportunity] Alas! I how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off. - [Dissension] Allowing everything that can be claimed for the superior patience and self-command of women, still the main solution of their enduring pain better than men is their having less physical sensibility. - [Endurance] And be their rest unmov'd By the white moonlight's dazzling power: None, but the loving and belov'd, Should be awake at this sweet hour. - [Moon] And conscience, truth and honesty are made To rise and fall, like other wares of trade. - [Corruption] And neglected his task for the flowers on the way. - [Proverbs] And then her look--Oh, where's the heart so wise Could, unbewilder'd, meet those matchless eyes? Quick, restless, strange, but exquisite withal, Like those of angels. - [Eyes] Assurance never failed to get admission into the houses of the great. - [Assurance] Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy-gifts fading away! Thou would'st still be ador'd, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And, around the dear ruin, each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still! - [Fidelity] Better to dwell in freedom's hall, With a cold damp floor and mouldering wall, Than bow the head and bend the knee In the proudest palace of slaverie. - [Freedom] Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense Of guiltless joy that guilt can know. - [Proverbs] Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest. - [Proverbs] Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer! Tho' the herd hath fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here is still the smile that no cloud can o'ercast, And the heart and the hand all thy own to the Last! - [Fidelity] Divine Providence has spread her table everywhere, not with a juiceless green carpet, but with succulent herbage and nourishing grass, upon which most beasts feed. - [Nature] Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. - [Heaven] Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. - [Sorrow] Even now, as, wandering upon Erie's shore, I hear Niagara's distant cataract roar, I sigh for England--oh! these weary feet Have many a mile to journey, ere we meet. - [Exile] Gradual as the snow, at heaven's breath, melts off and shows the azure flowers beneath, her lids unclosed, and the bright eyes were seen. - [Eyes] How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea, For then sweet dreams of other days arise, And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee. - [Evening] How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile. - [Medicine] If with water you fill up your glasses, You'll never write anything wise; For wine is the horse of Parnassus, Which hurries a bard to the skies. - [Wine and Spirits] In vain we fondly strive to trace The soul's reflection in the face; In vain we dwell on lines and crosses, Crooked mouths and short probosces; Boobies have looked as wise and bright As Plato and the Stagyrite And many a sage and learned skull Has peeped through windows dark and dull. - [Face] It was an evening bright and still As ever blush'd on wave or bower; Smiling from heaven, as if nought ill Could happen in so sweet an hour. - [Evening] Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power. - [Power] Light may come where all looks darkest, Hope hath life, when life seems o'er. - [Proverbs] Displaying page 1 of 10 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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