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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve. - [Bravery] A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell. - [Conscience] A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. - [Memory] An old novel has a history of its own. - [Fiction] As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes, sees in sweet dreams a beaming youth of glory. - [Dreams] Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. - [Death] Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near! - [Eternity] Everything is sweetened by risk. - [Risk] Fame,--next grandest word to God! - [Fame] God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur. - [Infinite] God is a worker: He has thickly strewn Infinity with grandeur: God is love: He shall wipe away creation's tears, And all the worlds shall summer in His smile. - [Creation] Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. - [Happiness] He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul, Is when it loses faith in God and woman, For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems, Though the world's throne stood open in my path, I would go wandering back into my childhood, Searching for them with tears. - [Proverbs] He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee. - [Proverbs] I clasp thy waist, I feel thy bosom's beat--oh, kiss me into faintness sweet and dim! - [Kisses] I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame. - [Fame] If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race. - [Egotism] If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death. - [Life] Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England! - [England] Speak no harsh, words of earth; she is our mother, and few of us her sons who have not added a wrinkle to her brow. - [Earth] The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself. - [Individuality] The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given; "This is a joy," the lady said, "Saints cannot taste in heaven." - [Proverbs] The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale. - [Ocean] The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world. - [Greatness] There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. - [Injury] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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