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Slight are the outward signs of evil thought. - [Proverbs] Slight withal may be the things which bring back on the heart the weight which it would fling aside forever. - [Memory] So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death. - [Remorse] So let them ease their hearts with prate of equal rights, which man never knew. - [Equality] So writhes the mind remorse hath riven. - [Remorse] Society itself, which should create Kindness, destroys what little we had got: To feel for none is the true social art Of the world's stoics--men without a heart. - [Society] Solitude has but one disadvantage--it is apt to give one too high an opinion of one's self. In the world we are sure to be often reminded of every known or supposed defect we may have. - [Solitude] Some good lessons Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus, Without whom Venus will not long attack us. - [Proverbs] Some waltz; some draw; some fathom the abyss Of metaphysics; others are content With music; the most moderate shine as wits, While others have a genius turn'd for fits. - [Women] Soon or late love is his own avenger. - [Love] Sorrow is knowledge; they who know thee most must mourn the deepest over the fatal truth; the tree of knowledge is not that of life. - [Sorrow] Strange state of being! (for 'tis still to be) Senseless to feel, and with seal'd eyes to see. - [Sleep] Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high. - [Proverbs] Suspicion is a heavy armor, and with its own weight impedes more than protects. - [Suspicion] Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth! - [Proverbs] Sweetest memorial, the first kiss of love. - [Kisses] 'T is a base abandonment of reason to resign our right of thought. - [Thought] That anxious torture may I never feel, Which doubtful, watches o'er a wandering heart. O, who that bitter torment can reveal, Or tell the pining anguish of that smart! - [Jealousy] That awful pause, dividing life from death Struck for an instant on the hearts of men, Thousands of whom were drawing their last breath! A moment all will be life again. * * * * * one moment more, The death-cry drowning in the battle's roar. - [Battle] That curse shall be--forgiveness! - [Forgiveness] That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake. - [Proverbs] That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech. - [Songs] The Baal-adorer bows on Sinai's steep; Yet there, e'en there, O God, thy thunders sleep. - [Proverbs] The bloom or blight of all men's happiness. - [Matrimony] The busy have no time for tears. - [Occupations] Displaying page 10 of 34 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
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