I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race I love the languid patience of thy face.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
The sun's rim dips the stars rush out At one stride comes the dark With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
Carv'd with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
And thou art long and lank and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.
So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.
How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high but oh more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general Impossible and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul 2. That old woman 3. That old witch.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events. And in today already walks tomorrow.
Visit her, gentle Sleep with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth, May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
Red as a rose is she.
He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small.
Oh sleep it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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