Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of r…John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.Jonathan SwiftWrite now →Details & source
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!— The Poets, who on earth have…William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.John DrydenWrite now →Details & source
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.John Greenleaf WhittierWrite now →Details & source
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.Percy Bysshe ShelleyWrite now →Details & source
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
For I say this is death and the sole death,— When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from …Robert BrowningWrite now →Details & source
Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination, their discourse and speeches according to their learning and …Francis BaconWrite now →Details & source
Small service is true service while it lasts. Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: The daisy, by the …William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a g…Thomas HoodWrite now →Details & source
Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,— The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, A…William Cullen BryantWrite now →Details & source
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
'T is with our judgments as our watches,—none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source