This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.Oliver GoldsmithWrite now →Details & source
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful i…William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.Walter ScottWrite now →Details & source
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.Benjamin FranklinWrite now →Details & source
To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.Walter ScottWrite now →Details & source
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and…Joseph AddisonWrite now →Details & source
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.Joseph AddisonWrite now →Details & source
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,— Sweet is pleasure after pain.John DrydenWrite now →Details & source
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWrite now →Details & source
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.Ralph Waldo EmersonWrite now →Details & source
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand…Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWrite now →Details & source
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, …John DrydenWrite now →Details & source
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source