In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.Ben JonsonWrite now →Details & source
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.John Greenleaf WhittierWrite now →Details & source
They please, are pleas'd; they give to get esteem, Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.Oliver GoldsmithWrite now →Details & source
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.Benjamin DisraeliWrite now →Details & source
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.Francis BaconWrite now →Details & source
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters.ConfuciusWrite now →Details & source
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWrite now →Details & source
But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted—Nevermore!Edgar Allan PoeWrite now →Details & source
In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Natu…John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.Walter ScottWrite now →Details & source
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
What is the end of fame? 'T is but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper.Lord ByronWrite now →Details & source
The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him …Thomas GrayWrite now →Details & source
This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,— Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so i…Francis BaconWrite now →Details & source
A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd.John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
Men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer a…William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source