In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoug…Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
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A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWrite now →Details & source
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Things without all remedy Should be without regard; what's done is done.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.Ralph Waldo EmersonWrite now →Details & source
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,— That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.Robert BurnsWrite now →Details & source
It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
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A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell…John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Make deeds ill done!William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
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From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new a…Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a…Thomas GrayWrite now →Details & source