All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed h…Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWrite now →Details & source
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
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To have faults and not to reform them,-- this, indeed, should be pronounced having faults.ConfuciusWrite now →Details & source
All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it.Marcus AureliusWrite now →Details & source
O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.Oliver GoldsmithWrite now →Details & source
They are perfect; how else?—they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?—we have time in store.Robert BrowningWrite now →Details & source
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
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When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then m…William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
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To sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; Sh…John KeatsWrite now →Details & source
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has rea…Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and y…Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill.Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source