Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.John DrydenWrite now →Details & source
Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of…William CowperWrite now →Details & source
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives a…William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.John DrydenWrite now →Details & source
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them a…Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and…Benjamin FranklinWrite now →Details & source
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
What outward form and feature are He guesseth but in part; But what within is good and fair He seeth with the heart.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWrite now →Details & source
Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.Oliver GoldsmithWrite now →Details & source
Oh, blest with temper whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day!Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, an…John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed,— As, God be thanked! I do not.Robert BrowningWrite now →Details & source
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang s…Robert BurnsWrite now →Details & source
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he …Henry David ThoreauWrite now →Details & source
And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behaviour yield to the energy of the individual.Ralph Waldo EmersonWrite now →Details & source
To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.Edgar Allan PoeWrite now →Details & source
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practises it will have neighbors.ConfuciusWrite now →Details & source