But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.
The past is perpetual youth to the heart.
Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.
In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.
I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.
The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away; The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea; Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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