Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.
If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.
There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!
The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.
Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.
The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.
There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.
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