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“Hold on yet awhile. More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.”
“Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.”
“Tell us not that the world is governed by universal law; the news is not comfortable, but simply horrible, unless you can tell us, or allow others to tell us, that there is a loving giver, and a ju...”
“Don't holla till you are out of the wood. This is a night for praying rather than boasting.”
“I have fought my fight, I have lived my life,I have drunk my share of wine;From Trier to Coln there was never a knightLed a merrier life than mine.”
“For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.”
“I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw [in Ireland] . . . I don't believe they are our fault. . . . But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much....”
“All but God is changing day by day.”
“Toil is the true knight's pastime.”
“Changeless march the stars above,Changeless morn succeeds to even;And the everlasting hills,Changeless watch the changeless heaven.”
“Oh! that we two were Maying.”
“Oh! that we two lay sleeping,Under the churchyard sod;With our limbs at rest on the quiet earth's breast,And our souls at home with God!”
“Are gods more ruthless than mortals?Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?”
“'O Mary, go and call the cattle home,And call the cattle home,And call the cattle homeAcross the sands of Dee;'The western wind was wild and dank with foam,And all alone went she.”
“They rowed her in across the rolling foam,The cruel crawling foam,The cruel hungry foam,To her grave beside the sea:But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle homeAcross the sands of Dee.”
“For men must work, and women must weep,And there's little to earn, and many to keep,Though the harbor bar be moaning.”
“And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep—And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.”
“Sad, sad to think that the year is all but done.”
“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:And so make life, death, and that vast for-everOne grand, sweet song.”
“The world goes up and the world goes down,And the sunshine follows the rain;And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frownCan never come over again.”
