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“Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawnLent it the music of its trees at dawn?”
“What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and wh...”
“Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew. In quiet she reposes: Ah! would that I did too.”
“Her cabin’d, ample Spirit, It flutter’d and fail’d for breath. To-night it doth inherit The vasty Hall of Death.”
“Hark! ah, the nightingale —The tawny-throated!Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst!What triumph! hark! — what pain!”
“How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves! Again — thou hearest? Eternal passion! Eternal pain!”
“I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.”
“Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.”
“A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.”
“Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.”
“Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.”
“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his a...”
“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.”
“The better day, the worse deed.”
“So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.”
“To their own second thoughts.”
“He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.”
“Our creature comforts”
“None is so deaf as those that will not hear.”
“They that die by famine die by inches.”
