| Quotes |
Topic |
| Lilies | And the wand-like lily which lifted up, As a Maenad, its moonlight-coloured cup, Till the fiery star, which is its eye, Gazed through clear dew on the tender sky. |
| Peace | Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep! He hath awaken from the dream of life! |
| Plagiarism | The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears. |
| Poetry | Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. |
| Revenge | Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. |
| Royalty | Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. |
| Sadness | We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. |
| Seasons | January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, March with grief doth howl and rave, And April weeps--but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers. |
| Self Improvement | All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. |
| Singing | Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone Of some world far from ours, Where music and moonlight and feeling Are one. |
| Sky | Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. |
| Smiles | There is a snake in thy smile, my dear, And bitter poison within thy tear. |
| Songs | Songs consecrate to truth and liberty. |
| Study | The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. |
| Stupidity | Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed-- Still with his dulness was he cursed-- Dull--beyond all conception--dull. |
| Stupidity | It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. |
| Stupidity | Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. |
| Suffering | For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. |
| Suffering | Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be Our chastisement or recompense. |
| War | Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. |
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