| Quotes |
Topic |
| Action | That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit: His high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. |
| Action | The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. |
| Ambition | What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. |
| Art | It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. |
| Autumn | Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay. |
| Buttercups | All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower. |
| Change | Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. |
| Character | No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. |
| Chastity | There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest. |
| Courage | One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to flight better, Sleep to wake. |
| Day | Day! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last; Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim. |
| Deeds | 'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do. |
| Drinking | When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? |
| Drinking | It's a long time between drinks. |
| Evening | To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. |
| Faces | A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. |
| Forgiveness | Good, to forgive; Best to forget. |
| Fortune | Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote. |
| Friends | Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend; Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile! |
| Friendship | Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life. |
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