| Quotes |
Topic |
| Epitaphs | Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. |
| Experience | A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. |
| Eyes | My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. |
| Fear | Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. |
| Freedom | O what a loud and fearful shriek was there! . . . Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword Fallen Kosciusco. |
| Freedom | Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. |
| Friendship | Friendship is a sheltering tree. |
| Future | So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow. |
| Future | I never think of the future--it comes soon enough. |
| Future | What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. |
| Glowworms | While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch. |
| Gods | Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals, Never alone. |
| Grace | How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance. |
| Growth | Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne Lead gradual. |
| Heart Quotes | Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. |
| Holly | Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took. |
| Hope | Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. |
| Humility | He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. |
| Icicles | Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon. |
| Ignorance | Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. |
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