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A cheque or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. More
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good... More
A Curate there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a curate!!! More
A daughter of Eve ... had better be fifty leagues off—or in her warm bed—or playing with a... More
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size—take my word, is a dwarf... More
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a... More
A man that looks on glass,
On it may stay his eye;
Or if he pleaseth, through it... More
A Man’s body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a... More
A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigour of a man, who... More
A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room as for Thy... More
A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness. More
A thick stick in one’s hand makes people respectful. More
A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things... More
Adepts in the speaking trade
Keep a cough by them ready made. More
Alack-o-day, replied the corporal ... your honour knows I have neither wife or child—I can have... More
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us,—the height of station and worldly... More
Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter’s remark seemed to her to have no sort of meaning in... More
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat... More
Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said,... More
All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a... More
All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little... More
All my joys to this are folly,
Naught so sweet as melancholy. More
All places are distant from heaven alike. More
All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich... More
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes’ bastards. More
Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every... More
Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: “That women are timid:” And... More
Always speak the truth—think before you speak—and write it down afterwards. More
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising... More
An empty book is like an infant’s soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all... More
An English man does not travel to see English men. More
An illustration is no argument,—nor do I maintain the wiping of a looking-glass clean, to be a... More
An impotent people,
Sick with inbreeding,
Worrying the carcase of an old song. More
And adepts in the speaking trade
Keep a cough by them ready made. More
And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for... More
And so you have found out that secret—one of the deep secrets of Life—that all, that is... More
And then ... he flung open the door of my compartment, and ushered in “Ma young and lovely... More
And would you be a poet
Before you’ve been to school?
Ah, well! I hardly thought... More
And, is not Virtue in Mankind
The Nutriment that feeds the Mind? More
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. More
As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally... More
As one who strives a hill to climb,
Who never climbed before:
Who finds it in a little... More
As the French say, there are three sexes—men, women, and clergymen. More
As with a moral view designed
To cure the vices of mankind;
His vein, ironically... More
As, therefore, we can have no dependence upon morality without religion;Mso, on the other hand,... More
Avoid all kinds of pleasantry and facetiousness in thy discourse with her, and ... suffer her not... More
Avoid shame but do not seek glory—nothing so expensive as glory. More
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. More
Bigotry murders religion, to frighten fools with her ghost. More
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time,... More
Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are... More
But here comes Generosity; giving—not to a decayed artist—but to the arts and sciences... More
But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries—the most obvious things, which come in... More
But the desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of... More
But there is nothing unmixt in this world; and some of the gravest of our divines have carried it... More
But this is neither here nor there—why do I mention it?—Ask my pen,—it governs me,—I... More
By all means use sometimes to be alone.
Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
Dare... More
By this contrivance the machinery of my work is of a species by itself; two contrary motions are... More
By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: for verily there is no savage nation... More
Careful observers may foretell the hour
(By sure prognostics) when to dread a... More
Causists have tried to twist “doing good” into another form of “doing evil,” and have... More
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when... More
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all,... More
Child of the pure unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder!
Though time be fleet, and I... More
Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon... More
Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to... More
Correspondences are like smallclothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to... More
De gustibus non est disputandum;Mthat is, there is no disputing against HOBBY-HORSES; and, for my... More
Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that’s precious in our joys, or costly in our... More
Delicious essence! how refreshing art thou to nature! how strongly are all its powers and all its... More
Description would but tire my Muse:
In short, they both were turned to yews. More
Desponding Phyllis was endu’d
With ev’ry Talent of a Prude,
She trembled when a Man... More
Doesn’t that show what an old man I am, when I can say to a mother “I love your daughter,”... More
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee. More
Duns at his lordship’s gate began to meet;
And brickdust Moll had screamed through half the... More
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. More
Every nation ... have their refinements and grossiertes.... There is a balance ... of good and... More
Every obstruction of the course of justice,—is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us... More
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,—and has wit in it, and instruction... More
Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising... More
Fair Liberty was all his cry;
For her he stood prepared to die;
For her he boldly stood... More
Fame sometimes hath created something out of nothing. She hath made whole countries more than... More
Flushed with new life, the crowd flows back again:
And all is tangled talk and mazy... More
For men must work, and women must weep,
And there’s little to earn, and many to... More
For poetry, he’s past his prime,
He takes an hour to find a rhyme;
His fire is out, his... More
For Virtue in her daily Race,
Like Janus bears a double Face;
Looks back with Joy where... More
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. More
FROM his shoulder Hiawatha
Took the camera of rosewood,
Made of sliding, folding... More
From not the gravest of Divines,
Accept for once some serious Lines. More
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that... More
Go, throng each other’s drawing-rooms,
Ye idols of a petty clique:
Strut your brief... More
God, for wise reasons, has made our affairs in this world, almost as fickle and capricious as... More
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. More
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. More
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in... More
Habit with him was all the test of truth,
It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth. More
Had he but spared his tongue and pen
He might have rose like other men;
But power was... More
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that... More
Hail ye small sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it! like grace and... More
Half-starved spiders prey’d on half-starved flies. More

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