Bartlett's Familiar Quotations The Song of the Harper c. 2650-2600 B.C.  There is no one who can return from there, 1 2 To describe their nature, to describe their dissolution, That he may still our desires, Until we reach the place where they have gone. The Song of the Harper St. 5 1 See Catullus 2 See Shakespeare Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him. 1 2 3 4 No one goes away and then comes back. The Song of the Harper St. 10 1 See Ecclesiastes 5:15 2 See I Timothy 6:7 3 See Theognis 4 See Kaufman and Hart Ptahhotpe Twenty-fourth century B.C.  Teach him what has been said in the past; then he will set a good example to the children of the magistrates, and judgment and all exactitude shall enter into him. Speak to him, for there is none born wise. Ptahhotpe The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],introduction Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. . . . Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones. Ptahhotpe The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.1 Truth is great and its effectiveness endures. 1 Ptahhotpe The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.5 1 See I Esdras 4:41 Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than is ordered; do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit. . . . When riches are gained, follow desire, for riches will not profit if one is sluggish. Ptahhotpe The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.11 Beware an act of avarice; it is a bad and incurable disease. Ptahhotpe The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.19 If you are well-to-do and can maintain your household, love your wife in your home according to good custom. . . . Make her happy while you are alive, for she is land profitable to her lord. Ptahhotpe The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.21 Do not repeat slander; you should not hear it, for it is the result of hot temper. Ptahhotpe The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.23 One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household. 1 2 3 Ptahhotpe The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.25 1 See Herodotus 2 See Cervantes 3 See Howell Be cheerful while you are alive. Ptahhotpe The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.34 The Teaching for Merikare c. 2135-2040 B.C.   Be skillful in speech, that you may be strong; [ . . . ] it is the strength of [ . . . ] the tongue, and words are braver than all fighting 1 2 3 . . . a wise man is a school for the magnates, and those who are aware of his knowledge do not attack him. The Teaching for Merikare Par. 4 1 See Cervantes 2 See Burton 3 See BulwerLytton Copy your forefathers, 1 for work is carried out through knowledge; see, their words endure in writing. . . . Do not be evil, for pa-tience is good; make your lasting monument in the love of you. The Teaching for Merikare Par. 5 1 See Tacitus Wretched is he who has bound the land to himself [ . . . ]; a fool is he who is greedy when others possess. Life on earth passes away, it is not long; 1 2 3 he is fortunate who has a good remembrance in it. The Teaching for Merikare Par. 6 1 See Homer 2 See Pindar 3 See Aristophanes Do justice, that you may live long upon earth. Calm the weeper, do not oppress the widow, do not oust a man from his father's property, do not degrade magnates from their seats. Beware of punishing wrongfully; do not kill, for it will not profit you. The Teaching for Merikare Par. 8 More acceptable is the character of the straightforward man than the ox of the wrongdoer. Serve God, that He may do the like for you . . . Provide for men, the cattle of God, for He made heaven and earth 1 at their desire. He suppressed the greed of the waters, He gave the breath of life to their noses, for they are likenesses of Him which issued from His flesh. 2 The Teaching for Merikare Par. 22 1 See Psalm 121:2 2 See Genesis 1:26 Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered. The Teaching for Merikare Par. 24 The Man Who Was Tired of Life c. 1990 B.C.  To whom can I speak today? Brothers are evil And the friends of today unlovable. The Man Who Was Tired of Life Song,st. 9 To whom can I speak today? Gentleness has perished And the violent man has come down on everyone. The Man Who Was Tired of Life Song,st. 11 To whom can I speak today? I am heavy-laden with trouble Through lack of an intimate friend.To whom can I speak today? The wrong which roams the earth, There is no end to it. The Man Who Was Tired of Life Song,st. 23, 24 Death is in my sight today As when a man desires to see home When he has spent many years in captivity. The Man Who Was Tired of Life Song,st. 30 The Book of the Dead c. 1700-1000 B.C.  Hail to you gods . . . On that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, Without sin, without guilt, without evil, Without a witness against me, Without one whom I have wronged. . . . Rescue me, protect me, Do not accuse me before the great god!I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands. The Book of the Dead The Address to the Gods Love Songs of the New Kingdom c. 1550-1080 B.C.  My love for you is mixed throughout my body . . . So hurry to see your lady, like a stallion on the track, or like a falcon swooping down to its papyrus marsh.Heaven sends down the love of her as a flame falls in the hay. Love Songs of the New Kingdom Song no.2 The voice of the wild goose, caught by the bait, cries out. Love of you holds me back, and I can't loosen it at all. . . . I did not set my traps today; love of you has thus entrapped me. Love Songs of the New Kingdom Song no.10 Now must I depart from the brother . . . and as I long for your love, my heart stands still inside me. . . . Sweet pomegranate wine in my mouth is bitter as the gall of birds.But your embraces alone give life to my heart; may Amun give me what I have found for all eternity. Love Songs of the New Kingdom Song no.12 The voice of the turtledove speaks out. 1 It says: Day breaks, which way are you going? Lay off, little bird, must you so scold me?I found my lover on his bed, and my heart was sweet to excess. Love Songs of the New Kingdom Song no.14 1 See Song of Solomon 2:12 Queen Hatshepsut d. 1468 B.C.  So as regards these two great obelisks, Wrought with electrum by my majesty for my father Amun, In order that my name may endure in this temple, For eternity and everlastingness, They are each of one block of hard granite, Without seam, without joining together! Queen Hatshepsut Speech of the Queen Suti and Hor Fifteenth-fourteenth centuries B.C.  Creator uncreated. Sole one, unique one, who traverses eternity, Remote one, with millions under his care; Your splendor is like heaven's splendor. Suti and Hor First Hymn to the Sun God Beneficent mother 1 2 3 of gods and men . . . Valiant shepherd who drives his flock, Their refuge, made to sustain them. . . . He makes the seasons with the months, Heat as he wishes, cold as he wishes. . . . Every land rejoices at his rising, Every day gives praise to him. Suti and Hor Second Hymn to the Sun God 1 See Eddy 2 See O'Neill 3 See John Paul I The Great Hymn to the Aten c. 1350 B.C.  Splendid you rise in heaven's lightland, O living Aten, creator of life! The Great Hymn to the Aten St. 1 When you set in western lightland, Earth is in darkness as if in death. The Great Hymn to the Aten St. 2 Every lion comes from its den, All the serpents bite; Darkness hovers, earth is silent, As their maker rests in lightland. 1 Earth brightens when you dawn in lightland, When you shine as Aten of daytime; As you dispel the dark, As you cast your rays, The Two Lands are in festivity. Awake they stand on their feet, You have roused them. 2 The Great Hymn to the Aten St. 2, 3 1 See Psalm 104:21 2 See Psalm 104:22, 23 The entire land sets out to work, All beasts browse on their herbs; Trees, herbs are sprouting, Birds fly from their nests . . . Ships fare north, fare south as well, Roads lie open when you rise; The fish in the river dart before you, Your rays are in the midst of the sea. 1 The Great Hymn to the Aten St. 3 1 See Psalm 104:22, 23 How many are your deeds, Though hidden from sight, O Sole God beside whom there is none! You made the earth as you wished, you alone. 1 The Great Hymn to the Aten St. 5 1 See Psalm 104:24 I Ching c. Twelfth century B.C.  Fire in the lake: the image of revolution. I Ching, The Book of Changes Book I, ch.49, Ko/Revolution (Molting) Wind over lake: the image of inner truth. I Ching, The Book of Changes Book I, ch.61, Chung Fu/Inner Truth Amenemope c. Eleventh century B.C. Beginning of the teaching for life, The instructions for well-being . . . Knowing how to answer one who speaks, To reply to one who sends a message. 1 Amenemope The Instruction of Amenemopeprologue 1 See Proverbs 22:20-1 Give your ears, hear the sayings, Give your heart to understand them; It profits to put them in your heart. 1 Amenemope The Instruction of Amenemopech.1 1 See Proverbs 22:17-8 Beware of robbing a wretch, Of attacking a cripple. 1 2 Amenemope The Instruction of Amenemopech.2 1 See Proverbs 22:22 2 See Ecclesiasticus 4:1 The truly silent, who keep apart, He is like a tree grown in a meadow. It greens, it doubles its yield, It stands in front of its lord. Its fruit is sweet, its shade delightful, Its end comes in the garden. 1 2 Amenemope The Instruction of Amenemopech.4 1 See Psalm 1:1- 2 See Jeremiah 17:8 Do not move the markers on the border of the fields. 1 Amenemope The Instruction of Amenemopech.6 1 See Proverbs 22:28 Better is poverty in the hand of the god, Than wealth in the storehouse; Better is bread with a happy heart Than wealth with vexation. 1 2 Amenemope The Instruction of Amenemopech.6 1 See Proverbs 15:16-7 2 See Confucius Do not set your heart on wealth . . . Do not strain to seek increases, What you have, let it suffice you. 1 If riches come to you by theft, They will not stay the night with you. . . . They made themselves wings like geese, And flew away to the sky. 2 Amenemope The Instruction of Amenemopech.7 1 See Proverbs 23:4 2 See Proverbs 23:5 Look to these thirty chapters, They inform, they educate. 1 Amenemope The Instruction of Amenemopech.30 1 See Proverbs 22:20 The scribe who is skilled in his office, He is found worthy to be a courtier. 1 Amenemope The Instruction of Amenemopech.30 1 See Proverbs 22:29 The Holy Bible  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-3 And the evening and the morning were the first day. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 5 And God saw that it was good. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 10 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 26 1 See The Teaching for Merikare Male and female created he them. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 27 Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 28 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 2 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 7 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 8 The tree of life also in the midst of the garden. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 9 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 17 It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 18 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 21-22 Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 23 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 24-25 Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 1 Your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 5  And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 7-8 The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 12 What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 13-14 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 15 In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 16 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 19-20 So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 24 And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 2 Am I my brother's keeper? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 9 The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 10 A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 12 My punishment is greater than I can bear. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 13 And the Lord set a mark upon Cain. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 15 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 16 Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 20 Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 21 Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 22 And Enoch walked with God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 5, Verse 24 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 5, Verse 27 And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 5, Verse 32 There were giants in the earth in those days . . . mighty men which were of old, men of renown. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 6, Verse 4 Make thee an ark of gopher wood. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 6, Verse 14 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 6, Verse 19 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 7, Verse 12 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 9 And, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 11 For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 21 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 22 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 9, Verse 6 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 9, Verse 13 Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 10, Verse 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 11, Verse 9 Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee . . . for we be brethren. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 13, Verse 8 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 13, Verse 12 In a good old age. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 15, Verse 15 His [Ishmael's] hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 16, Verse 12 Thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 17, Verse 5 My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 18, Verse 3 But his [Lot's] wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 19, Verse 26 My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 22, Verse 8 Behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 22, Verse 13 Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 25, Verse 27 And he [Esau] sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 25, Verse 33-34 The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 27, Verse 22 Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 27, Verse 35 He [Jacob] dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 28, Verse 12 Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 28, Verse 16 This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 28, Verse 17 Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 29, Verse 20 And Laban said, This heap [of stones] is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 31, Verse 48-49 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 32, Verse 24 I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 32, Verse 26 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 32, Verse 30 1 See I Corinthians 13:12 Behold, this dreamer cometh. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 37, Verse 19 They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colors. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 37, Verse 23 The Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 39, Verse 3 And she [Potiphar's wife] caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 39, Verse 12 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. And the seven thin and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 26-27 Then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 38 But Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 43, Verse 34 Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 44, Verse 4 God forbid. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 44, Verse 7 The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 44, Verse 17 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 45, Verse 14 And ye shall eat the fat of the land. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 45, Verse 18 And they came into the land of Goshen. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 46, Verse 28 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 47, Verse 30 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 4 I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 18 Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 26 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 1, Verse 8 She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 2, Verse 3 I have been a stranger in a strange land. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 2, Verse 22 1 See Sophocles Behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 2 Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 5 And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 6  A land flowing with milk and honey. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 8 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 14 I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 4, Verse 10 Let my people go. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 5, Verse 1 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 5, Verse 7 Thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 7, Verse 9 They [Pharaoh's wise men] cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. And he hardened Pharaoh's heart. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 7, Verse 12-13 This is the finger of God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 8, Verse 19 Darkness which may be felt. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 10, Verse 21 Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 11, Verse 1 Your lamb shall be without blemish. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 5  And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 8 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 11-12 This day [Passover] shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 14 1 See I Corinthians 5:7 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 15 There was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 30 Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 13, Verse 3 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 13, Verse 21 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 14, Verse 22 I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 15, Verse 1-2 The Lord is a man of war. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 15, Verse 3 Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 15, Verse 6 Thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble. And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 15, Verse 7-8 Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots, and when we did eat bread to the full. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 16, Verse 3 It is manna. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 16, Verse 15 I am the Lord thy God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 2 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 3-4 For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 1 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 5-7 1 See Euripides Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day . . . thou shalt not do any work. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 8-10 Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 1 Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 12-17 1 See Aeschylus But let not God speak with us, lest we die. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 19 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 21, Verse 12  Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 21, Verse 24 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 23, Verse 20 A stiffnecked people. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 32, Verse 9 Who is on the Lord's side? let him come unto me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 32, Verse 26 Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 33, Verse 20 And he [Moses] was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 34, Verse 28 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 11, Verse 3 And the swine . . . is unclean to you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 11, Verse 7-8 Let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 16, Verse 10 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 19, Verse 9-10 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 19, Verse 16  Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 19, Verse 18  Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 25, Verse 10 The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 6, Verse 24-26 Sent to spy out the land. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 13, Verse 16 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 14, Verse 33 Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 20, Verse 11 He whom thou blessest is blessed. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 22, Verse 6 The Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 22, Verse 28 Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 23, Verse 10 God is not a man, that he should lie. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 23, Verse 19 1 See Aeschylus  What hath God wrought! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 23, Verse 23 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 24, Verse 5 Be sure your sin will find you out. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 32, Verse 23 I call heaven and earth to witness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 4, Verse 26 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 1 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 6, Verse 5-7 1 See Matthew 22:37  Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 6, Verse 16 The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 7, Verse 6  Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 8, Verse 3 For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 8, Verse 7 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 8, Verse 8-9 A dreamer of dreams. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 13, Verse 1 The wife of thy bosom. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 13, Verse 6 The poor shall never cease out of the land. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 15, Verse 11 1 See Matthew 26:11 Thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 23, Verse 25 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 28, Verse 37 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 28, Verse 67 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 29, Verse 29 I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 30, Verse 19 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 32, Verse 4 Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 32, Verse 15 As thy days, so shall thy strength be. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 33, Verse 25 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 33, Verse 27 No man knoweth of his [Moses'] sepulcher unto this day. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 34, Verse 6  Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Joshua Chapter 1, Verse 9 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Joshua Chapter 3, Verse 17 Mighty men of valor. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Joshua Chapter 6, Verse 2 And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city [Jericho]. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Joshua Chapter 6, Verse 20 His fame was noised throughout all the country. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Joshua Chapter 6, Verse 27 Hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Joshua Chapter 9, Verse 21 Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Joshua Chapter 10, Verse 12  Old and stricken in years. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Joshua Chapter 13, Verse 1 I am going the way of all the earth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Joshua Chapter 23, Verse 14 They shall be as thorns in your sides. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 2, Verse 3 1 See II Corinthians 12:7 Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him [Sisera], and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground; for he was fast asleep, and weary: so he died. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 4, Verse 21  I Deborah arose . . . I arose a mother in Israel. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 7 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 12 The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 20 She [Jael] brought forth butter in a lordly dish. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 25 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 27 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 28 Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 30 The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 7, Verse 18 Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 8, Verse 2 Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 12, Verse 6 There was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 14, Verse 8 Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 14, Verse 14 If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 14, Verse 18 He smote them hip and thigh. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 15, Verse 8 With the jawbone of an ass . . . have I slain a thousand men. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 15, Verse 16 The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 16, Verse 9 The Philistines took him [Samson], and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 16, Verse 21 Strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be . . . avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 16, Verse 28 So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 16, Verse 30 From Dan even to Beersheba. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 20, Verse 1 All the people arose as one man. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 20, Verse 8 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Judges Chapter 21, Verse 25 Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Ruth Chapter 1, Verse 16 Let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Ruth Chapter 2, Verse 7 Go not empty unto thy mother in law. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Ruth Chapter 3, Verse 17 In the flower of their age. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 2, Verse 33 The Lord called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 3, Verse 4 Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 3, Verse 9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 4, Verse 9 1 See I Corinthians 16:13 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 4, Verse 21 Is Saul also among the prophets? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 10, Verse 11 God save the king. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 10, Verse 24 A man after his own heart. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 13, Verse 14 Every man's sword was against his fellow. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 14, Verse 20 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 14, Verse 27 For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 16, Verse 7 I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 28 Let no man's heart fail because of him [Goliath]. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 32 Go, and the Lord be with thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 37 And he [David] . . . chose him five smooth stones out of the brook. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 40 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 50 Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 18, Verse 7 And Jonathan . . . loved him [David] as he loved his own soul. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 20, Verse 17 Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 24, Verse 13 I have played the fool. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of Samuel Chapter 26, Verse 21 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 1, Verse 20 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 1, Verse 23 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 1, Verse 25 Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 1, Verse 26-27 Abner . . . smote him under the fifth rib. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 2, Verse 23 Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man [Abner] fallen this day in Israel? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 3, Verse 38 And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 6, Verse 5 1 See Psalm 150:3- Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it . . . and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 6, Verse 6 David danced before the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 6, Verse 14  Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 10, Verse 5 Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 11, Verse 15 The poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 12, Verse 3 Thou art the man. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 12, Verse 7 Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 12, Verse 23 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 14, Verse 14 Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 18, Verse 33 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 22, Verse 2 David the son of Jesse . . . the sweet psalmist of Israel. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 23, Verse 1 Went in jeopardy of their lives. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 23, Verse 17 A wise and an understanding heart. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 3, Verse 12 Many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 4, Verse 20 Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 4, Verse 25 He [Solomon] spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 4, Verse 32 The wisdom of Solomon. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 4, Verse 34  So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 6, Verse 7 A proverb and a byword among all people. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 9, Verse 7 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon . . . she came to prove him with hard questions. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 10, Verse 1 The half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 10, Verse 7 Once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 10, Verse 22 King Solomon loved many strange women. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 11, Verse 1 My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 12, Verse 11 To your tents, O Israel. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 12, Verse 16 He [Elijah] went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 17, Verse 5 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 17, Verse 6 An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 17, Verse 12 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 17, Verse 16 How long halt ye between two opinions? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 18, Verse 21 Either he [Baal] is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 18, Verse 27 There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 18, Verse 44 And he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 18, Verse 46 But the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 19, Verse 11-12 Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 20, Verse 11 Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 21, Verse 20 The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 21, Verse 23 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 21, Verse 25 I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 22, Verse 17 Feed him [Micajah] with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I come in peace. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Kings Chapter 22, Verse 27 There appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 2, Verse 11 The chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 2, Verse 12 He [Elisha] took up also the mantle of Elijah. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 2, Verse 13 There is death in the pot. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 4, Verse 40 Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 8, Verse 13 What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 9, Verse 18 The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 9, Verse 20 Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 9, Verse 30 The angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 19, Verse 35-36 Set thine house in order. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 20, Verse 1 I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 21, Verse 13 His mercy endureth for ever. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 16, Verse 41 The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 28, Verse 9 Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 29, Verse 11 1 See Matthew 6:13 For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 29, Verse 14 1 See Marcus Aurelius Our days on the earth are as a shadow. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 29, Verse 15 He [David] died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 29, Verse 28 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Nehemiah Chapter 4, Verse 17 And he [Ezra] read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Nehemiah Chapter 8, Verse 3 Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Nehemiah Chapter 9, Verse 17 Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Esther Chapter 4, Verse 1 The man whom the king delighteth to honor. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Esther Chapter 6, Verse 6 They hanged Haman on the gallows. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Esther Chapter 7, Verse 10 One that feared God, and eschewed evil. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 1, Verse 1 Satan came also. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 1, Verse 6 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 1, Verse 7 Doth Job fear God for nought? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 1, Verse 9 Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: 1 the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 1, Verse 21 1 See Ecclesiastes 5:15 Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 2, Verse 4 Curse God, and die. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 2, Verse 9 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 3, Verse 3 1 See Euripides For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 3, Verse 13-14 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 3, Verse 17 Who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 4, Verse 7 Fear came upon me, and trembling. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 4, Verse 14 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 4, Verse 15 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 4, Verse 17 Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 5, Verse 2 Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 5, Verse 7 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 5, Verse 13 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 5, Verse 23 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 5, Verse 26 How forcible are right words! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 6, Verse 25 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 7, Verse 6  He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 7, Verse 10 I would not live alway: let me alone: for my days are vanity. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 7, Verse 16 But how should man be just with God? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 9, Verse 2 The land of darkness and the shadow of death. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 10, Verse 21 Canst thou by searching find out God? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 11, Verse 7 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 11, Verse 17 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 12, Verse 2 The just upright man is laughed to scorn. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 12, Verse 4 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 12, Verse 7-8 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 12, Verse 12 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 12, Verse 22 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 13, Verse 15 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 14, Verse 1-2 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 14, Verse 10 If a man die, shall he live again? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 14, Verse 14 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 15, Verse 2 Miserable comforters are ye all. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 16, Verse 2 My days are past. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 17, Verse 11 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 17, Verse 14 The king of terrors. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 18, Verse 14 I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 19, Verse 20 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 19, Verse 23  I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though, after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 19, Verse 25-26 Seeing the root of the matter is found in me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 19, Verse 28 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 20, Verse 12 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 21, Verse 3 Shall any teach God knowledge? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 21, Verse 22 They are of those that rebel against the light. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 24, Verse 13 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 24, Verse 20 Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 25, Verse 5-6 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 28, Verse 12 The land of the living. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 28, Verse 13  The price of wisdom is above rubies. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 28, Verse 18 Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 28, Verse 28 I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 29, Verse 13 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 29, Verse 15 I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 30, Verse 23 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 30, Verse 29 My desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 31, Verse 35 Great men are not always wise. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 32, Verse 9 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 32, Verse 18 One among a thousand. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 33, Verse 23 Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 34, Verse 10 He multiplieth words without knowledge. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 35, Verse 16 Fair weather cometh out of the north. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 37, Verse 22 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 1-3 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 4 The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 7 Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 11 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 16 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 28 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 31 Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 32 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 37 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 39, Verse 19 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 39, Verse 21 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 39, Verse 24-25 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 39, Verse 27-30 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 40, Verse 4 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 40, Verse 15 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 1 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 14-15 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 24 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 31 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 33 He is a king over all the children of pride. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 34 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 42, Verse 5 So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Job Chapter 42, Verse 12 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 1, Verse 1-4 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 2, Verse 1 Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 2, Verse 12 Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 4, Verse 6  I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 4, Verse 8 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies; that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 8, Verse 2-5 How excellent is thy name in all the earth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 8, Verse 9 Flee as a bird to your mountain. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 11, Verse 1 How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 13, Verse 1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 14, Verse 1 Chapter 53, Verse 1 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 15, Verse 1 He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 15, Verse 4  The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 16, Verse 6  Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 17, Verse 8 He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 18, Verse 10 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 19, Verse 1-2 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 19, Verse 4-6 The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 19, Verse 9-10 Cleanse thou me from secret faults. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 19, Verse 12 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 19, Verse 14 Thou hast given him his heart's desire. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 21, Verse 2  My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 22, Verse 1 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 22, Verse 18 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 23, Verse 1 The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 1 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 24, Verse 1-4 1 See I Corinthians 10:26 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 24, Verse 7 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 24, Verse 10  The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 27, Verse 1 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 27, Verse 3 The Lord is my strength and my shield. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 28, Verse 7 Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 29, Verse 2 Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 30, Verse 5 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 31, Verse 12 My times are in thy hand. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 31, Verse 15 From the strife of tongues. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 31, Verse 20 Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 33, Verse 3 O taste and see that the Lord is good. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 34, Verse 8 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 34, Verse 13-14 Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 35, Verse 17 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 36, Verse 7 The meek shall inherit the earth. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 37, Verse 11 1 See Matthew 5:5 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 37, Verse 25  I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 37, Verse 35  Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 37, Verse 37 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 38, Verse 2 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 1 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 3 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 4 Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 5 Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 6 For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 12-13 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 42, Verse 1-2 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 42, Verse 5 Deep calleth unto deep. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 42, Verse 7 My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 45, Verse 1 The king's daughter is all glorious within. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 45, Verse 13 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 46, Verse 1-2 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 46, Verse 4-5 Be still, and know that I am God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 46, Verse 10 Every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 50, Verse 10 I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 5 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 7 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 10 And take not thy holy spirit from me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 11 Open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 15 A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 17 Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 55, Verse 6 1 See Euripides We took sweet counsel together. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 55, Verse 14  The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 55, Verse 21 They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 58, Verse 4-5 Thou hast showed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 60, Verse 3 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 60, Verse 8 Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 61, Verse 2 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 62, Verse 6 Thou renderest to every man according to his work. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 62, Verse 12 My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 63, Verse 1 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 65, Verse 11 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 66, Verse 1 We went through fire and through water. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 66, Verse 12 God setteth the solitary in families. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 68, Verse 6 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 71, Verse 9 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 72, Verse 6 His enemies shall lick the dust. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 72, Verse 9 His name shall endure for ever. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 72, Verse 17 A stubborn and rebellious generation. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 78, Verse 8 Man did eat angels' food. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 78, Verse 25 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 82, Verse 7 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 84, Verse 1 They go from strength to strength. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 84, Verse 7 A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 84, Verse 10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 85, Verse 10 Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 88, Verse 14 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 90, Verse 1-6 1 See Isaiah 40:6 and 40:8 2 See I Peter 1:24  We spend our years as a tale that is told. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 90, Verse 9  The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 90, Verse 10 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 90, Verse 12 Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 90, Verse 17 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 91, Verse 1-7  He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 91, Verse 11-13 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 92, Verse 12 Mightier than the noise of many waters. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 93, Verse 4 1 See Revelation 14:2 O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 95, Verse 1-7 1 See Ephesians 5:19 2 See Book of Common Prayer, Morning Prayer (Venite) O sing unto the Lord a new song. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 96, Verse 1 The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 97, Verse 1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 100, Verse 1 My days are consumed like smoke. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 102, Verse 3 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 102, Verse 7 As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 103, Verse 11 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 103, Verse 15-16 1 See Homer Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 104, Verse 3 Wine that maketh glad the heart of man. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 104, Verse 15 The cedars of Lebanon. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 104, Verse 16 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. 1 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. 2 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening. 3 O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. 4 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 104, Verse 19-27 1 See The Great Hymn to the Aten 2 See The Great Hymn to the Aten 3 See The Great Hymn to the Aten 4 See The Great Hymn to the Aten The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 105, Verse 40 1 See John 6:35 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 107, Verse 10 1 See Matthew 4:16 2 See Luke 1:79 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 107, Verse 23 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 107, Verse 26 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 107, Verse 27 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 109, Verse 22-23 Thou hast the dew of thy youth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 110, Verse 3 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 111, Verse 10 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 113, Verse 3 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 114, Verse 4  They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not. They have ears, but they hear not. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 115, Verse 5-6 I said in my haste, All men are liars. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 116, Verse 11 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 116, Verse 15  The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 118, Verse 22 This is the day which the Lord hath made. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 118, Verse 24  Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 118, Verse 26 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 119, Verse 105 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 120, Verse 7  I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. 1 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 121, Verse 1 1 See The Teaching for Merikare I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 122, Verse 1 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 122, Verse 7 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 126, Verse 5-6 Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 127, Verse 1 He giveth his beloved sleep. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 127, Verse 2 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 127, Verse 4-5 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 130, Verse 1 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 130, Verse 6  I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 132, Verse 4 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 133, Verse 1  By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 137, Verse 1-6 O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 139, Verse 1-2 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 139, Verse 7-10 The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 139, Verse 12 I am fearfully and wonderfully made. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 139, Verse 14 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 140, Verse 3 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 145, Verse 16 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 145, Verse 18 Put not your trust in princes. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 146, Verse 3 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 147, Verse 4 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 1 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Psalms Chapter 150, Verse 3-6 1 See II Samuel 6:5 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 1, Verse 4 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 1, Verse 10 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 1, Verse 20 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 3, Verse 16 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 3, Verse 17 Be not afraid of sudden fear. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 3, Verse 25 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 7 The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 18 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 23 The lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 5, Verse 3-4 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 6-8  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed man. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 10-11 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 25 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 27-28 Jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 34 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 7, Verse 22 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 17 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 1 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 8 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 17 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 10, Verse 1 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 10, Verse 6-7 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 10, Verse 12  In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 14-15 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 22 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 28 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 29 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 4 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 10 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 15 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 12 The way of transgressors is hard. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 15 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 19 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 24 1 See Menander 2 See Butler Fools make a mock at sin. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 9 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 10 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 13 The prudent man looketh well to his going. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 15 In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 23 Righteousness exalteth a nation. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 34 A soft answer turneth away wrath. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 1 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 13 He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 15-17 1 See The Teaching for Merikare 2 See Amenemope A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 18 A word spoken in due season, how good is it! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 23 Before honor is humility. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 33 Chapter 18, Verse 12 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 9 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 18 1 See Sophocles The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 31-32 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 5 He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 9 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 13 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 22 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 27-28 A fool's mouth is his destruction. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 7 A wounded spirit who can bear? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 14 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 19 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 22 A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 24 Wealth maketh many friends. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 19, Verse 4 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 19, Verse 13 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 19, Verse 17 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 1 It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 3 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 11-12 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 14 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 17 Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 19 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 21, Verse 9 Chapter 25, Verse 24 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 1 Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 6 The borrower is servant to the lender. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 7 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 17-18 1 See Amenemope  Have I not written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 20-21 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 22 1 See Amenemope 2 See Ecclesiasticus 4:1  Remove not the ancient landmark. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 28 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 29 1 See Amenemope Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 2 Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 4 1 See Amenemope Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 5 1 See Amenemope As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 7 The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 21 Despise not thy mother when she is old. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 22 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 31-32 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 24, Verse 5 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 24, Verse 10 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 11  If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 21-22 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 25 For men to search their own glory is not glory. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 27 Answer a fool according to his folly. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 5 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 11-13 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 27 Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 1 1 See Sophocles Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 2 Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 5-6 To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 7 Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 10 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 17 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 1 He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 20 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 26 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 27 A fool uttereth all his mind. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 11 Where there is no vision, the people perish. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 18 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 23 Give me neither poverty nor riches. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 8 Accuse not a servant unto his master. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 10 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 15 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 18-19 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 6-7 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 10-11 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 23 Strength and honor are her clothing. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 25 In her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 26-28 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 29-31 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 2-5 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 7 The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 8 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 9 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 11 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 14-15 In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 18 Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 2, Verse 13 One event happeneth to them all. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 2, Verse 14 How dieth the wise man? as the fool. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 2, Verse 16 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 1 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 3, Verse 1-8 1 See Homer Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 4, Verse 2 Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 4, Verse 6 A threefold cord is not quickly broken. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 4, Verse 12 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 4, Verse 13 God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 5, Verse 2 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 5, Verse 5 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet . . . but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 5, Verse 12 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, 1 and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand. 2 3 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 5, Verse 15 1 See Job 1:21 2 See The Song of the Harper 3 See I Timothy 6:7 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 1 1 See Publilius Syrus It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 2 As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 6 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 8 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 14 Be not righteous over much. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 16 There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 20 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 26 One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 28 God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 29 There is no discharge in that war. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 8, Verse 8 A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 8, Verse 15 1 See Luke 12:19 A living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 9, Verse 4-5 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 9, Verse 10 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 9, Verse 11-12 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 10, Verse 19 A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 10, Verse 20 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 11, Verse 1 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 11, Verse 4 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 11, Verse 6 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 11, Verse 9 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 12, Verse 1-4 The almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 12, Verse 5-7 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 12, Verse 11 Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 12, Verse 12-14 The song of songs, which is Solomon's. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 1 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 5 O thou fairest among women. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 8 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 1 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 3 His banner over me was love. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 4-5 Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 10-12 1 See Love Songs of the New Kingdom The little foxes, that spoil the vines. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 15 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 17 Chapter 4, Verse 6 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 3, Verse 1 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 4, Verse 5 Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 4, Verse 7 How much better is thy love than wine! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 4, Verse 10 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 4, Verse 16 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 5, Verse 4 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 5, Verse 16 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 6, Verse 10 Return, return, O Shulamite. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 6, Verse 13 Thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 2 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 4 Like the best wine . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 9 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 10 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 8, Verse 6 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 8, Verse 7 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Song of Solomon Chapter 8, Verse 14 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 1, Verse 3 The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 1, Verse 5 As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 1, Verse 8 Bring no more vain oblations. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 1, Verse 13 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together . . . though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 1, Verse 17-18  They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 2, Verse 4 In that day a man shall cast his idols . . . to the moles and to the bats. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 2, Verse 20 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 2, Verse 22 The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 1 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 15 Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 16 In that day seven women shall take hold of one man. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 4, Verse 1 My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 5, Verse 1 And he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 5, Verse 7-8 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 5, Verse 11 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 5, Verse 18 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 5, Verse 20 I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 1-2 Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 3 Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 5 I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 8 Then said I, Lord, how long? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 11 Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 7, Verse 14 1 See Matthew 1:23 For a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 8, Verse 14 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 9, Verse 2 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 9, Verse 6-7 The ancient and honorable, he is the head. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 9, Verse 15 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 11, Verse 1-2 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 11, Verse 6-9 For the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 12, Verse 2 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 13, Verse 11 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 14, Verse 12 Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 14, Verse 16 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 17, Verse 13 And they shall fight every one against his brother. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 19, Verse 2 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 21, Verse 1 Babylon is fallen, is fallen; 1 and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 21, Verse 9 1 See Revelation 14:8 Watchman, what of the night? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 21, Verse 11 Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 22, Verse 13 I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 22, Verse 23 Whose merchants are princes. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 23, Verse 8 As with the maid, so with her mistress. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 24, Verse 2 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 25, Verse 4 A feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 25, Verse 6 He will swallow up death in victory; 1 2 and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces. 3 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 25, Verse 8 1 See Hosea 13:14 2 See I Corinthians 15:54 3 See Revelation 21:4 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 26, Verse 2-3 Awake and sing. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 26, Verse 19 Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 26, Verse 20 Leviathan that crooked serpent . . . the dragon that is in the sea. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 27, Verse 1 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 28, Verse 10 We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 28, Verse 15 It shall be a vexation only to understand the report. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 28, Verse 19 They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 29, Verse 9 Their strength is to sit still. Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 30, Verse 7-8 The bread of adversity, and the water of affliction. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 30, Verse 20 This is the way, walk ye in it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 30, Verse 21 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 32, Verse 1 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadows of a great rock in a weary land. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 32, Verse 2 An habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 34, Verse 13 The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 35, Verse 1 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 35, Verse 5-6 Sorrow and sighing shall flee away. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 35, Verse 10 Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 36, Verse 6 Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 37, Verse 17 I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 38, Verse 15 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 1  Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 2-3 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 4 The voice said, Cry. And he said, what shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 6 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; 1 2 but the word of our God shall stand for ever. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 8 1 See Psalm 90:5- 2 See I Peter 1:24 Get thee up into the high mountain . . . say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 9 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 11 The nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 15 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 21 They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not faint. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 31 They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 41, Verse 6 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 42, Verse 3 Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 45, Verse 9 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 48, Verse 10 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 48, Verse 18 There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 48, Verse 22 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 51, Verse 11 Thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 51, Verse 17 Therefore hear now this. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 51, Verse 21 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 52, Verse 7 They shall see eye to eye. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 52, Verse 8 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 53, Verse 3 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 53, Verse 4 All we like sheep have gone astray. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 53, Verse 6 1 See Book of Common Prayer, A General Confession  He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 53, Verse 7 Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 55, Verse 1 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 55, Verse 4 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 55, Verse 7 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 55, Verse 8 Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 57, Verse 19 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 60, Verse 1 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 60, Verse 22 Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 61, Verse 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 63, Verse 3 All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 64, Verse 6 We all are the work of thy hand. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 64, Verse 8 I am holier than thou. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 65, Verse 5 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 65, Verse 17 1 See Revelation 21:1 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 65, Verse 21-22 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 66, Verse 13 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 5, Verse 8 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 5, Verse 21 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 5, Verse 23 Saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 6, Verse 14 Chapter 8, Verse 11  Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 6, Verse 16 Amend your ways and your doings. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 7, Verse 3 Chapter 26, Verse 13 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 8, Verse 20 Is there no balm in Gilead? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 8, Verse 22 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 9, Verse 2 Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 9, Verse 23-24 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 13, Verse 23 Our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 14, Verse 7 Her sun is gone down while it was yet day. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 15, Verse 9 A man of strife and a man of contention. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 15, Verse 10 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 1 Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 5-8 1 See Amenemope 2 See see also Psalm 1:1- The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 9 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 11 Thou art my hope in the day of evil. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 17 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 22, Verse 29 A curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 29, Verse 18  The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 31, Verse 29 With my whole heart and with my whole soul. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 32, Verse 41 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 45, Verse 5 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Lamentations of Jeremiah Chapter 1, Verse 1 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Lamentations of Jeremiah Chapter 1, Verse 2 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Lamentations of Jeremiah Chapter 1, Verse 12  Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Lamentations of Jeremiah Chapter 3, Verse 19 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Lamentations of Jeremiah Chapter 3, Verse 27  As it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 1, Verse 16 As is the mother, so is her daughter. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 16, Verse 44 The king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 21, Verse 21 The valley . . . was full of bones . . . and lo, they were very dry. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 37, Verse 1-2 Can these bones live? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 37, Verse 3 O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 37, Verse 4 Every man's sword shall be against his brother. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 38, Verse 21 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Daniel Chapter 2, Verse 33 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Daniel Chapter 3, Verse 23 Nebuchadnezzar . . . was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Daniel Chapter 4, Verse 33 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Daniel Chapter 5, Verse 1 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Daniel Chapter 5, Verse 25-28 According to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Daniel Chapter 6, Verse 12 They brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Daniel Chapter 6, Verse 16 So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Daniel Chapter 6, Verse 23 The Ancient of days. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Daniel Chapter 7, Verse 9 Chapter 7, Verse 13 Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament The Book of Daniel Chapter 12, Verse 4 Ye are the sons of the living God. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Hosea Chapter 1, Verse 10 Like people, like priest. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Hosea Chapter 4, Verse 9 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Hosea Chapter 6, Verse 2 He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Hosea Chapter 6, Verse 3 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Hosea Chapter 6, Verse 6 They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Hosea Chapter 8, Verse 7 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Hosea Chapter 10, Verse 13 I drew them with . . . bands of love. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Hosea Chapter 11, Verse 4 I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Hosea Chapter 12, Verse 10 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Hosea Chapter 13, Verse 14 1 See Isaiah 25:8 2 See I Corinthians 15:54 Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Joel Chapter 2, Verse 28 Multitudes in the valley of decision. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Joel Chapter 3, Verse 14 They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Amos Chapter 2, Verse 6 Can two walk together, except they be agreed? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Amos Chapter 3, Verse 3 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Amos Chapter 6, Verse 1 And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Jonah Chapter 1, Verse 17 What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Micah Chapter 6, Verse 8  The faces of them all gather blackness. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Nahum Chapter 2, Verse 10 Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Habakkuk Chapter 2, Verse 2 The stone shall cry out of the wall, 1 and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Habakkuk Chapter 2, Verse 11 1 See Luke 19:40 The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Habakkuk Chapter 2, Verse 20 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Zechariah Chapter 1, Verse 5 I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Zechariah Chapter 2, Verse 6 Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Zechariah Chapter 4, Verse 6 For who hath despised the day of small things? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Zechariah Chapter 4, Verse 10 Behold, thy King cometh unto thee . . . lowly, and riding upon an ass. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Zechariah Chapter 9, Verse 9 Prisoners of hope. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Zechariah Chapter 9, Verse 12 So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 1 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Zechariah Chapter 11, Verse 12 1 See Matthew 26:15 What are these wounds in thine hands? . . . Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Zechariah Chapter 13, Verse 6 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Malachi Chapter 2, Verse 10 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Malachi Chapter 3, Verse 1 Behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Malachi Chapter 4, Verse 1 Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Malachi Chapter 4, Verse 2 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. The Holy Bible, The Old Testament Malachi Chapter 4, Verse 5 The Holy Bible And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and brethren, and a little after draw out swords. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha I Esdras Chapter 3, Verse 22  Great is Truth, and mighty above all things. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha I Esdras Chapter 4, Verse 41 What is past I know, but what is for to come I know not. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha II Esdras Chapter 4, Verse 46 Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with a good courage that which hath befallen thee. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha II Esdras Chapter 10, Verse 15 I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha II Esdras Chapter 14, Verse 25 If thou hast abundance, give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha Tobit Chapter 4, Verse 8 Put on her garments of gladness. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha Judith Chapter 10, Verse 3 The ear of jealousy heareth all things. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 10 Our time is a very shadow that passeth away. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 5 Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 8 For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 23-24 The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery, And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality. And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 3, Verse 1-5 They that put their trust in him shall understand the truth. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 3, Verse 9 Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 5, Verse 13 For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind . . . and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 5, Verse 14 For the very true beginning of her [wisdom] is the desire of discipline; and the care of discipline is love. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 6, Verse 17 And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 3 All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 6 The light that cometh from her [wisdom] never goeth out. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 10 Who can number the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of eternity? The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 1, Verse 2 To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed? The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 1, Verse 6 For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering, and very pitiful, and forgiveth sins, and saveth in time of affliction. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 2, Verse 11 The greater thou art, the more humble thyself. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 3, Verse 18 Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 3, Verse 19 Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 3, Verse 21 Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are showed unto thee than men understand. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 3, Verse 23 Profess not the knowledge . . . that thou hast not. A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the last. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 3, Verse 25-26 Defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 4, Verse 1 1 See Amenemope 2 See Proverbs 22:22 Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that seek her. He that loveth her loveth life. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 4, Verse 11-12 Observe the opportunity. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 4, Verse 20 Be not as a lion in thy house, nor frantic among thy servants. Let not thine hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldest repay. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 4, Verse 30-31 Set not thy heart upon thy goods; and say not, I have enough for my life. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 5, Verse 1 Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 5, Verse 9 Let thy life be sincere. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 5, Verse 11 Be not ignorant of any thing in a great matter or a small. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 5, Verse 15 If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 6, Verse 7 A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 6, Verse 14 A faithful friend is the medicine of life. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 6, Verse 16 If thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps of his door. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 6, Verse 36 Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 7, Verse 36 Rejoice not over thy greatest enemy being dead, but remember that we die all. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 8, Verse 7 Miss not the discourse of the elders. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 8, Verse 9 Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 9, Verse 10 Pride is hateful before God and man. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 10, Verse 7 He that is today a king tomorrow shall die. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 10, Verse 10 Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that are born of a woman. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 10, Verse 18 Be not overwise in doing thy business. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 10, Verse 26 Many kings have sat down upon the ground; and one that was never thought of hath worn the crown. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 11, Verse 5 In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction: and in the day of affliction there is no more remembrance of prosperity. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 11, Verse 25 Judge none blessed before his death. 1 2 3 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 11, Verse 28 1 See Solon 2 See Aeschylus 3 See Sophocles A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 12, Verse 8 He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 13, Verse 1 How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 13, Verse 2 All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like. 1 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 13, Verse 16 1 See Homer A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but a poor man being down is thrust also away by his friends. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 13, Verse 21 The heart of a man changeth his countenance, whether it be for good or evil. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 13, Verse 25 So is a word better than a gift. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 18, Verse 16 Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 18, Verse 33 He that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 19, Verse 1 Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other men's lives. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 19, Verse 8 A man's attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, show what he is. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 19, Verse 30 A tale out of season [is as] music in mourning. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 22, Verse 6 I will not be ashamed to defend a friend. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 22, Verse 25 All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 25, Verse 19 The discourse of fools is irksome. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 27, Verse 13 Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 28, Verse 18 Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man's house. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 29, Verse 22 There is no riches above a sound body. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 30, Verse 16 Gladness of the heart is the life of a man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 30, Verse 22 Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 30, Verse 24 Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof driveth away sleep. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 31, Verse 1 Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 32, Verse 8 Consider that I labored not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 33, Verse 17 Leave not a stain in thine honor. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 33, Verse 22 Let the counsel of thine own heart stand. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 37, Verse 13 Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 38, Verse 1 When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him, when his spirit is departed from him. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 38, Verse 23 How can he get wisdom . . . whose talk is of bullocks? The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 38, Verse 25 Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 44, Verse 1 All these were honored in their generations, and were the glory of their times. There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 44, Verse 7-9 Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 44, Verse 14 His word burned like a lamp. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 48, Verse 1  O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him and exalt him above all for ever. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Song of the Three Holy Children 35 Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The History of Susanna 61 It is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Second Book of the Maccabees Chapter 2, Verse 32 When he was at the last gasp. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Second Book of the Maccabees Chapter 7, Verse 9 Speech finely framed delighteth the ears. The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha The Second Book of the Maccabees Chapter 15, Verse 39 The Holy Bible Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 1, Verse 23 1 See Isaiah 7:14 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 1-2 They saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and . . . they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 11-12 Out of Egypt have I called my son. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 15  Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 18 He shall be called a Nazarene. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 23 Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 2 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 3 1 See Isaiah 40:3 And his meat was locusts and wild honey. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 4 O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 7 Now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 10 The Spirit of God descending like a dove. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 16 This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 17 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 4, Verse 2 The people which sat in darkness saw great light. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 4, Verse 16 1 See Psalm 107:10 2 See Luke 1:79 Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 4, Verse 19 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 1 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 3-11 1 See Psalm 37:11 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 13 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 14-17 Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 18 Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 28-30 Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 34-35 Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 39 Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 44 He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 45 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 48 When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 3  After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, 1 for ever. Amen. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 9-13 1 See Chronicles 29:11 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 19-20 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 21 The light of the body is the eye. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 22 If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 23 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 24 Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 25-26 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 27 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 28 Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 29 Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 33 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 34 Judge not, that ye be not judged. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 1 With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 2-3 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 5 Neither cast ye your pearls before swine. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 6 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 7 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 9  Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 12 Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. The Holy Bible, The New Testament 1 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 13-14 1 See Hesiod Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 15 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 16 By their fruits ye shall know them. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 20 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 21 [The house] fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 25 A foolish man, which built his house upon the sand. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 26 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 12 The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 20 Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 22 Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 26 He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 9 They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 12 I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 13 Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 15 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 17 The maid is not dead, but sleepeth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 24 The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 37 Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 6 Freely ye have received, freely give. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 8 Whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 14  Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 16 Ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 22 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 24 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 29-30 I came not to send peace, but a sword. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 34 He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 38-39 1 See Matthew 16:25 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 11, Verse 15 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 11, Verse 19 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 11, Verse 28-30 He that is not with me is against me. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 12, Verse 30 The tree is known by his fruit. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 12, Verse 33 Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 12, Verse 34 Behold, a greater than Solomon is here. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 12, Verse 42 Some seeds fell by the way side. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 4 Because they had no root, they withered away. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 6 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 8 The care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 22 The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 31 Pearl of great price. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 46 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 47 1 See Lao-tzu Is not this the carpenter's son? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 55 A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 57 [Salome] the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 6 Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 8 We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 17 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 20 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 25 Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 27 O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 31 Of a truth thou art the Son of God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 33 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 15, Verse 11 They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 15, Verse 14 The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 15, Verse 27 When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 2 The signs of the times. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 3 Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 16 Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 18-19 Get thee behind me, Satan. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 23 Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 1 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 25-26 1 See Matthew 10:39 Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 3 He rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 13 Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 20 1 See Book of Common Prayer, A Prayer of St. Chrysostom Until seventy times seven. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 22 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 19, Verse 6 1 See Book of Common Prayer, Solemnization of Matrimony If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 19, Verse 21 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 19, Verse 24 Many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 19, Verse 30 Borne the burden and heat of the day. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 20, Verse 12 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 20, Verse 15 Overthrew the tables of the moneychangers. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 21, Verse 12 My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 21, Verse 13 They made light of it. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 5 Many are called, but few are chosen. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 14 Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 21 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 1 This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 2 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 37-40 1 See Deuteronomy 6:5 2 See Leviticus 19:18 Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 12 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 23 Blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 24 Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 27 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 37 Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 6-7 Abomination of desolation. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 15 Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 28 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 31 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 35 The one shall be taken, and the other left. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 40 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 1-2 Well done, thou good and faithful servant . . . enter thou into the joy of thy lord. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 21 Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 29 Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 30 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 32 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 35-36 Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 40 There came unto him [Jesus] a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 7 To what purpose is this waste? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 8 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 11 1 See Deuteronomy 15:11 What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 15 1 See Zechariah 11:12 My time is at hand. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 18 Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 21 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 22 It had been good for that man [Judas] if he had not been born. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 24 Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 26-29 1 See I Corinthians 11:24, 25 My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 38 O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 39 Could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 40-41 Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 45 He came to Jesus, and said, Hail, Master; and kissed him. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 49 All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 52 Thy speech bewrayeth thee. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 73  Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus . . . Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 74-75 The potter's field, to bury strangers in. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 7 Have thou nothing to do with that just man. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 19 Let him be crucified. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 22 [Pilate] took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 24 His blood be on us, and on our children. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 25 A place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 33 This is Jesus the King of the Jews. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 37 He saved others; himself he cannot save. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 42 Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 46 1 See Psalm 22:1 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 51 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 28, Verse 3 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 28, Verse 19 Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 28, Verse 20  There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 1, Verse 7 Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 2, Verse 9 The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 2, Verse 27 If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 3, Verse 25 The earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 4, Verse 28 What manner of man is this? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 4, Verse 41 They came . . . into the country of the Gadarenes. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 1 My name is Legion: for we are many. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 9 And the unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea . . . and were choked in the sea. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 13 Clothed, and in his right mind. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 15 My little daughter lieth at the point of death. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 23 Knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 30 I see men as trees, walking. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 8, Verse 24 Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 9, Verse 24 Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 10, Verse 14 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 12, Verse 40 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 12, Verse 42 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 13, Verse 35-36 He is risen. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 16, Verse 6 1 See Luke 24:34 2 See The Book of Common Prayer Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 16, Verse 15 Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 28 For with God nothing shall be impossible. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 37 Blessed is the fruit of thy womb. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 42 My soul doth magnify the Lord. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 46 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 48 He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 51-52 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 53 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 68 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 70-71 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 78-79 1 See Psalm 107:10 2 See Matthew 4:16 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 7 There were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 8-11  Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 14 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 29 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 32 Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 49 Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 52 [The devil] showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 4, Verse 5 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 4, Verse 10-11 Physician, heal thyself. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 4, Verse 23 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 6, Verse 26 Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 7, Verse 47 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 7, Verse 50 Nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 8, Verse 17 No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 9, Verse 62 Nor scrip, nor shoes. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 4 Peace be to this house. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 5 The laborer is worthy of his hire. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 7 I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 18 Many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 24 A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 30 A certain Samaritan . . . had compassion on him. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 33 Go, and do thou likewise. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 37 But Martha was cumbered about much serving. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 40 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 42 This is an evil generation: they seek a sign. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 11, Verse 29 Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 12, Verse 19 1 See Ecclesiastes 8:15 Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 12, Verse 20 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 12, Verse 35 For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 12, Verse 48 The poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 14, Verse 21 Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 14, Verse 28 Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 15, Verse 6 [The prodigal son] wasted his substance with riotous living. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 15, Verse 13 Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 15, Verse 23 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 15, Verse 24 Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 15, Verse 31 What shall I do? . . . I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 16, Verse 3 The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 16, Verse 8 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 16, Verse 10 The beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 16, Verse 22 Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 16, Verse 26 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 17, Verse 2 The kingdom of God is within you. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 17, Verse 21 Remember Lot's wife. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 17, Verse 32 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 18, Verse 10 God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 18, Verse 11 God be merciful to me a sinner. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 18, Verse 13 Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 19, Verse 22 If these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 19, Verse 40 1 See Habakkuk 2:11 He is not a God of the dead, but of the living. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 20, Verse 38 In your patience possess ye your souls. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 21, Verse 19 The Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 21, Verse 27 This do in remembrance of me. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 22, Verse 19 1 See I Corinthians 11:24 Not my will, but thine, be done. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 22, Verse 42 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 31 The place, which is called Calvary. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 33 Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 34 Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 42 To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 43 Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 46 He gave up the ghost. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 46 He was a good man, and a just. The Holy Bible, The New Testament Why seek ye the living among the dead? The Holy Bible, The New Testament Their words seemed to them as idle tales. The Holy Bible, The New Testament Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Lord is risen indeed. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The New Testament 1 See Mark 16:6 2 See The Book of Common Prayer In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 1 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 5 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 6 The true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 9 The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us . . . full of grace and truth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 14 No man hath seen God at any time. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 18  Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 29 Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 46 Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 51 Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 2, Verse 4 The water that was made wine. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 2, Verse 9  This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 2, Verse 11 When he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 2, Verse 15 Make not my Father's house an house of merchandise. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 2, Verse 16 Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 3, Verse 3 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 3, Verse 8 How can these things be? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 3, Verse 9 God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 3, Verse 16 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 4, Verse 7 The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 4, Verse 23 He was a burning and a shining light. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 5, Verse 35 Search the scriptures. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 5, Verse 39 What are they among so many? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 6, Verse 9 Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 6, Verse 12 I am the bread of life: 1 he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 6, Verse 35 1 See Psalm 105:40 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 6, Verse 63 Judge not according to the appearance. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 7, Verse 24 Never man spake like this man. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 7, Verse 46 He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 8, Verse 7 Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 8, Verse 11 I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 8, Verse 12 The truth shall make you free. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 8, Verse 32 Ye are of your father the devil . . . there is no truth in him. . . . he is a liar, and the father of it. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 8, Verse 44 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 9, Verse 4 Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 9, Verse 25 I am the door. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 10, Verse 9 I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 10, Verse 10 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 10, Verse 11 Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 10, Verse 16  I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 11, Verse 25-26 Jesus wept. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 11, Verse 35 It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 11, Verse 50 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 12, Verse 4-5 1 See Matthew 26:7 and 26:8 Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 12, Verse 35 That thou doest, do quickly. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 13, Verse 27 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 13, Verse 34 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 14, Verse 1-2 I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 14, Verse 3 I am the way, the truth, and the life. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 14, Verse 6 I will not leave you comfortless. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 14, Verse 18 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 14, Verse 27 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 15, Verse 13 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 15, Verse 16  Whither goest thou? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 16, Verse 5 Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 16, Verse 24 Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 16, Verse 33 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 18, Verse 38 Now Barabbas was a robber. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 18, Verse 40  Behold the man! The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 19, Verse 5 Woman, behold thy son! The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 19, Verse 26 It is finished. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 19, Verse 30  Touch me not. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 20, Verse 17 Then saith he to Thomas . . . be not faithless, but believing. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 20, Verse 27 Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 20, Verse 29 Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 2, Verse 2 There appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 2, Verse 3-4 Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 3, Verse 6 And distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 4, Verse 35 If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 5, Verse 38-39 Thy money perish with thee. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 8, Verse 20 In the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 8, Verse 23 Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 9, Verse 1 Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 9, Verse 4 It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 9, Verse 5 1 See Aeschylus He is a chosen vessel unto me. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 9, Verse 15 Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 9, Verse 18 What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 10, Verse 15  God is no respecter of persons. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 10, Verse 34 The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 14, Verse 11 We also are men of like passions with you. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 14, Verse 15 Come over into Macedonia, and help us. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 16, Verse 9 Certain lewd fellows of the baser sort. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 17, Verse 5 Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 17, Verse 22-23 God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 17, Verse 24-26 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 1 2 3 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 17, Verse 28 1 See Aeschylus 2 See Cleanthes 3 See Aratus Your blood be upon your own heads. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 18, Verse 6 And Gallio cared for none of those things. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 18, Verse 17 Mighty in the Scriptures. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 18, Verse 24 We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 19, Verse 2 All with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 19, Verse 34 It is more blessed to give than to receive. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 20, Verse 35 I [Paul] am . . . a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 21, Verse 39 Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 22, Verse 3 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 22, Verse 28 God shall smite thee, thou whited wall. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 23, Verse 3 Revilest thou God's high priest? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 23, Verse 4 I [Paul] am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 23, Verse 6 A conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 24, Verse 16 When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 24, Verse 25 I appeal unto Caesar. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 25, Verse 11 Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 26, Verse 24 I am not mad . . . but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 26, Verse 25 For this thing was not done in a corner. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 26, Verse 26 Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 26, Verse 28 Wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 2, Verse 1 These, having not the law, are a law unto themselves. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 2, Verse 14 The things that are more excellent. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 2, Verse 18 Where no law is, there is no transgression. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 4, Verse 15 Who against hope believed in hope. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 4, Verse 18 Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 5, Verse 20 Death hath no more dominion over him. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 6, Verse 9 I speak after the manner of men. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 6, Verse 19 The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 6, Verse 23 The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 7, Verse 19 1 See Euripides 2 See Ovid Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 7, Verse 24 Heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 17 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 22 All things work together for good to them that love God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 28 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 29-30 If God be for us, who can be against us? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 31 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 33 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 35 Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 38-39 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 9, Verse 21 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 11, Verse 34 I beseech you therefore, brethren . . . that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 1 1 See Book of Common Prayer Let love be without dissimulation. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 9 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 10 Given to hospitality. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 13 Be not wise in your own conceits. Recompense to no man evil for evil. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 16-17 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 18 Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 19 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 21 The powers that be are ordained of God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 13, Verse 1 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. Owe no man anything, but to love one another. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 13, Verse 7-8 Love is the fulfilling of the law. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 13, Verse 10  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 13, Verse 12-14 Doubtful disputations. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 14, Verse 1 Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 14, Verse 5 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 14, Verse 7-8 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 14, Verse 19 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 15, Verse 1 God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 1, Verse 27  As it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 2, Verse 9 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 6 We are laborers together with God: ye are God's husbandry. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 9 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 13 For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 17 We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 4, Verse 9 Absent in body, but present in spirit. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 5, Verse 3 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 5, Verse 6 For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 5, Verse 7 It is better to marry than to burn. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 7, Verse 9 The fashion of this world passeth away. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 7, Verse 31 Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 8, Verse 1 I am made all things to all men. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 9, Verse 22 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 9, Verse 24 Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 23 The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 26 1 See Psalm 24:1 If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 15 Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 24 1 See Matthew 26:26 2 See Luke 22:19 This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 25 1 See Matthew 26:27-9  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 13, Verse 1 Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 13, Verse 2-4 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 13, Verse 7-8 We know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: 2 now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 13, Verse 9-13 1 See Homer 2 See Genesis 32:30 If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 14, Verse 8 Let all things be done decently and in order. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 14, Verse 40 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 8-10 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 20-22 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 26 Evil communications corrupt good manners. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 33 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 36 One star differeth from another star in glory. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 41 It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 42 The first man is of the earth, earthy. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 47 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 51-53 Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 2 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 54-55 1 See Isaiah 25:8 2 See Hosea 13:14 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 16, Verse 13 1 See I Samuel 4:9 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 16, Verse 22 Not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 6 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 12 The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 4, Verse 18 We walk by faith, not by sight. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 5, Verse 7 Now is the accepted time. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 6, Verse 2 By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 6, Verse 8 As having nothing, and yet possessing all things. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 6, Verse 10 1 See Terence 2 See Wotton God loveth a cheerful giver. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 9, Verse 7 Though I be rude in speech. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 6 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 19 Forty stripes save one. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 24 A thorn in the flesh. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 12, Verse 7 1 See Judges 2:3 My strength is made perfect in weakness. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 12, Verse 9  The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 13, Verse 14 The right hands of fellowship. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 2, Verse 9 Weak and beggarly elements. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 4, Verse 9 It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 4, Verse 18 Ye are fallen from grace. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 5, Verse 4 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 5, Verse 17 The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 5, Verse 22-23 Every man shall bear his own burden. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 6, Verse 5 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 6, Verse 7 Let us not be weary in well doing. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 6, Verse 9 To be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 3, Verse 16 Carried about with every wind of doctrine. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 4, Verse 14 We are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 4, Verse 25-26 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 5, Verse 19 1 See Psalm 95:1- 2 See Book of Common Prayer, Morning Prayer (Venite) Put on the whole armor of God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 6, Verse 11 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 6, Verse 12-13 To live is Christ, and to die is gain. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians Chapter 1, Verse 21 Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians Chapter 2, Verse 12 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians Chapter 2, Verse 13 This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians Chapter 3, Verse 13-14 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians Chapter 3, Verse 19  The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians Chapter 4, Verse 7 Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians Chapter 4, Verse 8 I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians Chapter 4, Verse 11 By him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible . . . all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians Chapter 1, Verse 16-17 Touch not; taste not; handle not. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians Chapter 2, Verse 21 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians Chapter 3, Verse 2 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians Chapter 3, Verse 11 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians Chapter 3, Verse 21 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians Chapter 4, Verse 6 Luke, the beloved physician. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians Chapter 4, Verse 14 Labor of love. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians Chapter 1, Verse 3 Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians Chapter 4, Verse 11 The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 2 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 5 Putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 8 Pray without ceasing. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 17 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 21 The law is good, if a man use it lawfully. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 8 Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 15 For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 5 1 See Sophocles Not greedy of filthy lucre. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 8 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 2 Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 4 Refuse profane and old wives' fables. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 7 Let them learn first to show piety at home. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 4 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 8 They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 13 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 23  We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 7  The love of money is the root of all evil. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 10 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 12 Rich in good works. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 18 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 20 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 7 A workman that needeth not to be ashamed. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 2, Verse 15 Be instant in season, out of season. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 2 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 7 The Lord reward him according to his works. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 14 Unto the pure all things are pure. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul to Titus Chapter 1, Verse 15 Making mention of thee always in my prayers. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul to Philemon Chapter 1, Verse 4 Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 1, Verse 7 The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 4, Verse 12 Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 5, Verse 14 They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 6, Verse 6 Without shedding of blood is no remission. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 9, Verse 22 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 11, Verse 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses . . . let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 12, Verse 1-2 Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 12, Verse 6 The spirits of just men made perfect. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 12, Verse 23 Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 13, Verse 1-2 The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 13, Verse 6 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 13, Verse 8 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 13, Verse 14 To do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 13, Verse 16 Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 4-5 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 12 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 17 Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 19-20 Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 22 1 See Homer Unspotted from the world. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 27 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 2, Verse 26 How great a matter a little fire kindleth! The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 3, Verse 5 The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 3, Verse 8 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 3, Verse 15 Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 4, Verse 7 What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 4, Verse 14 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 5, Verse 7 Ye have heard of the patience of Job. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 5, Verse 11 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of James Chapter 5, Verse 16 Hope to the end. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 1, Verse 13 The Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 1, Verse 17 All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. 1 2 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 1, Verse 24-25 1 See Psalm 90:5- 2 See Isaiah 40:6 and 40:8 Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 2, Verse 11 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 2, Verse 17 Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 3, Verse 4 Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 3, Verse 7 Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 4, Verse 8 A crown of glory that fadeth not away. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 5, Verse 4 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 5, Verse 8 And the day star arise in your hearts. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle General of Peter Chapter 1, Verse 19 The dog is turned to his own vomit again. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Second Epistle General of Peter Chapter 2, Verse 22 God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of John Chapter 1, Verse 5 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of John Chapter 1, Verse 8  If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of John Chapter 2, Verse 1-2 He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of John Chapter 2, Verse 22 Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of John Chapter 3, Verse 17 He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of John Chapter 4, Verse 8 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The First Epistle General of John Chapter 4, Verse 18 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The General Epistle of Jude 13 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 9 What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 11 And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 12 His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 15 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 17 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 18 I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 2, Verse 4 To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 2, Verse 7 Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 2, Verse 10 He shall rule them with a rod of iron. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 2, Verse 27 I will give him the morning star. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 2, Verse 28 I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 3, Verse 5 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 3, Verse 15-16 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 3, Verse 20 The first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 4, Verse 7-8 Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 4, Verse 11 A book . . . sealed with seven seals. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 5, Verse 1 He went forth conquering, and to conquer. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 6, Verse 2 Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 6, Verse 8 Four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 7, Verse 1 Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 7, Verse 3 All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 7, Verse 9 These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the lamb. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 7, Verse 14 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 7, Verse 16 The name of the star is called Wormwood. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 8, Verse 11 The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 11, Verse 15 There was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 12, Verse 7-8 The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 12, Verse 9 No man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 13, Verse 17 The voice of many waters. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 14, Verse 2 1 See Psalm 93:4 Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city. 1 The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 14, Verse 8 1 See Isaiah 21:9  Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord . . . that they may rest from their labours. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 14, Verse 13 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 16, Verse 16 He is Lord of lords, and King of kings. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 17, Verse 14 He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 19, Verse 15 Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 20, Verse 12 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: 1 for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 21, Verse 1-2 1 See Isaiah 65:17 God shall wipe away all tears 1 from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 21, Verse 4 1 See Isaiah 25:8 There shall be no night there. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 22, Verse 5 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 22, Verse 11-12 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. The Holy Bible, The New Testament The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 22, Verse 13 The Missal Dominus vobiscum [The Lord be with you]. Et cum spiritu tuo [And with your spirit]. The Missal Antiphon Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa [Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault]. The Missal Confession of Sins Kyrie, eleison [Lord, have mercy on us]. The Missal Kyrie Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis [Glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace to men of good will]. 1 The Missal Gloria 1 See Luke 2:14 Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris: qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis [O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father: who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us]. 1 The Missal Gloria 1 See John 1:29 Hoc est enim Corpus meum [For this is My Body]. 1 2 The Missal The Consecration 1 See Matthew 26:26 2 See I Corinthians 11:24 Hic est enim Calix Sanguinis mei, novi et aeterni testamenti: mysterium fidei: qui pro vobis et pro multis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum [For this is the chalice of My Blood, of the new and eternal covenant; the mystery of faith; which shall be shed for you and for many unto the forgiveness of sins]. 1 2 The Missal The Consecration 1 See Matthew 26:27-9 2 See I Corinthians 11:25  O felix culpa, quae talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem [O happy fault, which has deserved to have such and so mighty a Redeemer]. The Missal Exsultet on Holy Saturday The Book of Common Prayer The Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,Minister's Opening Words, p. 5 We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. 1 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,A General Confession, p. 6 1 See Isaiah 53:6 We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,A General Confession, p. 6 Have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,A General Confession, p. 6 Who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,The Declaration of Absolution, p. 7 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and show ourselves glad in him with psalms. 1 2 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,Venite, p. 9 1 See Psalm 95:1- 2 See Ephesians 5:19 In his hand are all the corners of the earth; and the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands prepared the dry land. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,Venite, p. 9 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,Gloria Patri, p. 9 We praise thee, O God [Te deum laudamus]. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,Te Deum, p. 10 The noble army of Martyrs. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,Te Deum, p. 10 I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary: Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell; The third day he rose again from the dead: He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty: From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost: The holy Catholic Church; The Communion of Saints: The Forgiveness of sins: The Resurrection of the body: And the Life everlasting. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,Apostles' Creed, p. 15 Begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God; Begotten, not made; Being of one substance with the Father; By whom all things were made: Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,Nicene Creed, p. 16 O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom; Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,A Collect for Peace, p. 17 O God, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,A Prayer for All Conditions of Men,p. 18 We commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,A Prayer for All Conditions of Men,p. 19 We, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men; We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,A General Thanksgiving, p. 19 Almighty God, who . . . dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name 1 thou wilt grant their requests; Fulfill now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Morning Prayer,A Prayer of St. Chrysostom, p. 20 1 See Matthew 18:20 Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Evening Prayer, A Collect for Aid against Perils, p. 31 From all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy; from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness, Good Lord, deliver us. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 The Litany,p. 54 From all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 The Litany,p. 54 From battle and murder, and from sudden death. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 The Litany,p. 54 Give to all nations unity, peace, and concord. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 The Litany,p. 56 The kindly fruits of the earth. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 The Litany,p. 57 Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid; Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Holy Communion,The Collect, p. 67 Ye who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Holy Communion,To those who come to receive the Holy Communion, p. 75 We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, By thought, word, and deed, Against thy Divine Majesty, Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, And are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden of them is intolerable. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Holy Communion,General Confession, p. 75 Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Holy Communion,Proper Preface, p. 77 And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee. 1 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Holy Communion,The Invocation, p. 81 1 See Romans 12:1 The Peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Holy Communion,Blessing, p. 84 Miserable sinners. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Holy Communion,The Exhortations, p. 86 Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest [the Scriptures]. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 The Second Sunday in Advent. The Collect, p. 92 Dost thou, therefore, in the name of this Child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the sinful desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow, nor be led by them? The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Holy Baptism. To the Godfathers and Godmothers, p. 276 An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Offices of Instruction, Questions on the Sacraments, p. 292 Is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 300 If any man can show just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 300 Wilt thou . . . forsaking all others, keep thee only unto [him; her], so long as ye both shall live? The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 301 To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 301 With this Ring I thee wed. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 302 Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder. 1 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 303 1 See Matthew 19:6  In the midst of life we are in death. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Burial of the Dead,p. 332 Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 Burial of the Dead,p. 333 The iron entered into his soul. The Book of Common Prayer, 1928 The Psalter, Psalm 105:18, p. 471 The Book of Common Prayer Give peace in our time, O Lord. The Book of Common Prayer, English Morning Prayer, Versicles Grant that the old Adam in this Child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in him. The Book of Common Prayer, English Public Baptism of Infants, Blessing on the Child To love, cherish, and to obey. The Book of Common Prayer, English Solemnization of Matrimony With all my worldly goods I thee endow. The Book of Common Prayer, English Solemnization of Matrimony The Upanishads 800-500 B.C.   Thou art that. The Upanishads Chandogya Upanishad, 6.8.7, etc.  Lead me from the unreal to the real! Lead me from darkness to light! Lead me from death to immortality! The Upanishads Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,1.3.28  Not thus, not thus. The Upanishads Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,2.3.6 This Self is the honey of all beings, and all beings are the honey of this Self. The Upanishads Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,2.5.14  The gods love the obscure and hate the obvious. The Upanishads Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,4.2.2  Da da da (that is) Be subdued, Give, Be merciful. The Upanishads Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,5.2.3 If the slayer thinks he slays, If the slain thinks he is slain, Both these do not understand: He slays not, is not slain. The Upanishads Katha Upanishad, 2.19  Om. The Upanishads Passim  Shanti. The Upanishads Passim Homer c. 700 B.C. Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, a destroying wrath which brought upon the Achaeans myriad woes, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes. Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 1 And the plan of Zeus was being accomplished. Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 5 A dream, too, is from Zeus. Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 63 He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 70 If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift. Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 178 Speaking, he addressed her winged words. Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 201 Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 218 From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey. Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 249 Rosy-fingered dawn appeared, the early-born. 1 Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 477 and elsewhere 1 See Milton The son of Kronos [Zeus] spoke, and nodded with his darkish brows, and immortal locks fell forward from the lord's deathless head, and he made great Olympus tremble. Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 528 The Olympian is a difficult foe to oppose. Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 589  Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods. Homer The Iliad, bk.I,l. 599 A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. Homer The Iliad, bk.II,l. 24 Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings-their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them. Homer The Iliad, bk.II,l. 196 A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. Homer The Iliad, bk.II,l. 204 He [Thersites] was the ugliest man who came to Ilium. Homer The Iliad, bk.II,l. 216 I could not tell nor name the multitude, not even if I had ten tongues, ten mouths, not if I had a voice unwearying and a heart of bronze were in me. 1 Homer The Iliad, bk.II,l. 488 1 See Virgil Yet with his powers of augury he [Chromis] did not save himself from dark death. Homer The Iliad, bk.II,l. 859 The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. Homer The Iliad, bk.III,l. 65 Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. Homer The Iliad, bk.III,l. 108 Like cicadas, which sit upon a tree in the forest and pour out their piping voices, so the leaders of the Trojans were sitting on the tower. Homer The Iliad, bk.III,l. 151 There is no reason to blame the Trojans and the well-greaved Achaeans that for such a woman they long suffer woes. Homer The Iliad, bk.III,l. 156 Words like winter snowflakes. Homer The Iliad, bk.III,l. 222 The sun, which sees all things and hears all things. Homer The Iliad, bk.III,l. 277 Son of Atreus, what manner of speech has escaped the barrier of your teeth? Homer The Iliad, bk.IV,l. 350 Far away in the mountains a shepherd hears their thundering. Homer The Iliad, bk.IV,l. 455 He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. 1 Homer The Iliad, bk.V,l. 407 1 See Thomas Gray Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth. 1 Homer The Iliad, bk.V,l. 441 1 See Xenophanes Great-hearted Stentor with brazen voice, who could shout as loud as fifty other men. Homer The Iliad, bk.V,l. 785  He was a wealthy man, and kindly to his fellow men; for dwelling in a house by the side of the road, he used to entertain all comers. Homer The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 14 A generation of men is like a generation of leaves: the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth-and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. 1 2 3 Homer The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 146 1 See The Teaching for Merikare 2 See Pindar 3 See Aristophanes Always to be bravest and to be preeminent above others. Homer The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 208 Victory shifts from man to man. Homer The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 339 May men say, "He is far greater than his father," when he returns from battle. Homer The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 479 Smiling through tears. Homer The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 484 Attach a golden chain from heaven, and all of you take hold of it, you gods and goddesses, yet would you not be able to drag Zeus the most high from heaven to earth. Homer The Iliad, bk.VIII,l. 19 Hades is relentless and unyielding. Homer The Iliad, bk.IX,l. 158 Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. Homer The Iliad, bk.IX,l. 312 Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike. Homer The Iliad, bk.IX,l. 318 To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. 1 Homer The Iliad, bk.IX,l. 443 1 See James 1:22 Prayers are the daughters of mighty Zeus, lame and wrinkled and slanting-eyed. Homer The Iliad, bk.IX,l. 502 A companion's words of persuasion are effective. Homer The Iliad, bk.XI,l. 793 It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. Homer The Iliad, bk.XII,l. 8 The single best augury is to fight for one's country. Homer The Iliad, bk.XII,l. 243 There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men. Homer The Iliad, bk.XIII,l. 237 There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and of love. Homer The Iliad, bk.XIII,l. 636 You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another the lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. Homer The Iliad, bk.XIII,l. 729 It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. Homer The Iliad, bk.XIII,l. 787 She [Aphrodite] spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and in it desire and in it blandishing persuasion which steals the mind even of the wise. Homer The Iliad, bk.XIV,l. 214  There she met sleep, the brother of death. Homer The Iliad, bk.XIV,l. 231and XVI, l. 672 Ocean, who is the source of all. Homer The Iliad, bk.XIV,l. 246 The hearts of the noble may be turned [by entreaty]. Homer The Iliad, bk.XV,l. 203 It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. 1 Homer The Iliad, bk.XV,l. 496 1 See Horace Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. Homer The Iliad, bk.XV,l. 563 The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. Homer The Iliad, bk.XVI,l. 630 But he, mighty man, lay mightily in the whirl of dust, forgetful of his horsemanship. Homer The Iliad, bk.XVI,l. 775 Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. Homer The Iliad, bk.XVII,l. 32  The most preferable of evils. Homer The Iliad, bk.XVII,l. 105 Surely there is nothing more wretched than a man, of all the things which breathe and move upon the earth. 1 Homer The Iliad, bk.XVII,l. 446 1 See Aristophanes Sweeter it [wrath] is by far than the honeycomb dripping with sweetness, and spreads through the hearts of men. Homer The Iliad, bk.XVIII,l. 109 I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. Homer The Iliad, bk.XVIII,l. 120 Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. Homer The Iliad, bk.XVIII,l. 328 The Erinyes, who exact punishment of men underground if one swears a false oath. Homer The Iliad, bk.XIX,l. 259 Not even Achilles will bring all his words to fulfillment. Homer The Iliad, bk.XX,l. 369 Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish. Homer The Iliad, bk.XXI,l. 463 It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals. Homer The Iliad, bk.XXII,l. 71 Then the father held out the golden scales, and in them he placed two fates of dread death. Homer The Iliad, bk.XXII,l. 209 There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord. Homer The Iliad, bk.XXII,l. 262 By the ships there lies a dead man, unwept, unburied: Patroclus. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Homer The Iliad, bk.XXII,l. 386 1 See Horace 2 See Chaucer 3 See Shakespeare 4 See Milton 5 See Scott 6 See Byron Remembering this, he wept bitterly, lying now on his side, now on his back, now on his face. Homer The Iliad, bk.XXIV,l. 9 The fates have given mankind a patient soul. Homer The Iliad, bk.XXIV,l. 49 Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. Homer The Iliad, bk.XXIV,l. 525 Tell me, muse, of the man of many resources 1 who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy, and he saw the cities and learned the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes. Homer The Odyssey, bk.I,l. 1 1 See Pope By their own follies they perished, the fools. Homer The Odyssey, bk.I,l. 7 Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies. Homer The Odyssey, bk.I,l. 32  Surely these things lie on the knees of the gods. Homer The Odyssey, bk.I,l. 267 You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age. 1 Homer The Odyssey, bk.I,l. 296 1 See I Corinthians 13:11 For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. Homer The Odyssey, bk.II,l. 276 Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea. Homer The Odyssey, bk.II,l. 420 A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. Homer The Odyssey, bk.III,l. 24 All men have need of the gods. Homer The Odyssey, bk.III,l. 48 The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly. Homer The Odyssey, bk.III,l. 147 A small rock holds back a great wave. Homer The Odyssey, bk.III,l. 296 No mortal could vie with Zeus, for his mansions and his possessions are deathless. Homer The Odyssey, bk.IV,l. 78 She [Helen] threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills. Homer The Odyssey, bk.IV,l. 220 The immortals will send you to the Elysian plain at the ends of the earth, where fair-haired Rhadamanthys is. There life is supremely easy for men. No snow is there, nor ever heavy winter storm, nor rain, and Ocean is ever sending gusts of the clear-blowing west wind to bring coolness to men. Homer The Odyssey, bk.IV,l. 563  Olympus, where they say there is an abode of the gods, ever unchanging: it is neither shaken by winds nor ever wet with rain, nor does snow come near it, but clear weather spreads cloudless about it, and a white radiance stretches above it. Homer The Odyssey, bk.VI,l. 42 May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this-when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown. Homer The Odyssey, bk.VI,l. 180 All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. 1 Homer The Odyssey, bk.VI,l. 207 1 See Theocritus Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought. Homer The Odyssey, bk.VII,l. 36 We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth. Homer The Odyssey, bk.VII,l. 307 So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace-neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. Homer The Odyssey, bk.VIII,l. 167 Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. Homer The Odyssey, bk.VIII,l. 329 Even if you gods, and all the goddesses too, should be looking on, yet would I be glad to sleep with golden Aphrodite. Homer The Odyssey, bk.VIII,l. 341 Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. Homer The Odyssey, bk.VIII,l. 479 Thus she spoke; and I longed to embrace my dead mother's ghost. Thrice I tried to clasp her image, and thrice it slipped through my hands, like a shadow, like a dream. 1 Homer The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 204 1 See Virgil  They strove to pile Ossa on Olympus, and on Ossa Pelion with its leafy forests, that they might scale the heavens. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 315 There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. 1 Homer The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 379 1 See Ecclesiastes 3:7 There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 427 In the extravagance of her evil she has brought shame both on herself and on all women who will come after her, even on one who is virtuous. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 432 Therefore don't you be gentle to your wife either. Don't tell her everything you know, but tell her one thing and keep another thing hidden. 1 Homer The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 441 1 See Fuller There is no more trusting in women. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 456 I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 489 Friends, we have not till now been unacquainted with misfortunes. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XII,l. 208 It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. 1 Homer The Odyssey, bk.XII,l. 452 1 See Shakespeare The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XIV,l. 463 It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go. 1 Homer The Odyssey, bk.XV,l. 72 1 See Pope Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. 1 Homer The Odyssey, bk.XV,l. 400 1 See Virgil  God always pairs off like with like. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XVII,l. 218 Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XVII,l. 246 Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XVII,l. 322 Then dark death seized Argus, as soon as he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XVII,l. 326 The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XVII,l. 485 Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XVIII,l. 130 Men flourish only for a moment. 1 Homer The Odyssey, bk.XIX,l. 328 1 See Psalm 103:15 Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. 1 Homer The Odyssey, bk.XIX,l. 560 1 See Virgil Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XX,l. 18 Your heart is always harder than a stone. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XXIII,l. 103 Therefore the fame of her excellence will never perish, and the immortals will fashion among earthly men a gracious song in honor of faithful Penelope. Homer The Odyssey, bk.XXIV,l. 196 Hesiod c. 700 B.C. With the muses of Helicon let us begin our singing. Hesiod The Theogonyl. 1 They once taught Hesiod beauteous song, when he was shepherding his sheep below holy Helicon. Hesiod The Theogonyl. 22 We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. Hesiod The Theogonyl. 27 On his tongue they pour sweet dew, and from his mouth flow gentle words. 1 Hesiod The Theogonyl. 83 1 See Coleridge Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men. Hesiod The Theogonyl. 120 From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love. Hesiod The Theogonyl. 910 There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on the earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy. Hesiod Works and Daysl. 11 Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard. 1 2 Hesiod Works and Daysl. 25 1 See Gay 2 See Meredith Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole. 1 Hesiod Works and Daysl. 40 1 See Browning Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. Hesiod Works and Daysl. 240 He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. Hesiod Works and Daysl. 265 Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard. 1 Hesiod Works and Daysl. 287 1 See Matthew 7:13-4 A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. Hesiod Works and Daysl. 346 Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. Hesiod Works and Daysl. 352 If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big. 1 2 Hesiod Works and Daysl. 361 1 See Chaucer 2 See Cervantes At the beginning of a cask and at the end take your fill; in the middle be sparing. Hesiod Works and Daysl. 368 The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work. Hesiod Works and Daysl. 579 Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. Hesiod Works and Daysl. 694 Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity. Hesiod Works and Daysl. 761 Archilochus Early seventh century B.C. I have saved myself-what care I for that shield? Away with it! I'll get another one no worse. Archilochus Fragment 6 Old women should not seek to be perfumed. Archilochus Fragment 27  The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one great thing. Archilochus Fragment 103 Mimnermus c. 650 - c. 590 B.C. What life is there, what delight, without golden Aphrodite? Mimnermus Fragment 1 The Seven Sages c. 650 - c. 550 B.C.  Know thyself. The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus, Solon, Thales Inscription at the Delphic Oracle. From Plutarch, Morals  Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage. The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus, Solon, Thales Periander.From Plutarch, The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, sec. 14 Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only. The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus, Solon, Thales Pittacus.From Plutarch, Morals, On the Tranquillity of the Mind Nothing too much. 1 2 3 4 5 The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus, Solon, Thales From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. I, sec.63 1 See Terence 2 See Horace 3 See Lucan 4 See Anonymous Latin 5 See Voltaire  Do not speak ill of the dead. The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus, Solon, Thales From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. I, sec.70 Not even the gods fight against necessity. 1 The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus, Solon, Thales From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. I, sec.77 1 See Euripides  Know the right moment. The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus, Solon, Thales From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. I, sec.79 Rule will show the man. The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus, Solon, Thales Bias.From Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. V, ch. 1 Solon c. 638 - c. 559 B.C. Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches. Solon Fragment 4 Poets tell many lies. Solon Fragment 21 I grow old ever learning many things. 1 Solon Fragment 22 1 See Plato Speech is the image of actions. Solon From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. I, sec. 58 Let us sacrifice to the Muses. Solon From Plutarch, The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men Until he is dead, do not yet call a man happy, but only lucky. 1 2 3 Solon From Herodotus, bk. I, ch. 32 1 See Ecclesiasticus 11:28 2 See Aeschylus 3 See Sophocles Stesichorus c. 630 - c. 555 B.C.  This tale is not true: you [Helen] did not even board the well-benched ships, and you did not go to the citadel of Troy. Stesichorus Fragment 11 Alcaeus c. 625 - c. 575 B.C.  Wine, dear boy, and truth. Alcaeus Fragment 66  Wine is a peep-hole on a man. Alcaeus Fragment 104  Let us run into a safe harbor. Alcaeus Fragment 120 Anacharsis fl. c. 600 B.C.  On learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick] The passengers are just that distance from death. Anacharsis From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Anacharsis, 5 Anacharsis] laughed at him [Solon] for imagining the dishonesty and covetousness of his countrymen could be restrained by written laws, which were like spiders' webs, and would catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but easily be broken by the mighty and rich. 1 2 Anacharsis From Plutarch, Lives, Life of Solon 1 See Zincgref 2 See Swift  In Greece wise men speak and fools decide. Anacharsis From Plutarch, Lives, Life of Solon Sappho c. 612 B.C.   Deathless Aphrodite on your rich-wrought throne. Sappho Fragment 1 Equal to the gods seems to me that man who sits facing you and hears you nearby sweetly speaking and softly laughing. This sets my heart to fluttering in my breast, for when I look on you a moment, then can I speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a cold sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over, and I am paler than grass, and I feel that I am near to death. 1 Sappho Fragment 2 1 See Catullus The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest. Sappho Fragment 4 I loved you once long ago, Athis . . . you seemed to me a small, ungainly child. Sappho Fragments 40-41 The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone. 1 Sappho Fragment 94 1 See Housman Sweet mother, I cannot ply the loom, vanquished by desire for a youth through the work of soft Aphrodite. Sappho Fragment 114 As an apple reddens on the high bough; high atop the highest bough the apple pickers passed it by-no, not passed it by, but they could not reach it. Sappho Fragment 116  Hesperus, you herd homeward whatever Dawn's light dispersed: you herd sheep-herd goats-herd children home to their mothers. Sappho Fragment 120 Lao-tzu c. 604 - c. 531 B.C.  The Tao [Way] that can be told of is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things. Therefore let there always be non-being, so we may see their subtlety, And let there always be being, so we may see their outcome. The two are the same, But after they are produced, they have different names. They both may be called deep and profound. Deeper and more profound, The door of all subtleties! Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu1 When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu2 In the government of the sage, He keeps their hearts vacuous, Fills their bellies, Weakens their ambitions, And strengthens their bones, He always causes his people to be without knowledge [cunning] or desire, And the crafty to be afraid to act. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu3 Heaven and Earth are not humane. They regard all things as straw dogs. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu5 The spirit of the valley never dies. It is called the subtle and profound female. The gate of the subtle and profound female Is the root of Heaven and Earth. It is continuous, and seems to be always existing. Use it and you will never wear it out. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu6 The best [man] is like water. Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu8 To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them- This is called profound and secret virtue. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu10 He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu13 We look at it [Tao] and do not see it; Its name is The Invisible. We listen to it and do not hear it; Its name is The Inaudible. We touch it and do not find it; Its name is The Subtle [formless]. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu14 It is The Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu14 Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu19 Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu20 To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be empty is to be full. To be worn out is to be renewed. To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed. 1 Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu22 1 See the Beatitudes, Matthew 5:3-1 He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu33 [The sage] never strives himself for the great, and thereby the great is achieved. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu34 Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone. Reversion is the action of Tao. Weakness is the function of Tao. All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu40 When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu41 The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Non-being penetrates that in which there is no space. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu43 There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu46 One may know the world without going out of doors. One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows. The further one goes, the less one knows. Therefore the sage knows without going about, Understands without seeing, And accomplishes without any action. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu47 He who possesses virtue in abundance May be compared to an infant. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu55 He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu56 The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu57 Ruling a big country is like cooking a small fish. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu60 Tao is the storehouse of all things. It is the good man's treasure and the bad man's refuge. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu62 A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu64 People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu65 I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu67 When armies are mobilized and issues joined, The man who is sorry over the fact will win. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu69 To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. 1 Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu71 1 See Confucius Heaven's net is indeed vast. Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing. 1 Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu73 1 See Matthew 13:47 To undertake executions for the master executioner [Heaven] is like hewing wood for the master carpenter. Whoever undertakes to hew wood for the master carpenter rarely escapes injuring his own hands. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu74 The Way of Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu79 Let there be a small country with few people. . . . Though neighboring communities overlook one another and the crowing of cocks and barking of dogs can be heard, Yet the people there may grow old and die without ever visiting one another. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu80 True words are not beautiful; Beautiful words are not true. A good man does not argue; He who argues is not a good man. A wise man has no extensive knowledge; He who has extensive knowledge is not a wise man. 1 2 3 4 5 6 The sage does not accumulate for himself. The more he uses for others, the more he has himself. The more he gives to others, the more he possesses of his own. The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu81 1 See Confucius 2 See Heraclitus 3 See Chaucer 4 See Selden 5 See Penn 6 See Newman Pythagoras c. 582-500 B.C. Friends share all things. 1 2 Pythagoras From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. VIII, sec.10 1 See Plato 2 See Sallust Don't eat your heart. Pythagoras From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. VIII, sec.17 Reason is immortal, all else mortal. Pythagoras From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. VIII, sec.30 The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil. Pythagoras From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. VIII, sec.32 Ibycus c. 580 B.C.  There is no medicine to be found for a life which has fled. Ibycus Fragment 23 An argument needs no reason, nor a friendship. Ibycus Fragment 40 Aesop fl. c. 550 B.C.  The lamb . . . began to follow the wolf in sheep's clothing. Aesop The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Appearances often are deceiving. Aesop The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing  Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. Aesop The Milkmaid and Her Pail  I am sure the grapes are sour. Aesop The Fox and the Grapes No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop The Lion and the Mouse Slow and steady wins the race. Aesop The Hare and the Tortoise Familiarity breeds contempt. 1 Aesop The Fox and the Lion 1 See Mark Twain The boy cried "Wolf, wolf!" and the villagers came out to help him. Aesop The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. 1 Aesop The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse 1 See Proverbs 15:17 Borrowed plumes. Aesop The Jay and the Peacock It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Aesop The Jay and the Peacock Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. Aesop The Frog and the Ox People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. Aesop The Dog in the Manger It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. Aesop The Ant 1 and the Grasshopper 1 See Proverbs 6:6- Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. Aesop Juno and the Peacock 1 1 See Sean O'Casey  A huge gap appeared in the side of the mountain. At last a tiny mouse came forth. Aesop The Mountain in Labor Any excuse will serve a tyrant. Aesop The Wolf and the Lamb Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop The Dog and the Shadow Who shall bell the cat? Aesop The Rats and the Cat I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. Aesop The Man and the Satyr Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing. Aesop The Goose with the Golden Eggs Put your shoulder to the wheel. Aesop Hercules and the Wagoner  The gods help them that help themselves. Aesop Hercules and the Wagoner  We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop The Old Man and Death Union gives strength. 1 Aesop The Bundle of Sticks 1 See John Dickinson While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. Aesop The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts  The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. Aesop The Eagle and the Arrow Theognis fl. c. 545 B.C. One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few. Theognis Elegiesl. 115 Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence. Theognis Elegiesl. 149 Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man. Theognis Elegiesl. 153 Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue. Theognis Elegiesl. 215 The best of all things for earthly men is not to be born and not to see the beams of the bright sun; but if born, then as quickly as possible to pass the gates of Hades, and to lie deep buried. 1 2 3 4 Theognis Elegiesl. 425 1 See Sophocles 2 See Bacon 3 See Yeats 4 See Auden No man takes with him to Hades all his exceeding wealth. 1 2 3 4 Theognis Elegiesl. 725 1 See The Song of the Harper 2 See Ecclesiastes 5:15 3 See I Timothy 6:7 4 See Kaufman Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought. Theognis Elegiesl. 985 Anacreon c. 570 - c. 480 B.C. Bring water, bring wine, boy! Bring flowering garlands to me! Yes, bring them, so that I may try a bout with love. Anacreon Fragment 27 I both love and do not love, and am mad and am not mad. 1 Anacreon Fragment 79 1 See Catullus War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. 1 Anacreon Fragment 101. From The Palatine Anthology, VII, 160 1 See Sophocles Hipponax c. 570-520 B.C. There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her and the day one buries her. Hipponax Fragment Xenophanes c. 570 - c. 475 B.C. Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods everything that is a shame and a reproach among men. Xenophanes Fragment 11 If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own. 1 Xenophanes Fragment 15 1 See Montesquieu One god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor even in thought. 1 Xenophanes Fragment 23 1 See Homer It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man. Xenophanes From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Xenophanes, IX Simonides c. 556-468 B.C. It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish. Simonides Fragment 4 The city is the teacher of the man. Simonides Fragment 53 Fighting in the forefront of the Greeks, the Athenians crushed at Marathon the might of the gold-bearing Medes. Simonides Fragment 88 Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. Simonides Fragment 92 If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame. 1 2 3 Simonides For the Athenian Dead at Plataia 1 See Pindar 2 See Thucydides 3 See Brandeis We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge. Simonides Cenotaph at the Isthmos Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks. Simonides From Plutarch, De Gloria Atheniensium, III, 346 Confucius 551-479 B.C. Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.1:3 A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.1:6 If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if, in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere-although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.1:7 Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.1:8, ii Have no friends not equal to yourself. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.1:8, iii When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.1:8, iv He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.2:1 [The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.2:13 Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.2:15 1 See Lao-tzu 2 See Heraclitus 3 See Chaucer 4 See Selden 5 See Penn 6 See Newman When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it-this is knowledge. 1 Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.2:17 1 See Lao-tzu Things that are done, it is needless to speak about . . . things that are past, it is needless to blame. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.3:21, ii I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.4:6, i If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.4:8 The superior man . . . does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.4:10 When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.4:17 The cautious seldom err. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.4:23 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.4:25 Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness, and yet live, his escape from death is the effect of mere good fortune. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.6:16 The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.6:20 With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow-I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud. 1 2 Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.7:15 1 See Amenemope 2 See Proverbs 15:16-7 I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.7:19 Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.7:29 The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.7:36 The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.8:9 While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]? . . . While you do not know life, how can you know about death? Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.11:11 To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.11:15, iii He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.12:6 In carrying on your government, why should you use killing [the unprincipled for the good of the unprincipled] at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend when the wind blows across it. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.12:19 Good government obtains when those who are near are made happy, and those who are far off are attracted. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.13:16, ii The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.13:27 The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.14:3 The man who in the view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends-such a man may be reckoned a complete man. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.14:13, ii He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.14:21 The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.14:29 Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.14:36, iii The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.15:8 If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.15:11 The superior man is distressed by his want of ability. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.15:18 What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.15:20 What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. 1 2 Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.15:23 1 See Matthew 7:12 2 See Aristotle When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.15:32, i The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.15:33 Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.15:34 By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.17:2 To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . . [They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.17:6 There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth . . . lust. When he is strong . . . quarrelsomeness. When he is old . . . covetousness. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.17:8 Without recognizing the ordinances of Heaven, it is impossible to be a superior man. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.20:3, i Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.20:3, ii Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. Confucius The Confucian Analects, bk.20:3, iii Heraclitus c. 540 - c. 480 B.C. All is flux, nothing stays still. 1 Heraclitus From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. IX, sec. 8, and Plato, Cratylus, 402A 1 See Tyndall Nothing endures but change. 1 2 3 4 Heraclitus From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. IX, sec. 8, and Plato, Cratylus, 402A 1 See Racan 2 See Swift 3 See Shelley 4 See Wilde It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment1 Nature is wont to hide herself. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment10 Much learning does not teach understanding. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment16 1 See Lao-tzu 2 See Confucius 3 See Chaucer 4 See Selden 5 See Penn 6 See Newman This world . . . ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment20 God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment36  You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment41 The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment46 Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment59 The road up and the road down is one and the same. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment69 Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment77 When is death not within ourselves? . . . Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. 1 2 3 4 Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment78 1 See Euripides 2 See Aristophanes 3 See Montaigne 4 See Calderon de la Barca The people should fight for their law as for a wall. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment100 It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment108 A man's character is his fate. Heraclitus On the Universe, fragment121 Themistocles c. 528 - c. 462 B.C. Tuning the lyre and handling the harp are no accomplishments of mine, but rather taking in hand a city that was small and inglorious and making it glorious and great. Themistocles From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.2  The wooden wall is your ships. Themistocles From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.10  Strike, but hear me. Themistocles From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.11 [Of his son] The boy is the most powerful of all the Hellenes; for the Hellenes are commanded by the Athenians, the Athenians by myself, myself by the boy's mother, and the mother by her boy. Themistocles From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.18 [Of two suitors for his daughter's hand] I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. Themistocles From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.18  I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. Themistocles From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.21 The speech of man is like embroidered tapestries, since like them this too has to be extended in order to display its patterns, but when it is rolled up it conceals and distorts them. Themistocles From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.29 He who commands the sea has command of everything. 1 2 3 4 5 Themistocles From Cicero, Ad Atticum, X, 8 1 See Bacon 2 See Waller 3 See Washington 4 See Mahan 5 See Morison [Upon being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer] Which would you rather be-a victor in the Olympic games, or the announcer of the victor? Themistocles From Plutarch, Apothegms, Themistocles Aeschylus 525-456 B.C. I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. Aeschylus The Suppliants,l. 453 "Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. 1 Aeschylus The Suppliants,l. 707 1 See Exodus 20:12 Myriad laughter of the ocean waves. Aeschylus Prometheus Bound,l. 89 For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. Aeschylus Prometheus Bound,l. 224 Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. 1 Aeschylus Prometheus Bound,l. 378 1 See Milton Time as he grows old teaches all things. Aeschylus Prometheus Bound,l. 981 God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word. 1 Aeschylus Prometheus Bound,l. 1030 1 See Numbers 23:19  On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged. Aeschylus Prometheus Bound,l. 1089 I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, doglike, I have kept, marking the conclave of all the night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise. Aeschylus Agamemnon,l. 1  A great ox stands on my tongue. Aeschylus Agamemnon,l. 36 He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus Agamemnon,l. 177 She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction. Aeschylus Agamemnon,l. 406 It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus Agamemnon,l. 832 Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy. 1 2 3 Aeschylus Agamemnon,l. 928 1 See Ecclesiasticus 11:28 2 See Solon 3 See Sophocles Alas, I am struck a deep mortal blow! Aeschylus Agamemnon,l. 1343 Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. 1 Aeschylus Agamemnon,l. 1364 1 See Patrick Henry Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? 1 2 3 Aeschylus Agamemnon,l. 1485 1 See Acts 17:28 2 See Cleanthes 3 See Aratus  Do not kick against the pricks. Aeschylus Agamemnon,l. 1624 I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. Aeschylus Agamemnon,l. 1668 Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god. Aeschylus The Libation Bearers,l. 59 Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. Aeschylus The Libation Bearers,l. 103 For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer. 1 Aeschylus The Libation Bearers,l. 312 1 See Exodus 21:12 What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest? Aeschylus The Libation Bearers,l. 702 His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best. Aeschylus The Seven Against Thebes, l. 592 Pheidippides d. 490 B.C. Rejoice, we are victorious. Pheidippides From Lucan, Pro Lapsu in Salutado, 3 Pindar c. 518 - c. 438 B.C. Water is best. But gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth. Pindar Olympian OdesI,l. 1 The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses. Pindar Olympian OdesI,l. 51 If any man hopes to do a deed without God's knowledge, he errs. Pindar Olympian OdesI,l. 104  Do not peer too far. Pindar Olympian OdesI,l. 184 I have many swift arrows in my quiver which speak to the wise, but for the crowd they need interpreters. The skilled poet is one who knows much through natural gift, but those who have learned their art chatter turbulently, vainly, against the divine bird of Zeus. Pindar Olympian OdesII,l. 150  I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action. Pindar Olympian OdesIV,l. 27 The issue is in God's hands. Pindar Olympian OdesXIII,l. 147  Zeus, accomplisher, to all grant grave restraint and attainment of sweet delight. Pindar Olympian OdesXIII,last line Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. 1 Pindar Pythian Odes,III, l. 109 1 See Euripides They say that this lot is bitterest: to recognize the good but by necessity to be barred from it. 1 2 3 4 Pindar Pythian Odes,IV, l. 510 1 See Boethius 2 See Dante 3 See Chaucer 4 See Tennyson Creatures of a day, what is a man? What is he not? Mankind is a dream of a shadow. But when a god-given brightness comes, a radiant light rests on men, and a gentle life. 1 2 3 Pindar Pythian Odes,VIII, l. 135 1 See The Teaching for Merikare 2 See Homer 3 See Aristophanes When toilsome contests have been decided, good cheer is the best physician, and songs, the sage daughters of the Muses, soothe with their touch. Pindar Nemean Odes,IV,l. 1 Words have a longer life than deeds. Pindar Nemean Odes,IV,l. 10 Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. Pindar Nemean Odes,V,l. 30 One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath. Pindar Nemean Odes,VI,l. 1 If one but tell a thing well, 1 it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable. 2 3 Pindar Isthmian Odes, IV, l. 67 1 See Chateaubriand 2 See Simonides 3 See Thucydides It is not possible with mortal mind to search out the purposes of the gods. Pindar Fragment 61 O bright and violet-crowned and famed in song, bulwark of Greece, famous Athens, divine city! Pindar Fragment 76 Unsung, the noblest deed will die. 1 2 Pindar Fragment 120 1 See Horace 2 See Pope What is God? Everything. Pindar Fragment 140d Convention is the ruler of all. Pindar Fragment 169 Hope, which most of all guides the changeful mind of mortals. Pindar Fragment 214 Anaxagoras c. 500-428 B.C. The descent to Hades is the same from every place. Anaxagoras From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Anaxagoras, 2 The Pali Canon c. 500 - c. 250 B.C.   All that is comes from the mind; it is based on the mind, it is fashioned by the mind. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Dhammapada, Chapter 1, Verse 1  For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love-this is the eternal law. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Dhammapada, Chapter 1, Verse 1  Avoid what is evil; do what is good; purify the mind-this is the teaching of the Awakened One [Buddha]. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Dhammapada, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Better to live alone; with a fool there is no companionship. With few desires live alone and do no evil, like an elephant in the forest roaming at will. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Dhammapada, Chapter 1, Verse 1  I have preached the truth without making any distinction between exoteri and esoteric doctrine: for in respect of truths, Ananda, the Tathagata has no such thing as the closed fist of a teacher, who keeps some things back. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Mahaparinibbana-sutta, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 2, Verse 32  Be lamps [or islands] unto yourselves. Be a refuge unto yourselves. Do not turn to any external refuge. Hold fast to the teaching [dhamma] as a lamp. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Mahaparinibbana-sutta, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 2, Verse 32  Few and far between are the Tathagatas, the Arahat Buddhas, who appear i the world. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Mahaparinibbana-sutta, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 2, Verse 32  Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Mahaparinibbana-sutta, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 2, Verse 32  This is the noble truth of sorrow. Birth is sorrow, age is sorrow, disease is sorrow, death is sorrow . . . in short, all the five components of individuality [khandas] are sorrow. And this is the noble truth of the arising of sorrow. It arises from craving, which leads to rebirth, which brings delight and passion . . . And this is the noble truth of the stopping of sorrow. It is the complete stopping of that craving . . . being emancipated from it . . . And this is the noble truth of the way which leads to the stopping of sorrow. It is the noble eightfold path. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Samyutta-nikaya, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 5, Verse 421  The law that I have preached . . . and the discipline that I have established, will be your master after my disappearance. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Digha Nikaya, II  This noble eightfold path . . . right views, right aspirations, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right contemplation. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Dhammacakkappavattanasutta, verse 4 The wise and moral man Shines like a fire on a hilltop, Making money like the bee, Who does not hurt the flower. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Singalavada-sutta, Digha-nikaya, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 3, Verse 180  It would be absurd to say of the [enlightened] monk, with his heart set free, that he believes that the perfected being survives after death-or indeed that he does not survive, or that he does and yet does not, or that he neither does nor does not. Because the monk is free his state transcends all expression, predication, communication, and knowledge. The Pali Canon Suttapitaka.Digha-nikaya, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 2, Verse 65  If, Ananda, women had not received permission to go out from the household life and enter the homeless state . . . then would the pure religion, Ananda, have lasted long, the good law would have stood fast for a thousand years. But since, Ananda, women have now received that permission, the pure religion, Ananda, will not now last so long, the good law will now stand fast for only five hundred years. The Pali Canon Vinayapitaka. Cullavagga, bk. X, ch. 1, verse 6 I go for refuge to the Buddha. I go for refuge to the Doctrine. I go for refuge to the Order [of monks]. The Pali Canon Traditional (liturgical), passim Pericles c. 495-429 B.C.  Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time. Pericles From Plutarch, Lives, Pericles, sec.18  Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. Pericles From Plutarch, Lives, Pericles, sec.33 Sophocles c. 495-406 B.C.  Silence gives the proper grace to women. Sophocles Ajax,l. 293 Nobly to live, or else nobly to die, Befits proud birth. 1 2 Sophocles Ajax,l. 480 1 See Euripides 2 See the Duc de Levis Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. Sophocles Ajax,l. 486 For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more. Sophocles Ajax,l. 522 Sleep that masters all. Sophocles Ajax,l. 675 I, whom proof hath taught of late How so far only should we hate our foes As though we soon might love them, and so far Do a friend service as to one most like Someday to prove our foe, since oftenest men In friendship but a faithless haven find. Sophocles Ajax,l. 678 Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it. Sophocles Ajax,l. 964 It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him. Sophocles Ajax,l. 1344 Ships are only hulls, high walls are nothing, When no life moves in the empty passageways. 1 2 Sophocles Oedipus Rex,l. 56 1 See Thucydides 2 See Shakespeare How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth! Sophocles Oedipus Rex,l. 316 The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his great sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope. Sophocles Oedipus Rex,l. 872 The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Sophocles Oedipus Rex,l. 1230 Time eases all things. 1 2 Sophocles Oedipus Rex,l. 1515 1 See Terence 2 See La Fontaine Look upon Oedipus This is the king who solved the famous riddle [of the Sphinx]. Sophocles Oedipus Rex,l. 1524 Let every man in mankind's frailty Consider his last day; and let none Presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain. Sophocles Oedipus Rex,l. 1529 For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues. Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 123 Our ship of state, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last. 1 Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 163 1 See Alcaeus I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare-I have no use for him, either. Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 181 Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. 1 Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 277 1 See Shakespeare Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money. 1 2 Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 295 1 See I Timothy 6:10 2 See Plato How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong! Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 323 Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man. Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 333 (Ode I) It is a good thing To escape from death, but it is not great pleasure To bring death to a friend. Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 437 But all your strength is weakness itself against The immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were and shall be Forever, beyond man utterly. Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 452 Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 563 All that is and shall be, And all the past, is his [Zeus's]. Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 611 (Ode II) Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority. 1 Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 660 1 See I Timothy 3:5 Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the great houses rain down, This is what scatters armies! Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 672 Reason is God's crowning gift to man. Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 684 The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 720 Love, unconquerable, 1 2 3 Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory. Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 781 (Ode III) 1 See Sophocles 2 See Virgil 3 See Chaucer Wisdom outweighs any wealth. 1 Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 1050 1 See Job 28:18 There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; 1 No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. Sophocles Antigone [c. 442 b.c.],l. 1347, closing lines 1 See Epicurus Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it. Sophocles Electra, l. 1008 A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse. 1 Sophocles Trachiniae,l. 296 1 See Proverbs 16:18 They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me. 1 2 3 Sophocles Trachiniae,l. 441 1 See Sophocles 2 See Virgil 3 See Chaucer Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. Sophocles Trachiniae,l. 592 Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past. 1 Sophocles Trachiniae,l. 943 1 See Proverbs 27:1 War never slays a bad man in its course, But the good always! Sophocles Philoctetes, l. 436 Stranger in a strange country. 1 Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus [406 b.c.],l. 184 1 See Exodus 2:22 The good befriend themselves. Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus [406 b.c.],l. 309 The immortal Gods alone have neither age nor death! All other things almighty Time disquiets. Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus [406 b.c.],l. 607 Athens, nurse of men. Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus [406 b.c.],l. 701 Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light And then to go back quickly whence we came. 1 2 3 4 Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus [406 b.c.],l. 1224 1 See Theognis 2 See Bacon 3 See Yeats 4 See Auden One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus [406 b.c.],l. 1616 It made our hair stand up in panic fear. Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus [406 b.c.],l. 1625 A remedy too strong for the disease. Sophocles Tereus, fragment 514 Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. Sophocles Creusa, fragment 323 Sons are the anchors of a mother's life. Sophocles Phaedra, fragment 612 To him who is in fear everything rustles. Sophocles Acrisius, fragment58 No falsehood lingers on into old age. Sophocles Acrisius, fragment59 No man loves life like him that's growing old. 1 Sophocles Acrisius, fragment64 1 See Euripides A woman's vows I write upon the wave. 1 2 3 4 5 Sophocles Unknown Dramas, fragment 694 1 See Catullus 2 See More 3 See Bacon 4 See Shakespeare 5 See Keats Empedocles c. 490 - c. 430 B.C. At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife's hatred they are borne each of them apart. Empedocles Fragment 17 The blood around men's heart is their thinking. Empedocles Fragment 105 Euripides c. 485-406 B.C.  Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 238 A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 309 A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dead we have lost. Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 355 Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetry with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord, I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below. I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grim King's dog could not prevent me then from carrying you up into the fields of light. Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 358 Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. 1 2 3 Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 462 1 See Anonymous Latin 2 See Beaumont and Fletcher 3 See Twain God, these old men! How they pray for death! How heavy they find this life in the slow drag of days! And yet, when Death comes near them, You will not find one who will rise and walk with him, not one whose years are still a burden to him. 1 Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 669 1 See Sophocles You love the daylight: do you think your father does not? Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 691 Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 726 Today's today. Tomorrow, we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity. 1 Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 788 1 See Edward FitzGerald O mortal man, think mortal thoughts! 1 Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 799 1 See Pindar My mother was accursed the night she bore me, and I am faint with envy of all the dead. 1 Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 865 1 See Job 3:3 You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 927 I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the chanting of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 962 Time cancels young pain. Euripides Alcestis [438 b.c.],l. 1085 Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. 1 Euripides Rhesus [c. 435 b.c.], l. 482 1 See Pindar There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. Euripides Medea [431 b.c.],l. 618 When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness. Euripides Medea [431 b.c.],l. 627 What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. Euripides Medea [431 b.c.],l. 650 I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. Euripides Medea [431 b.c.],l. 1078 We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. 1 2 Euripides Hippolytus [428 b.c.] ,l. 380 1 See Romans 7:19 2 See Ovid There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience. Euripides Hippolytus [428 b.c.] ,l. 426 In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. Euripides Hippolytus [428 b.c.] ,l. 435 Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart of those he would destroy. I pray that love may never come to me with murderous intent, in rhythms measureless and wild. Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts than those of Aphrodite sent by the hand of Eros, Zeus's child. Euripides Hippolytus [428 b.c.] ,l. 525 My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. 1 Euripides Hippolytus [428 b.c.] ,l. 612 1 See Sallust Would that I were under the cliffs, in the secret hiding-places of the rocks, that Zeus might change me to a winged bird. 1 Euripides Hippolytus [428 b.c.] ,l. 732 1 See Psalm 55:6 I would win my way to the coast, apple-bearing Hesperian coast of which the minstrels sing, where the Lord of the Ocean denies the voyager further sailing, and fixes the solemn limit of Heaven which giant Atlas upholds. There the streams flow with ambrosia by Zeus's bed of love, and holy Earth, the giver of life, yields to the gods rich blessedness. Euripides Hippolytus [428 b.c.] ,l. 742 In a case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. 1 2 Euripides Heraclidae [c. 428 b.c.] (quoted by Aristophanes, The Wasps) 1 See Protagoras 2 See St. Augustine Leave no stone unturned. Euripides Heraclidae [c. 428 b.c.] (quoted by Aristophanes, The Wasps) I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. Euripides Electra [413 b.c.], l. 427 A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris [c. 412 b.c.],l. 114 The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris [c. 412 b.c.],l. 1026  Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth-whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery. Euripides The Bacchae [c. 407 b.c.],l. 274 Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides The Bacchae [c. 407 b.c.],l. 480 Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. 1 2 Euripides The Bacchae [c. 407 b.c.],l. 882 1 See George Herbert 2 See von Logau What is wisdom? What gift of the gods is held in glory like this: to hold your hand victorious over the heads of those you hate? Glory is precious forever. Euripides The Bacchae [c. 407 b.c.],l. 877 Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven- of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best. Euripides The Bacchae [c. 407 b.c.],l. 1150 Yet do I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity. 1 Euripides Mad Heracles, l. 281 1 See The Seven Sages The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. Euripides Aegeus, fragment 7 A bad beginning makes a bad ending. Euripides Aeolus, fragment32 Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. Euripides Aeolus, fragment38 Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides Alexander, fragment 44  The nobly born must nobly meet his fate. Euripides Alcymene, fragment 100 Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. Euripides Antigone, fragment 164 When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. 1 Euripides Temenidae, fragment 734 1 See Shakespeare An old man weds a tyrant, not a wife. Euripides Phoenix (quoted by Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae), fragment413  Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. Euripides Phoenix (quoted by Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae), fragment809 Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life? 1 2 3 Euripides Phrixus, fragment830 1 See Heraclitus 2 See Aristophanes 3 See Montaigne Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future. 1 2 Euripides Phrixus, fragment927 1 See Thucydides 2 See Santayana The gods Visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. Euripides Phrixus, fragment970  Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. Euripides Fragment These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the favor of the gods was equal for both sides. Euripides Epitaph for the Athenians Slain in Sicily Herodotus c. 485 - c. 425 B.C. Men trust their ears less than their eyes. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.I, ch.8 A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments. 1 Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.I, ch.8 1 See Chaucer In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.I, ch.87 [The Persians] are accustomed to deliberate about the most important matters when they are drunk. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.I, ch.133  It was a kind of Cadmean victory. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.I, ch.166 For great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.II, ch.120 If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. 1 2 3 Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.II, ch.173 1 See Ptahhotpe 2 See Cervantes 3 See Howell  It is better to be envied than pitied. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.III, ch.52 Envy is born in a man from the start. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.III, ch.80 Force has no place where there is need of skill. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.III, ch.127  From the foot, Hercules. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.IV, ch.82  It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VII, ch.10 Haste in every business brings failures. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VII, ch.10 When life is so burdensome, death has become for man a sought-after refuge. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VII, ch.46 Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VII, ch.49 Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VII, ch.50  Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VIII, ch.98 The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VIII, ch.140 This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.IX, ch.16 In soft regions are born soft men. Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus, bk.IX, ch.122 Protagoras c. 485 - c. 410 B.C. Man is the measure of all things. Protagoras Fragment 1 There are two sides to every question. 1 2 Protagoras From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Protagoras, bk. IX, sec. 51 1 See Euripides 2 See St. Augustine Agis Fifth century B.C. The Lacedemonians are not wont to ask how many the enemy are, but where they are. Agis From Plutarch, Apothegms, Agis Socrates 469-399 B.C.  Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, "How many things I have no need of!" Socrates From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. II, sec.25 Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. Socrates From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. II, sec.27 There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. Socrates From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. II, sec.31 My divine sign indicates the future to me. Socrates From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. II, sec.32 I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. 1 Socrates From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. II, sec.32 1 See Milton  Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. Socrates From Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems, 4  I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Socrates From Plutarch, Of Banishment Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? Socrates From Plato, Phaedo (Socrates' last words) Democritus c. 460 - c. 400 B.C.  Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Democritus Fragment 18 In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth. Democritus Fragment 117 By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space. Democritus Fragment 125 Word is a shadow of deed. Democritus Fragment 145 Hippocrates c. 460-400 B.C. I swear by Apollo Physician, by Asclepius, by Health, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture. . . . I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing . . . I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art . . . In whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrongdoing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets. Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me. Hippocrates The Physician's Oath Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Hippocrates Precepts, ch.1 Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. Hippocrates Precepts, ch.1 Sometimes give your services for nothing, calling to mind a previous benefaction or present satisfaction. And if there be an opportunity of serving one who is a stranger in financial straits, give full assistance to all such. For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art. For some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. And it is well to superintend the sick to make them well, to care for the healthy to keep them well, also to care for one's own self, so as to observe what is seemly. 1 Hippocrates Precepts, ch.6 1 See Plato In all abundance there is lack. Hippocrates Precepts, ch.8 If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry. Hippocrates Precepts, ch.12 Opposites are cures for opposites. Hippocrates Breaths, bk. I Medicine is the most distinguished of all the arts, but through the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who casually judge such practitioners, it is now of all the arts by far the least esteemed. Hippocrates Law, bk.I There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates Law, bk.IV Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. 1 Hippocrates Law, bk.V 1 See Manilius Idleness and lack of occupation tend-nay are dragged-towards evil. Hippocrates Decorum, bk. I A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. Hippocrates Regimen in Health, bk. IX  Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. Hippocrates Aphorisms, sec. I,1 For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting. 1 Hippocrates Aphorisms, sec. I,6 1 See Shakespeare Many admire, few know. Hippocrates Regimen, bk.I, sec.24 Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. Hippocrates Regimen, bk.I, sec.28 Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. 1 Hippocrates Regimen, bk.IV, sec. 87 1 See Aesop Thucydides c. 460-400 B.C.  Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it. Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.I, sec.1 With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report being always tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labor from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eyewitnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other. The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but I shall be content if it is judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, 1 2 which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it. My history has been composed to be an everlasting possession, not the showpiece of an hour. 3 Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.I, sec.22 1 See Euripides 2 See Santayana 3 See Ranke  The great wish of some is to avenge themselves on some particular enemy, the great wish of others to save their own pocket. Slow in assembling, they devote a very small fraction of the time to the consideration of any public object, most of it to the prosecution of their own objects. Meanwhile each fancies that no harm will come of his neglect, that it is the business of somebody else to look after this or that for him; and so, by the same notion being entertained by all separately, the common cause imperceptibly decays. Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.I, sec.141 Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. But our laws secure equal justice for all in their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honors talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence alone. And as we give free play to all in our public life, so we carry the same spirit into our daily relations with one another. . . . Open and friendly in our private intercourse, in our public acts we keep strictly within the control of law. We acknowledge the restraint of reverence; we are obedient to whomsoever is set in authority, and to the laws, more especially to those which offer protection to the oppressed and those unwritten ordinances whose transgression brings admitted shame. Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.37 We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome. Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.40 But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.40  We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.40 In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece. Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.41 Fix your eyes on the greatness of Athens as you have it before you day by day, fall in love with her, and when you feel her great, remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action . . . So they gave their bodies to the commonwealth and received, each for his own memory, praise that will never die, and with it the grandest of all sepulchers, not that in which their mortal bones are laid, but a home in the minds of men, where their glory remains fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes by. For the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. For you now it remains to rival what they have done and, knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset. 1 2 3 Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.43 1 See Simonides 2 See Pindar 3 See Brandeis Great is the glory of the woman who occasions the least talk among men, whether of praise or of blame. Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.45 For human nature is as surely made arrogant by consideration as it is awed by firmness. Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.III, sec. 39 Men make the city, and not walls or ships without men in them. 1 Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.VII, sec. 77 (Address of Nicias to the Athenians at Syracuse) 1 See Sophocles This or the like was the cause of the death of a man [Nicias] who, of all the Greeks in my time, least deserved such a fate, for he had lived in the practice of every virtue. Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.VIII, sec.86 This was the greatest event in the war, or, in my opinion, in Greek history; at once most glorious to the victors and most calamitous to the conquered. They were beaten at all points and altogether; their sufferings in every way were great. They were totally destroyed-their fleet, their army, everything-and few out of many returned home. So ended the Sicilian expedition. Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War [431-413 b.c.], bk.VIII, sec.87 Aristophanes c. 450-385 B.C. For then, in wrath, the Olympian Pericles Thundered and lightened, and confounded Hellas Enacting laws which ran like drinking songs. Aristophanes Acharnians [425 b.c.], l. 530 When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes Knights [424 b.c.]l. 92 You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. Aristophanes Knights [424 b.c.]l. 217 To make the worse appear the better reason. 1 Aristophanes Clouds [423 b.c.]l. 114 and elsewhere 1 See Milton Haven't you sometimes seen a cloud that looked like a centaur? Or a leopard perhaps? Or a wolf? Or a bull? Aristophanes Clouds [423 b.c.]l. 346 Old men are children for a second time. 1 Aristophanes Clouds [423 b.c.]l. 1417 1 See Shakespeare This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, one who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand. Aristophanes Wasps [422 b.c.]l. 1117 Let each man exercise the art he knows. Aristophanes Wasps [422 b.c.]l. 1431 You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. Aristophanes Peace [421 b.c.], l. 1083 On the nightingale] Lord Zeus, listen to the little bird's voice; he has filled the whole thicket with honeyed song. Aristophanes Birds [414 b.c.]l. 223 Bringing owls to Athens. 1 Aristophanes Birds [414 b.c.]l. 301 1 See Horace The wise learn many things from their enemies. Aristophanes Birds [414 b.c.]l. 375 Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, Are the children of Men. Aristophanes Birds [414 b.c.]l. 451 Mankind, fleet of life, like tree leaves, weak creatures of clay, unsubstantial as shadows, wingless, ephemeral, wretched, mortal and dreamlike. 1 2 3 4 5 Aristophanes Birds [414 b.c.]l. 685 1 See The Teaching for Merikare 2 See Homer 3 See  4 See  5 See Pindar Somewhere, what with all these clouds, and all this air, There must be a rare name, somewhere . . . How do you like "Cloud-Cuckoo-Land"? Aristophanes Birds [414 b.c.]l. 817 Halcyon days. Aristophanes Birds [414 b.c.]l. 1594 A woman's time of opportunity is short, and if she doesn't seize it, no one wants to marry her, and she sits watching for omens. Aristophanes Lysistrata [411 b.c.]l. 596 There is no animal more invincible than a woman, nor fire either, nor any wildcat so ruthless. 1 2 Aristophanes Lysistrata [411 b.c.]l. 1014 1 See Congreve 2 See Nietzsche These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! Aristophanes Lysistrata [411 b.c.]l. 1038 Under every stone lurks a politician. Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae [410 b.c.]l. 530 There's nothing worse in the world than shameless woman-save some other woman. Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae [410 b.c.]l. 531 Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh? Aristophanes Frogs [405 b.c.]l. 1 Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax. Aristophanes Frogs [405 b.c.]l. 209 and elsewhere A savage-creating stubborn-pulling fellow, Uncurbed, unfettered, uncontrolled of speech, Unperiphrastic, bombastiloquent. Aristophanes Frogs [405 b.c.]l. 837 High thoughts must have high language. Aristophanes Frogs [405 b.c.]l. 1058 Who knows whether living is dying, and breathing Is eating, and sleeping is a wool blanket? 1 2 3 Aristophanes Frogs [405 b.c.]l. 1477 1 See Heraclitus 2 See Euripides 3 See Montaigne Blest the man who possesses a Keen intelligent mind. Aristophanes Frogs [405 b.c.]l. 1482 I am amazed that anyone who has made a fortune should send for his friends. Aristophanes Plutus [c. 388 b.c.]l. 340 We say that poverty is the sister of beggary. Aristophanes Plutus [c. 388 b.c.]l. 549 Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me. Aristophanes Plutus [c. 388 b.c.]l. 600 A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. Aristophanes Plutus [c. 388 b.c.]l. 1151 Agathon c. 448-400 B.C. This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. Agathon From Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. VI, ch. 2 Agesilaus 444-400 B.C. If all men were just, there would be no need of valor. Agesilaus From Plutarch, Lives, Agesilaus, sec.23 It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad. Agesilaus From Plutarch, Lives, Agesilaus, sec.36 Xenophon c. 430 - c. 355 B.C. Apollo said that everyone's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be. Xenophon Recollections of Socrates, bk. I, ch. 3, sec. 1  The sea! The sea! Xenophon Anabasis, IV, 7, 24  I knew my son was mortal. Xenophon From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Xenophon, bk. II, sec. 55 Zeuxis fl. 400 B.C. Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. Zeuxis From Pliny the Elder, Natural History Plato c. 428-348 B.C.   We who of old left the booming surge of the Aegean lie here in the mid-plain of Ecbatana: farewell, renowned Eretria once our country; farewell, Athens nigh to Euboea; farewell, dear sea. Plato The Greek Anthology [1906], III, 10 Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate can carry. Plato Dialogues,Phaedrus, sec. 279  Friends have all things in common. Plato Dialogues,Phaedrus, sec. 279 And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. Plato Dialogues,Symposium, sec.211 Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. Plato Dialogues,Symposium, sec.212 Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth; and who does not believe in the gods of the state, but has other new divinities of his own. Such is the charge. Plato Dialogues,Apology, sec.24 The life which is unexamined is not worth living. Plato Dialogues,Apology, sec.38  Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. . . . Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night. Plato Dialogues,Apology, sec.40 No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Plato Dialogues,Apology, sec.41 The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways-I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. Plato Dialogues,Apology, sec.42 Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him. Plato Dialogues,Phaedo, 1 sec.62 1 See Socrates Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? Plato Dialogues,Phaedo, 1 sec.72  Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve. Plato Dialogues,Phaedo, 1 sec.85 The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. Plato Dialogues,Phaedo, 1 sec.91 False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Plato Dialogues,Phaedo, 1 sec.91 The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey thither. Plato Dialogues,Phaedo, 1 sec.107 He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. Plato The Republic, bk.I,329-D No physician, insofar as he is a physician, considers his own good in what he prescribes, but the good of his patient; for the true physician is also a ruler having the human body as a subject, and is not a mere moneymaker. 1 Plato The Republic, bk.I,342-D 1 See Hippocrates When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. Plato The Republic, bk.I,343-D Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. Plato The Republic, bk.I,344-C  The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato The Republic, bk.I,377-B The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience. Plato The Republic, bk.III,409-B Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. Plato The Republic, bk.III,413-C  How, then, might we contrive . . . one noble lie to persuade if possible the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city? Plato The Republic, bk.III,414-C Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. 1 2 Plato The Republic, bk.IV,422-A 1 See I Timothy 6:10 2 See Sophocles The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. Plato The Republic, bk.IV,425-B What is the prime of life? May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's? Plato The Republic, bk.V,460-E Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils-no, nor the human race, as I believe-and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day. Plato The Republic, bk.V,473-C Let there be one man who has a city obedient to his will, and he might bring into existence the ideal polity about which the world is so incredulous. Plato The Republic, bk.V,502-B Behold! human beings living in an underground den . . . Like ourselves . . . they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave. Plato The Republic, bk.VII,515-B Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Plato The Republic, bk.VII,529 I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. Plato The Republic, bk.VII,531-E Solon was under a delusion when he said that a man when he grows old may learn many things 1 -for he can no more learn much than he can run much; youth is the time for any extraordinary toil. Plato The Republic, bk.VII,536-D 1 See Solon Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato The Republic, bk.VII,536-E Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent. Plato The Republic, bk.VII,537 Oligarchy: A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it. Plato The Republic, bk.VIII,550-C Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. 1 Plato The Republic, bk.VIII,558-C 1 See Aristotle  Democracy passes into despotism. Plato The Republic, bk.VIII,562-A The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. . . . This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Plato The Republic, bk.VIII,565-C In the early days of his power, he is full of smiles, and he salutes everyone whom he meets. Plato The Republic, bk.VIII,566-D When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato The Republic, bk.VIII,566-E There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them. Plato The Republic, bk.X,601-D No human thing is of serious importance. Plato The Republic, bk.X,604-C The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. Plato The Republic, bk.X,608-D If a person shows that such things as wood, stones, and the like, being many are also one, we admit that he shows the coexistence of the one and many, but he does not show that the many are one or the one many; he is uttering not a paradox but a truism. Plato Dialogues,Parmenides, sec.129 The absolute natures or kinds are known severally by the absolute idea of knowledge. Plato Dialogues,Parmenides, sec.134 If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with ideas of things and will not admit that every individual thing has its own determinate idea which is always one and the same, he will have nothing on which his mind can rest; and so he will utterly destroy the power of reasoning. Plato Dialogues,Parmenides, sec.135 You cannot conceive the many without the one. Plato Dialogues,Parmenides, sec.166 Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be. Plato Dialogues,Parmenides, sec.166 Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs; but differs, in that I attend men and not women, and I look after their souls when they are in labor, and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth. Plato Dialogues,Theaetetus, sec.150 He [the philosopher] does not hold aloof in order that he may gain a reputation; but the truth is, that the outer form of him only is in the city: his mind, disdaining the littlenesses and nothingnesses of human beings, is "flying all abroad" as Pindar says, measuring earth and heaven and the things which are under and on the earth and above the heaven, interrogating the whole nature of each and all in their entirety, but not condescending to anything which is within reach. Plato Dialogues,Theaetetus, sec.173 I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax, which is of different sizes in different men; harder, moister, and having more or less of purity in one than another, and in some of an intermediate quality. . . . Let us say that this tablet is a gift of Memory, the mother of the Muses; and that when we wish to remember anything which we have seen, or heard, or thought in our own minds, we hold the wax to the perceptions and thoughts, and in that material receive the impression of them as from the seal of a ring; and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget and do not know. Plato Dialogues,Theaetetus, sec.191 Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds-some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere. . . . We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. Plato Dialogues,Theaetetus, sec.197 The greatest penalty of evildoing-namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. Plato Laws, sec.728 Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. Plato Laws, sec.808 You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. Plato Laws, sec.888 And this which you deem of no moment is the very highest of all: that is whether you have a right idea of the gods, whereby you may live your life well or ill. Plato Laws, sec.888 Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction. Plato Laws, sec.888 Iphicrates 419-348 B.C.  My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you. Iphicrates From Plutarch, Apothegms, Iphicrates Phocion c. 402-317 B.C.  Have I inadvertently said some evil thing? Phocion From Plutarch, Apothegms, Phocion, sec. 10 The good have no need of an advocate. Phocion From Plutarch, Apothegms, Phocion, sec. 10 Diogenes the Cynic c. 400 - c. 325 B.C. When asked by Alexander if he wanted anything] Stand a little out of my sun. Diogenes the Cynic From Plutarch, Lives, Alexander, sec. 14  Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, 1 Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man." On which account this addition was made to the definition: "With broad flat nails." Diogenes the Cynic From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes, sec. 6 1 See Dryden  When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. Diogenes the Cynic From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes, sec. 6  I am looking for an honest man. Diogenes the Cynic From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes, sec. 6  The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. Diogenes the Cynic From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes, sec. 6 Antiphanes c. 388 - c. 311 B.C. We must have richness of soul. Antiphanes Greek Comic Fragments, no. 570 Aristotle 384-322 B.C.  Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. Aristotle From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.17 Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.18 What soon grows old? Gratitude. Aristotle From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.18 Beauty is the gift of God. Aristotle From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.19  Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead. Aristotle From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.19  What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.20  I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. Aristotle From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.21 We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us. 1 2 3 4 Aristotle From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.21 1 See Matthew 7:12 2 See Confucius 3 See Chesterfield 4 See Kingsley Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.21 If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that-agent and patient at once. Aristotle Physics, bk.II, ch. 8 Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. Aristotle Physics, bk.IV, ch. 12 The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. Aristotle On the Heavens, bk. I, ch. 5 In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle Parts of Animals, bk. I, ch. 5 All men by nature desire knowledge. Aristotle Metaphysics, bk.I, ch.1 The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved. 1 Aristotle Metaphysics, bk.I, ch.7 1 See Dante The actuality of thought is life. Aristotle Metaphysics, bk.XII, ch.7 It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking. Aristotle Metaphysics, bk.XII, ch.9 Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.I, ch.1  While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.I, ch.6  One swallow does not make a summer. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.I, ch.7 For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.II, ch.1 It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult-to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult). Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.II, ch.6 We must as second best . . . take the least of the evils. 1 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.II, ch.9 1 See Homer A man is the origin of his action. 1 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.III, ch. 3 1 See Sallust Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.VIII, ch. 1 To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. 1 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.IX, ch. 9 1 See Descartes To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.X, ch. 1 If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.X, ch. 17 We make war that we may live in peace. 1 2 3 4 5 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.X, ch. 17 1 See Vegetius 2 See Robert Burton 3 See Fenelon 4 See Washington 5 See Lowell With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, bk.X, ch. 19 Man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle Politics, bk.I, ch. 2  Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle Politics, bk.I, ch. 2 He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. Aristotle Politics, bk.I, ch. 2 The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. Aristotle Politics, bk.II, ch.4 It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. Aristotle Politics, bk.II, ch.7 Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. Aristotle Politics, bk.II, ch.8 Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. Aristotle Politics, bk.II, ch.8 They should rule who are able to rule best. Aristotle Politics, bk.II, ch.11 A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. . . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. Aristotle Politics, bk.III, ch. 9 If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. 1 Aristotle Politics, bk.IV, ch.4 1 See Plato The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. Aristotle Politics, bk.IV, ch.11 Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. Aristotle Politics, bk.V, ch.1 Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. Aristotle Politics, bk.V, ch.2 In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake. Aristotle Politics, bk.V, ch.3  Well begun is half done. Aristotle Politics, bk.V, ch.4 The basis of a democratic state is liberty. Aristotle Politics, bk.VI, ch. 2 Law is order, and good law is good order. Aristotle Politics, bk.VII, ch. 4  Evils draw men together. Aristotle Rhetoric, bk.I, ch. 6 It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. Aristotle Rhetoric, bk.II, ch. 22 A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arous-ing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. Aristotle Poetics, ch.6 A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end. Aristotle Poetics, ch.7 Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. Aristotle Poetics, ch.9 A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. Aristotle Poetics, ch.24  Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. Aristotle Eudemian Ethics, bk. VII, ch. 2 Demosthenes c. 384-322 B.C. Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. Demosthenes First Olynthiac, sec. 11 Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. 1 Demosthenes Third Olynthiac, sec.19 1 See Caesar You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. Demosthenes Third Olynthiac, sec.33  I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas. Demosthenes From Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, bk. I, ch. 8 Antigonus c. 382-301 B.C.  But how many ships do you reckon my presence to be worth? Antigonus From Plutarch, Apothegms, Antigonus  [When described by Hermodotus as "Son of the Sun"] My valet is not aware of this. Antigonus From Plutarch, Apothegms, Antigonus Mencius 372-289 B.C.  When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit, because their strength is not adequate to resist. Mencius Works, bk.II,1:3.2 There is no attribute of the superior man greater than his helping men to practice virtue. Mencius Works, bk.II,1:8.5 The superior man will not manifest either narrow-mindedness or the want of self-respect. Mencius Works, bk.II,1:9.3 To give the throne to another man would be easy; to find a man who shall benefit the kingdom is difficult. Mencius Works, bk.III,1:4.10 Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight. Mencius Works, bk.III,2:1.5 If you know that [a] thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it-why wait till next year? Mencius Works, bk.III,2:8.3 The compass and square produce perfect circles and squares. By the sages, the human relations are perfectly exhibited. Mencius Works, bk.IV,1:2.1 The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head. Mencius Works, bk.IV,1:5 The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness. Mencius Works, bk.IV,1:9.2 Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness is his straight path. Mencius Works, bk.IV,1:10.2 The path of duty lies in what is near, and man seeks for it in what is remote. Mencius Works, bk.IV,1:11 Sincerity is the way of Heaven. Mencius Works, bk.IV,1:12.2  There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them. Mencius Works, bk.IV,1:26.1 Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. Mencius Works, bk.IV,2:8 The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute-he simply speaks and does what is right. Mencius Works, bk.IV,2:11  The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. Mencius Works, bk.IV,2:12 Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. Mencius Works, bk.IV,2:13.1 The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. Mencius Works, bk.VI,1:2.2 From the feelings proper to it, [man's nature] is constituted for the practice of what is good. Mencius Works, bk.VI,1:6.5-6 Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without. Mencius Works, bk.VI,1:6.7 Benevolence is man's mind, and righteousness is man's path. Mencius Works, bk.VI,1:11.1  The great end of learning is nothing else but to seek for the lost mind. Mencius Works, bk.VI,1:11.4 All men have in themselves that which is truly honorable. Only they do not think of it. Mencius Works, bk.VI,1:17.1 If a scholar have not faith [in his principles], how shall he take a firm hold of things? Mencius Works, bk.VI,2:12 When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil. Mencius Works, bk.VI,2:15.2 Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. Mencius Works, bk.VII,1:14.1 Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them. Mencius Works, bk.VII,1:27.1 The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are next; the sovereign is the lightest. Mencius Works, bk.VII,2:14.1 Chuang-tzu 369-286 B.C.  Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. Chuang-tzu On Leveling All Things Take, for instance, a twig and a pillar, or the ugly person and the great beauty, and all the strange and monstrous transformations. These are all leveled together by Tao. Division is the same as creation; creation is the same as destruction. Chuang-tzu On Leveling All Things I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Chuang-tzu On Leveling All Things All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. Chuang-tzu This Human World He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. Chuang-tzu The Great Supreme Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. Chuang-tzu Joined Toes In the days of perfect nature, man lived together with birds and beasts, and there was no distinction of their kind . . . they were in a state of natural integrity. . . . When Sages appeared, crawling for charity and limping with duty, doubt and confusion entered men's minds. . . . Destruction of Tao and virtue in order to introduce charity and duty-this is the error of the Sages. Chuang-tzu Horses' Hoofs Banish wisdom, discard knowledge, and gangsters will stop! Chuang-tzu Opening Trunks; or, A Protest Against Civilization For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos. Chuang-tzu Opening Trunks; or, A Protest Against Civilization Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse. Chuang-tzu On Tolerance "The prince keeps [a] tortoise carefully enclosed in a chest in his ancestral temple. Now would this tortoise rather be dead and have its remains venerated, or would it rather be alive and wagging its tail in the mud?" "It would rather be alive . . . and wagging its tail in the mud." "Begone!" cried Chuang-tzu. "I too will wag my tail in the mud." Chuang-tzu Autumn Floods Pytheas fl. 330 B.C.  They smell of the lamp. Pytheas From Plutarch, Lives, Demosthenes Alexander the Great 356-323 B.C. [At Achilles' tomb] O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory! 1 Alexander the Great From Cicero, Pro Archia, 24 1 See Chateaubriand If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. Alexander the Great From Plutarch, Lives, Alexander, 14 Apelles fl. 325 B.C.  Not a day without a line. Apelles Proverbial from Pliny the Elder, Natural History, XXXV,36  A cobbler should not judge above his last. Apelles Proverbial from Pliny the Elder, Natural History, XXXV,85 Menander c. 342-292 B.C.  We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. Menander Lady of Andros, fragment 50 Riches cover a multitude of woes. Menander The Boeotian Girl, fragment 90  Whom the gods love dies young. Menander The Double Deceiver, fragment 125 At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool. 1 2 3 4 Menander Those Offered for Sale, fragment 421 1 See Horace 2 See Montaigne 3 See Bacon 4 See Linnaeus  The man who has never been flogged has never been taught. Menander The Girl Who Gets Flogged, fragment422 The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light. Menander The Girl Who Gets Flogged, fragment433 This is living, not to live unto oneself alone. Menander The Brothers in Love, fragment 508 Deus ex machina [A god from the machine]. Menander The Woman Possessed with a Divinity, fragment 227  I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. Menander Unidentified fragment545 Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. 1 2 3 Menander Unidentified fragment572 1 See Terence 2 See Virgil 3 See Propertius  Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. Menander Unidentified fragment651 It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. Menander Unidentified fragment639 Health and intellect are the two blessings of life. Menander Monostikoi (Single Lines)  The man who runs may fight again. Menander Monostikoi (Single Lines) Conscience is a God to all mortals. Menander Monostikoi (Single Lines) Epicurus 341-270 B.C. Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. Epicurus From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. X, sec.125 Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. X, sec.128 It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably. 1 Epicurus From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. X, sec.140 1 See Sophocles Theophrastus d. 278 B.C.  Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. Theophrastus From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec. 40 Zeno 335-263 B.C.  [When asked, "What is a friend?"] Another I. Zeno From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. VII, sec.23 The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. 1 Zeno From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. VII, sec.87 1 See Marcus Aurelius Cleanthes c. 330-232 B.C.  For we are your offspring. Cleanthes Hymn to Zeus, l. 4 Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. Cleanthes From Epictetus, Enchiridion, sec. 53 Euclid fl. 300 B.C. Q.E.D. [Quod erat demonstrandum: Which was to be proved.] Euclid Elements, bk. I, proposition 5  [To Ptolemy I] There is no royal road to geometry. Euclid From Proclus, Commentary on Euclid, Prologue Bion c. 325 - c. 255 B.C. Old age is the harbor of all ills. Bion From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. IV, sec.47 Wealth is the sinews of affairs. 1 2 3 4 Bion From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. IV, sec.48 1 See Cicero 2 See Rabelais 3 See Dryden 4 See Churchill  The road to Hades is easy to travel. Bion From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. IV, sec.49 He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. 1 2 Bion From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. IV, sec.50 1 See Robert Burton 2 See Ingersoll Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. 1 Bion From Plutarch, Water and Land Animals, 7 1 See L'Estrange Pyrrhus c. 318-272 B.C.  Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. Pyrrhus From Plutarch, Lives, Pyrrhus, sec. 21 Aratus c. 315-240 B.C.  From Zeus let us begin, whom we mortals never leave unnamed: full of Zeus are all streets and all gathering places of men, and full are the sea and harbors. Everywhere we all have need of Zeus. For we are also his offspring. Aratus Phaenomena, sec. 1 Theocritus c. 310-250 B.C.  Sweet is the whispering music of yonder pine that sings. 1 Theocritus Idylls,I 1 See Longfellow Our concern be peace of mind: some old crone let us seek, To spit on us for luck and keep unlovely things afar. Theocritus Idylls,VII Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, And kestrels dear to kestrels, but to me the Muse and song. Theocritus Idylls,IX The frog's life is most jolly, my lads; he has no care Who shall fill up his cup; for he has drink enough to spare. Theocritus Idylls,X Verily great grace may go With a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. 1 Theocritus Idylls,XXVIII 1 See Homer Callimachus c. 300-240 B.C.  Big book, big bore. Callimachus From The Greek Anthology [1973],Peter Jay, ed.,introduction to Callimachus You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine. Callimachus From The Greek Anthology [1973],Peter Jay, ed.,no.150, On Himself Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . . . somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death-world Claws at everything, it will not touch them. Callimachus From The Greek Anthology [1973],Peter Jay, ed.,no.152 Leonidas , of Tarentum c. 290 - c. 220 B.C. Far from Italy, far from my native Tarentum I lie; and this is the worst of it-worse than death. An exile's life is no life. But the Muses loved me. For my suffering they gave me a honeyed gift: My name survives me. Thanks to the sweet Muses Leonidas will echo throughout all time. Leonidas , of Tarentum From The Greek Anthology [1973],Peter Jay, ed., no.189 The season of ships is here, The west wind and the swallows; Flowers in the fields appear, And the ocean of hills and hollows Has calmed its waves and is clear.Free that anchor and chain! Set your full canvas flying, O men in the harbor lane: It is I, Priapus, crying. Sail out on your trades again! Leonidas , of Tarentum From The Greek Anthology [1973],Peter Jay, ed., no.197 Archimedes c. 287-212 B.C.  Eureka! [I have found it!] Archimedes From Vitruvius Pollio [first century b.c.], De Architectura, bk. IX, 215  Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. Archimedes From Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio, bk. VIII, prop. 10, sec. 11 Fabius Maximus c. 275-203 B.C. To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office. 1 Fabius Maximus From Plutarch, Lives, Fabius Maximus, sec. 5 1 See Horace Lacydes fl. c. 241 B.C. [When asked late in life why he was studying geometry] If I should not be learning now, when should I be? Lacydes From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Lacydes, sec. 5 Titus Maccius Plautus 254-184 B.C. What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours. 1 Titus Maccius Plautus Trinummus, act II, sc. ii,l. 48 1 See Shakespeare Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. Titus Maccius Plautus Trinummus, act II, sc. ii,l. 88  You are seeking a knot in a bulrush. Titus Maccius Plautus Menaechmi, act II, sc. i, l. 22 In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other. 1 Titus Maccius Plautus Aulularia, act II, sc. ii, l. 18 1 See Matthew 7:9 There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. Titus Maccius Plautus Captivi, act II, sc. ii, l. 77 Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. Titus Maccius Plautus Rudens, act II, sc. v, l. 71  Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. Titus Maccius Plautus Truculentus, act IV, sc. iv, l. 15  No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. Titus Maccius Plautus Miles Gloriosus, act III, sc.i No man is wise enough by himself. Titus Maccius Plautus Miles Gloriosus, act III, sc.iii  Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need. Titus Maccius Plautus Epidicus, act III, sc. iii, l. 44  Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. Titus Maccius Plautus Mostellaria, actI, sc. iii, l. 40 To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy. Titus Maccius Plautus Mostellaria, actIII, sc. ii, l. 104  Practice yourself what you preach. Titus Maccius Plautus Asinaria, act III, sc. iii, l. 644 Maharbal Barca the Carthaginian fl. 210 B.C.  You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to use it. Maharbal From Livy, History, XXII, 51 Bhagavad Gita 250 B.C. - A.D. 250  For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve. Bhagavad Gita This embodied [soul] is eternally unslayable In the body of everyone, son of Bharata; Therefore all beings Thou shouldst not mourn.Likewise having regard for thine own [caste] duty Thou shouldst not tremble; For another, better thing than a fight required of duty Exists not for a warrior. Bhagavad Gita On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction. Bhagavad Gita Better one's own duty, [though] imperfect, Than another's duty well performed. Bhagavad Gita In whatsoever way any come to Me, In that same way I grant them favor. Bhagavad Gita Who sees Me in all, And sees all in Me, For him I am not lost, And he is not lost for Me. Bhagavad Gita Whatsoever state [of being] meditating upon He leaves the body at death, 1 To just that he goes, son of Kunti, Always being made to be in the condition of that. Bhagavad Gita 1 See Eliot's lines from The Dry Salvages quoted in the note to Gita 2:47  If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One [Krishna]. Bhagavad Gita Quintus Ennius 239-169 B.C. No sooner said than done-so acts your man of worth. Quintus Ennius Annals, bk. 9 (quoted by Priscianus) I never indulge in poetics Unless I am down with rheumatics. Quintus Ennius Fragment of a satire (quoted by Priscianus)  By delaying he preserved the state. Quintus Ennius From Cicero, De Senectute,IV  Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. Quintus Ennius From Cicero, De Senectute,XX  The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us. Quintus Ennius From Cicero, De Natura Deorum, bk. I, ch. 35 No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. Quintus Ennius Iphigenia. From Cicero, De Divinatione, bk. II, ch. 13 The idle mind knows not what it is it wants. Quintus Ennius Iphigenia. From Cicero, De Divinatione, bk. II, ch. 13 Whom they fear they hate. 1 2 Quintus Ennius Thyestes. From Cicero, De Officiis, II, 7 1 See Accius 2 See Machiavelli Marcus Porcius Cato Cato the Elder Cato the Censor 234-149 B.C.  A farm is like a man-however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left. Marcus Porcius Cato On Agriculture, bk.I, sec. 6 Even though work stops, expenses run on. Marcus Porcius Cato On Agriculture, bk.XXXIX, sec. 2  It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. Marcus Porcius Cato From Plutarch, Lives, Cato, sec.8 Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. Marcus Porcius Cato From Plutarch, Lives, Cato, sec.9 I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one. Marcus Porcius Cato From Plutarch, Lives, Cato, sec.19  Carthage must be destroyed. Marcus Porcius Cato From Plutarch, Lives, Cato, sec.27  Grasp the subject, the words will follow. Marcus Porcius Cato From Caius Julius Victor, Ars Rhetorica, I [4th century a.d.] An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking. Marcus Porcius Cato From Seneca the Elder [c. 45 b.c.-a.d. 40], Controversiae, I, Preface, and elsewhere Caecilius Statius Caecilius Statius 220-168 B.C.  He plants trees to benefit another generation. Caecilius Statius Synephebi. Quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, VII Polybius c. 208 - c. 126 B.C. For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice it is the most infamous and harmful of all. Polybius History, bk.IV, sec. 31 Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. 1 Polybius History, bk.X, sec. 36 1 See Maharbal  That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard. Polybius History, bk.XVI There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. 1 2 Polybius History, bk.XVIII, sec. 43 1 See Stubbs 2 See R. L. Stevenson Terence Publius Terentius Afer c. 190-159 B.C.   Moderation in all things. Terence Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 61  Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred. Terence Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 68  Hence these tears. Terence Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 126  I am Davos, not Oedipus. Terence Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 194  Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love. Terence Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 555  Charity begins at home. Terence Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 635  I am a man: nothing human is alien to me. Terence Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 77  Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself. Terence Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 221  Time removes distress. Terence Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 421  Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking. Terence Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 675  Some people ask, "What if the sky were to fall?" Terence Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 719  Extreme law is often extreme injustice. Terence Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 796 There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. Terence Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 805  While there's life, there's hope. Terence Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 981 In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. 1 2 3 Terence Eunuchus,l. 41 (Prologue) 1 See Ecclesiastes 1:9 2 See Robert Burton 3 See La Bruyere I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. 1 2 Terence Eunuchus,l. 243 1 See II Corinthians 6:10 2 See Wotton There are vicissitudes in all things. 1 2 Terence Eunuchus,l. 276 1 See Bacon 2 See Sterne  I don't care one straw. Terence Eunuchus,l. 411  Take care and say this with presence of mind. Terence Eunuchus,l. 769 He is wise who tries everything before arms. Terence Eunuchus,l. 789 I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. Terence Eunuchus,l. 812 I took to my heels as fast as I could. Terence Eunuchus,l. 844 Many a time . . . from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up. Terence Eunuchus,l. 873  Fortune helps the brave. Terence Phormio,l. 203  So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way. Terence Phormio,l. 454  As they say, I have got a wolf by the ears. Terence Phormio,l. 506 I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. Terence Adelphoe (The Brothers),l. 415 According as the man is, so must you humor him. Terence Adelphoe (The Brothers),l. 431  It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests. Terence Adelphoe (The Brothers),l. 833 Huai-nan Tzu Liu An Second century B.C.  Before heaven and earth had taken form all was vague and amorphous. Therefore it was called the Great Beginning. The Great Beginning produced emptiness and emptiness produced the universe. . . . The combined essences of heaven and earth became the yin and yang, the concentrated essences of the yin and yang became the four seasons, and the scattered essences of the four seasons became the myriad creatures of the world. Huai-nan Tzu Treatise Tung Chung-shu c. 179 - c. 104 B.C.  He who is the ruler of men takes nonaction as his way and considers impartiality as his treasure. He sits upon the throne of non-action and rides upon the perfection of his officials. Tung Chung-shu Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu Lucius Accius 170-86 B.C.  Let them hate, so long as they fear. Lucius Accius Fragment ÿ Han Wu-ti 157-87 B.C.  The sound of her silk skirt has stopped. On the marble pavement dust grows. Her empty room is cold and still. Fallen leaves are piled against the doors. Longing for that lovely lady How can I bring my aching heart to rest? Han Wu-ti On the death of his mistress Marcus Terentius Varro 116-27 B.C. The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. Marcus Terentius Varro On Agriculture [De Re Rustica], bk.I, ii,2 When people come to inspect . . . farmsteads, it is not to see collections of pictures . . . but collections of fruit. Marcus Terentius Varro On Agriculture [De Re Rustica], bk.I, ii,10 Not all who own a harp are harpers. Marcus Terentius Varro On Agriculture [De Re Rustica], bk.II, i, 3  It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities. Marcus Terentius Varro On Agriculture [De Re Rustica], bk.III, i, 4 Marcus Licinius Crassus fl. 70 B.C. Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. Marcus Licinius Crassus From Plutarch, Lives, Crassus, ch. 26 Meleager First century B.C. Farewell, Morning Star, herald of dawn, and quickly come as the Evening Star, bring-ing again in secret her whom thou takest away. 1 2 Meleager The Greek Anthology [1906],J. W. Mackail, ed., sec. 1, no. 21 1 See Sappho 2 See Housman Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.  How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience? Marcus Tullius Cicero In Catilinam,I, 1 O tempora! O mores! [Oh the times! The customs!] Marcus Tullius Cicero In Catilinam,I, 1  He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out. Marcus Tullius Cicero In Catilinam,II, 1  I am a Roman citizen. Marcus Tullius Cicero In Verrem, V, 57  Law stands mute in the midst of arms. Marcus Tullius Cicero Pro Milone,IV, 11  Cui bono? [To whose advantage?] Marcus Tullius Cicero Pro Milone,XII, 32 These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits. Marcus Tullius Cicero Pro Archia Poeta, VII, 16  Leisure with dignity. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Oratore,II, 62 History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Oratore,II,36 The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice. 1 Marcus Tullius Cicero De Oratore,II,62 1 See Polybius  The freedom of poetic license. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Oratore,III, 153 If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third. Marcus Tullius Cicero Orator ad M. Brutum,4 For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us. 1 2 Marcus Tullius Cicero Orator ad M. Brutum,78 1 See Milton 2 See Thomson Nothing quite new is perfect. Marcus Tullius Cicero Brutus, 71 There were poets before Homer. Marcus Tullius Cicero Brutus, 71 The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Optimo Genere Oratorum, 16  The dregs of Romulus. Marcus Tullius Cicero Ad Atticum,II, 1  While there's life, there's hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero Ad Atticum,IX, 10  What is more agreeable than one's home? Marcus Tullius Cicero Ad Familiares, IV, 8 I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Natura Deorum, I, 78 It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events. 1 2 3 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero De Divinatione,I, 118 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Campbell 3 See Shelley 4 See Wells There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it. 1 2 Marcus Tullius Cicero De Divinatione,II, 119 1 See Goethe 2 See Descartes I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these [the Pythagoreans]. Marcus Tullius Cicero Tusculanae Disputationes,I, 17  O philosophy, you leader of life. Marcus Tullius Cicero Tusculanae Disputationes,V, 2 Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils. Marcus Tullius Cicero Tusculanae Disputationes,V, 4  The highest good. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis,I, 2  Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis,I, 22 Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone. 1 2 Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis,III, 1 1 See Samuel Rogers 2 See Thoreau  Rome, fortunately natal 'neath my consulship! Marcus Tullius Cicero De Consultatu Suo  The people's good is the highest law. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Legibus, III,3  He used to raise a storm in a teapot. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Legibus, III,16  Let the punishment match the offense. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Legibus, III,20 The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. 1 2 3 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero De Amicitia,XVII 1 See Aristotle 2 See Publilius Syrus 3 See Ovid 4 See Heywood A friend is, as it were, a second self. 1 2 3 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero De Amicitia,XXI 1 See Aristotle 2 See Zeno 3 See Horace 4 See Donne Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Senectute,XI Old men are garrulous by nature. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Senectute,XVI Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. Marcus Tullius Cicero De Senectute,XXIII  Endless money forms the sinews of war. Marcus Tullius Cicero Philippics, V, 2:5 Pompey Gnaeus Pompeius 106-48 B.C.  More worship the rising than the setting sun. Pompey From Plutarch, Lives, Pompey,14 A dead man cannot bite. Pompey From Plutarch, Lives, Pompey,77 Gaius Julius Caesar Julius Caesar 100-44 B.C.  All Gaul is divided into three parts. Gaius Julius Caesar De Bello Gallico,I, 1  Men willingly believe what they wish. Gaius Julius Caesar De Bello Gallico,III, 18  I love treason but hate a traitor. Gaius Julius Caesar From Plutarch, Lives,Romulus, sec. 17  I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Gaius Julius Caesar From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.10 I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome. Gaius Julius Caesar From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.11  The die is cast. Gaius Julius Caesar From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.32 Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat. Gaius Julius Caesar From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.38 The Ides of March have come. 1 Gaius Julius Caesar From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.63 1 See Shakespeare [In answer to a question as to what sort of death was the best] A sudden death. Gaius Julius Caesar From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.63  I came, I saw, I conquered. Gaius Julius Caesar From Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Julius, sec.37  You also, Brutus my son. Gaius Julius Caesar From Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Julius, sec.82  It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. Gaius Julius Caesar From Plutarch, Lives, Antony, sec. 11 Lucretius Titus Lucretius Carus 99-55 B.C.  Mother of Aeneas and his race, darling of men and gods, nurturing Venus. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.I,l. 1 (Invocation) For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.I,l. 7 The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.I,l. 72  Such evil deeds could religion prompt. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.I,l. 101  Nothing can be created from nothing. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.I,l. 155 The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.I,l. 268  The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.I,l. 314 Nature works by means of bodies unseen. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.I,l. 328  Material objects are of two kinds, atoms and compounds of atoms. The atoms themselves cannot be swamped by any force, for they are preserved indefinitely by their absolute solidity. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.I,l. 518  On a dark theme I trace verses full of light, touching all the muses' charm. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.I,l. 933 Truths kindle light for truths. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.I,l. 1117  Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.II,l. 1  O miserable minds of men! O blind hearts! In what darkness of life, in what great dangers ye spend this little span of years! Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.II,l. 14 Life is one long struggle in the dark. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.II,l. 54  Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.II,l. 75 So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.II,l. 123  All things must needs be borne on through the calm void, moving at equal rate with unequal weights. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.II,l. 238 Never trust her at any time, when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.II,l. 558  What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth. 1 Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.II,l. 999 1 See The Book of Common Prayer That fear of Acheron be sent packing which troubles the life of man from its deepest depths, suffuses all with the blackness of death, and leaves no delight clean and pure. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.III,l. 37 So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.III,l. 55 For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. 1 Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.III,l. 87 1 See Bacon A tree cannot grow in the sky, nor clouds be in the deep sea, nor fish live in the fields, nor can blood be in sticks nor sap in rocks. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.III,l. 784  Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.III,l. 831  When immortal Death has taken mortal life. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.III,l. 869  Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care? Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.III,l. 938 By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death. 1 Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.III,l. 1087 1 See Montaigne  What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.IV,l. 637  From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.IV,l. 1133 But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.V,l. 1117 Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.V,l. 1140 Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began. 1 Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.V,l. 1152 1 See Matthew 26:52  [Epicurus] set forth what is the highest good, towards which we all strive, and pointed out the past, whereby along a narrow track we may strain on towards it in a straight course. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.VI,l. 26  [The people] were given over in troops to disease and death. Lucretius De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), bk.VI,l. 1144 Gaius Valerius Catullus 87 - c. 54 B.C.  To whom am I to present my pretty new book, freshly smoothed off with dry pumice stone? To you, Cornelius: for you used to think that my trifles were worth something, long ago. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,I,l. 1 May it live and last for more than one century. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,I,l. 10  Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow, my lady's pet. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,III,l. 1 Now he goes along the dark road, thither whence they say no one returns. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,III,l. 11  But these things are past and gone. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,IV, l. 25  Let us live and love, my Lesbia, and value at a penny all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of perpetual night. 1 2 3 4 5 Give me a thousand kisses. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,V, l. 1 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Campion 3 See Jonson 4 See Herrick 5 See Fouche Poor Catullus, you should cease your folly. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,VIII,l. 1 But you, Catullus, be resolved and firm. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,VIII,l. 19 And let her not look to find my love, as before; my love, which by her fault has dropped like a flower on the meadow's edge, when it has been touched by the plow passing by. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,XI, l. 21  Over head and heels. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,XX, l. 9 Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away! Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,XXXI, l. 7 Whatever it is, wherever he is, whatever he is doing, he smiles: it is a malady he has, neither an elegant one as I think, nor in good taste. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,XXXIX,l. 6 There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,XXXIX,l. 16 Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is! Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,XLIII, l. 8  Now spring brings back balmy warmth. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,XLVI, l. 1 Catullus, the worst of all poets, gives you [Marcus Tullius] his warmest thanks; he being as much the worst of all poets as you are the best of all patrons. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,XLIX, l. 4 He seems to me to be equal to a god, he, if it may be, seems to surpass the very gods, who sitting opposite you again gazes at you and hears you sweetly laughing. 1 Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LI, l. 1 1 See Sappho  What an eloquent manikin! Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LIII, l. 5 I would see a little Torquatus, stretching his baby hands from his mother's lap, smile a sweet smile at his father with lips half parted. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LXI, l. 209 The evening is come; rise up, ye youths. Vesper from Olympus now at last is just raising his long-looked-for light. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LXII,l. 1  What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour? Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LXII,l. 30 Not unknown am I to the goddess [Venus] who mingles with her cares a sweet bitterness. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LXVIII,l. 17 It is not fit that men should be compared with gods. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LXVIII,l. 141 What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water. 1 2 3 4 5 Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LXX 1 See Sophocles 2 See More 3 See Bacon 4 See Shakespeare 5 See Keats Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LXXIII, l. 1 If a man can take any pleasure in recalling the thought of kindnesses done. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LXXVI,l. 1 It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LXXVI,l. 13 O ye gods, grant me this in return for my piety. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LXXVI,l. 26  I hate and I love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and I am in torment. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,LXXXV, l. 1 Wandering through many countries and over many seas, I come, my brother, to these sorrowful obsequies, to present you with the last guerdon of death, and speak, though in vain, to your silent ashes. Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,CI,l. 1  And forever, O my brother, hail and farewell! Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmina,CI,l. 10  But you shall not escape my iambics. Gaius Valerius Catullus Fragment Sallust Gaius Sallustius Crispus 86-34 B.C.  All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes. Sallust The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.1 The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. Sallust The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.1  Covetous of others' possessions, he [Catiline] was prodigal of his own. Sallust The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.5 Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. 1 Sallust The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.10 1 See Euripides  In truth, prosperity tries the souls even of the wise. Sallust The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.11  To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. Sallust The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.20  Thus in the highest position there is the least freedom of action. Sallust The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.51  On behalf of their country, their children, their altars, and their hearths. Sallust The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.59  The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of mortals. Sallust The War with Jugurtha [c. 41 b.c.], sec.1 The splendid achievements of the intellect, like the soul, are everlasting. Sallust The War with Jugurtha [c. 41 b.c.], sec.2  A city for sale and soon to perish if it finds a buyer! Sallust The War with Jugurtha [c. 41 b.c.], sec.35  Punic faith. Sallust The War with Jugurtha [c. 41 b.c.], sec.108  Experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust Speech to Caesar on the State, sec. 1 Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro 70-19 B.C. A god has brought us this peace. Virgil Eclogues,I,l. 6 To compare great things with small. Virgil Eclogues,I,l. 23  Happy old man! Virgil Eclogues,I,l. 46 Ah Corydon, Corydon, what madness has caught you? Virgil Eclogues,II,l. 69  With Jove I begin. Virgil Eclogues,III,l. 60 A sad thing is a wolf in the fold, rain on ripe corn, wind in the trees, the anger of Amaryllis. Virgil Eclogues,III,l. 80  A snake lurks in the grass. Virgil Eclogues,III,l. 93  Let us raise a somewhat loftier strain! Virgil Eclogues,IV,l. 1  The great cycle of the ages is renewed. Now Justice returns, returns the Golden Age; a new generation now descends from on high. Virgil Eclogues,IV,l. 5 We have made you [Priapus] of marble for the time being. Virgil Eclogues,VII,l. 35  We are not all capable of everything. Virgil Eclogues,VIII,l. 63 Draw Daphnis from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home. Virgil Eclogues,VIII,l. 68 Hylax barks in the doorway. Virgil Eclogues,VIII,l. 107  Your descendants shall gather your fruits. Virgil Eclogues,IX,l. 50 Time bears away all things, even our minds. Virgil Eclogues,IX,l. 51 Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. Virgil Eclogues,IX,l. 64 This last labor grant me, O Arethusa. Virgil Eclogues,X,l. 1 What if Amyntas is dark? Violets are dark, too, and hyacinths. Virgil Eclogues,X,l. 38  Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love. Virgil Eclogues,X,l. 69  Utmost [farthest] Thule. Virgil Georgics,I,l. 30  Look with favor upon a bold beginning. Virgil Georgics,I,l. 40 O farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear. Virgil Georgics,I,l. 100 Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. Virgil Georgics,I,l. 133 Thrice they tried to pile Ossa on Pelion, yes, and roll up leafy Olympus upon Ossa; thrice the Father of Heaven split the mountains apart with his thunderbolt. 1 Virgil Georgics,I,l. 281 1 See Homer Frogs in the marsh mud drone their old lament. Virgil Georgics,I,l. 378 Not every soil can bear all things. Virgil Georgics,II,l. 109 Ah too fortunate farmers, if they knew their own good fortune! Virgil Georgics,II,l. 458 May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. Virgil Georgics,II,l. 485  Happy the man who could search out the causes of things. Virgil Georgics,II,l. 490  And no less happy he who knows the rural gods. Virgil Georgics,II,l. 493 This life the old Sabines knew long ago; Remus knew it, and his brother. Virgil Georgics,II,l. 532  The best day . . . is the first to flee. Virgil Georgics,III,l. 66 Years grow cold to love. Virgil Georgics,III,l. 97  Time is flying never to return. Virgil Georgics,III,l. 284  All aglow is the work. Virgil Georgics,IV,l. 169 A sudden madness came down upon the unwary lover [Orpheus]-forgivable, surely, if Death knew how to forgive. Virgil Georgics,IV,l. 488  Sweet Parthenope nourished me, flourishing in studies of ignoble ease. Virgil Georgics,IV,l. 563  I who once played shepherds' songs and in my brash youth sang of you, O Tityrus, beneath the spreading beech. Virgil Georgics,IV,l. 565  Arms and the man I sing. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 1 Can heavenly minds yield to such rage? Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 11 So vast was the struggle to found the Roman state. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 33 Night, pitch-black, lies upon the deep. 1 Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 89 1 See Genesis 1:2  O thrice and four times blessed! Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 94 Fury provides arms. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 150 You have suffered worse things; God will put an end to these also. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 199  Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 203  The organizer a woman. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 364 Her walk revealed her as a true goddess. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 405 How happy those whose walls already rise! Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 437  Here are the tears of things; mortality touches the heart. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 462 I make no distinction between Trojan and Tyrian. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 574  A mind aware of its own rectitude. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 604 As long as rivers shall run down to the sea, or shadows touch the mountain slopes, or stars graze in the vault of heaven, so long shall your honor, your name, your praises endure. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 607 I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. Virgil Aeneid, bk.I,l. 630 Unspeakable, O Queen, is the sorrow you bid me renew. Virgil Aeneid, bk.II,l. 3  Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. Virgil Aeneid, bk.II,l. 49 From a single crime know the nation. Virgil Aeneid, bk.II,l. 65  I shudder to say it. Virgil Aeneid, bk.II,l. 204 O fatherland, O Ilium home of the gods, O Troy walls famed in battle! Virgil Aeneid, bk.II,l. 241  Ucalegon's afire next door. Virgil Aeneid, bk.II,l. 311 We have been Trojans; Troy has been. Virgil Aeneid, bk.II,l. 325 There is but one safety to the vanquished-to hope not safety. Virgil Aeneid, bk.II,l. 354 Our foes will provide us with arms. Virgil Aeneid, bk.II,l. 391  The gods thought otherwise. Virgil Aeneid, bk.II,l. 428  Thrice would I have thrown my arms about her neck, and thrice the ghost embraced fled from my grasp: like a fluttering breeze, like a fleeting dream. Virgil Aeneid, bk.II,l. 793 O accurst craving for gold! Virgil Aeneid, bk.III,l. 57  Rumor flies. Virgil Aeneid, bk.III,l. 121  I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. Virgil Aeneid, bk.IV,l. 23 Deep in her breast lives the silent wound. Virgil Aeneid, bk.IV,l. 67  A woman is always a fickle, unstable thing. Virgil Aeneid, bk.IV,l. 569 Arise from my bones, avenger of these wrongs! Virgil Aeneid, bk.IV,l. 625  Thus, thus, it is joy to pass to the world below. Virgil Aeneid, bk.IV,l. 660 Naked in death upon an unknown shore. Virgil Aeneid, bk.V,l. 871 Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 95  It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air-there's the rub, the task. Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 126  Faithful Achates. Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 158 and elsewhere Death's brother, Sleep. 1 2 3 4 Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 278 1 See Homer 2 See Daniel 3 See Shakespeare 4 See Shelley The swamp of Styx, by which the gods take oath. Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 323  Unwillingly I left your land, O Queen. Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 460 Had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron and a chest of brass, I could not tell all the forms of crime, could not name all the types of punishment. 1 Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 625 1 See Homer That happy place, the green groves of the dwelling of the blest. Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 638 The spirit within nourishes, and the mind, diffused through all the members, sways the mass and mingles with the whole frame. Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 726 Each of us bears his own Hell. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 743 1 See Marlowe 2 See Browne 3 See Milton 4 See Eliot 5 See Sartre 6 See Lowell Others, I take it, will work better with breathing bronze and draw living faces from marble; others will plead at law with greater eloquence, or measure the pathways of the sky, or forecast the rising stars. Be it your concern, Roman, to rule the nations under law (this is your proper skill) and establish the way of peace; to spare the conquered and put down the mighty from their seat. 1 Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 847 1 See Milton  Give me handfuls of lilies to scatter. Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 883 There are two gates of Sleep. One is of horn, easy of passage for the shades of truth; the other, of gleaming white ivory, permits false dreams to ascend to the upper air. 1 Virgil Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 893 1 See Homer Prayed to the Genius of the place. Virgil Aeneid, bk.VII,l. 136 We descend from Jove; in ancestral Jove Troy's sons rejoice. Virgil Aeneid, bk.VII,l. 219 If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. Virgil Aeneid, bk.VII,l. 312 An old story, but the glory of it is forever. Virgil Aeneid, bk.IX,l. 79 To have died once is enough. Virgil Aeneid, bk.IX,l. 140 I cannot bear a mother's tears. Virgil Aeneid, bk.IX,l. 289  Good speed to your youthful valor, boy! So shall you scale the stars! Virgil Aeneid, bk.IX,l. 641  Fortune favors the brave. Virgil Aeneid, bk.X,l. 284  Dying dreams of his sweet Argos. Virgil Aeneid, bk.X,l. 782  Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. Virgil Aeneid, bk.XI, l. 283 His limbs were cold in death; his spirit fled with a groan, indignant, to the shades below. Virgil Aeneid, bk.XII, l. 951  One composed of many. Virgil Minor Poems.Moretum, l. 104  Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming." Virgil Minor Poems.Copa, l. 38 Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65-8 B.C. How comes it, Maecenas, that no man living is content with the lot that either his choice has given him, or chance has thrown in his way, but each has praise for those who follow other paths? Horace Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirei,l. 1  The story's about you. Horace Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirei,l. 69  There is measure in all things. Horace Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirei,l. 106 We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. 1 2 Horace Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirei,l. 117 1 See Lucretius 2 See Bryant  And all that tribe. Horace Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satireii, l. 2  The limbs of a dismembered poet. Horace Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satireiv, l. 62  A man without a flaw. Horace Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirev, l. 32 Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Horace Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satireix, l. 59  As crazy as hauling timber into the woods. Horace Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirex,l. 34  Simplicity and charm. Horace Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirex,l. 44  This used to be among my prayers-a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden, and near the house a spring of ever-flowing water, and beyond these a bit of wood. 1 Horace Satires, bk.II [30 b.c.], satirevi,l. 1 1 See Pope  O nights and feasts of the gods! Horace Satires, bk.II [30 b.c.], satirevi,l. 65 In Rome you long for the country; in the country-oh inconstant!-you praise the distant city to the stars. Horace Satires, bk.II [30 b.c.], satirevii, l. 28 Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the early generations of mankind, works his ancestral acres with oxen of his own breeding, from all usury free. 1 Horace Epodes [c. 29 b.c.],II, st. 1 1 See Pope You ask me why a soft numbness diffuses all my inmost senses with deep oblivion, as though with thirsty throat I'd drained the cup that brings the sleep of Lethe. 1 Horace Epodes [c. 29 b.c.],XIV, st. 1 1 See Keats But if you name me among the lyric bards, I shall strike the stars with my exalted head. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odei, last lines  The half of my own soul. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeiii,l. 8 No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeiii,l. 37 Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. 1 2 Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeiv,l. 13 1 See Publilius Syrus 2 See Shirley  Life's brief span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeiv,l. 15 What slender youth, bedewed with liquid odors, Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha? For whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden hair, Plain in thy neatness? Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odev, l. 1  Never despair. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odevii,l. 27  Tomorrow once again we sail the Ocean Sea. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odevii,last line  Leave all else to the gods. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeix,l. 9 Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. 1 2 Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeix,l. 13 1 See Matthew 6:34 2 See Publilius Syrus  Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexi, last line Happy, thrice happy and more, are they whom an unbroken bond unites and whose love shall know no sundering quarrels so long as they shall live. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexiii, l. 17  O fairer daughter of a fair mother! Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexvi, l. 1  The pure in life and free from sin. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxii, l. 1 What restraint or limit should there be to grief for one so dear? Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxiv, l. 1  Grant me, sound of body and of mind, to pass an old age lacking neither honor nor the lyre. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxxi, last lines  A grudging and infrequent worshipper of the gods. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxxiv, l. 1  Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxxvii, l. 1  Persian luxury, boy, I hate. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxxviii,l. 1  Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers. Horace Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxxviii,l. 3  In adversity remember to keep an even mind. Horace Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odeiii,l. 1  We are all driven into the same fold. Horace Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odeiii,l. 25  Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Horace Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odex,l. 5 It is the mountaintop that the lightning strikes. Horace Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odex,l. 11  Nor does Apollo always stretch the bow. Horace Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odex,l. 19  Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by. Horace Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odexiv, l. 1  No lot is altogether happy. Horace Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odexvi, l. 27 I hate the common herd of men and keep them afar. Let there be sacred silence: I, the Muses' priest, sing for girls and boys songs not heard before. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odei,l. 1  Dark Care sits enthroned behind the Knight. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odei,l. 40  It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odeii, l. 13 The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance. 1 2 Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odeiii, l. 1 1 See Fabius Maximus 2 See Addison Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odeiv, l. 65 Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odevi, l. 46 Skilled in the works of both languages. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odeviii, l. 5  With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odeix, last line  Gloriously perjured, a maiden famous to all time. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexi, l. 35  O fount Bandusian, more sparkling than glass. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexiii, l. 1  I would not have borne this in my hot youth when Plancus was consul. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexiv, l. 27  A pauper in the midst of wealth. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexvi, l. 28  He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine." Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexxix, l. 41 I have built a monument more lasting than bronze. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexxx,l. 1  I shall not wholly die. Horace Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexxx,l. 6  I am not what I was in the reign of the good Cinara. Forbear, cruel mother of sweet loves. Horace Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odei, l. 3  The centuries roll back to the ancient age of gold. Horace Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odeii, l. 39 We are but dust and shadow. Horace Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odevii, l. 16  Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. Horace Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odeix,l. 25 It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. Horace Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odeix,l. 45 It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. 1 2 3 4 Horace Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odexii, l. 27 1 See Menander 2 See Montaigne 3 See Bacon 4 See Linnaeus I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlei,l. 14 To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlei,l. 41  Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, by any means money. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlei,l. 66  The people are a many-headed beast. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlei,l. 76 He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! 1 2 3 Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistleii,l. 40 1 See Plato 2 See Aristotle 3 See Heywood The covetous man is ever in want. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistleii,l. 56 Anger is a short madness. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistleii,l. 62 Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me, in a fine state, fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus' herd. 1 Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistleiv,l. 13 1 See Chaucer You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistleiv,l. 24 They change their clime, not their disposition, who run across the sea. 1 Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlexi,l. 27 1 See Kipling He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlexii,l. 4  Harmony in discord. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlexii,l. 19 For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlexvii,l. 9  It is not everyone that can get to Corinth. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlexvii,l. 36  Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlexviii,l. 71 It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlexviii,l. 84 No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlexix,l. 2 O imitators, you slavish herd! Horace Epistles, bk.I, epistlexix,l. 19  And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. Horace Epistles, bk.II [14 b.c.], epistleii,l. 45 Barefaced poverty drove me to writing verses. Horace Epistles, bk.II [14 b.c.], epistleii,l. 51 The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. Horace Epistles, bk.II [14 b.c.], epistleii,l. 55  I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets. Horace Epistles, bk.II [14 b.c.], epistleii,l. 102 "Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 9 It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 21 It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 25  Scholars dispute and the case is still before the courts. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 78  Foot-and-a-half-long words. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 97 If you wish me to weep, you yourself Must first feel grief. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 102 Taught or untaught, we all scribble poetry. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 117  The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 139  From the egg. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 147  In the midst of things. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 148  A praiser of past time. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 173 Let a play have five acts, neither more nor less. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 189  Turn the pages of your Greek models night and day. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 268 He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 343  Sometimes even good old Homer nods. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 359  As in painting, so in poetry. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 361 He has defiled his father's grave. Horace Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 471 Augustus Caesar Augustus Caesar 63 B.C. - A.D. 14  Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions! Augustus Caesar From Suetonius, Augustus, sec.23  More haste, less speed. Augustus Caesar From Suetonius, Augustus, sec.25  Well done is quickly done. Augustus Caesar From Suetonius, Augustus, sec.25 I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. Augustus Caesar From Suetonius, Augustus, sec.28 After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office. Augustus Caesar Res Gestae, 34 Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. Augustus Caesar From Plutarch, Apothegms, Caesar Augustus Livy Titus Livius 59 B.C. - A.D. 17  We can endure neither our evils nor their cures. Livy History,Prologue  Better late than never. Livy History,bk.IV, sec. 23  Beyond the Alps lies Italy. Livy History,bk.XXI, sec. 30 Publilius Syrus Publilius Syrus First century B.C.  As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. 1 2 Publilius Syrus Maxim 1 1 See Horace 2 See Shirley He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. 1 2 Publilius Syrus Maxim 6 1 See Augustus Caesar 2 See Anonymous Latin To do two things at once is to do neither. Publilius Syrus Maxim 7  A god could hardly love and be wise. Publilius Syrus Maxim 25 The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. 1 Publilius Syrus Maxim 38 1 See Shakespeare  A good reputation is more valuable than money. Publilius Syrus Maxim 108 It is well to moor your bark with two anchors. Publilius Syrus Maxim 119 Many receive advice, few profit by it. Publilius Syrus Maxim 149 While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. Publilius Syrus Maxim 185 Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account. Publilius Syrus Maxim 191  For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous. Publilius Syrus Maxim 244  You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. Publilius Syrus Maxim 262 What is left when honor is lost? Publilius Syrus Maxim 265 A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. Publilius Syrus Maxim 267 Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity. Publilius Syrus Maxim 274 When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company. Publilius Syrus Maxim 275 When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray. 1 Publilius Syrus Maxim 277 1 See Shakespeare Fortune is like glass-the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. Publilius Syrus Maxim 280 It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it. Publilius Syrus Maxim 282  There are some remedies worse than the disease. Publilius Syrus Maxim 301  A cock has great influence on his own dunghill. Publilius Syrus Maxim 357 Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. 1 Publilius Syrus Maxim 358 1 See Shakespeare The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. Publilius Syrus Maxim 388  Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. Publilius Syrus Maxim 402 No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. 1 2 Publilius Syrus Maxim 406 1 See Johnson 2 See Cowper  The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved. Publilius Syrus Maxim 407  Practice is the best of all instructors. Publilius Syrus Maxim 439 He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion. Publilius Syrus Maxim 459 Never find your delight in another's misfortune. Publilius Syrus Maxim 467 It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. Publilius Syrus Maxim 469 It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies. Publilius Syrus Maxim 499 The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. 1 Publilius Syrus Maxim 511 1 See Shakespeare  A rolling stone gathers no moss. Publilius Syrus Maxim 524 Never promise more than you can perform. Publilius Syrus Maxim 528  No one should be judge in his own case. Publilius Syrus Maxim 545  Necessity knows no law except to prevail. Publilius Syrus Maxim 553 Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. 1 2 Publilius Syrus Maxim 557 1 See Chaucer 2 See Heywood We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. Publilius Syrus Maxim 559 It is only the ignorant who despise education. Publilius Syrus Maxim 571  Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. Publilius Syrus Maxim 580 It is not every question that deserves an answer. Publilius Syrus Maxim 581  No man is happy who does not think himself so. Publilius Syrus Maxim 584  Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn. Publilius Syrus Maxim 593 You cannot put the same shoe on every foot. Publilius Syrus Maxim 596 Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. 1 2 Publilius Syrus Maxim 633 1 See Horace 2 See Marcus Aurelius Money alone sets all the world in motion. Publilius Syrus Maxim 656  You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. Publilius Syrus Maxim 674 It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. Publilius Syrus Maxim 675 Look for a tough wedge for a tough log. Publilius Syrus Maxim 723 Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. Publilius Syrus Maxim 750  In every enterprise consider where you would come out. Publilius Syrus Maxim 777 It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. Publilius Syrus Maxim 780 No one knows what he can do till he tries. Publilius Syrus Maxim 786 It is vain to look for a defense against lightning. Publilius Syrus Maxim 835  Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. Publilius Syrus Maxim 847 Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. 1 Publilius Syrus Maxim 865 1 See Pope Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. 1 2 3 4 Publilius Syrus Maxim 872 1 See Aristotle 2 See Cicero 3 See Ovid 4 See Heywood Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. Publilius Syrus Maxim 914  You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell. Publilius Syrus Maxim 968 It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. 1 Publilius Syrus Maxim 995 1 See John Ray Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one. 1 Publilius Syrus Maxim 1042 1 See Shakespeare Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence. Publilius Syrus Maxim 1060  I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. Publilius Syrus Maxim 1070 Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. Publilius Syrus Maxim 1073 Dionysius , of Halicarnassus c. 54 - c. 7 B.C. The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples. Dionysius , of Halicarnassus Ars Rhetorica, XI, 2 Sextus Propertius 54 B.C. - A.D. 2 Never change when love has found its home. Sextus Propertius Elegies,I, i, 36 The seaman's story is of tempest, the plowman's of his team of bulls; the soldier tells his wounds, the shepherd his tale of sheep. Sextus Propertius Elegies,II,i,43 Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest. Sextus Propertius Elegies,II,i,46  What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination. Sextus Propertius Elegies,II,x, 5  Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. Sextus Propertius Elegies,II,xix, 32  Let each man have the wit to go his own way. Sextus Propertius Elegies,II,xxv, 38  Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Sextus Propertius Elegies,II,xxxiii, 43  There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre. Sextus Propertius Elegies,IV, vii, 1 Albius Tibullus c. 54 - c. 19 B.C.  May I look on you when my last hour comes; may I hold you, as I sink, with my failing hand. Albius Tibullus Elegies,I, i, 59  Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers. Albius Tibullus Elegies,III,vi, 49 Jove the Rain-giver. Albius Tibullus Elegies,III,vii, 26 Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso 43 B.C. - A.D. c. 18 I have faith that yields to none, and ways without reproach, and unadorned simplicity, and blushing modesty. Ovid Amores,I,iii, 13  The rest who does not know? Ovid Amores,I,v, 25  Every lover is a warrior, and Cupid has his camps. Ovid Amores,I,ix, 1  Run slowly, horses of the night. Ovid Amores,I,xiii, 39  Stay far hence, far hence, you prudes! Ovid Amores,II, i, 3  So I can't live either without you or with you. Ovid Amores,III, xi, 39  They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen. Ovid Ars Amatoria,I,99 It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. 1 2 Ovid Ars Amatoria,I,637 1 See Tillotson 2 See Voltaire To be loved, be lovable. Ovid Ars Amatoria,II,107 Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid Ars Amatoria,II,345  Perhaps too my name will be joined to theirs [the names of famous poets]. Ovid Ars Amatoria,III, 339 Now there are fields of corn where Troy once was. Ovid Heroides, I, i, 2  Chaos] A rough, unordered mass of things. Ovid Metamorphoses,I, 7 Your lot is mortal: not mortal is what you desire. Ovid Metamorphoses,II,56  You will be safest in the middle. Ovid Metamorphoses,II,137  I am Actaeon: recognize your master! Ovid Metamorphoses,III, 230  The cause is hidden, but the result is well known. Ovid Metamorphoses,IV,287  We can learn even from our enemies. Ovid Metamorphoses,IV,428  I see and approve better things, but follow worse. Ovid Metamorphoses,VII, 20  The gods have their own rules. Ovid Metamorphoses,IX, 500  Time the devourer of all things. Ovid Metamorphoses,XV,234 And now I have finished a work that neither the wrath of love, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy. Ovid Metamorphoses,XV,871 Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays. 1 Ovid Remedia Amoris,91 1 See Persius  Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then. Ovid Remedia Amoris,143 Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace. Ovid Tristia,I,i, 39 So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone. 1 2 3 4 Ovid Tristia,I,ix, 5 1 See Aristotle 2 See Cicero 3 See Publilius Syrus 4 See Heywood Whatever I tried to write was verse. Ovid Tristia,IV, x, 26 It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. Ovid Ex Ponto, II,iii, 14 Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. Ovid Ex Ponto, II,ix, 47 Phaedrus fl. c. A.D. 8  Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you. Phaedrus Fables, bk.I, fable2, l. 31 He was the author, our hand finished it. Phaedrus Fables, bk.I, fable6, l. 20 That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines. Phaedrus Fables, bk.I, fable9, l. 1 No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief. Phaedrus Fables, bk.I, fable18, l. 1  It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles. Phaedrus Fables, bk.I, fable25, l. 3 Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example. Phaedrus Fables, bk.I, fable26, l. 12 Come of it what may, as Sinon said. Phaedrus Fables, bk.III, prologue, l. 27  Things are not always what they seem. Phaedrus Fables, bk.IV, 2, l. 5 To add insult to injury. Phaedrus Fables, bk.V, l. 3  Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity. Phaedrus Fables, bk.VII, l. 4 Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 4 B.C. - A.D. 65   What fools these mortals be. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,1, 3 It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,2, 2 Love of bustle is not industry. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,3, 5 Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,10, 5 The best ideas are common property. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,12, 11 Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,22, 17 A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,30, 3 Man is a reasoning animal. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,41, 8 That most knowing of persons-gossip. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,43, 1 It is quality rather than quantity that matters. 1 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,45, 1 1 See Anonymous Latin You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,52, 12 Nothing is so certain as that the evils of idleness can be shaken off by hard work. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,56, 9  Not lost, but gone before. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,63, 16 All art is but imitation of nature. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,65, 3 It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,84, 13  The pilot . . . who has been able to say, "Neptune, you shall never sink this ship except on an even keel," has fulfilled the requirements of his art. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,85, 33 I was shipwrecked before I got aboard. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,87, 1 It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,88, 45 Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,95, 1 We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? 1 2 3 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,95, 30 1 See Edward Young 2 See Porteus 3 See J. R. Lowell A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Epistles,123, 3 Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. 1 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Moral Essays.On Providence, 5, 9 1 See Beaumont and Fletcher  Time discovers truth. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Moral Essays.On Anger, 2,22  Whom they have injured they also hate. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Moral Essays.On Anger, 2,33 I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Moral Essays.On the Happy Life, 2, 2  There is no great genius without some touch of madness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Moral Essays.On Tranquillity of the Mind, 17, 10 A great fortune is a great slavery. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Moral Essays.To Polybius on Consolation, 6, 5 Wherever the Roman conquers, there he dwells. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Moral Essays.To Helvia on Consolation, 7, 7 He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt. Lucius Annaeus Seneca On Benefits, bk. II, 22, 1 You roll my log, and I will roll yours. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Apocolocyntosis, sec. 9  Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Hercules Furens, 1, 1,84 Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. 1 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Hercules Furens, 1, 1,255 1 See Harington  An age will come after many years when the Ocean will loose the chains o things, and a huge land lie revealed; when Tiphys will disclose new worlds and Thule 1 2 no more be the ultimate. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Medea, l. 374 1 See Virgil 2 See Thomson A good mind possesses a kingdom. 1 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Thyestes, 380 1 See Dyer Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb. 1 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Hippolytus, II, 3, 607 1 See Ralegh Marcus Manilius First century A.D.  [Human reason] freed men's minds from wondering at portents by wresting from Jupiter his bolts and power of thunder, and ascribing to the winds the noise and to the clouds the flame. Marcus Manilius Astronomica, bk.I, l. 102 Who could know heaven save by heaven's gift and discover God save one who shares himself in the divine? 1 Marcus Manilius Astronomica, bk.II, l. 115 1 See Hippocrates At birth our death is sealed, and our end is consequent upon our beginning. 1 Marcus Manilius Astronomica, bk.IV,l. 16 1 See The Wisdom of Solomon 5:13 Scorn not your powers as if proportionate to the smallness of the mind: its power has no bounds. Marcus Manilius Astronomica, bk.IV,l. 923 Caligula Gaius Caesar Gaius Caesar A.D. 12-41 Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head]. Caligula From Suetonius, Gaius Caligula, sec. 30 Onasander fl. A.D. 49 Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young. Onasander The General,ch. 1, sec. 10 Envy is a pain of mind that successful men cause their neighbors. Onasander The General,ch. 42, par. 25 Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus A.D. 23-79  In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.I, dedication, sec. 22  Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.II, sec. 234  It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VII, sec.1  Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VII, sec.2  To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VII, sec.2 Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep. 1 Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VII, sec.4 1 See Tennyson With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. 1 2 Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VII, sec.5 1 See Burns 2 See Wordsworth Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? 1 How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected? Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VII, sec.6 1 See Tacitus  The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VII, sec.8  All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VII, sec.15 It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VII, sec.77  There is always something new out of Africa. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VIII, sec.17  When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VIII, sec.103  Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.VIII, sec.126 The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.XVIII, sec.26 The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.XVIII, sec.31  With a grain of salt. Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.XXIII, sec. 8  Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual? Pliny the Elder Natural History, bk.XXVIII, sec. 23 Persius Aulus Persius Flaccus A.D. 34-62  The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention. Persius Satires,prologue, l. 10 Tell, priests, what is gold doing in a holy place? Persius Satires,II, l. 69 Let them look upon virtue and pine because they have lost her. Persius Satires,III,l. 38  Meet the disease at its first stage. Persius Satires,III,l. 64 Gaius Petronius Petronius Arbiter died A.D. c. 66   He has joined the great majority. Gaius Petronius Satyricon, sec.42 A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well. Gaius Petronius Satyricon, sec.43 One good turn deserves another. Gaius Petronius Satyricon, sec.45 A man must have his faults. Gaius Petronius Satyricon, sec.45 Not worth his salt. Gaius Petronius Satyricon, sec.57 My heart was in my mouth. Gaius Petronius Satyricon, sec.62 Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. 1 Gaius Petronius Satyricon, sec.94 1 See Petrarch  The studied spontaneity of Horace. Gaius Petronius Satyricon, sec.118  Natural curls. Gaius Petronius Satyricon, sec.126 Quintilian Marcus Fabius Quintilianus born A.D. c. 35  We give to necessity the praise of virtue. Quintilian De Institutione Oratoria, bk.I, 8, 14  A liar should have a good memory. Quintilian De Institutione Oratoria, bk.IV, 2, 91 Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake. Quintilian De Institutione Oratoria, bk.VI, 2, 30  For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent. Quintilian De Institutione Oratoria, bk.X,7, 15  Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. Quintilian De Institutione Oratoria, bk.X,21 Nero Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus A.D. 37-68  What an artist dies with me! Nero Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus From Suetonius, Nero, sec. 49 Lucan Marcus Annaeus Lucanus A.D. 39-65  If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato. Lucan The Civil War, bk.I,128  There stands the shadow of a glorious name. Lucan The Civil War, bk.I,135  Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves. Lucan The Civil War, bk.II,10 (Didacus Stella)  Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature. Lucan The Civil War, bk.II,381  Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done. Lucan The Civil War, bk.II,657  More was lost than mere life and existence. Lucan The Civil War, bk.VII, 639  We all praise fidelity; but the true friend pays the penalty when he supports those whom Fortune crushes. Lucan The Civil War, bk.VIII, 485  A name illustrious and revered by nations. Lucan The Civil War, bk.IX,203 Is the dwelling place of God anywhere but in the earth and sea, the air and sky, and virtue? Why seek we further for deities? Whatever you see, whatever you touch, that is Jupiter. Lucan The Civil War, bk.IX,578  The very ruins have been destroyed. Lucan The Civil War, bk.IX,969 Longinus First century It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he [Lucan] meant to rise still higher, is perfect bombast. Longinus On the Sublime, sec.3 Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind. Longinus On the Sublime, sec.9 In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity. Longinus On the Sublime, sec.9 Dio Chrysostom Dio Cocceianus A.D. c. 40 - c. 120  Diogenes: The man I know not, for I am not acquainted with his mind. Dio Chrysostom Fourth Discourse, On Kingship, ch. 17 Idleness and lack of occupation are the best things in the world to ruin the foolish. Dio Chrysostom Tenth Discourse, On Servants, ch. 7 Most men are so completely corrupted by opinion that they would rather be notorious for the greatest calamities than suffer no ill and be unknown. Dio Chrysostom Eleventh, or Trojan, Discourse, ch. 6 Martial Marcus Valerius Martialis A.D. c. 40 - c. 104   My poems are naughty, but my life is pure. Martial Epigrams,I,4 Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today. Martial Epigrams,I,15 Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my friend. Martial Epigrams,I,16 I don't like you, Sabidius, I can't say why; But I can say this: I don't like you, Sabidius. 1 Martial Epigrams,I,32 1 See Tom Brown Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own. Martial Epigrams,I,91 You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter. Martial Epigrams,I,110 Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. Martial Epigrams,III,42  The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. Martial Epigrams,IV,32 They praise those verses, yes, but read something else. Martial Epigrams,IV,49 You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no. Martial Epigrams,IV,71  Our days pass by, and are scored against us. Martial Epigrams,V,20 What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases. Martial Epigrams,V,28 A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. Martial Epigrams,V,73 You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for. 1 2 Martial Epigrams,VIII,69 1 See Hazlitt 2 See Louis Edwin Thayer  Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure. Martial Epigrams,X,23 Neither fear your death's day nor long for it. 1 Martial Epigrams,X,47 1 See Milton You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burro. Martial Epigrams,XII,36  You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you. Martial Epigrams,XII,47  The country in town. Martial Epigrams,XII,57  I know these are nothing. Martial Epigrams,XIII, 2 Titus Vespasianus A.D. c. 41-81  Friends, I have lost a day. Titus Vespasianus From Suetonius, Titus, sec. 8 Plutarch A.D. 46-120  As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs. Plutarch Lives,Aemilius Paulus, sec.5 About Theseus began the saying, "He is a second Hercules." Plutarch Lives,Aemilius Paulus, sec.29  A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me." Plutarch Lives,Aemilius Paulus, sec.29  Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's. Plutarch Lives,Lysander, sec.7 Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. Plutarch Lives,Lysander, sec.17  As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan. Plutarch Lives,Lysander, sec.20 Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch Lives,Sertorius, sec. 16 Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune. Plutarch Lives,Eumenes, sec. 9 Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. Plutarch Lives,Demosthenes and Cicero, sec. 3 Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord. Plutarch Lives,Demetrius, sec. 1 It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man you will learn to limp. Plutarch Morals.Of the Training of Children The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. Plutarch Morals.Of the Training of Children It is indeed desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Plutarch Morals.Of the Training of Children Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye. Plutarch Morals.Of the Training of Children  It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. Plutarch Morals.Of the Training of Children An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. Plutarch Morals.Of the Training of Children  He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach. Plutarch Morals.Of Garrulity  All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. Plutarch Morals.Of Superstition  That proverbial saying, "Bad news travels fast and far." Plutarch Morals.Of Inquisitiveness Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less. Plutarch Morals.Of Hearing, sec. 6  Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer. Plutarch Morals.Of Man's Progress in Virtue  When the candles are out all women are fair. Plutarch Morals.Conjugal Precepts  Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead. Plutarch Morals.Whether 'Twas Rightfully Said, Live Concealed  The great god Pan is dead. Plutarch Morals.Why the Oracles Cease to Give Answers  I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up. Plutarch Morals.Of Isis and Osiris For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. 1 2 3 Plutarch Morals.Against Colotes 1 See Anonymous Latin 2 See Shirley 3 See Pope Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world. Plutarch Morals.Platonic Questions Epictetus c. 50-120  To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. Epictetus Discourses, bk.I, ch.2  When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? Epictetus Discourses, bk.I, ch.14 No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Epictetus Discourses, bk.I, ch.15 Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind. Epictetus Discourses, bk.I, ch.16 Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale; were I a swan, like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing hymns of praise to God. Epictetus Discourses, bk.I, ch.16 Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater. Epictetus Discourses, bk.I, ch.18 It is difficulties that show what men are. Epictetus Discourses, bk.I, ch.24 The good or ill of man lies within his own will. Epictetus Discourses, bk.I, ch.25 In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside. Epictetus Discourses, bk.I, ch.26 Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task. Epictetus Discourses, bk.I, ch.27 Only the educated are free. Epictetus Discourses, bk.II, ch.1 The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference. Epictetus Discourses, bk.II, ch.5 Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? "What sinews are those?"-A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions. Epictetus Discourses, bk.II, ch.8 What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. Epictetus Discourses, bk.II, ch.17 Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else. Epictetus Discourses, bk.II, ch.18 Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you." Epictetus Discourses, bk.II, ch.18 There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily. Epictetus Discourses, bk.II, ch.21 Two principles we should always have ready-that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them. Epictetus Discourses, bk.III, ch.10 First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus Discourses, bk.III, ch.23 Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth. Epictetus The Encheiridion,15 Where do you suppose he got that high brow? Epictetus The Encheiridion,22  Everything has two handles-by one of which it ought to be carried and by the other not. Epictetus The Encheiridion,43 Juvenal Decimus Junius Juvenalis c. 50 - c. 130  Honesty is praised and starves. Juvenal Satires,I,l. 74  If nature refuses, indignation will produce verses. Juvenal Satires,I,l. 79 All the doings of mankind, their wishes, fears, anger, pleasures, joys, and varied pursuits, form the motley subject of my book. Juvenal Satires,I,l. 85  Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove. Juvenal Satires,II,l. 63  No one becomes depraved in a moment. Juvenal Satires,II,l. 83 Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, trainer, soothsayer, ropedancer, physician, magician-he knows everything. Tell the hungry little Greek to go to heaven; he'll go. 1 Juvenal Satires,III,l. 76 1 See Dryden  Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous. Juvenal Satires,III,l. 152 It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. Juvenal Satires,III,l. 164 We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. Juvenal Satires,III,l. 182  A rare bird on earth, comparable to a black swan. Juvenal Satires,VI,l. 165  I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of reason. Juvenal Satires,VI,l. 223  We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world. Juvenal Satires,VI,l. 292  But who is to guard the guards themselves? Juvenal Satires,VI,l. 347 An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many, and grows old in their sick hearts. Juvenal Satires,VII,l. 51  Nobility is the one and only virtue. Juvenal Satires,VIII,l. 20  Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having. Juvenal Satires,VIII,l. 83  The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things-bread and circuses! Juvenal Satires,X,l. 79  Put Hannibal in the scales. Juvenal Satires,X,l. 147  You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. Juvenal Satires,X,l. 356 For revenge is always the delight of a mean spirit, of a weak and petty mind! You may immediately draw proof of this-that no one rejoices more in revenge than a woman. Juvenal Satires,XIII, l. 189  The greatest reverence is due the young. Juvenal Satires,XIV, 47 Cornelius Tacitus c. 55 - c. 117 The images of the most illustrious families . . . were carried before it [the bier of Julia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that reason they shone with preeminent luster. 1 Cornelius Tacitus Annals, bk.III, 76 1 See Lord John Russell He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher. Cornelius Tacitus Annals, bk.VI, 39  What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent. Cornelius Tacitus Annals, bk.XI, 24  Of Petronius] Arbiter of taste. Cornelius Tacitus Annals, bk.XVI, 18 It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. Cornelius Tacitus Histories, bk.I,1 Of Servius Galba] He seemed more important than a private citizen while he was a private citizen, and in the opinion of all he was capable of rule-if he had not ruled. Cornelius Tacitus Histories, bk.I,49 The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion. 1 Cornelius Tacitus Histories, bk.IV,6 1 See Milton  The gods are on the side of the stronger. Cornelius Tacitus Histories, bk.IV,17  Whatever is unknown is taken for marvelous; but now the limits of Britain are laid bare. Cornelius Tacitus Agricola, sec.30  Where they make a desert, they call it peace. Cornelius Tacitus Agricola, sec.30  Think of your forefathers and posterity. Cornelius Tacitus Agricola, sec.32 Fortune favored him . . . in the opportune moment of his death. Cornelius Tacitus Agricola, sec.45 Pliny the Younger Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus c. 61 - c. 112 Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs." Pliny the Younger Letters, bk.I, letter5  There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this-that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well. Pliny the Younger Letters, bk.I, letter11  An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. Pliny the Younger Letters, bk.II, letter 15  He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it." Pliny the Younger Letters, bk.III, letter 5  This expression of ours, "Father of a family." Pliny the Younger Letters, bk.V, letter 19  That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. Pliny the Younger Letters, bk.VIII, letter9 Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. . . . We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please. Pliny the Younger Letters, bk.VIII, letter20  His only fault is that he has no fault. Pliny the Younger Letters, bk.IX, letter 26 Suetonius Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus c. 70 - c. 140  Hail, Emperor, we who are about to die salute you. Suetonius Life of Claudius, 21 Hadrian Publius Aelius Hadrianus 76-138  Little soul, wandering, gentle guest and companion of the body, into what places will you now go, pale, stiff, and naked, no longer sporting as you did! Hadrian Ad Animam Suam Chang Heng 78-139  Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg. Chang Heng Saying Lucius Annaeus Florus fl. 125  Each year new consuls and proconsuls are made; but not every year is a king or a poet born. Lucius Annaeus Florus De Qualitate Vitae, fragment 8 Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemaeus c. 100-178 Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men. Ptolemy Tetrabiblos, bk.I, sec. 1 The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. Ptolemy Tetrabiblos, bk.III, sec. 10 As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul. Ptolemy Tetrabiblos, bk.IV, sec.1 There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain. Ptolemy Tetrabiblos, bk.IV, sec.7 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 121-180  This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,II,2 You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. 1 2 3 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,II,5 1 See Matthew 6:34 2 See Horace 3 See Publilius Syrus Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,II,14 Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,II,14 The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,II,14 As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,II,17 A man should be upright, not be kept upright. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,III,5 Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,III,7 By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,3 The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,3 Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,5 Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly. 1 2 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,10 1 See Dryden 2 See Pope How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,18 Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,20 All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. 1 Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you. 2 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,23 1 See Zeno 2 See I Chronicles 29:14  "Let your occupations be few," says the sage, "if you would lead a tranquil life." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,24 Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,31 There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,32 All is ephemeral-fame and the famous as well. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,35 Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,38 Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. 1 2 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,43 1 See Isaac Watts 2 See Anonymous All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,44 Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IV,48 In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: "I am rising to a man's work." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,V,1 A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. 1 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,V,6 1 See Matthew 6:3 Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,V,18 Live with the gods. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,V,27 Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,VI,3 The controlling intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,VI,5 Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,VI,19 What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,VI,54 One universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,VII,9 It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. 1 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,VII,22 1 See Proverbs 25:21 Very little is needed to make a happy life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,VII,67 To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,VIII,16 Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,VIII,22 Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,VIII,51 Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IX,3 A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. 1 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IX,5 1 See Book of Common Prayer Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IX,7 All things are the same-familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,IX,14 Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations,X, 5 Galen 129-199 The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms. Galen On the Natural Faculties, bk.I, sec.2 Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn! Galen On the Natural Faculties, bk.I, sec.13 Nature's artistic skill. Galen On the Natural Faculties, bk.I, sec.13 It was, of course, a grand and impressive thing to do, to mistrust the obvious, and to pin one's faith in things which could not be seen! Galen On the Natural Faculties, bk.I, sec.13 Praxiteles and Phidias . . . were unable to . . . reach and handle all portions of the material. It is not so, however, with nature. Every part of a bone she makes bone, every part of the flesh she makes flesh, and so with fat and all the rest; there is no part she has not touched, elaborated, and embellished. Galen On the Natural Faculties, bk.II, sec. 3 That which is grows, while that which is not becomes. Galen On the Natural Faculties, bk.II, sec. 3 Diogenes Laertius fl. c. 200 Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words. Diogenes Laertius Cleobulus, 4 Time is the image of eternity. Diogenes Laertius Plato,41 There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law. Diogenes Laertius Plato,51 Tertullian Quintus Septimius Tertullianus c. 160-240 O witness of the soul naturally Christian. Tertullian Apologeticus,17  See how these Christians love one another. Tertullian Apologeticus,39  We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed. Tertullian Apologeticus,50 Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere. Tertullian Testimony of the Soul  Mother Church. Tertullian Ad Martyras, 1 Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. Tertullian Adversus Valentinianos,1  Truth does not blush. Tertullian Adversus Valentinianos,3  It is to be believed because it is absurd. Tertullian De Carne Christi,5  It is certain because it is impossible. Tertullian De Carne Christi,5  Out of the frying pan into the fire. Tertullian De Carne Christi,6 One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. Tertullian Ad Scapulam, 2 It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. Tertullian Ad Scapulam, 2 I must dispel vanity with vanity. Tertullian Adversus Marcionem, IV, 30 The Sayings of Jesus Third century Jesus saith, Wherever there are two, they are not without God, and wherever there is one alone, I say, I am with him. 1 Raise the stone, and there thou shalt find Me, cleave the wood and there am I. 2 The Sayings of Jesus The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, PartI [1898], no. 1, [Lgr ][Ogr ][Ggr ][Igr ][Agr ] [Igr ][EEgr ][Sgr ][Ogr ][Ugr ] [Logia Iesou], logion 5 1 See Matthew 18:20 2 See Van Dyke Jesus saith, Ye ask who are those that draw us to the kingdom, if the kingdom is in Heaven? . . . The fowls of the air, and all beasts that are under the earth or upon the earth, and the fishes of the sea, these are they which draw you, and the kingdom of Heaven is within you. 1 The Sayings of Jesus The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, PartIV [1904], no. 654, New Sayings of Jesus, second saying 1 See Luke 17:21 St. Cyprian d. 258  He cannot have God for his father who has not the Church for his Mother. St. Cyprian De Unitate Ecclesiae [251], ch. 6  There is no salvation outside the Church. St. Cyprian Letter 73 [c. 256] Plotinus 205-270 All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another. Plotinus Enneads, bk. II, treatise iii, sec.7 One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all. Plotinus Enneads, bk. II, treatise iii, sec.8 Longus Third century There was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. Longus Daphnis and Chloe, proem, ch.2 He is so poor that he could not keep a dog. Longus Daphnis and Chloe, proem, ch.15 Constantine Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus c. 288-337   In this sign shalt thou conquer. Constantine From Eusebius, Life of Constantine, I, 28 Ammianus Marcellinus c. 330-395 Rose among thorns. Ammianus Marcellinus History, bk. XVI, ch. 17 Julian The Apostate Flavius Claudius Julianus 332-363   You have conquered, Galilean. Julian The Apostate From Theodoret, Church History, III, 20 St. Ambrose c. 340-397  When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. St. Ambrose Advice to St. Augustine. From Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium [1660], I, 1, 5 St. Jerome c. 342-420  A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. St. Jerome Letter 1 Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. St. Jerome Letter 3 The friendship that can cease has never been real. St. Jerome Letter 3 It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. St. Jerome Letter 7 Love knows nothing of order. St. Jerome Letter 7 The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, 1 that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. St. Jerome Letter 7 1 See Philippians 3:19 An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. 1 The ruler is like the ruled. St. Jerome Letter 7 1 See Matthew 15:14 No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. St. Jerome Letter 14 If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source. St. Jerome Letter 17  You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian. St. Jerome Letter 22  It is idle to play the lyre for an ass. St. Jerome Letter 27 Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth. St. Jerome Letter 31 While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing. St. Jerome Letter 40 The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. 1 St. Jerome Letter 48 1 See Matthew Prior  Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?" St. Jerome Letter 48  Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business. St. Jerome Letter 52  A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. St. Jerome Letter 52 No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. St. Jerome Letter 52 That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. St. Jerome Letter 52 The best almoner is he who keeps back nothing for himself. St. Jerome Letter 52 It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. St. Jerome Letter 53  Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. St. Jerome Letter 54 Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids. St. Jerome Letter 54 The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. St. Jerome Letter 54 The scars of others should teach us caution. St. Jerome Letter 54 When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. St. Jerome Letter 58  Small minds can never handle great themes. St. Jerome Letter 60  The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks. St. Jerome Letter 60 Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal. St. Jerome Letter 60 Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? St. Jerome Letter 107  The tired ox treads with a firmer step. St. Jerome Letter 112 Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts. St. Jerome Letter 118 For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense. St. Jerome Letter 125 It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin. St. Jerome Letter 125 The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves. St. Jerome Letter 125  Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse. St. Jerome Letter 127  The privileges of a few do not make common law. St. Jerome Exposition on Jona  Never look a gift horse in the mouth. St. Jerome On the Epistle to the Ephesians St. John Chrysostom St. John Chrysostom c. 345-407 Hell is paved with priests' skulls. St. John Chrysostom De Sacerdotio [c. 390]  No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong. St. John Chrysostom Letter to Olympia Vegetius Flavius Vegetius Renatus fl. c. 375  Let him who desires peace prepare for war. Vegetius De Rei Militari, III, prologue St. Augustine 354-430  Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. St. Augustine De Libero Arbitrio [388-395] The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls. St. Augustine Confessions [397-401],I, 7  To Carthage I came, where all about me resounded a caldron of dissolute loves. St. Augustine Confessions [397-401],III,1 I was in love with loving. St. Augustine Confessions [397-401],III,1 In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero. St. Augustine Confessions [397-401],III,4 Give me chastity and continence, but not just now. St. Augustine Confessions [397-401],VIII,7  Take up, read! Take up, read! St. Augustine Confessions [397-401],VIII,12 Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you. St. Augustine Confessions [397-401],X,27 Give what you command, and command what you will. St. Augustine Confessions [397-401],X,29  Hear the other side. St. Augustine De Duabus Animabus, XIV, 2 I would not have believed the gospel had not the authority of the Church moved me. St. Augustine Contra Epistulam Fundamenti[c. 410], ch. 5 Necessity has no law. 1 2 St. Augustine Soliloquiorum. Animae ad Deum [c. 410], 2 1 See Publilius Syrus 2 See Oliver Cromwell We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. 1 2 St. Augustine Sermons,3 1 See Longfellow 2 See Tennyson Anger is a weed; hate is the tree. St. Augustine Sermons,58 The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters. St. Augustine Sermons,64  Rome has spoken; the case is closed. St. Augustine Sermons,131 He who created you without you will not justify you without you. St. Augustine Sermons,169 The most glorious city of God. St. Augustine City of God [415], I, preface St. Vincent , of Lerins died c. 450  That faith is catholic] which has been believed always, everywhere, and by all. St. Vincent , of Lerins Commonitorium, ch.2 Every word [of Tertullian] almost was a sentence; every sentence a victory. St. Vincent , of Lerins Commonitorium, ch.18 St. Remy Remigius c. 438 - c. 533 Henceforward burn what thou hast worshipped, and worship what thou hast burned. 1 St. Remy Remigius Said to Clovis at his baptism [496] 1 See Clovis Clovis 466-511  God of Clotilda, if you grant me victory I shall become a Christian. Clovis Legendary vow before battle Hsieh Ho fl. 500  By copying, the ancient models should be perpetuated. 1 2 Hsieh Ho Notes Concerning the Classification of Old Paintings, Sixth Principle 1 See Horace 2 See Fujiwara no Teika St. Benedict 480-543  We are therefore about to establish a school of the Lord's service in which we hope to introduce nothing harsh or burdensome. St. Benedict Rule of St. Benedict, prologue Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus 480-524 In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. 1 2 3 4 Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus De Consolatione Philosophiae, bk.II, 4,4 1 See Pindar 2 See Dante 3 See Chaucer 4 See Tennyson Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate? Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus De Consolatione Philosophiae, bk.II, 4,41 Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content. Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus De Consolatione Philosophiae, bk.II, 4,64 From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend- Path, motive, guide, original and end. Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus De Consolatione Philosophiae, bk.III,9, 27 Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself. Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus De Consolatione Philosophiae, bk.III,12, 47 Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus c. 490 - c. 583 He receives hope in future benefits who recognizes a benefit that has already taken place. Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Institutiones He is invited to great things who receives small things greatly. Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Institutiones Pope Gregory I 540-604  They answered that they were called Angles.] It is well, for they have the faces of angels, and such should be the co-heirs of the angels in heaven. Pope Gregory I From Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, II, 1 Ali ibn-Abi-Talib c. 602-661  He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ali ibn-Abi-Talib A Hundred Sayings The Koran In the name of the most merciful God: Praise be to God, the Lord of all Being; the most merciful, the Master of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of Thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right path, in the path of those to whom Thou hast been gracious; not of those against whom Thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray. The Koran Do not veil the truth with falsehood, nor conceal the truth knowingly. The Koran  We believe in God, and in that which has been sent down on us and sent down on Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac and Jacob, and the Tribes, and that which was given to Moses and Jesus and the Prophets, of their Lord; we make no division between any of them, and to Him we surrender. The Koran A believing slave is better than an idolater, even though ye admire him. The Koran God will not take you to task for vain words in your oaths, but He will take you to task for what your hearts have amassed. The Koran I [Muhammad] have no power over benefit or hurt to myself except as God willeth . . . I am only a warner, and a bringer of good tidings to a people who believe. The Koran God sufficeth me: there is no God but He. In Him I put my trust. The Koran In the alternation of night and day, and what God has created in the heavens and the earth-surely there are signs for a god-fearing people. The Koran Surely God wrongs not men, but themselves men wrong. The Koran Not so much as the weight of an ant in earth or heaven escapes from the Lord, neither is aught smaller than that, or greater, but is clearly written in God's book. The Koran God changes not what is in a people, until they change what is in themselves. The Koran  We [God] never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make (the message) clear for them. The Koran Seest thou not how God hath coined a parable? A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed, and whose top is in the sky. And it produces its edible fruit every season, by the permission of its Lord. . . . And a corrupt word is like a corrupt tree which has been torn off the ground, and has no fixity. God makes those who believe stand firm in this life and the next by His firm Word. The Koran Our [God's] word to a thing when We will it, is but to say, "Be," and it is. The Koran Glory be to Him who carried His servant by night from the sacred temple of Mecca to the temple of Jerusalem that is more remote, whose precinct We have blessed, that We might show him of Our tokens. The Koran Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none save Him, and (that ye show) kindness to parents. . . . Lower unto them the wing of submission through mercy, and say, "My Lord, have mercy on them both as they took care of me when I was little." The Koran Walk not on the earth exultantly, for thou canst not cleave the earth, neither shalt thou reach to the mountains in height. The Koran They will question thee concerning the soul. Say: "The soul is the concern of my Lord, and you have been given of knowledge but a little." The Koran They say: "We will not believe thee till thou makest a spring to gush forth from the earth for us, or . . . bringest God and the angels as a surety" . . . And naught prevented men from believing when the guidance came to them, but that they said, "Has God sent forth a mortal as messenger?" Say: "Had there been in the earth angels walking at peace, We would have sent down upon them out of heaven an angel as messenger." The Koran  And do not say, regarding anything, "I am going to do that tomorrow," but only, "if God will." The Koran Wealth and children are the adornment of this present life: but good works, which are lasting, are better in the sight of thy Lord as to recompense, and better as to hope. The Koran Man says: "How is it possible, when I am dead, that I shall then be brought forth alive?" Does he not remember that We have created him once, and that he was nothing then? The Koran Do not the unbelievers see that the skies and the earth were both a solid mass, and that We clave them asunder, and that by means of water We give life to everything? Will they not then believe? The Koran O men, if you are in doubt as to the Resurrection, surely We created you of dust, then of a sperm drop, then of a blood clot, then of a lump of flesh . . . And thou beholdest the earth blackened; then, when We send down water upon it, it quivers, and swells, and puts forth herbs of every joyous kind. The Koran We [God] charge not any soul save to its ability. The Koran God is the light of the heavens and of the earth. His light is like a niche in which is a lamp-the lamp encased in glass-the glass, as it were, a glistening star. From a blessed tree it is lighted, the olive neither from the East nor of the West, whose oil would well nigh shine out, even though fire touched it not. It is light upon light. God guideth whom He will to His light, and God setteth forth parables to men. The Koran As for the unbelievers, their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain which the man athirst supposes to be water, till, when he comes to it, he finds it is nothing; there indeed he finds God, and He pays him his account in full; and God is swift at the reckoning. Or they are as shadows upon a sea obscure, covered by a billow above which is a billow, above which are clouds, shadows piled upon one another; when he puts forth his hand, wellnigh he cannot see it. And to whomsoever God assigns no light, no light has he. The Koran Thou seest the mountains and thou deemest them affixed, (verily) they are as fleeting as the clouds. The Koran Thou truly canst not guide whom thou lovest; but God guideth whom He will; and He best knoweth those who yield to guidance. The Koran The present life is naught but a diversion and a sport; surely the Last Abode is Life, did they but know. The Koran Whosoever surrenders his face to God and performs good deeds, he verily has grapsed the surest handle, and unto God is the sequel of all things. The Koran If whatever trees are in the earth were pens, and He should after that swell the seas into seven seas of ink, the Words of God would not be exhausted. The Koran  We offered this trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they were humbled by it, and shrank from bearing it. Yet, man bore it. Truly he is ever in the darkness of injustice, and of ignorance. The Koran He makes the night seep into the day, and makes the day seep into the night; He has subordinated the sun and the moon, making each of them journey towards a preordained time. The Koran And on that day no soul shall be wronged at all, nor shall ye be rewarded for aught but that which ye have done. The Koran They say: "We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time." Yet, not true knowledge have they of this; only belief. The Koran O true believers, let not men laugh other men to scorn, who peradventure may be better than themselves. . . . Neither let the one of you speak ill of another in his absence. The Koran The Arabs of the desert say, We believe. Answer, Ye do by no means believe; but say, We have embraced Islam: for the faith hath not yet entered into your hearts. The Koran We [God] created Man, and We know what his soul whispereth within him; and We are nearer unto him than his jugular vein. The Koran The heart of Muhammad did not falsely represent that which he saw. Will you therefore dispute with him concerning that which he saw? The Koran O tribe of spirits and of men, if you are able to slip through the parameters of the skies and the earth, then do so. You shall not pass through them save with My [the Lord's] authority. The Koran He is the first and the last, the manifest and the hidden: and He knoweth all things. The Koran Let every soul look upon the morrow for the deed it has performed. The Koran Is he, therefore, who goeth groveling upon his face, better directed than he who walketh upright in a straight way? The Koran Man is a witness unto his deeds. The Koran Recite: In the name of thy Lord who created, Created Man of a blood clot. Recite: And thy Lord is the most Generous, who taught by the Pen, Taught Man that he knew not. The Koran Whoso has done an atom's weight of good shall see it; and whoso has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it. The Koran Say: "He is God, One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten, and has not been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone." The Koran Anonymous Whatever kind of word thou speakest the like shalt thou hear. Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early The Greek Anthology, bk.IX, 382 Envy slays itself by its own arrows. Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early The Greek Anthology, bk.X, 111 Give a sop to Cerberus. Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early Greek and Roman saying Give me today, and take tomorrow. Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early Quoted, and condemned, by St. Chrysostom One picture is worth more than a thousand words. 1 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early Chinese proverb 1 See Turgenev Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early Chinese proverb On the day of victory no one is tired. Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early Arab proverb Death is afraid of him because he has the heart of a lion. Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early Arab proverb I came to the place of my birth, and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?" Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early Arab saying If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a hyacinth. Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early Persian saying If only, when one heard That Old Age was coming One could bolt the door, Answer "Not at home" And refuse to meet him! Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early Kokinshu (Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems) [905] Anonymous Ab urbe condita [Since the founding of the city (Rome)]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Absit omen [May it not be an omen]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Acta est fabula [The play is over]. Anonymous, Latin Said at ancient dramatic performances and quoted by Augustus on his deathbed Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea [The act is not criminal unless the intent is criminal]. Anonymous, Latin Legal maxim Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through hardships]. Anonymous, Latin Proverb Adeste, fideles, Laeti triumphantes; Venite, venite in Bethlehem.[O come, all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.] Anonymous, Latin Hymn, eighteenth century Anno aetatis suae . . . [In the year of his age . . . ]. Anonymous, Latin Phrase Bis dat qui cito dat [He gives twice who gives promptly]. 1 2 Anonymous, Latin Saying 1 See Augustus Caesar 2 See Publilius Syrus Cave ab homine unius libri [Beware the man of one book]. 1 Anonymous, Latin Quoted by Isaac D'Israel in Curiosities of Literature [1791-1793] 1 See Sydney Smith Cave canem [Beware of the dog]. Anonymous, Latin Proverb Caveat emptor [Let the buyer beware]. Anonymous, Latin Proverb Cras amet qui nunquam amavit quique amavit cras amet [Tomorrow let him love who has never loved and tomorrow let him who has loved love]. 1 Anonymous, Latin Pervigilium Veneris [c. 350], refrain 1 See Parnell  Cucullus non facit monachum [The cowl does not make a monk]. Anonymous, Latin Medieval proverb Cuius regio eius religio [He who controls the area controls the religion]. Anonymous, Latin Proverb De gustibus non disputandum [There is no accounting for tastes]. Anonymous, Latin Proverb De minimis non curat lex [The law is not concerned with trifles]. Anonymous, Latin Legal maxim Deus vult [God wills it]. Anonymous, Latin Motto of the Crusades [1095]  Dis manibus sacrum [Sacred to the departed spirit(s)]. Anonymous, Latin Tombstone inscription Divide et impera [Divide and rule]. Anonymous, Latin Ancient political maxim cited by Machiavelli Errare humanum est [To err is human]. 1 2 3 Anonymous, Latin Saying 1 See Plutarch 2 See Shirley 3 See Pope  Et in Arcadia ego [I too am in Arcadia]. Anonymous, Latin Inscription on a tomb in a painting [c. 1623] byGuercino [1591-1666]  Ex ungue leonem [From his claw one can tell a lion]. Anonymous, Latin Saying  Fiat justitia ruat coelum [Let justice be done though heaven should fall]. Anonymous, Latin Proverb, sometimes attributed toLucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus [d. 43 b.c.] Finis coronat opus [The end crowns the work]. 1 2 3 4 Anonymous, Latin Saying 1 See Heywood 2 See Shakespeare 3 See Herrick 4 See Quarles Flagrante delicto ["Red-handed"]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Fluctuat nec mergitur [It tosses but doesn't sink]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Gaudeamus igitur, Iuvenes dum sumus.[Let us live then and be glad While young life is before us.] Anonymous, Latin Students' song [c. 1267]  Habeas corpus [You are to produce the person]. Anonymous, Latin Legal phrase Hannibal ad portas! [Hannibal is at the gates!] Anonymous, Latin Saying In vino veritas [In wine is truth]. 1 Anonymous, Latin Proverb quoted by Plato, Symposium 217 1 See Alcaeus Ipse dixit [He himself said it]. 1 Anonymous, Latin Phrase of "proof" 1 See W. S. Gilbert Ius est ars boni et aequi [Legal justice is the art of the good and the fair]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Mater artium necessitas [Necessity is the mother of invention]. 1 Anonymous, Latin Saying 1 See Persius Mors ultima ratio [Death is the final accounting]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Nemo me impune lacessit [No one provokes me with impunity]. Anonymous, Latin Motto of the Crown of Scotland  Nihil nimis [Nothing in excess]. Anonymous, Latin Saying  Non multa sed multum [Not many but much]. Anonymous, Latin Proverb Orare est laborare, laborare est orare [To pray is to work, to work is to pray]. Anonymous, Latin Ancient motto of the Benedictine order Parvis e glandibus quercus [Tall oaks from little acorns grow]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Pereant qui nostra ante nos dixerunt [May they perish who have used our words before us]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Piscem natare doces [You're teaching a fish to swim]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Post hoc, ergo propter hoc [After this, therefore because of this]. Anonymous, Latin Definition of fallacy in logic Primus inter pares [First among equals]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Pro bono publico [For the public good]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Quos [or Quem] deus vult perdere prius dementat [Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.] 1 Anonymous, Latin Saying 1 See Euripides  Requiescat in pace [May he rest in peace; May she rest in peace]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Res iudicata pro veritate habetur [A matter which has been legally decided is considered true]. Anonymous, Latin Legal maxim Ruat coelum, fiat voluntas tua [Though heaven should fall, let thy will be done]. Anonymous, Latin Proverb Salus populi suprema lex [The people's safety is the highest law]. Anonymous, Latin Legal and political maxim Semper fidelis [Ever faithful]. Anonymous, Latin Saying Sic semper tyrannis 1 [Thus always to tyrants]. Anonymous, Latin Saying 1 See John Wilkes Booth  Sit tibi terra levis [May the earth rest lightly on you]. Anonymous, Latin Tombstone inscription  Summum ius summa iniuria [Extreme justice is extreme injustice]. Anonymous, Latin Legal maxim cited by Cicero in De Officiis, I, 10, 33  Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis [Times change, and we change with them too]. Anonymous, Latin From Owen's Epigrammata [1615] Testis unus testis nullus [A single witness is no witness]. Anonymous, Latin Legal maxim Ubi bene ibi patria [Where one is happy, there's one's homeland]. Anonymous, Latin Saying  Urbi et orbi [To the city and to the world]. Anonymous, Latin Apostolic blessing Vade in pace [Go in peace]. Anonymous, Latin End of confessional absolution Vae victis! [Woe to the conquered!] Anonymous, Latin From Livy, History, bk. V, sec. 48, as said by Brennus to the Romans Volenti non fit iniuria [To a person who consents no injustice is done]. Anonymous, Latin Legal maxim Caedmon fl. 670 Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation! Caedmon Creation.The First Day The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels from heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere. Caedmon Creation.The Fall of the Rebel Angels Bede Venerable Bede c. 672 - c. 735 It is better never to begin a good work than, having begun it, to stop. Bede Ecclesiastical History of the English People, bk. I, ch. 23 St. John , of Damascus c. 700 - c. 760  God is a sea of infinite substance. St. John , of Damascus De Fide Orthodoxa, bk. I, ch. 9 Alcuin 735-804 The voice of the people is the voice of God [Vox populi vox Dei]. 1 Alcuin Letter to Charlemagne [a.d. 800] 1 See Pope Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay, O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, wayfarer, world renowned, I was: what I am now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust. Alcuin His Own Epitaph Alcuin was my name: learning I loved. Alcuin His Own Epitaph Ono no Komachi Ninth century The flowers withered, Their color faded away, While meaninglessly I spent my days in the world And the long rains were falling. Ono no Komachi Kokinshu [905] This night of no moon There is no way to meet him. I rise in longing- My breast pounds, a leaping flame, My heart is consumed in fire. Ono no Komachi Kokinshu [905] Ching Hao fl. 925 There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the second, rhythm; the third, thought; the fourth, scenery; the fifth, the brush; and the last is the ink. Ching Hao Notes on Brushwork Resemblance reproduces the formal aspect of objects, but neglects their spirit; truth shows the spirit and substance in like perfection. Ching Hao Notes on Brushwork Sei Shonagon b. 966 If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated. Sei Shonagon Makura no Soshi [c. 1002] Shikibu Murasaki c. 978-1031 The art of the novel] happens because the storyteller's own experience of men and things, whether for good or ill-not only what he has passed through himself, but even events which he has only witnessed or been told of-has moved him to an emotion so pas-sionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart. Shikibu Murasaki The Tale of Genji [c. 1000] Anything whatsoever may become the subject of a novel, provided only that it happens in this mundane life and not in some fairyland beyond our human ken. Shikibu Murasaki The Tale of Genji [c. 1000] The Primary Chronicle 1040-1118  The Chuds, the Slavs and the Krivchians then said to the peoples of Rus: "Our whole land is great and rich, but there is no order in it. Come to rule and reign over us." The Primary Chronicle Annal for the years 860-862: Invitation of the Varangians to Novgorod Then we went to Greece, and the Greeks led us to the edifices where they worship their God, and we knew not whether we were in heaven or on earth. For on earth there is no such splendor or such beauty, and we are at a loss how to describe it. We only know that God dwells there among men, and their service is fairer than the ceremonies of other nations. The Primary Chronicle Annal for the year 987: Vladimir's Christianization of Russia It is the Russians' joy to drink; we cannot do without it. The Primary Chronicle Annal for the year 987: Vladimir's Christianization of Russia St. Anselm c. 1033-1109  God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived. St. Anselm Proslogion, ch. 3 Abu Muhammad al-Kasim al- Hariri Abu Muhammad al-Kasim al-Hariri 1054-1122 We praise Thee, O God, For whatever perspicuity of language Thou hast taught us And whatever eloquence Thou hast inspired us with. Abu Muhammad al-Kasim al- Hariri Makamat. Prayer Peter Abelard 1079-1142 O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! Peter Abelard Hymnus Paraclitensis Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease. Peter Abelard Letter 8, Abelard to Heloise 1 1 See Heloise St. Bernard 1091-1153 You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. 1 2 St. Bernard Epistle106 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Wordsworth  I have liberated my soul. St. Bernard Epistle371  Hell is full of good intentions or desires. St. Bernard Attributed. From St. Francis de Sales, Letter 74 Song of Roland Eleventh century  Friend Roland, sound your horn. Song of Roland La Chanson de Roland,l. 1070  Roland is valorous and Oliver is wise. Song of Roland La Chanson de Roland,l. 1093 Heloise c. 1101 - c. 1164 Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits. Heloise Letter 2, Heloise to Abelard The Archpoet Twelfth century  Let me die in a tavern so that the wine may be near my dying mouth. The Archpoet Confessio Gratian Franciscus Gratianus Twelfth century  Paintings are the Bible of the laity. Gratian Decretum, pt. III Poem of the Cid Twelfth century  Were his lord but worthy, God, how fine a vassal. Poem of the Cid l. 20 Thus parted the one from the others as the nail from the flesh. Poem of the Cid l. 375 Who serves a good lord lives always in luxury. Poem of the Cid l. 850 One would grow poor staying in one place always. Poem of the Cid l. 948 Frederick I Barbarossa 1122-1190 An emperor is subject to no one but God and Justice. Frederick I From Julius Wilhelm Zincgref, Apophthegmata, bk. I [1626] Averroes 1126-1198  Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect. Averroes Destructio Destructionum Henry II 1133-1189  Who will free me from this turbulent priest? Henry II Attributed Maimonides Moses ben Maimon 1135-1204 Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellowman, either by a considerable gift, or a sum of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood, and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and the summit of charity's golden ladder. 1 2 3 Maimonides Charity's Eight Degrees 1 See Spinoza 2 See Johnson 3 See Andrew Carnegie Walter Map Mapes c. 1140 - c. 1210  I intend to die in a tavern; let the wine be placed near my dying mouth, so that when the choirs of angels come, they may say, "God be merciful to this drinker!" Walter Map De Nugis Curialium Alain de Lille Alanus de Insulis d. 1202  Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. Alain de Lille Parabolae Kamo no Chomei 1153-1216 The flow of the river is ceaseless and its water is never the same. 1 The bubbles that float in the pools, now vanishing, now forming, are not of long duration: so in the world are man and his dwellings. . . . [People] die in the morning, they are born in the evening, like foam on the water. Kamo no Chomei Hojoki (An Account of My Hut) [1212] 1 See Heraclitus He who complies with the ways of the world may be impoverished thereby; he who does not, appears deranged. Wherever one may live, whatever work one may do, is it possible even for a moment to find a haven for the body or peace for the mind? Kamo no Chomei Hojoki (An Account of My Hut) [1212] Only in a hut built for the moment can one live without fears. Kamo no Chomei Hojoki (An Account of My Hut) [1212] My body is like a drifting cloud-I ask for nothing, I want nothing. Kamo no Chomei Hojoki (An Account of My Hut) [1212] Fujiwara no Teika 1162-1241 In the expression of the emotions originality merits the first consideration. . . . The words used, however, should be old ones. Fujiwara no Teika Guide to the Composition of Poetry There are no teachers of Japanese poetry. But they who take the old poems as their teachers, steep their minds in the old style, and learn their words from the masters of former time-who of them will fail to write poetry? 1 2 Fujiwara no Teika Guide to the Composition of Poetry 1 See Horace 2 See Hsieh Ho Hartmann von Aue Hartmann von Aue c. 1170 - c. 1215 He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well. Hartmann von Aue Poor Henry Walther von der Vogelweide c. 1170 - c. 1230 Now the summer came to pass And flowers through the grass Joyously sprang, While all the tribes of birds sang. Walther von der Vogelweide Dream Song, st. 1 1 2 1 See Anonymous 2 See Pound This was ever the world's distempered will: Fools have always mocked and spurned the wise. These shall be judged according to their lies. Walther von der Vogelweide Lament, st. 2 The sun no longer shows His face; and treason sows His secret seeds that no man can detect; Fathers by their children are undone; The brother would the brother cheat; And the cowled monk is a deceit . . . Might is right, and justice there is none. Walther von der Vogelweide Millennium Herbort von Fritzlar fl. c. 1210 The cart has no place where a fifth wheel could be used. Herbort von Fritzlar Saying ÿ Eike von Repkow Eike von Repkow fl. c. 1220  He who comes first, eats first. Eike von Repkow Sachsenspiegel [1219-1233] St. Francis , of Assisi c. 1181-1226  Praise to thee, my Lord, for all thy creatures, Above all Brother Sun Who brings us the day and lends us his light. St. Francis , of Assisi The Song of Brother Sun and of All His Creatures [1225] Love is he, radiant with great splendor, And speaks to us of Thee, O Most High. St. Francis , of Assisi The Song of Brother Sun and of All His Creatures [1225] Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. St. Francis , of Assisi The Counsels of the Holy Father St. Francis. Admonition 27 Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. St. Francis , of Assisi Attributed I have sinned against my brother the ass. St. Francis , of Assisi Dying words Magna Carta 1215 No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. Magna Carta Clause 39 To none will we sell, to none deny or delay, right or justice. Magna Carta Clause 40 Tommaso di Celano c. 1185 - c. 1255 Day of wrath! O day of mourning! See fulfilled the prophets' warning, Heaven and earth in ashes burning! Tommaso di Celano Dies Irae Roger Bacon c. 1214 - c. 1294 If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics. 1 Roger Bacon Opus Majus, bk. I, ch. 4 1 See Galileo Alfonso X Alfonso the Wise 1221-1284  Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Alfonso X Attributed Rutebeuf d. 1285 What became of the friends I had With whom I was always so close And loved so dearly? Rutebeuf La Complainte Rutebeuf Friendship is dead: They were friends who go with the wind, 1 And the wind was blowing at my door. Rutebeuf La Complainte Rutebeuf 1 See Dowson St. Thomas Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas c. 1225-1274 Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory, Of His Flesh the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our immortal King. St. Thomas Aquinas Pange, Lingua (hymn for Vespers on the Feast of Corpus Christi),st. 1 Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail. St. Thomas Aquinas Pange, Lingua (hymn for Vespers on the Feast of Corpus Christi),st. 5 (Tantum Ergo) Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed. St. Thomas Aquinas Sacris Solemniis Juncta Sint Gaudia (Matins hymn for Corpus Christi), st. 6 (Panis Angelicus) O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow. St. Thomas Aquinas Verbum Supernum Prodiens (hymn for Lauds on Corpus Christi), st. 5 (O Salutaris Hostia) Lord Jesu, blessed Pelican. St. Thomas Aquinas Adoro Te Devote (hymn appointed for the Thanksgiving after Mass), st. 6 (Pie Pellicane Jesu Domine) Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. St. Thomas Aquinas Two Precepts of Charity [1273] Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica [1273]  Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God. St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica [1273] Reason in man is rather like God in the world. St. Thomas Aquinas Opuscule 11, De Regno Meister Eckhart c. 1260 - c. 1327 In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. Meister Eckhart Directions for the Contemplative Life The more wise and powerful a master, the more directly is his work created, and the simpler it is. Meister Eckhart Of the Eternal Birth One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works. Meister Eckhart Work and Being Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 In that part of the book of my memory before which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, "Incipit Vita Nova [The new life begins]." Dante Alighieri La Vita Nuova [1293] Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. Dante Alighieri La Vita Nuova [1293] Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady's admirable gifts . . . Beyond the range of human intellect. Dante Alighieri Il Convito. Trattato Terzo, l. 1  In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoI,l. 1 And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoI,l. 22 Thou [Virgil] art my master and my author, thou art he from whom alone I took the style whose beauty has done me honor. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoI,l. 85  All hope abandon, ye who enter here! Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoIII,l. 9 Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoIII,l. 14 There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, as sand eddies in a whirlwind. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoIII,l. 22 This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoIII,l. 34  Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoIII,l. 51 These wretches, who never were alive. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoIII,l. 64  Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. 1 2 Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoIII,l. 87 1 See Housman 2 See Frost Without hope we live in desire. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoIV,l. 42  I came into a place void of all light, which bellows like the sea in tempest, when it is combated by warring winds. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoV,l. 28  As in the cold season their wings bear the starlings along in a broad, dense flock, so does that blast the wicked spirits. Hither, thither, downward, upward, it drives them. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoV,l. 40  Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for the fair form that was taken from me, and the manner still hurts me. Love, which absolves no beloved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoV,l. 100  What sweet thoughts, what longing led them to the woeful pass. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoV,l. 113 There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoV,l. 121  Galeotto was the book and he that wrote it; that day we read in it no farther. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoV,l. 137 I fell as a dead body falls. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoV,Last line Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoVI,l. 74  But when thou shalt be in the sweet world, I pray thee bring me to men's memory. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoVI,l. 88 Ye that are of good understanding, note the doctrine that is hidden under the veil of the strange verses! Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoIX, l. 61  Already I had fixed my look on his; and he rose upright with breast and countenance, as if he entertained great scorn of Hell. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoX, l. 34 Necessity brings him [Dante] here, not pleasure. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoXII, l. 87 If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious haven. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoXV,l. 55 So my conscience chide me not, I am ready for Fortune as she wills. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoXV,l. 91 He listens well who takes notes. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoXV,l. 99 A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoXXIV, l. 77 Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoXXVI, l. 118  If I thought my answer were to one who would ever return to the world, this flame should stay without another movement; but since none ever returned alive from this depth, if what I hear is true, I answer thee without fear of infamy. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoXXVII, l. 60  And thence we came forth, to see again the stars. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno, cantoXXXIV, l. 139 To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel. 1 Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoI,l. 1 1 See Pope He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who for it renounces life. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoI,l. 71 O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoIII,l. 8 For to lose time is most displeasing to him who knows most. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoIII,l. 78 The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoIII,l. 121 Unless, before then, the prayer assist me which rises from a heart that lives in grace: what avails the other, which is not heard in heaven? Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoIV, l. 133 "Why is thy mind so entangled," said the Master [Virgil], "that thou slackenest thy pace? What is it to thee what they whisper there? Come after me and let the people talk. Stand like a firm tower that never shakes its top for blast of wind." Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoV,l. 10 Go right on and listen as thou goest. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoV,l. 45 [Beatrice] who shall be a light between truth and intellect. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoVI, l. 45  It was now the hour that turns back the longing of seafarers and melts their hearts, the day they have bidden dear friends farewell, and pierces the new traveler with love if he hears in the distance the bell that seems to mourn the dying day. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoVIII, l. 1 Give us this day the daily manna, 1 without which, in this rough desert, he backward goes, who toils most to go on. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXI,l. 13 1 See Matthew, 6:11 Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXI,l. 100 O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXII, l. 95 To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXVI, l. 79 Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain to it. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXVII, l. 127 Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXXII, l. 10  Less than a drop of blood remains in me that does not tremble; I recognize the signals of the ancient flame. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXXX,l. 46 But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXXX,l. 118  Pure and disposed to mount unto the stars. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXXXIII, l. 145 The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoI,l. 1 A great flame follows a little spark. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoI,l. 34  And in His will is our peace. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoIII, l. 85 The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of the will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoV, l. 19 Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXVII, l. 58 Overcoming me with the light of a smile, she [Beatrice] said to me: "Turn and listen, for not only in my eyes is Paradise." 1 Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXVIII, l. 19 1 See Chaucer Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXIX, l. 73  The experience of this sweet life. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXX,l. 47 Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXX,l. 73 The night that hides things from us. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXXIII, l. 3 With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXXVII, l. 28  The Love that moves the sun and the other stars. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXXXIII, l. 145 Kenko Yoshida 1283-1350 One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him. Kenko Yoshida Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness) [c. 1340] To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is a pleasure beyond compare. Kenko Yoshida Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness) [c. 1340] A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. Kenko Yoshida Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness) [c. 1340] Philip VI , Philip of Valois 1293-1350  He who loves me, let him follow me. Philip VI , Philip of Valois Attributed William , of Occam , Ockham c. 1300 - c. 1348  Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily. William , of Occam Quodlibeta Septem [c. 1320] Petrarch Francesco Petrarca 1304-1374  Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief. Petrarch To Laura in Life, canzone 11 A good death does honor to a whole life. Petrarch To Laura in Death, canzone16 To be able to say how much you love is to love but little. Petrarch To Laura in Death, canzone137 Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. 1 Petrarch De Remedies, bk. II 1 See Petronius Edward III 1312-1377 Honi soit qui mal y pense. [Evil to him who evil thinks]. Edward III Motto of the Order of the Garter [1349] Let the boy win his spurs. Edward III Said of the Black Prince at the battle of Crecy [1345] John Barbour c. 1316-1395 Freedom all solace to man gives; He lives at ease that freely lives. John Barbour The Bruce [c. 1375], l. 227 John Wycliffe c. 1320-1384 I believe that in the end the truth will conquer. John Wycliffe To the Duke of Lancaster [1381]. From J. R. Green, A Short History of the English People [1874], ch. 5  By hook or by crook. John Wycliffe Controversial Tracts [c. 1380]  This Bible is for the government of the People, by the People, and for the People. John Wycliffe Attributed [1382] William , of Wykeham 1324-1404 Manners maketh man. 1 William , of Wykeham Motto of his two foundations, Winchester College and New College, Oxford 1 See Goethe William Langland c. 1330 - c. 1400 In a summer season when soft was the sun. 1 William Langland The Vision of Piers Plowman [1362-1390] 1 See Chaucer  Who will bell the cat? William Langland The Vision of Piers Plowman [1362-1390] Charles V Charles the Wise 1337-1380  I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. Charles V Attributed Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343-1400  To rede, and drive the night away. Geoffrey Chaucer The Book of the Duchess [1369], l. 49 Soun ys noght but eyr ybroken, And every speche that ys spoken, Lowd or pryvee, foul or fair, In his substaunce ys but air. Geoffrey Chaucer The House of Fame [1374-1385], bk.II, l. 765 Venus clerk, Ovide, That hath ysowen wonder wide The grete god of Loves name. Geoffrey Chaucer The House of Fame [1374-1385], bk.III, l. 1487 Hard is the herte that loveth nought In May. Geoffrey Chaucer The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 85 The tyme, that may not sojourne, But goth, and may never retourne, As watir that doun renneth ay, But never drope retourne may. Geoffrey Chaucer The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 381 Nakid as a worm was she. Geoffrey Chaucer The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 454 As round as appil was his face. Geoffrey Chaucer The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 819 So that the more she yaf awey, The more, ywis, she hadde alwey. Geoffrey Chaucer The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 1159 A ful gret fool is he, ywis, That bothe riche and nygard is. Geoffrey Chaucer The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 1171 The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, 1 2 3 Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conqueryinge. Geoffrey Chaucer The Parliament of Fowls [1380-1386],l. 1 1 See Hippocrates 2 See Goethe 3 See Longfellow For out of olde feldes, as men seyth, Cometh al this newe corn fro yer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feyth, Cometh al this newe science that men lere. Geoffrey Chaucer The Parliament of Fowls [1380-1386],l. 22 Nature, the vicaire of the almyghty lorde. Geoffrey Chaucer The Parliament of Fowls [1380-1386],l. 379 A fol can not be stille. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer The Parliament of Fowls [1380-1386],l. 574 1 See Proverbs 29:11 Now welcome, somer, with thy sonne softe, 1 That hast this wintres weders overshake. Geoffrey Chaucer The Parliament of Fowls [1380-1386],l. 680 1 See Langland But the Troian gestes, as they felle, In Omer, or in Dares, or in Dite, Whoso that kan may rede hem as they write. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.I,l. 145 If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.I,l. 400 (Canticus Troili) A fool may ek a wys-man ofte gide. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.I,l. 630 Ek som tyme it is craft to seme fle Fro thyng whych in effect men hunte faste. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.I,l. 747 Unknowe, unkist, and lost, that is unsought. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.I,l. 809 1 See Homer 2 See Horace 3 See Shakespeare 4 See Milton 5 See Scott 6 See Byron O wynd, o wynd, the weder gynneth clere. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.II,l. 2 Til crowes feet be growen under youre ye. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.II,l. 403 Lord, this is an huge rayn! This were a weder for to slepen inne! Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.III,l. 656 It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.III,l. 764 1 See Dickens For I have seyn, of a ful misty morwe Folowen ful often a myrie someris day. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.III,l. 1060 Right as an aspes leef she gan to quake. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.III,l. 1200 For of fortunes sharpe adversitee The worste kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is. 1 2 3 4 Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.III,l. 1625 1 See Pindar 2 See Boethius 3 See Dante 4 See Tennyson Oon ere it herde, at tothir out it wente. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.IV,l. 434 But manly sette the world on six and sevene; And if thow deye a martyr, go to hevene! Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.IV,l. 622 For tyme ylost may nought recovered be. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.IV,l. 1283 They take it wisly, faire, and softe. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 347 For he that naught n' assaieth, naught n' acheveth. 1 2 Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 784 1 See Heywood 2 See Gilbert Paradis stood formed in her yen. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 817 1 See Dante Trewe as stiel. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 831 This sodeyn Diomede. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1024 Ye, fare wel al the snow of ferne yere! 1 Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1176 1 See Villon Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th' entente is al, and nat the lettres space. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1629 Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1786 O yonge, fresshe folkes, he or she, In which that love up groweth with youre age, Repeyreth hom fro worldly vanyte. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1835 O moral Gower, this book I directe To the. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1856 Whan that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules synge, And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge, Farewel my bok, and my devocioun! Geoffrey Chaucer The Legend of Good Women [c. 1386],l. 36 That, of al the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most thise floures white and rede, Swiche as men callen daysyes in our toun. Geoffrey Chaucer The Legend of Good Women [c. 1386],l. 41 Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 1 And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye, (So priketh hem nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 9 He was a verray, parfit gentil knight. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 72 He was as fressh as is the month of May. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 92 He koude songes make, and wel endyte. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 95 Curteis he was, lowely, and servysable, And carf beforn his fader at the table. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 99 Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely; And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe For Frenssh of Parys was to hir unknowe. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 122 She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 144 And theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene, On which ther was first write a crowned A, And after Amor vincit omnia. 1 2 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 160 1 See Sophocles 2 See Virgil His palfrey was as broun as is a berye. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 207 A Frere ther was, a wantowne and a merye. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 208 He knew the tavernes wel in every toun. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 240 Somwhat he lipsed, for his wantownesse, To make his Englissh sweete upon his tonge. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 264 A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 285 As leene was his hors as is a rake. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 287 For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie, But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 293 And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 308 1 See Pope Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, And yet he semed bisier than he was. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 321 For he was Epicurus owene sone. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 336 1 See Horace It snewed in his hous of mete and drynke. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 345 He was a good felawe. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 395 His studie was but litel on the Bible. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 438 For gold in phisik is a cordial, Therefore he lovede gold in special. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 443 She was a worthy womman al hir lyve, Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 459 This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 496 If gold ruste, what shal iren do? Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 500 But Cristes loore and his apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folwed it hymselve. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 527 And yet he hadde a thombe of gold. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 563 That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 624 Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes, And for to drynken strong wyn, reed as blood. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 634 And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn, Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 637 Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes new. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 731 For May wol have no slogardie anyght. The sesoun priketh every gentil herte, And maketh hym out of his slep to sterte. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1042 1 See Malory Ech man for hymself. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1182 The bisy larke, messager of day. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1491 May, with alle thy floures and thy grene, Welcome be thou, faire, fresshe May. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1510 That "feeld hath eyen, and the wode hath eres." Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1522 Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1533 For pitee renneth soone in gentil herte. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1761 Cupido, Upon his shuldres wynges hadde he two; And blynd he was, as it is often seene; A bowe he bar and arwes brighte and kene. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1963 The smylere with the knyf under the cloke. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1999 Up roos the sonne, and up roose Emelye. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 2273 Myn be the travaille, and thyn be the glorie! Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 2406 And was al his chiere, as in his herte. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 2683 What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 2777 This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passing to and fro. Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 2847 Jhesu Crist, and seiynte Benedight, Blesse this hous from every wikked wight. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Miller's Tale,l. 3483 And broghte of myghty ale a large quart. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Miller's Tale,l. 3497 "Tehee!" quod she, and clapte the wyndow to. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Miller's Tale,l. 3740 Yet in our asshen olde is fyr yreke. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Reeve's Prologue,l. 3882 1 See Thomas Gray The gretteste clerkes been noght the wisest men. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Reeve's Tale,l. 4054 Thurgh thikke and thurgh thenne. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Reeve's Tale,l. 4066 So was hir joly whistle wel ywet. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Reeve's Tale,l. 4155 She is mirour of alle curteisye. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Man of Law's Tale,l. 166 For in the sterres, clerer than is glas, Is writen, God woot, whoso koude it rede, The deeth of every man. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Man of Law's Tale,l. 194 Sathan, that evere us waiteth to bigile. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Man of Law's Tale,l. 582 In his owene grece I made hym frye. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Prologue,l. 487 What thyng we may nat lightly have, Thereafter wol we crie alday and crave. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Prologue,l. 517 Greet prees at market maketh deere ware, And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Prologue,l. 522 But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth. Gat-toothed I was, and that bicam me weel. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Prologue,l. 601 A womman cast hir shame away, Whan she cast of hir smok. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Prologue,l. 782 1 See Herodotus As thikke as motes in the sonne-beem. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Tale,l. 868 "My lige lady, generally," quod he, "Wommen desiren have sovereynetee As well over hir housbond as hir love." Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Tale,l. 1037 Looke who that is moost vertuous alway, Pryvee and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he kan; Taak hym for the grettest gentil man. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Tale,l. 1113 That he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Tale,l. 1170 1 See Goldsmith For thogh we slepe or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme, it nyl no man abyde. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Clerk's Tale,l. 118 1 See John Heywood Love is noght oold as whan that it is newe. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Clerk's Tale,l. 857 This flour of wyfly pacience. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Clerk's Tale,l. 919 O stormy peple! unsad and evere untrewe! Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Clerk's Tale,l. 995 No wedded man so hardy be t'assaille His wyves pacience, in trust to fynde Grisildis, for in certein he shal faille! Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Clerk's Tale,l. 1180 It is no childes pley To take a wyf withoute avysement. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Merchant's Tale,l. 1530 Love is blynd. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Merchant's Tale,l. 1598 My wit is thynne. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Merchant's Tale,l. 1682 Ther nys no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily; 1 2 This wol be doon at leyser parfitly. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Merchant's Tale,l. 1832 1 See Publilius Syrus 2 See John Heywood Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon That shal ete with a feend. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Squire's Tale,l. 602 Men loven of propre kynde newefangelnesse. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Squire's Tale,l. 610 Fy on possessioun But if a man be vertuous withal. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Squire's Tale,l. 686 Pacience is an heigh vertu, certeyn. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Franklin's Tale,l. 773 Servant in love, and lord in marriage. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Franklin's Tale,l. 793 It is agayns the proces of nature. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Franklin's Tale,l. 1345 Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that men may kepe. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Franklin's Tale,l. 1479 For dronkenesse is verray sepulture Of mannes wit and his discrecioun. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Pardoner's Tale, l. 558 Mordre wol out, certeyn, it wol nat faille. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Prioress's Tale, l. 1776 This may wel be rym dogerel. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas, l. 2115 Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe! 1 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Monk's Tale,l. 3329 1 See The Seven Sages He was of knyghthod and of fredom flour. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Monk's Tale,l. 3832 For whan a man hath over-greet a wit, Ful oft hym happeth to mysusen it. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Canon Yeoman's Prologue, l. 648 My sone, keep wel thy tonge, and keep thy freend. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Manciple's Tale,l. 319 Thing that is seyd, is seyd; and forth it gooth. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Manciple's Tale,l. 355 1 See Horace For the proverbe seith that "manye smale maken a greet." Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Parson's Tale, l. 361 Reule wel thyself, that other folk canst rede. And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede. Geoffrey Chaucer Truth [c. 1390],l. 6 The wrastling for this world axeth a fal. Geoffrey Chaucer Truth [c. 1390],l. 16 John Huss c. 1370-1415  O holy simplicity! John Huss Last words, at the stake Thomas a Kempis 1380-1471  Sic transit gloria mundi [So passes away the glory of this world]. Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.3 Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.16  Man proposes, but God disposes. Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.19 What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created. Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.20 No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled. Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.20  And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.23 First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.II, ch. 3 Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly and never seeking her own; for wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love. 1 Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.III, ch. 5 1 See I Corinthians 13:4 and 13:7 Charles d' Orleans Charles d'Orleans 1391-1465  I am dying of thirst by the side of the fountain. Charles d' Orleans Ballades, 2  The season has shed its mantle of wind and chill and rain. Charles d' Orleans Rondeaux,63 All by myself, wrapped in my thoughts, And building castles in Spain and in France. Charles d' Orleans Rondeaux,109 John Fortescue c. 1395 - c. 1476  Much cry and no wool. John Fortescue De Laudibus Legum Angliae [1471], ch.10  Comparisons are odious. John Fortescue De Laudibus Legum Angliae [1471], ch.19 Sir Thomas Malory d. 1471  The noble history of the Sangreal, and of the most renowned Christian king . . . King Arthur. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].Preface by William Caxton [c. 1422-1491], the first English printer For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].Preface by William Caxton [c. 1422-1491], the first English printer Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].bk. I, ch.5 And with that the king saw coming toward him the strangest beast that ever he saw or heard of; so the beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds; but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly: and therewith the beast departed with a great noise . . . Pellinore, that time king, followed the questing beast. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].bk. I, ch.19 In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].bk. I, ch.25 Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].IV, ch. 9 What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door? 1 Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].VII, ch. 34 1 See Shakespeare The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].X, ch.56 It is his day. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].X, ch.70 The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May. 1 Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XVIII, ch. 25 1 See Chaucer All ye that be lovers call unto your remembrance the month of May, like as did Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XVIII, ch. 25 Such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XX, ch. 9  I shall curse you with book and bell and candle. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XXI, ch.1 Through this man [Launcelot] and me [Guenever] hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XXI, ch.9 For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XXI, ch.9 Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XXI, ch.11 Thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knight's hand. And thou were the courteoust knight that ever bare shield. And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse. And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman. And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword. And thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XXI, ch.13 Henry VI 1421-1471 Kingdoms are but cares, State is devoid of stay; Riches are ready snares, And hasten to decay. Henry VI From Sir John Harington, Nugae Antiquae [1769] Gabriel Biel c. 1425-1495 To be crushed in the winepress of passion. Gabriel Biel Expositio Canonis Missae, lectio52 Always in these matters desiring rather to be taught than to teach. Gabriel Biel Expositio Canonis Missae, lectio53 No one conquers who doesn't fight. Gabriel Biel Expositio Canonis Missae, lectio78  You get what you pay for. Gabriel Biel Expositio Canonis Missae, lectio86 Francois Villon 1431 - c. 1465 Ah God! Had I but studied In the days of my foolish youth. Francois Villon Le Grand Testament,26 But where are the snows of yesteryear? Francois Villon Le Grand Testament,Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis In this faith I will to live and die. Francois Villon Le Grand Testament,Ballade de l'Homage a Notre Dame There's no good speech save in Paris. Francois Villon Le Grand Testament,Ballade des Femmes de Paris But pray God that he absolve us all! Francois Villon Codicile I know all except myself. Francois Villon Ballade des Menus Propres Aldus Manutius Aldus Manutius 1450-1515 Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. Aldus Manutius Placard on the door of the Aldine Press, Venice, established about 1490 Christopher Columbus 1451-1506 "Thanks be to God," says the Admiral; "the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is." Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage,October 8, 1492 Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord. Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage,October 10, 1492 At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of 2 leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahani [San Salvador]. Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage,October 12, 1492 The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly. Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage,October 28, 1492  The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, [and] herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed. Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage,November 6, 1492 When there are such lands there should be profitable things without number. Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage,November 27, 1492  And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts. Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage,November 27, 1492 The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate. Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage,December 22, 1492 "Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened." Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage,March 15, 1493 It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts. Christopher Columbus Letter to the Sovereigns on the First Voyage, February 15-March 4, 1493 And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear. Christopher Columbus Letter to the Sovereigns on the First Voyage, February 15-March 4, 1493 I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river [Ozama], and by this sea which is fresh. Christopher Columbus Journal of the Third Voyage, May 30-August 31, 1498 I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. Christopher Columbus Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage, October 18, 1498 Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn. Christopher Columbus Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage, October 18, 1498 I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. Christopher Columbus Letter to Dona Juana de Torres, October 1500 The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain? Christopher Columbus Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, July 7, 1503 (Fourth Voyage) I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor. Christopher Columbus Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, July 7, 1503 (Fourth Voyage) Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages. Christopher Columbus Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, July 7, 1503 (Fourth Voyage) Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.1 Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.1 As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.1 Life well spent is long. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.1 Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.1 Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.2 Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.2 Savage is he who saves himself. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.2 It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.2 Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature. 1 Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.2 1 See Shakespeare Human subtlety . . . will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.3 Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.I, ch.20 O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.II, ch.25 O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.II, ch.45 The Medici created and destroyed me. Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks [1508-1518], vol.II, ch.46 Amerigo Vespucci 1454-1512  Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us. Amerigo Vespucci Letter called Mundus Novus [1503] to Lorenzo Pier Francesco de'Medici Sebastian Brant 1457-1521 The world wants to be deceived. Sebastian Brant The Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff) [1494] John Skelton c. 1460-1529 I say, thou mad March hare. John Skelton Replication Against Certain Young Scholars He ruleth all the roost. John Skelton Why Come Ye Not to Court,l. 198 The wolf from the door. John Skelton Why Come Ye Not to Court,l. 1531 Old proverb says, That bird is not honest That filleth his own nest. John Skelton Poems Against Garnesche Maid, widow, or wife. John Skelton Philip Sparrow William Dunbar c. 1465 - c. 1530 London, thou art the flower of Cities all. William Dunbar London,refrain Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity. William Dunbar London,st. 3 I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me. William Dunbar Lament for the Makers (Makaris) [c. 1508],refrain Our plesance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory. William Dunbar Lament for the Makers (Makaris) [c. 1508],st. 2 Desiderius Erasmus 1465-1536 It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off louring Old Age. Desiderius Erasmus The Praise of Folly [1509] They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic. Desiderius Erasmus The Praise of Folly [1509] A peck of troubles. Desiderius Erasmus Apothegms [1542] Fernando de Rojas c. 1465 - c. 1538 Goods which are not shared are not goods. Fernando de Rojas La Celestina, actI The use of riches is better than their possession. Fernando de Rojas La Celestina, actII The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise. Fernando de Rojas La Celestina, actII Riches do not make one rich but busy. Fernando de Rojas La Celestina, actIV No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today. Fernando de Rojas La Celestina, actIV When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy. Fernando de Rojas La Celestina, actX When one door closes, fortune will usually open another. Fernando de Rojas La Celestina, actXV Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527  There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.6 From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. 1 2 Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.8 1 See Ennius 2 See Accius The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.12 A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.14 Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.14 Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.15 The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.17 A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.17 When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.19 There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.22 There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.23 Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.26 God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince [1532], ch.26 Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. Niccolo Machiavelli Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy, bk. I, ch.3 The people resemble a wild beast, 1 2 3 4 5 which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again. Niccolo Machiavelli Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy, bk. I, ch.16 1 See Horace 2 See Shakespeare 3 See  4 See  5 See Pope Charles VIII 1470-1498  This is our gracious will. Charles VIII Royal Order of March 12, 1497 Nicholas Copernicus 1473-1543 Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open." Nicholas Copernicus De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium [1543] Ludovico Ariosto 1474-1533  Nature made him, and then broke the mold. Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso [1532], canto X, st. 84 Bartolome de Las Casas c. 1474-1566   It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot be persuaded and brought to a good order and way of life, and made domestic, mild and tractable, provided . . . the method that is proper and natural to men is used; that is, love and gentleness and kindness. Bartolome de Las Casas Apologetica Historia (Apologetic History) de las Indias [written c. 1530], ch. 48  The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and directed. Bartolome de Las Casas Historia de las Indias [written 1550-1563], prologue Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564 The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows. Michelangelo Buonarroti Sonnet If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love. Michelangelo Buonarroti Sonnet The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. Michelangelo Buonarroti Sonnet I live and love in God's peculiar light. Michelangelo Buonarroti Sonnet Sir Thomas More 1478-1535  They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. Sir Thomas More Utopia [1516].Of Jewels and Wealth They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters. Sir Thomas More Utopia [1516].Of Law and Magistrates  Plato by a goodly similitude declareth, why wise men refrain to meddle in the commonwealth. For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people. Sir Thomas More Utopia [1516].Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. Sir Thomas More Works [c. 1530]  This is a fair tale of a tub told of his election. Sir Thomas More Confutation of Tyndale's Answers [1532]  For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust. Sir Thomas More Richard III and His Miserable End [1543] See me safe up: for my coming down, I can shift for myself. Sir Thomas More On ascending the scaffold. From Froude, History of England [1856-1870] This hath not offended the king. Sir Thomas More As he drew his beard aside upon placing his head on the block. From Bacon, Apothegms, no. 22 Robert Whittinton c. 1480 - c. 1530 [Sir Thomas] More is a man of angel's wit and singular learning; I know not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness and affability? And as time requireth, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes; and sometimes of as sad a gravity; a man for all seasons. 1 Robert Whittinton Passage composed for schoolboys to put into Latin 1 See Ben Jonson Martin Luther 1483-1546 If it were an art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth. Martin Luther To the Christian Nobility of the German States [1520]  Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen. Martin Luther Speech at the Diet of Worms, [April 18, 1521] The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees. Martin Luther Whether Soldiers Can Also Be in a State of Grace [1526] A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing. Our helper He amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing. Martin Luther Ein' Feste Burg [1529] What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them. Martin Luther The Great Catechism. Second Command [1529] Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. Martin Luther On Marriage [1530] Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. Martin Luther On Marriage [1530] Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. Martin Luther Table Talk [1569],53  For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel . . . Thus is the Devil ever God's ape. Martin Luther Table Talk [1569],67 The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles. Martin Luther Table Talk [1569],171 There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther Table Talk [1569],292 A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. Martin Luther Table Talk [1569],352 Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but-more frequently than not-struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. Martin Luther Table Talk [1569],353 If I had heard that as many devils would set on me in Worms as there are tiles on the roofs, I should nonetheless have ridden there. Martin Luther Luthers Sammtliche Schriften [1745], XVI, 14  It makes a difference whose ox is gored. Martin Luther Works [1854 ed.], vol. LXII HernaAn Cortes Hernando Cortez 1485-1547 It seems most credible that our Lord God has purposefully allowed these lands [Mexico] to be discovered . . . so that Your Majesties may be fruitful and deserving in His sight by causing these barbaric tribes to be enlightened and brought to the faith by Your hand. HernaAn Cortes First Dispatch [July 10, 1519]. To Queen Juana and her son Charles V from the Vera Cruz town council; probably dictated by Cortes [The Aztecs] said that by no means would they give themselves up, for as long as one of them was left he would die fighting, and that we would get nothing of theirs because they would burn everything or throw it into the water. HernaAn Cortes Third Dispatch [May 15, 1522]. To Charles V Hugh Latimer c. 1485-1555 Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. 1 Hugh Latimer To Nicholas Ridley [1500-1555] as they were being burned alive at Oxford for heresy [October 16, 1555]. From J. R. Green, A Short History of the English People [1874], ch. 7 1 See II Esdras 14:25 Pope Julius III 1487-1555  Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? Pope Julius III To a Portuguese monk who sympathized with the pope's burdens of office Jacques Cartier 1491-1557  I am rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain. Jacques Cartier La Premiere Relation St. Ignatius , of Loyola St. Ignatius of Loyola 1491-1556  Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest: To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil and not to seek for rest; To labor and not ask for any reward Save that of knowing that we do Thy will. St. Ignatius , of Loyola Prayer for Generosity [1548] Bernal Diaz del Castillo c. 1492 - c. 1581  To me it appears that the names of those ought to be written in letters of gold, who died so cruel a death, for the service of God and His Majesty, to give light to those who were in darkness, 1 and to procure wealth which all men desire. Bernal Diaz del Castillo The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueve Espana) [1800], pt. II, ch. 10 1 See Isaiah 9:2 Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim c. 1493-1541  Every experiment is like a weapon which must be used in its particular way-a spear to thrust, a club to strike. Experimenting requires a man who knows when to thrust and when to strike, each according to need and fashion. Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus Surgeon's Book (Chirurgische Bucher) [1605] Francis Francois I 1494-1547  All is lost save honor. Francis Francois I Letter to his mother after his defeat at Pavia [February 23, 1525] Francois Rabelais c. 1494-1553 Break the bone and suck out the substantific marrow. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.I [1532],prologue  To laugh is proper to man. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.I [1532],Rabelais to the Reader  Appetite comes with eating . . . but the thirst goes away with drinking. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.I [1532],ch.5 War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war. 1 2 3 4 Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.I [1532],ch.46 1 See Bion 2 See Cicero 3 See Dryden 4 See Churchill  How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself? Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.I [1532],ch.52  Do what thou wilt. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.I [1532],ch.57 Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.II [1534], ch.8  Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.II [1534], ch.16 So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.II [1534], ch.29 A good crier of green sauce. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.II [1534], ch.31 This flea which I have in mine ear. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.III [1545], ch. 31 Oh thrice and four times happy those who plant cabbages! 1 2 Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.IV [1548], ch.18 1 See Montaigne 2 See Voltaire  Which was performed to a T. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.IV [1548], ch.41 He that has patience may compass anything. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.IV [1548], ch.48  We will take the good will for the deed. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.IV [1548], ch.49  Speak the truth and shame the Devil. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.V [1552],author's prologue  Plain as a nose in a man's face. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.V [1552],author's prologue Like hearts of oak. 1 Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.V [1552],author's prologue 1 See Garrick  Go hang yourselves [critics] . . . you shall never want rope enough. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.V [1552],author's prologue  Looking as like . . . as one pea does like another. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.V [1552],ch.2 It is meat, drink, and cloth to us. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk.V [1552],ch.7  I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played. Francois Rabelais Alleged last words. From Motteux, Life of Rabelais John Heywood c. 1497 - c. 1580  All a green willow, willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland. John Heywood The Green Willow The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. John Heywood Be Merry Friends Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low. John Heywood Be Merry Friends  Haste maketh waste. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.2 Good to be merry and wise. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.2 Beaten with his own rod. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.2  Look ere ye leap. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.2  While between two stools my tail go to the ground. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.2 He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3 The fat is in the fire. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3 When the sun shineth, make hay. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3  The tide tarrieth no man. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3  Fast bind, fast find. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3 And while I at length debate and beat the bush, There shall step in other men and catch the birds. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3 Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3  Happy man, happy dole. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3  God never send'th mouth but he sendeth meat. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4 A hard beginning maketh a good ending. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4 Like will to like. 1 2 3 John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4 1 See Ecclesiasticus 13:16 2 See Homer 3 See Robert Burton When the sky falleth we shall have larks. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4 More afraid than hurt. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4 Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4 Let the world wag, and take mine ease in mine inn. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.5 Hold their noses to grindstone. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.5  A sleeveless errand. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.7  Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.8 Cut my coat after my cloth. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.8  The nearer to the church, the further from God. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.9 Now for good luck, cast an old shoe after me. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.9  Better is to bow than break. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.9  It hurteth not the tongue to give fair words. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.9 Two heads are better than one. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.9 A short horse is soon curried. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10 To tell tales out of school. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10 To hold with the hare and run with the hound. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10 Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10  All is well that ends well. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10  Of a good beginning cometh a good end. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10  When the steed is stolen, shut the stable door. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10 She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10  Ill weed groweth fast. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10 It is a dear collop That is cut out of th' own flesh. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10 Beggars should be no choosers. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10 Merry as a cricket. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11  To rob Peter and pay Paul. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11 A man may well bring a horse to the water, But he cannot make him drink without he will. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11  Kinde will creep where it may not go. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11  The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11 Rome was not built in one day. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11  Ye have many strings to your bow. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11 Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11 Better is half a loaf than no bread. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11 Nought venture nought have. 1 2 John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11 1 See Chaucer 2 See W. S. Gilbert  Children and fools cannot lie. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11  All is fish that cometh to net. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11  Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife? John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11 One good turn asketh another. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11 A dog hath a day. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11  A hair of the dog that bit us. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11 But in deed, A friend is never known till a man have need. 1 2 3 4 John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11 1 See Aristotle 2 See Cicero 3 See Publilius Syrus 4 See Ovid  Burnt child fire dreadeth. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.2  There is no fool to the old fool. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.2 All is not gospel that thou dost speak. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.2  A fool's bolt is soon shot. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.3 A woman hath nine lives like a cat. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.4 A penny for your thought. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.4 You cannot see the wood for the trees. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.4 You stand in your own light. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.4  Tit for tat. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.4  Three may keep counsel, if two be away. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5  Small pitchers have wide ears. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5 Many hands make light work. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5  Out of God's blessing into the warm sun. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5  There is no fire without some smoke. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5 A cat may look on a king. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5 Have ye him on the hip. 1 John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5 1 See Shakespeare Much water goeth by the mill That the miller knoweth not of. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5 He must needs go whom the devil doth drive. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7 Set the cart before the horse. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7 The more the merrier. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7 It is better to be An old man's darling than a young man's warling. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7 Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to even-song. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7  The moon is made of a green cheese. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7 I know on which side my bread is buttered. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7 The wrong sow by th' ear. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9  An ill wind that bloweth no man to good. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9  For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9  Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9  Every man for himself and God for us all. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9  Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9 This hitteth the nail on the head. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.11 Enough is as good as a feast. John Heywood Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.11 Charles V 1500-1558 Fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off. Charles V From Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk. II Iron hand in a velvet glove. Charles V Attributed. From Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, 11 I make war on the living, not on the dead. Charles V Said when advised to hang Luther's corpse on the gallows [1546] Pope Gregory XIII 1502-1585  To the greater glory of God. Pope Gregory XIII From The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent [1542-1560] Sir Thomas Wyatt c. 1503-1542 Forget not yet the tried intent Of such a truth as I have meant; My great travail so gladly spent, Forget not yet! Sir Thomas Wyatt Forget Not Yet And wilt thou leave me thus? Say nay, say nay, for shame! Sir Thomas Wyatt The Appeal My lute, awake! perform the last Labor that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun; For when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done. Sir Thomas Wyatt The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of His Love They flee from me, that sometime did me seek With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. Sir Thomas Wyatt The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed John Knox 1505-1572 The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment [Regimen] of Women. John Knox Title of pamphlet [1558]  A man with God is always in the majority. John Knox Inscription on Reformation Monument, Geneva, Switzerland John Bradford 1510-1555  The familiar story, that, on seeing evildoers taken to the place of execution, he was wont to exclaim: "But for the grace of God there goes John Bradford," is a universal tradition, which has overcome the lapse of time. John Bradford Biographical notice, Parker Society edition, The Writings of John Bradford [1853] Sir Thomas Vaux 1510-1556 Companion none is like Unto the mind alone; For many have been harmed by speech, Through thinking, few or none. Sir Thomas Vaux Of a Contented Mind [1557] I loathe that I did love, In youth that I thought sweet, As time requires for my behove, Methinks they are not meet. Sir Thomas Vaux The Aged Lover Renounceth Love, st.1 But age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. Sir Thomas Vaux The Aged Lover Renounceth Love, st.3 Richard Grafton d. 1572 Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September, February hath twenty-eight alone, And all the rest have thirty-one. Richard Grafton Chronicles of England [1562] Mary Tudor Mary II Mary Tudor 1516-1558 When I am dead and opened, you shall find "Calais" lying in my heart. 1 Mary Tudor From Holinshed, Chronicles [1577], III, 1160 1 See Browning Ambroise Pare 1517-1590  I treated him, God cured him. Ambroise Pare His favorite saying Joachim du Bellay 1522-1560  Happy he who like Ulysses has made a glorious voyage. Joachim du Bellay Les Regrets [1559], XXXI Luiz Vaz de Camoes Camoens c. 1524-1580 The Strait that shall forever bear his name. Luiz Vaz de Camoes The Lusiads [1572], in reference to Ferdinand Magellan's discovery of the strait [October 21, 1520] Pierre de Ronsard 1524-1585 When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful." Pierre de Ronsard Sonnets pour Helene, I, 43 Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today. Pierre de Ronsard Sonnets pour Helene, I, 43 Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither. Pierre de Ronsard Odes, I, 17. [Agrave] Cassandre Thomas Tusser c. 1524-1580 At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. Thomas Tusser A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry [1557].The Farmer's Daily Diet Such mistress, such Nan, Such master, such man. Thomas Tusser A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry [1557].April's Abstract Sweet April showers Do spring May flowers. Thomas Tusser A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry [1557].April's Husbandry Who goeth a-borrowing Goeth a-sorrowing. Thomas Tusser A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry [1557].June's Abstract 'Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all. Thomas Tusser A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry [1557].August's Abstract Pieter Bruegel c. 1525-1569 Because the world is so faithless, I go my way in mourning. Pieter Bruegel Inscription in Moliere, The Misanthrope [1568] Gabriel Meurier 1530-1601  He who excuses himself accuses himself. Gabriel Meurier Tresor des Sentences William Stevenson c. 1530-1575 I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. William Stevenson Gammer Gurton's Needle [c. 1573], drinking song,act II Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old. William Stevenson Gammer Gurton's Needle [c. 1573], drinking song,refrain Henri Estienne c. 1531-1598 Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait [If youth but knew, if old age but could]. Henri Estienne Les Premices [1594]  God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Henri Estienne Les Premices [1594] Elizabeth I 1533-1603 The use of the sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession thereof. Elizabeth I To the Spanish Ambassador [1580] My care is like my shadow in the sun- Follows me flying-flies when I pursue it. Elizabeth I On the departure of Alencon [1582] I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm. Elizabeth I Speech to the troops at Tilbury on the approach of the Armada [1588] I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom. Elizabeth I From Chamberlin, Sayings of Queen Elizabeth I will make you shorter by the head. Elizabeth I From Chamberlin, Sayings of Queen Elizabeth  The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth sow. Elizabeth I From Chamberlin, Sayings of Queen Elizabeth [To the Countess of Nottingham] God may forgive you, but I never can. Elizabeth I From Hume, History of England Under the House of Tudor, vol. II, ch. 7 Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. Elizabeth I The Golden Speech [1601] Semper eadem [Ever the same]. Elizabeth I Motto I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace. Elizabeth I To her ladies, discussing her epitaph 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it. Elizabeth I From S. Clarke, Marrow of Ecclesiastical History [ed. 1675], pt. II, Life of Queen Elizabeth Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 1533-1592   I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray. . . . I am myself the matter of my book. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],To the Reader  Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.1  The thing I fear most is fear. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.18  I want death to find me planting my cabbages. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.20  He who would teach men to die would teach them to live. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.20 Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. 1 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.20 1 See Lucretius Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.20 I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.26  Since I would rather make of him [the child] an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide [tutor] with a well-made rather than a well-filled head. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.26  If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.28 Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.32  A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.39  We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.39  The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.I [1580],ch.39  It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.6  My trade and my art is living. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.6 The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.11 When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.12 The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. . . . The same reason that makes us bicker with a neighbor creates a war between princes. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.12  Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing . . . I do not understand it . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is [Egr ][pi ][epsi ][chi ][omega ], which is to say, I suspend my judgment. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.12  This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?" Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.12  Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.12  What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.12  Those who have compared our life to a dream were right. . . . We sleeping wake, and waking sleep. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.12 How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation! 1 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.16 1 See Bentley A man may be humble through vainglory. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.17 I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.20 Saying is one thing and doing is another. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.31 There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.II [1580], ch.37 I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.1 I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.1 Few men have been admired by their own households. 1 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.1 1 See Antigonus  Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.1  It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.5 Everyone recognizes me in my book, and my book in me. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.5 It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it, being filled and arrested by this strong light. 1 2 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.7 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Tennyson  Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.8  Not because Socrates said so, 1 but because it is in truth my own disposition-and perchance to some excess-I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.9 1 See Socrates There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. 1 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.9 1 See Shakespeare A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid. 1 2 3 4 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.9 1 See Menander 2 See Horace 3 See Bacon 4 See Linnaeus I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.11  I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.12 It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.13 For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.13  No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.13 Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays, bk.III [1595], ch.13 William I William the Silent 1533-1584  My God, have mercy on my soul and on my poor people. William I Last words as he fell under an assassin's bullets William Butler 1535-1618  It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an r in their name to eat an oyster. William Butler Dyet's Dry Dinner [1599] Sir Humphrey Gilbert c. 1539-1583  We are as near to heaven by sea as by land! Sir Humphrey Gilbert From Hakluyt, Voyages, vol. III [1600], p. 159 William Gilbert 1540-1603  Philosophy is for the few. William Gilbert De Magnete (On the Magnet) [1600]  In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. William Gilbert De Magnete (On the Magnet) [1600] St. John of the Cross San Juan de la Cruz 1542-1591  The Dark Night of the Soul. St. John of the Cross Title of treatise [c. 1583] based on his poem Songs of the Soul Which Rejoices at Having Reached . . . Union with God by the Road of Spiritual Negation [c. 1578] Mary Stuart Mary , Queen of Scots Mary Stuart 1542-1587 In my end is my beginning. Mary Stuart Motto O Lord my God, I have trusted in thee; O Jesu my dearest one, now set me free. In prison's oppression, in sorrow's obsession, I weary for thee. With sighing and crying bowed down as dying, I adore thee, I implore thee, set me free! Mary Stuart Prayer written in her Book of Devotion before her execution Jan Zamoyski 1542-1605  The king reigns, but does not govern. Jan Zamoyski Speech in the Polish Parliament [1605], referring to King Sigismund III Sir Edward Dyer c. 1543-1607 My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind: Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Sir Edward Dyer Rawlinson Poetry MS 85, p. 17 Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. Sir Edward Dyer Rawlinson Poetry MS 85, p. 17 Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not. Sir Edward Dyer Fain Would I (attributed) Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas 1544-1590 Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies. 1 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],First Week,Second Day 1 See Milton For where's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government? Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],First Week,Fifth Day, pt. 1 These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul. Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],First Week,Sixth Day Or almost like a spider, who, confined In her web's center, shakt with every wind, Moves in an instant if the buzzing fly Stir but a string of her lawn canapie. Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],First Week,Sixth Day Living from hand to mouth. Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,First Day, pt. 4 In the jaws of death. Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,First Day, pt. 4 Only that he may conform To tyrant custom. Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Third Day, pt. 2 Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him. Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Fourth Day, bk. 2 Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours Should not be numbered by years, days, and hours. Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Fourth Day, bk. 2 My lovely living boy, My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy. Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Fourth Day, bk. 2 Out of the book of Nature's learned breast. Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Fourth Day, bk. 2 Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone. Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Fourth Day, bk. 2 Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616 You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]author's preface,p. xix  I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]author's preface,p. xx  They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]author's preface,p. xxiii  Time out of mind. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.1, p. 4 Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. 1 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.4,p. 22 1 See Genesis 3:19 By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.4,p. 25  Put you in this pickle. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.5, p. 30 Can we ever have too much of a good thing? Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.6, p. 37  The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.8, p. 50 I don't know that ever I saw one in my born days. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.2, p. 57 Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine. 1 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.3,p. 63 1 See Boileau The eyes those silent tongues of Love. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.3,p. 65  And had a face like a benediction. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.4,p. 69  There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.4,p. 70 Without a wink of sleep. 1 2 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.4,p. 72 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Pope Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.1,p. 94 Thank you for nothing. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.1,p. 94  No limits but the sky. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.3,p. 110 To give the devil his due. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.3,p. 111 You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.4,p. 117 Paid him in his own coin. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.4,p. 119  The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, otherwise called the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.5,p. 126 You are come off now with a whole skin. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.5,p. 127 Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 131  A finger in every pie. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 133  No better than she should be. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 133 That's the nature of women . . . not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. 1 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 133 1 See George Bernard Shaw You may go whistle for the rest. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 134 Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone. 1 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 135 1 See Shakespeare Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase? Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 136 Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.7,p. 140 Give me but that, and let the world rub, there I'll stick. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.7,p. 148 Sing away sorrow, cast away care. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.8,p. 153 Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.8,p. 154 Let every man mind his own business. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.8,p. 157 Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.8,p. 159 Raise a hue and cry. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.8,p. 159 'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.9,p. 162 The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.9,p. 163 Within a stone's throw of it. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.9,p. 170 The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.10,p. 174 Absence, that common cure of love. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.10,p. 177 From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.10,p. 181  Little said is soon amended. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.10,p. 184 Thou hast seen nothing yet. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 190 Between jest and earnest. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 190 My love and hers have always been purely Platonic. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 192 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 195 My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name! Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 195 'Twill grieve me so to the heart that I shall cry my eyes out. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 197 Ready to split his sides with laughing. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.13,p. 208 My honor is dearer to me than my life. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.1,p. 226 On the word of a gentleman, and a Christian. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.1,p. 236 Think before thou speakest. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.3,p. 252 Let us forget and forgive injuries. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.3,p. 254 I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.3,p. 255 More knave than fool. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.4, p. 261 Here's the devil-and-all to pay. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.10,p. 319 I begin to smell a rat. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.10,p. 319 The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.10,p. 322  Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.10,p. 325 There's no striving against the stream; and the weakest still goes to the wall. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.20, p. 404 The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. 1 2 3 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.21, p. 412 1 See Ptahhotpe 2 See Herodotus 3 See Howell  It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, author's preface, p. 441  When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.2, p. 455 Youngsters read it [Don Quixote's story], grown men understand it, and old people applaud it. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.3,p. 464 History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.3,p. 465 Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.4, p. 468 There's no sauce in the world like hunger. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.5,p. 473 He casts a sheep's eye at the wench. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.5,p. 474 I ever loved to see everything upon the square. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.5,p. 475 Neither will I make myself anybody's laughingstock. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.5,p. 475 Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.6,p. 479 Presume to put in her oar. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.6,p. 480  The fair sex. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.6,p. 480 A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle. 1 2 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.7, p. 486 1 See Hesiod 2 See Chaucer Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady." Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.10,p. 501 Forewarned forearmed. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.10,p. 502  As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.10,p. 502  Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone? The very pink of courtesy. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.13,p. 521 I'll turn over a new leaf. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.13,p. 524 He's [Don Quixote's] a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals. 1 2 3 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.18, p. 556 1 See Bacon 2 See Dryden 3 See Heine Marriage is a noose. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.19, p. 564 There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.20,p. 574 He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.20,p. 575 Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.21, p. 580 A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.22,p. 582  There is no love lost, sir. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.22,p. 582 Come back sound, wind and limb. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.22,p. 587  Patience, and shuffle the cards. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.23,p. 592  Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.23,p. 594 Tomorrow will be a new day. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.26, p. 618 I can see with half an eye. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.29, p. 632 Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.32, p. 662  Honesty's the best policy. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.33, p. 666 An honest man's word is as good as his bond. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.34, p. 674 A blot in thy scutcheon to all futurity. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.35, p. 681 They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.37,p. 691  Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.37,p. 692 Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.38,p. 724 What a man has, so much he's sure of. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.38,p. 725 The pot calls the kettle black. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.38,p. 727  Mum's the word. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.44, p. 729 I shall be as secret as the grave. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.62, p. 862  Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.68, p. 898 The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.71, p. 917  I thought it working for a dead horse, because I am paid beforehand. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.71, p. 917 He . . . got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.72, p. 924 Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.73, p. 926  Ne'er look for birds of this year in the nests of the last. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.74,p. 933 There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.74,p. 934 For if he like a madman lived, At least he like a wise one died. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.74,p. 935 (Don Quixote's epitaph) Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. Miguel de Cervantes The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla) My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. 1 Miguel de Cervantes The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla) 1 See Byron Giordano Bruno 1548-1600 Time takes all and gives all. 1 Giordano Bruno The Candle Bearer [1582], dedication 1 See Eliot I who am in the night will move into the day. Giordano Bruno The Candle Bearer [1582], dedication It is Unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death. Giordano Bruno On the Infinite Universe and Worlds [1584],introductory epistle Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space. Giordano Bruno On the Infinite Universe and Worlds [1584],Fifth Dialogue There is in the universe neither center nor circumference. Giordano Bruno On the Infinite Universe and Worlds [1584],Fifth Dialogue Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth. Giordano Bruno The Heroic Enthusiasts [1585], pt. I, Fifth Dialogue Charles IX 1550-1574  Horses and poets should be fed, not overfed. Charles IX Saying William Camden 1551-1623 My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee. Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, and mercy found. William Camden Remains Concerning Britain. Epitaph for a man killed by falling from his horse Theodore Agrippa d' Aubigne 1552-1630 Each of us aspires to goodness, Each of us desires the good And desires it for himself. Theodore Agrippa d' Aubigne Pieces Epigrammatiques, 49  More exquisite than any other is the autumn rose. Theodore Agrippa d' Aubigne Les Tragiques. Les Feux Sir Edward Coke 1552-1634  Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason. Sir Edward Coke First Institute [1628] The gladsome light of jurisprudence. Sir Edward Coke First Institute [1628]epilogue  For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium. Sir Edward Coke Third Institute [1644] The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence as for his repose. Sir Edward Coke Semayne's Case. 5 Report 91 They [corporations] cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls. Sir Edward Coke Case of Sutton's Hospital. 10 Report 32 Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign. Sir Edward Coke Debate in the Commons [May 17, 1628] Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix. Sir Edward Coke Translation quoted by Coke. From The Pandects (Digest of Justinian). De in Ius Vocando Sir Walter Ralegh c. 1552-1618 Like to an hermit poor in place obscure, I mean to spend my days of endless doubt, To wail such woes as time cannot recure, Where none but Love shall ever find me out. Sir Walter Ralegh The Phoenix Nest [1593]. Sonnet As you came from the holy land Of Walsinghame, Met you not with my true Love By the way as you came? Sir Walter Ralegh As You Came from the Holy Land [c. 1599],st. 1 But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. Sir Walter Ralegh As You Came from the Holy Land [c. 1599],st. 11 If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. 1 Sir Walter Ralegh The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd (printed in England's Helicon) [1600], st. 1 1 See Donne Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. Sir Walter Ralegh Written on a windowpane Our passions are most like to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Sir Walter Ralegh Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen [c. 1599],st. 1 Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, Deserveth double pity. Sir Walter Ralegh Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen [c. 1599],st. 5 Go, Soul, the body's quest, Upon a thankless arrant: Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Sir Walter Ralegh The Lie (printed in Francis Davison, Poetical Rhapsody) [1608; manuscript copy traced to 1595], st. 1 Give me my scallop shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage And thus I'll take my pilgrimage. Sir Walter Ralegh Diaphantus [1604]. The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay. Sir Walter Ralegh Verses to Edmund Spenser Shall I, like a hermit, dwell On a rock or in a cell? Sir Walter Ralegh Poem What is our life? a play of passion, Our mirth the music of division, Our mothers' wombs the tiring houses be Where we are dressed for this short comedy. Sir Walter Ralegh From Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Motets [1612]. On the Life of Man [History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over. Sir Walter Ralegh History of the World [1614],preface Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. Sir Walter Ralegh History of the World [1614],preface O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet! Sir Walter Ralegh History of the World [1614],bk. V, pt. I, ch. 6, conclusion Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. And from which earth, and grave, and dust, The Lord shall raise me up, I trust. Sir Walter Ralegh A version of one of his earlier poems, found at his death in his Bible in the Gatehouse at Westminster Edmund Spenser 1552-1599 To kirk the nearer, from God more far, Has been an old-said saw. And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw. 1 Edmund Spenser The Shepherd's Calendar [1579]. July, l. 97 1 See Heywood Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralize my song. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],introduction, st. 1 A gentle knight was pricking on the plain. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.I, canto1,st. 1 A bold bad man. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.I, canto1,st. 37 Her angel's face As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.I, canto3, st. 4 Ay me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.I, canto8, st. 1 Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.I, canto9, st. 40 All for love, and nothing for reward. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.II, canto8, st. 2 Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time. 1 2 3 4 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.II, canto12, st. 75 1 See The Wisdom of Solomon 2:8 2 See Horace 3 See Ronsard 4 See Herrick Her birth was of the womb of morning dew. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto6,st. 3 Roses red and violets blue, And all the sweetest flowers, that in the forest grew. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto6,st. 6 All that in this delightful garden grows, Should happy be, and have immortal bliss. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto6,st. 41 That Squire of Dames. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto8, st. 44 And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto10, st. 60 How over that same door was likewise writ, Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold. 1 2 3 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto11, st. 54 1 See Danton 2 See Channing 3 See Patton Another iron door, on which was writ, Be not too bold. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto11, st. 54 Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.IV [1596], canto2, st. 32 For all that nature by her mother wit Could frame in earth. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.IV [1596], canto10, st. 21 Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.V, canto2, st. 43 Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have? 1 2 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VI, canto1, st. 42 1 See Matthew 5:7 2 See Pope The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed, As by his manners. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VI, canto3, st. 1 That here on earth is no sure happiness. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VI, canto11, st. 1 The ever-whirling wheel Of Change; the which all mortal things doth sway. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VII, canto6,st. 1 Wars and alarums unto nations wide. Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VII, canto6,st. 3 But times do change and move continually. 1 Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VII, canto6,st. 47 1 See Anonymous Latin For deeds do die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men do as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay. Edmund Spenser The Ruines of Time [1591], l. 400 Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow. Edmund Spenser Mother Hubberd's Tale [1591],l. 895 To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. Unhappy wight, born to disastrous end, That doth his life in so long tendance spend. Edmund Spenser Mother Hubberd's Tale [1591],l. 903 What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty. Edmund Spenser Muiopotmos; or, The Fate of the Butterfly [1591], l. 209 I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, and not my love to see. Edmund Spenser Daphnaida [1591], l. 407 Death slew not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies. Edmund Spenser An Epitaph upon Sir Philip Sidney [1591], l. 20 Though last not least. Edmund Spenser Colin Clouts Come Home Again [1595], l. 144 Tell her the joyous time will not be stayed Unlesse she do him by the forelock take. Edmund Spenser Amoretti [1595]. Sonnet 70 The woods shall to me answer, and my Echo ring. Edmund Spenser Epithalamion [1595],l. 18 Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? Edmund Spenser Epithalamion [1595],l. 278 For of the soul the body form doth take: For soul is form, and doth the body make. Edmund Spenser Hymn in Honor of Beauty [1596],l. 132 For all that fair is, is by nature good; 1 That is a sign to know the gentle blood. Edmund Spenser Hymn in Honor of Beauty [1596],l. 139 1 See Shakespeare Sweet Thames! run softly, till I end my Song. Edmund Spenser Prothalamion [1596], refrain I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. Edmund Spenser Lines on his promised pension. From Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England [1662] John Florio c. 1553-1625 England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. 1 John Florio Second Frutes [1591] 1 See Robert Burton Praise the sea; on shore remain. John Florio Second Frutes [1591] Henri IV , Henry of Navarre 1553-1610 I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. Henri IV , Henry of Navarre Attributed  Paris is well worth a Mass. Henri IV , Henry of Navarre Attributed  Let my white panache be your rallying point. Henri IV , Henry of Navarre Attributed battle cry  Hang yourself, brave Crillon; we fought at Arques and you were not there. Henri IV , Henry of Navarre Letter [1597]. From Lettres missives de Henri IV, Collection des Documents Inedits de l'Histoire de France, vol. IV [1847] The wisest fool in Christendom [James I of England]. Henri IV , Henry of Navarre Attributed George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal c. 1553-1623  Thai half said. Quhat say thai? Let thame say. George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal Family motto, Mitchell Tower, Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland [founded 1593] Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke 1554-1628 Oh wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound. Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke Mustapha [1609], V, 4 Fulke Greville, Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Councillor to King James, and Friend to Sir Philip Sidney. Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke Epitaph, on his monument in Warwick Richard Hooker c. 1554-1600 Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage-the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Richard Hooker Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity [1594], bk. 1 That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. Richard Hooker Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity [1594], bk. 1 John Lyly c. 1554-1606 Be valiant, but not too venturous. Let thy attire be comely, but not costly. John Lyly Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 39 The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. John Lyly Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 47  Delays breed dangers. John Lyly Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 65 It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study. John Lyly Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 80  Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. John Lyly Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 81 Let me stand to the main chance. 1 John Lyly Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 104 1 See Butler It is a world to see. John Lyly Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 116 A clear conscience is a sure card. John Lyly Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 207  Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark. John Lyly Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 229 A comely old man as busy as a bee. John Lyly Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 252 Maidens, be they never so foolish, yet being fair they are commonly fortunate. John Lyly Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 279 Your eyes are so sharp that you cannot only look through a millstone, but clean through the mind. John Lyly Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 289 I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweet tooth in his head. John Lyly Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 308  A rose is sweeter in the bud than full-blown. John Lyly Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 314 Cupid and my Campaspe played At cards for kisses: Cupid paid. John Lyly Alexander and Campaspe [1584], actIII, sc. v How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings. 1 John Lyly Alexander and Campaspe [1584], actV, sc. i 1 See Shakespeare Night hath a thousand eyes. John Lyly Maides Metamorphosis, III, 1  Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth. John Lyly Mother Bombie [1590], act IV, sc. i Sir Philip Sidney 1554-1586   High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy. Sir Philip Sidney The Arcadia [written 1580],bk.I  They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney The Arcadia [written 1580],bk.I My dear, my better half. Sir Philip Sidney The Arcadia [written 1580],bk.III My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven. Sir Philip Sidney The Arcadia [written 1580],Sonnet Ring out your bells! Let mourning shows be spread! For Love is dead. Sir Philip Sidney The Arcadia [written 1580],Song Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust, And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust: Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings. Sir Philip Sidney The Arcadia [written 1580],Sonnet Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. Sir Philip Sidney The Defense of Poesy [written c. 1580] He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. Sir Philip Sidney The Defense of Poesy [written c. 1580] I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. Sir Philip Sidney The Defense of Poesy [written c. 1580] "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write." Sir Philip Sidney Astrophel and Stella [1591] With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! Sir Philip Sidney Astrophel and Stella [1591] Have I caught my heav'nly jewel. Sir Philip Sidney Astrophel and Stella [1591]Second Song  Thy necessity is yet greater than mine. Sir Philip Sidney Said on the battlefield of Zutphen [September 22, 1586] on giving his water bottle to a dying soldier Francois de Malherbe 1555-1628  And a rose, she lived as roses do, the space of a morn. Francois de Malherbe Consolation a Monsieur du Perier [1599]  And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised. Francois de Malherbe Priere pour le roi Henri le Grand [1605] What Malherbe writes will endure forever. Francois de Malherbe Sonnet a Louis XIII [1624] ÿ Philip Nicolai 1556-1608 Wake, awake, for night is flying: The watchmen on the heights are crying. Philip Nicolai Hymn [1597] Thomas Kyd 1558-1594 What outcries call me from my naked bed? Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy [1594], actII, sc. v, l. 1 O eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; O world, no world, but mass of public wrongs, Confused and filled with murder and misdeeds. Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy [1594], actIII, sc. ii, l. 1 Hieronymo, beware: go by, go by. Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy [1594], actIII, sc. xii, l. 31 Why then I'll fit you, say no more. When I was young, I gave my mind And plied myself to fruitless poetry: Which though it profit the professor naught Yet it is passing pleasing to the world. Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy [1594], actIV, sc. ii, l. 70 Thomas Lodge c. 1558-1625 Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet. Thomas Lodge Rosalind [1590] Devils are not so black as they are painted. Thomas Lodge A Margarite of America [1596] George Peele c. 1558 - c. 1597 Fair and fair, and twice so fair, As fair as any may be. George Peele The Arraignment of Paris [1584] My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse: They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! George Peele The Arraignment of Paris [1584] His golden locks time hath to silver turned; O time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing. George Peele Polyhymnia [1590]. The Aged Man-at-Arms, st.1 His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' sonnets turned to holy psalms, A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are age his alms. George Peele Polyhymnia [1590]. The Aged Man-at-Arms, st.2 Chidiock Tichborne c. 1558-1586  My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain: The day is past, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done. Chidiock Tichborne Tichborne's Elegy [1586] George Chapman c. 1559-1634 Promise is most given when the least is said. George Chapman Hero and Leander [1598] Love calls to war; Sighs his alarms, Lips his swords are, The field his arms. George Chapman Hero and Leander [1598]Epithalamion Teratos, refrain Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. George Chapman All Fools [1605], act V, sc. i  Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. George Chapman Eastward Ho [1605], actI, sc. i Why, do nothing, be like a gentleman, be idle . . . Make ducks and drakes with shillings. George Chapman Eastward Ho [1605], actI, sc. i  Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here. George Chapman Eastward Ho [1605], actIII, sc. ii  I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf. George Chapman Eastward Ho [1605], actV, sc. i For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. 1 George Chapman Monsieur d'Olive [1606], act V, sc. i 1 See Shakespeare To put a girdle round about the world. 1 George Chapman Bussy d'Ambois [1607], actI, sc. i 1 See Shakespeare Speed his plow. George Chapman Bussy d'Ambois [1607], actI, sc. i So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live. George Chapman Bussy d'Ambois [1607], actI, sc. i Who to himself is law no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed. George Chapman Bussy d'Ambois [1607], actII, sc. i Be free, all worthy spirits, And stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. George Chapman The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron [1608], act III, sc. i Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. George Chapman The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron [1608], act III, sc. i Danger, the spur of all great minds. George Chapman The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois [1610], act V, sc. i We have watered our horses in Helicon. George Chapman May-Day [1611], act III, sc. iii Maximilien de Bethune , Duc de Sully 1559-1641  Tilling and grazing are the two breasts that feed France. Maximilien de Bethune , Duc de Sully Economies Royales, III Robert Greene c. 1560-1592 Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown. Robert Greene Farewell to Folly [1591],st. 1 A mind content both crown and kingdom is. Robert Greene Farewell to Folly [1591],st. 2  For there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, 1 supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. Robert Greene The Croatsworth of Wit [1592] 1 See Shakespeare Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time. Robert Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay [acted 1594], actIII Hell's broken loose. 1 Robert Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay [acted 1594], actIV 1 See Milton Francis Bacon 1561-1626  I have taken all knowledge to be my province. Francis Bacon Letter to Lord Burleigh [1592] The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. Francis Bacon Essex's Device [1595]  Knowledge is power [Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est]. Francis Bacon Meditationes Sacrae [1597]. De Haeresibus For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself. Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.I,i, 3 Time, which is the author of authors. Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.I,iv, 12 If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.I,v,8  Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves. Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.I,v,8 [Knowledge] is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.I,v,11 It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind. Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.II,iv, 2 They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.II,vii, 5 But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.II,xx, 8 We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.II,xxi, 9 All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion. Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.II,xxii, 14 There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms . . . this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried. Francis Bacon Novum Organum [1620] There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names-calling the first class, Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theater. Francis Bacon Novum Organum [1620]Aphorism39 The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. Francis Bacon Novum Organum [1620]Aphorism41 Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Francis Bacon Novum Organum [1620]Aphorism129 I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed. 1 Francis Bacon On being charged by Parliament with corruption in office [1621] 1 See Isaiah 36:6  Lucid intervals and happy pauses. Francis Bacon History of King Henry VII [1622], III  Nothing is terrible except fear itself. Francis Bacon De Augmentis Scientiarum, bk. II,Fortitudo [1623] Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress. Francis Bacon De Augmentis Scientiarum, bk. II,Antitheta Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon Apothegms [1624], no.36 Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones. Francis Bacon Apothegms [1624], no.54 Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner." Francis Bacon Apothegms [1624], no.76  Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things-old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Francis Bacon Apothegms [1624], no.97 Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends." Francis Bacon Apothegms [1624], no.206 Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new. Francis Bacon Apothegms [1624], no.247 My essays . . . come home to men's business and bosoms. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],dedication What is truth? said jesting Pilate, 1 and would not stay for an answer. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Truth 1 See John 18:38 No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Truth Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. 1 Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Death 1 See Lucretius Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Revenge It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired." Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Adversity Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Adversity Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Adversity Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Adversity  Virtue is like precious odors-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Adversity He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Marriage and Single Life Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Marriage and Single Life  A good name is like a precious ointment; it filleth all around about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Praise In charity there is no excess. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, 1 2 3 4 and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. 5 6 7 Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature 1 See Socrates 2 See Paine 3 See Garrison 4 See F. D. Roosevelt 5 See Romans 14:7 6 See Donne 7 See Quarles  The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Seditions and Troubles I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Atheism  A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Atheism Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Travel Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest. 1 Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Empire 1 See Shelley Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Delays Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Cunning Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others. 1 Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Wisdom for a Man's Self 1 See Shakespeare It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Wisdom for a Man's Self He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Innovations Cure the disease and kill the patient. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Friendship Riches are for spending. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Expense There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Regimen of Health Intermingle . . . jest with earnest. 1 2 3 4 Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Discourse 1 See Menander 2 See Horace 3 See Montaigne 4 See Linnaeus Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Nature in Men  If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Fortune Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. 1 2 3 4 5 Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Fortune 1 See Sallust 2 See Shakespeare 3 See Tennyson 4 See Henley 5 See Nehru Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Youth and Age Virtue is like a rich stone-best plain set. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Beauty There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Beauty  God Almighty first planted a garden. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Gardens  He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Studies Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Studies Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Studies The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions. 1 2 Francis Bacon Essays [1625],Of Vicissitude of Things 1 See Terence 2 See Sterne I bequeath my soul to God. . . . My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age. Francis Bacon From his will [1626] The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span. Francis Bacon The World [1629] Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust. 1 2 3 4 5 Francis Bacon The World [1629] 1 See Sophocles 2 See Catullus 3 See More 4 See Shakespeare 5 See Keats What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die? Francis Bacon The World [1629] Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. Francis Bacon Proposition touching amendment of laws Sir John Harington 1561-1612 Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 1 Sir John Harington Epigrams.Of Treason 1 See Seneca The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. Sir John Harington Epigrams.Of Writers Who Carp at Other Men's Books Robert Southwell c. 1561-1595 Times go by turns, and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse. Robert Southwell Times Go by Turns [c. 1595], st. 1 As I in hoary winter night stood shivering in the snow, Surprised was I with sudden heat which made my heart to glow; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near A pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear. Robert Southwell The Burning Babe [written c. 1595] With this he vanished out of sight, and swiftly shrunk away, And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas Day. Robert Southwell The Burning Babe [written c. 1595] Samuel Daniel 1562-1619 Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born. 1 2 3 4 Samuel Daniel Sonnets to Delia [1592] 1 See Homer 2 See Virgil 3 See Shakespeare 4 See Shelley Make me to say, when all my griefs are gone, "Happy the heart that sighed for such a one!" Samuel Daniel Sonnets to Delia [1592]Sonnet: I Must Not Grieve Let others sing of knights and paladins In aged accents and untimely words. Samuel Daniel Sonnets to Delia [1592]Sonnet: I Must Not Grieve These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age. Samuel Daniel Sonnets to Delia [1592]Sonnet: I Must Not Grieve And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world. Samuel Daniel Musophilus [1599],st. 97 This is the thing that I was born to do. Samuel Daniel Musophilus [1599],st. 100 Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! Samuel Daniel To the Countess of Cumberland [c. 1600], st. 12 Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing. Samuel Daniel Hymen's Triumph [1615] Lope de Vega 1562-1635 Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement. Lope de Vega Fuenteovejuna [c. 1613], act I,l. 381 Except for God, the King's our only lord. Lope de Vega Fuenteovejuna [c. 1613], act I,l. 1701 Michael Drayton 1563-1631 Fair stood the wind for France. Michael Drayton The Ballad of Agincourt [1606],st. 1 O, when shall Englishmen With such acts fill a pen, Or England breed again Such a King Harry? Michael Drayton The Ballad of Agincourt [1606],st. 15 Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part- Nay, I have done: you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. Michael Drayton Poems [1619]. Idea The coast was clear. Michael Drayton Nymphidia [1627] Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had. Michael Drayton Said of Marlowe. To Henry Reynolds, Of Poets and Poesy [1627] For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. Michael Drayton Said of Marlowe. To Henry Reynolds, Of Poets and Poesy [1627] Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 Philosophy is written in this grand book-I mean the universe-which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth. 1 Galileo Galilei Il Saggiatore [1623] 1 See Roger Bacon  But it does move! Galileo Galilei Attributed. From Abbe Irailh, Querelles litteraires [1761], vol. III, p. 49 Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. Galileo Galilei Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences [1638], Day 1 Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593 Our swords shall play the orators for us. Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine the Great [c. 1587], pt. I,l. 328 Accurst be he that first invented war. Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine the Great [c. 1587], pt. I,l. 664 Is it not passing brave to be a king, And ride in triumph through Persepolis? Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine the Great [c. 1587], pt. I,l. 758 Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous Architecture of the world: And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless Spheres, Will us to wear ourselves and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine the Great [c. 1587], pt. I,l. 869 Tamburlaine, the Scourge of God, must die. Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine the Great [c. 1587], pt. I,l. 4641 Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields. 1 2 Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [c. 1589] 1 See Ralegh 2 See Donne By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [c. 1589] And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies. Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [c. 1589] I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. 1 Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta [c. 1589],prologue 1 See Wilde Infinite riches in a little room. Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta [c. 1589],act I, sc.i Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta [c. 1589],act I, sc.ii Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; 1 that is, more knave than fool. Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta [c. 1589],II, sc. iii 1 See Matthew 10:16 Friar Barnadine: Thou hast committed- Barabas: Fornication-but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead. Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta [c. 1589],IV, sc. i My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay. Christopher Marlowe Edward II [1593], act I, sc. i Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? Christopher Marlowe Hero and Leander [1598] Like untuned golden strings all women are, Which long time lie untouched, will harshly jar. Vessels of brass oft handled brightly shine. Christopher Marlowe Hero and Leander [1598] Live and die in Aristotle's works. Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.i Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, Conspired against our God with Lucifer, And are forever damned with Lucifer. Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.iii Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss? Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.iii 1 See Virgil 2 See Marlowe 3 See Browne 4 See Milton 5 See Eliot 6 See Sartre 7 See Lowell Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.v 1 See Virgil 2 See Marlowe 3 See Browne 4 See Milton 5 See Eliot 6 See Sartre 7 See Lowell When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not Heaven. Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.v Have not I made blind Homer sing to me? Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.vi Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies! Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.vi Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.vi Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi O lente, lente currite noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. O, I'll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down? See, see where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul-half a drop: ah, my Christ! Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, And fall into the ocean-ne'er to be found. My God! my God! look not so fierce on me! Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi I'll burn my books! Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi Matthew Roydon c. 1564 - c. 1622 You knew-who knew not Astrophil? Matthew Roydon The Phoenix Nest [1593]; An Elegy, or Friend's Passion for His Astrophil (on the death of Sir Philip Sidney) A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books; I trow that countenance cannot lie. Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Matthew Roydon The Phoenix Nest [1593]; An Elegy, or Friend's Passion for His Astrophil (on the death of Sir Philip Sidney) Was never eye, did see that face, Was never ear, did hear that tongue, Was never mind, did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long, But eyes, and ears, and ev'ry thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught. Matthew Roydon The Phoenix Nest [1593]; An Elegy, or Friend's Passion for His Astrophil (on the death of Sir Philip Sidney) William Shakespeare 1564-1616  Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 1 Fight till the last gasp. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 127 Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days. 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 131 1 See Aristophanes Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 133 Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 55 Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye; I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 12 I'll note you in my book of memory. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 101 Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 29 Choked with ambition of the meaner sort. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 123 Delays have dangerous ends. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 33 Of all base passions, fear is most accursed. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 18 She's beautiful and therefore to be wooed, She is a woman, therefore to be won. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 78 For what is wedlock forced, but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 62 Whose large style Agrees not with the leanness of his purse. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 112 'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike, But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye. Rancor will out. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 141 Could I come near your beauty with my nails I'd set my ten commandments in your face. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 144 Blessed are the peacemakers on earth. 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 34 1 See Matthew 5:9 Now, God be praised, that to believing souls Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 66 God defend the right! William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 55 Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 1 Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 31 In thy face I see The map of honor, truth, and loyalty. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 202 What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 232 1 See Milton He dies, and makes no sign. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 29 Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. 1 Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 31 1 See Matthew 7:1 The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 1 Small things make base men proud. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 106 True nobility is exempt from fear. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 129  I will make it felony to drink small beer. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 75 The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 86 Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 88 Adam was a gardener. 1 2 3 4 5 William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 146 1 See Genesis 2:8 2 See Bacon 3 See Hamlet 4 See Tennyson 5 See Kipling Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 160 Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 35 Beggars mounted run their horse to death. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 127 O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide! 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 137 1 See Robert Greene To weep is to make less the depth of grief. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 85 The smallest worm will turn being trodden on. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 17 Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell? William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 45 Thou [Death] setter up and plucker down of kings. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 37 And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity? William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 22 My crown is in my heart, not on my head; Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: my crown is called content; A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 62 1 See Robert Greene 'Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 104 Like one that stands upon a promontory, And spies a far-off shore where he would tread, Wishing his foot were equal with his eye. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 135 Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 16 For how can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance? William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 69 Having nothing, nothing can he lose. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 152 Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 18 Let us be backed with God and with the seas Which he hath given for fence impregnable, And with their helps only defend ourselves: In them and in ourselves our safety lies. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 43 What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 57 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 39 For many men that stumble at the threshold Are well foretold that danger lurks within. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 11 A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: IV, Scene: viii, Line: 7 When the lion fawns upon the lamb, The lamb will never cease to follow him. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: IV, Scene: viii, Line: 49 What is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 27 Every cloud engenders not a storm. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 13 What though the mast be now blown overboard, The cable broke, the holding anchor lost, And half our sailors swallowed in the flood? Yet lives our pilot still. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 3 So part we sadly in this troublous world To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 7 Men ne'er spend their fury on a child. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 57 He's sudden if a thing comes in his head. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 86 Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: V, Scene: vi, Line: 11 This word "love," which greybeards call divine. William Shakespeare King Henry the Sixth, Part III [1591],Act: V, Scene: vi, Line: 81 Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 1 Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 9 He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 12 This weak piping time of peace. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 24 No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 71 Look, how my ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 204 Was ever woman in this humor wooed? Was ever woman in this humor won? William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 229 Framed in the prodigality of nature. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 245 The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. 1 William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 70 1 See Pope And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 336 Talkers are no good doers. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 351 O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 2 Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown: What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wracks; A thousand men that fishes gnaw upon. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 21 The kingdom of perpetual night. 1 2 3 4 5 William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 47 1 See Catullus 2 See Campion 3 See Jonson 4 See Herrick 5 See Fouche Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 76 A parlous boy. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 35 So wise so young, they say, do never live long. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 79 Off with his head! 1 2 William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 75 1 See Colley Cibber 2 See Lewis Carroll Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 98 I am not in the giving vein today. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 115 The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. 1 William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 38 1 See Luke 16:22 A grievous burden was thy birth to me; Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 168 An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 359 Harp not on that string. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 365 Relenting fool, and shallow changing woman! William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 432 Is the chair empty? is the sword unswayed? Is the king dead? the empire unpossessed? William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 470 Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 3 True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 23 The king's name is a tower of strength. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 12 Give me another horse! bind up my wounds! William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 178 O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 180 My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 194 By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 217 Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 310 A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 7 I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. I think there be six Richmonds in the field. William Shakespeare King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 9 The pleasing punishment that women bear. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 46 We may pity, though not pardon thee. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 97 Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 15  Every why hath a wherefore. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 45 There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 74 What he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 83 Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 26 There is something in the wind. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 69 We'll pluck a crow together. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 83 For slander lives upon succession, Forever housed where it gets possession. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 105 Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 10 Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 20 A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 37 Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 54 The venom clamors of a jealous woman Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 69 Unquiet meals make ill digestions. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 74 One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller, A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man. William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 238 Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 119 These words are razors to my wounded heart. William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 314 He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 390 These dreary dumps. William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 391 What you cannot as you would achieve, You must perforce accomplish as you may. William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 106 The eagle suffers little birds to sing. And is not careful what they mean thereby. William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 82 Tut! I have done a thousand dreadful things As willingly as one would kill a fly. William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 141 I'll not budge an inch. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: Induction, Scene: i, Line: 13 And if the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: Induction, Scene: i, Line: 124 No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 39 There's small choice in rotten apples. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 137 To seek their fortunes further than at home, Where small experience grows. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 51 Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 82 And do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 281 I must dance barefoot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 33 Asses are made to bear, and so are you. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 200 Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 318 Old fashions please me best. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 81 Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure. 1 William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 11 1 See Congreve Such an injury would vex a saint. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 28  A little pot and soon hot. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 6 It was the friar of orders gray As he forth walked on his way. 1 William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 148 1 See Anonymous Sits as one new-risen from a dream. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 189 This is a way to kill a wife with kindness. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 211 Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 41 Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor: For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honor peereth in the meanest habit. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 173 Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, And be it moon, or sun, or what you please: An if you please to call it a rush-candle, Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 12 He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 20 A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 143 Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 156 Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 145 Love is a spirit all compact of fire, Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 149 O! What a war of looks was then between them. William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 355 Like a red morn, that ever yet betokened Wrack to the seaman, tempest to the field. William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 453 The owl, night's herald. William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 531 Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 799 The text is old, the orator too green. William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 806 For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. 1 William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 1019 1 See Othello The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light. William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 1028 Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator. William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 29 This silent war of lilies and of roses, Which Tarquin viewed in her fair face's field. William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 71 Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less. William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 134 One for all, or all for one we gage. 1 William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 144 1 See Dumas Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 213 Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 230 All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth. William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 268 Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 939 For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 1006 To see sad sights moves more than hear them told. William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 1324 Cloud-kissing Ilion. William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 1370 Lucrece swears he did her wrong. William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 1462 Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 2 I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 23 Julia: They do not love that do not show their love. Lucetta: O! they love least that let men know their love. William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 31 Since maids, in modesty, say "No" to that Which they would have the profferer construe "Aye." William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 53 O! how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 84 O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, 1 or a weathercock on a steeple! William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 145 1 See Rabelais He makes sweet music with th' enamelled stones. William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 28 That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 104 Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 178 Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 72 Who is Silvia? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 40 Alas, how love can trifle with itself! William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 190 Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes. William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 12 How use doth breed a habit in a man! William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 1 Spite of cormorant devouring Time. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 4 Make us heirs of all eternity. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 7 Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain Which, with pain purchased doth inherit pain. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 72 Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 77 Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 84 At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's newfangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 105 And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 237 That unlettered small-knowing soul. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 251 A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 263 Affiction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 312 Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 194 Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 15 A man of sovereign parts he is esteemed; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 44 A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 66 Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 119 Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 1 Remuneration! O! that's the Latin word for three farthings. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 143 A very beadle to a humorous sigh. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 185 This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rimes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiters and malcontents. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 189 He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred of a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 25 Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 34 You two are book-men. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 35 These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 70 By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rime, and to be melancholy. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 13 The heavenly rhetoric of thine eye. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 60 Young blood doth not obey an old decree: We cannot cross the cause why we were born. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 217 For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 312 But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 327 It adds a precious seeing to the eye. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 333 As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, 1 strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 342 1 See Milton From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 350 He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 18 Moth: They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. Costard: O! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus; thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 39 In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 96 Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 407 Let me take you a button-hole lower. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 705 The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 715 A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 869 When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 902 When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick, the shepherd, blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-who; Tu-whit, tu-who-a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 920 When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 929 The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 938 A pair of star-crossed lovers. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],prologue, l. 6 Saint-seducing gold. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 220 One fire burns out another's burning, 1 One pain is lessened by another's anguish. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 47 1 See Chapman I will make thee think thy swan a crow. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 92 For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 37 We burn daylight. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 43 O! then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you! . . . She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 53 True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 97 For you and I are past our dancing days. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 35 It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 49 My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 142 Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim When King Cophetua loved the beggarmaid. 1 2 William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 13 1 See Tennyson 2 See Anonymous He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 1 She speaks, yet she says nothing. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 12 See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand: O! that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 23 O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 33 What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 43 For stony limits cannot hold love out. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 67 At lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 92 In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 98 I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 100 Romeo: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops- Juliet: O! swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 107 Do not swear at all; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 112 It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say it lightens. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 118 This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 121 Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books; But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 156 O! for a falconer's voice, To lure this tassel-gentle back again. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 158 How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears! William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 165 I would have thee gone; And yet no further than a wanton's bird, Who lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 176 Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 184 Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometime's by action dignified. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 21 Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 35 Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. 1 William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 94 1 See Chaucer One, two, and the third in your bosom. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 24 O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 41 The very pink of courtesy. 1 William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 63 1 See Cervantes A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 156 These violent delights have violent ends. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 9 Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; 1 2 Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 14 1 See Herrick 2 See Anonymous Here comes the lady: O! so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 16  Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 23  A word and a blow. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 44 No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 101 A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 112 O! I am Fortune's fool. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 142 Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, Towards Phoebus' lodging. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 1 When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 21 He was not born to shame: Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 91 Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man: Affiction is enamored of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 1 Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 54 Hang up philosophy! Unless philosophy can make a Juliet. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 56 The lark, the herald of the morn. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 6 Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 9 Villain and he be many miles asunder. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 82 Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 153 Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 198 Past hope, past cure, past help! William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 45 'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 6 Apothecary: My poverty, but not my will, consents. Romeo: I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 75 The strength Of twenty men. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 78 The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 39 Tempt not a desperate man. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 59 One writ with me in sour misfortune's book. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 82 How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 88 Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 94 O! here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 109 O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 119 See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 292 For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 309 The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 177 Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 182 We were not born to sue, but to command. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 196 The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 68 Truth hath a quiet breast. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 96 How long a time lies in one little word! William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 213 Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 236 Must I not serve a long apprenticehood To foreign passages, and in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief? William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 271 All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity. 1 Think not the king did banish thee, But thou the king. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 275 1 See Quintilian For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 292 O! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 294 Where'er I wander, boast of this I can, Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 308 The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 5 The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 12 Report of fashions in proud Italy, Whose manners still our tardy apish nation Limps after in base imitation. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 21 For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 34 This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Feared by their breed and famous by their birth. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 40 England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 61 That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 65 A lunatic lean-witted fool, Presuming on an ague's privilege. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 115 The ripest fruit first falls. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 154 Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 14 I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 46 Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 65 Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 87 The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 166 Things past redress are now with me past care. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 171 I see thy glory like a shooting star Fall to the base earth from the firmament. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 19 Eating the bitter bread of banishment. 1 William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 21 1 See Isaiah 30:20 Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 54 O! call back yesterday, bid time return. 1 William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 69 1 See Thomas Heywood The worst is death, and death will have his day. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 103 Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 144 And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been deposed, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed; All murdered: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 152 Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king! William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 169 He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 93 O! that I were as great As is my grief, or lesser than my name, Or that I could forget what I have been, Or not remember what I must be now. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 136 I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 147 And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 153 And there at Venice gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colors he had fought so long. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 97 Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 139 So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve, Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none. God save the king! Will no man say, amen? William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 170 Now is this golden crown like a deep well That owes two buckets filling one another; The emptier ever dancing in the air, The other down, unseen and full of water: That bucket down and full of tears am I, Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 184 You may my glories and my state depose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 192 Some of you with Pilate wash your hands, 1 Showing an outward pity. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 239 1 See Matthew 27:24 A mockery king of snow. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 260 As in a theater, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 23 How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 42 I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock; My thoughts are minutes. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 49 This music mads me: let it sound no more. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 61 Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high, Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die. William Shakespeare King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 112 To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 72 But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies, in single blessedness. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 76 For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 132 Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 144 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 234 The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 11 Masters, spread yourselves. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 16 This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 43 I'll speak in a monstrous little voice. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 55 I am slow of study. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 70 That would hang us, every mother's son. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 81 I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you as 'twere any nightingale. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 85 A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day; a most lovely, gentleman-like man. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 89 Over hill, over dale, 1 Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 2 1 See Gruber I must go seek some dew drops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 14 I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon, and make him smile When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, Neighing in likeness of a filly foal: And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 43 Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 60 Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 149 And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it, Love-in-idleness. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 163 I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes. 1 William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 175 1 See Chapman For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me? William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 224 I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania some time of the night, Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight; And there the snake throws her enamelled skin, Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 249 Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds, Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings, To make my small elves coats. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 3 The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots, and wonders At our quaint spirits. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 6 You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedge-hogs, be not seen; Newts, and blind-worms, do no wrong; Come not near our fairy queen. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 9 Night and silence! who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 70 As a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. 1 William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 137 1 See King Henry IV, Part I To bring in-God shield us!-a lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing, for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 32 A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanack; find out moonshine. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 55 Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 124 Lord, what fools these mortals be! 1 William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 115 1 See Seneca So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition; Two lovely berries molded on one stem. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 208 Though she be but little, she is fierce. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 325 I have a reasonable good ear in music: let us have the tongs and the bones. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 32 Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 36 I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 44 My Oberon! what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamored of an ass. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 82 I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 123 I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 211 The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, 1 man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 218 1 See I Corinthians 2:9 Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 44 The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 7 Very tragical mirth. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 57 The true beginning of our end. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 111 The best in this kind are but shadows. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 215 A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 232 All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 263 Well roared, Lion! William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 272 This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 295 With the help of a surgeon, he might yet recover, and prove an ass. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 318 No epilogue, I pray you, for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse. 1 2 William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 363 1 See Meurier 2 See King John The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 372 If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. William Shakespeare A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 54 Your mind is tossing on the ocean. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 8 My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 42 Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 51 You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 74 I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage, where every man must play a part, 1 And mine a sad one. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 77 1 See As You Like It Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 83 There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 88 I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark! William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 93 I do know of these, That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 95 Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 101 Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 114 In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way with more advised watch, To find the other forth, and by adventuring both, I oft found both. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 141 They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 5 Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 9 If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 13 The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 19 He doth nothing but talk of his horse. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 43 I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 51 God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 59 When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 93 I dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 118 My meaning in saying he is a good man is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 15 Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, land-thieves and water-thieves. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 22  Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 34 How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a Christian. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 42 If I can catch him once upon the hip, 1 2 I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 47 1 See Heywood 2 See The Merchant of Venice Cursed be my tribe, If I forgive him. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 52 The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 99 A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 102 For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 111 Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 124 I'll seal to such a bond, And say there is much kindness in the Jew. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 153 O father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 161 I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 180 Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 1 If Hercules and Lichas play at dice Which is the better man, the greater throw May turn by fortune from the weaker hand. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 32 O heavens! this is my true-begotten father. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 36 An honest, exceeding poor man. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 54 The very staff of my age, my very prop. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 71 It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 83 And the vile squealing of the wry-necked fife. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 30 Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down? William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 8 All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugged and embraced by the strumpet wind! How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weathered ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind! William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 12 But love is blind, 1 2 and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 36 1 See Chaucer 2 See A Midsummer-Night's Dream Must I hold a candle to my shames? William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 41 Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to show of dross. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 18 Young in limbs, in judgment old. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 71 My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats! Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter! A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats, Of double ducats, stol'n from me by my daughter! William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: viii, Line: 15 The fool multitude, that choose by show. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ix, Line: 26 I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitude. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ix, Line: 32 Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O! that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honor Were purchased by the merit of the wearer. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ix, Line: 39 Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ix, Line: 66 Let him look to his bond. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 49 I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 62 If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 65 The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 76 I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 130 There's something tells me, but it is not love, I would not lose you; and you know yourself, Hate counsels not in such a quality. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 4 Makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. 1 2 3 4 William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 44 1 See Plato 2 See King John 3 See Byron 4 See Anonymous Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 63 In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 75 There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 81 Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 97 The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 100 How all the other passions fleet to air, As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair, And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 108 An unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpracticed; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 160 Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 252 Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 6  Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 17 Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Some, that are mad if they behold a cat. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 47 A harmless necessary cat. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 55 Bassanio: Do all men kill the things they do not love? 1 Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 66 1 See Oscar Wilde What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 69 The weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 115 To hold opinion with Pythagoras That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 131  I never knew so young a body with so old a head. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 163 The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings, 1 But mercy is above this sceptered sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. 2 Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 184 1 See Measure for Measure 2 See Milton To do a great right, do a little wrong. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 216 A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 223 How much more elder art thou than thy looks! William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 251 Is it so nominated in the bond? William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 260 'Tis not in the bond. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 263 For herein Fortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom: it is still her use To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow An age of poverty. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 268 I have a daughter; Would any of the stock of Barabbas Had been her husband rather than a Christian! William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 296 An upright judge, a learned judge! William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 324 Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip. 1 2 William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 334 1 See Heywood 2 See The Merchant of Venice A Daniel, still say I; a second Daniel! I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 341 You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 376 He is well paid that is well satisfied. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 416 Lorenzo: The moon shines bright: in such a night as this . . . Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls, And sighed his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night. Jessica:In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, And ran dismayed away. Lorenzo:In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage. Jessica:In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did renew old Aeson. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 1 How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 54 I am never merry when I hear sweet music. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 69 The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 83 How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 1 2 William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 90 1 See Matthew 5:15 2 See William Bradford How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection! William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 107 This night methinks is but the daylight sick. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 124 A light wife doth make a heavy husband. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 130 These blessed candles of the night. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 220 For new-made honor doth forget men's names. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 187 Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 213 Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes here. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 70 For courage mounteth with occasion. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 82 The hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 137 A woman's will. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 194 Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 288 He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such a she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 437 'Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words Since I first called my brother's father dad. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 466 Mad world! mad kings! mad composition! William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 561 That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling Commodity, Commodity, the bias of the world. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 573 I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 68 Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 128 The sun's o'ercast with blood: fair day, adieu! Which is the side that I must go withal? I am with both: each army hath a hand; And in their rage, I having hold of both, They whirl asunder and dismember me. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 326 Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back. 1 William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 12 1 See Malory Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 17 Death, death: O, amiable lovely death! 1 William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 25 1 See Whitman Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 93 Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 1 Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 108 1 See Homer When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 1 William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 119 1 See Publilius Syrus A scepter snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained; And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 135 As quiet as a lamb. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 80 To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 11 And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. 1 2 William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 30 1 See Meurier 2 See A Midsummer-Night's Dream We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 82 There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 104 Make haste; the better foot before. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 170 Another lean unwashed artificer. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 201 How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done! William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 219 Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones! William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 10 I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way Among the thorns and dangers of this world. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 140 Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, And welcome home again discarded faith. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 11 The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of tomorrow. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 21 'Tis strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death. 1 2 3 4 William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 20 1 See Plato 2 See The Merchant of Venice 3 See Byron 4 See Anonymous Now my soul hath elbow-room. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 28 I do not ask you much: I beg cold comfort. 1 2 William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 41 1 See The Tempest 2 See William Bradford This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 112 Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. William Shakespeare King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 116 So shaken as we are, so wan with care. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 1 In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 24 Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 7 Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 29 A purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 38 Thy quips and thy quiddities. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 51 So far as my coin would stretch; and where it would not, I have used my credit. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 61 Old father antick the law. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 69 I am as melancholy as a gib cat, or a lugged bear. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 82 I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 92 O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 101 Now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 105 'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 116 There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 154 I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyoked humor of your idleness: Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wondered at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapors that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 217 You tread upon my patience. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 4 Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dressed, Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new-reaped, Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home. He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 33 And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by. He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corpse Betwixt the wind and his nobility. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 42 So pestered with a popinjay. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 50 God save the mark! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 56 And but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 63 To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 176 Or sink or swim. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 194 O! the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 197 By heaven methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 201 Why, what a candy deal of courtesy This fawning greyhound then did proffer me! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 251 I know a trick worth two of that. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 40 If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 20 I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 24 It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 104 Falstaff sweats to death And lards the lean earth as he walks along. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 119 Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 11 I could brain him with his lady's fan. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 26 Constant you are, But yet a woman: and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know; And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 113 A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 13 I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, "Fie upon this quiet life! I want work." William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 116 A plague of all cowards, I say. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 129 There live not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 146 You care not who sees your back: call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 168 I have peppered two of them. . . . I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face; call me horse. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 216 Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 267 Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 285 What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 328 A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 370 I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 429 That reverend vice, that gray iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 505 If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 524 Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 534 Play out the play. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 539 O, monstrous! but one half-penny-worth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 597 Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 27 I am not in the roll of common men. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 43 Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 53 I had rather be a kitten and cry mew, Than one of these same meter ballad mongers. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 128 Mincing poetry: 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 133 But in the way of bargain, mark you me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 138 A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 153 I understand thy kisses and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 204 Lady Percy: . . . Lie still, ye thief, and hear the lady sing in Welsh. Hotspur: I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 238 A good mouth-filling oath. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 258 They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 71 1 See A Midsummer-Night's Dream He was but as the cuckoo is in June, Heard, not regarded. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 75 My near'st and dearest enemy. 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 123 1 See Hamlet The end of life cancels all bands. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 157 An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 8 Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 10 I make as good use of it [Bardolph's face] as many a man doth of a Death's head, or a memento mori. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 32 I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 187 The very life-blood of our enterprise. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 28 Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 45 Baited like eagles having lately bathed . . . As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 99 I saw young Harry, with his beaver on. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 104 To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 109 Worse than the sun in March This praise doth nourish agues. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 111 Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 134 The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 32 To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 86 Greatness knows itself. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 74 I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 23 Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 28 Never yet did insurrection want Such water-colors to impaint his cause. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 79 I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 126 Honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if honor prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honor set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honor hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honor? a word. What is that word, honor? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. It is insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it: honor is a mere scutcheon; and so ends my catechism. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 131 Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 8 Let me tell the world. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 65 The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 81 Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 65 But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. O! I could prophesy, But that the earthy and cold hand of death Lies on my tongue. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 81 This earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 92 Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remembered in thy epitaph! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 100 I could have better spared a better man. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 104  The better part of valor is discretion. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 120 Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 132 Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 148 I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 168 Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, 1 2 3 4 Can play upon it. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Induction, l. 15 1 See Horace 2 See Machiavelli 3 See Coriolanus 4 See Pope Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burned. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 70 Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remembered knolling a departing friend. 1 2 William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 100 1 See Sophocles 2 See Antony and Cleopatra I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 10 1 See Samuel Foote A rascally yea-forsooth knave. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 40 You lie in your throat. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 97 Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 112 It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 139 I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 145 We that are in the vaward of our youth. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 201 Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 206 Every part about you blasted with antiquity. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 210 For my voice, I have lost it with hollaing and singing of anthems. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 215 It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 244 I were better to be eaten to death with rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 249 I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 267 1 See Rabelais Who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 27 A habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 89 Past and to come seem best; things present worst. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 108 A poor lone woman. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 37 Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 67 He hath eaten me out of house and home. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 82 Let the end try the man. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 52 Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 155 He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 21 And let the welkin roar. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 181 Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 283 O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 5 With all appliances and means to boot. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 29 Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 31 O God! that one might read the book of fate. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 45 There is a history in all men's lives. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 80 Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 41 Most forcible Feeble. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 181 We have heard the chimes at midnight. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 231 A man can die but once; we owe God a death. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 253 We see which way the stream of time doth run And are enforced from our most quiet sphere By the rough torrent of occasion. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 70 We ready are to try our fortunes To the last man. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 43 I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw, and overcame." 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 44 1 See Julius Caesar O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 22 See, sons, what things you are! How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 63 Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 91 Before thy hour be ripe. 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 95 1 See Blake Commit The oldest sins the newest kind of ways. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 124 His cares are now all ended. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 3 This is the English, not the Turkish court; Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds, But Harry Harry. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 47 I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 52 Master Shallow. I owe you a thousand pound. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth, Part II [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 78 O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Chorus,l. 1 Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Chorus,l. 12 Consideration like an angel came, And whipped the offending Adam out of him. 1 William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 28 1 See The Book of Common Prayer, English Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath been all in all his study. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 41 Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 45 Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavor in continual motion; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience: for so work the honeybees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 183 The singing masons building roofs of gold. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 198 Many things, having full reference To one consent, may work contrariously; As many arrows, loosed several ways, Fly to one mark; as many ways meet in one town; As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea; As many lines close in the dial's center; So may a thousand actions, once afoot, End in one purpose, and be all well borne Without defeat. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 205 'Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 271 Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: Chorus, Line: 1 O England! model to thy inward greatness, Like little body with a mighty heart, What mightst thou do, that honor would thee do, Were all thy children kind and natural! William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: Chorus, Line: 16 That's the humor of it. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 63 He's [Falstaff's] in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 11 As cold as any stone. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 26 Trust none; For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 53 Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 1 And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 21 I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: 1 Follow your spirit; and upon this charge Cry "God for Harry! England and Saint George!" William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 31 1 See Conan Doyle I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 14 Men of few words are the best men. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 40 He will maintain his argument as well as any military man in the world. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 89 I know the disciplines of wars. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 156 I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 161 We are in God's hand. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 181 That island of England breeds very valiant creatures: their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: vii, Line: 155 Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: vii, Line: 166 The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch: Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face: Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: Chorus, Line: 5 A little touch of Harry in the night. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: Chorus, Line: 47 There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 4 When blood is their argument. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 151 Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 189 What infinite heart's ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony? And what art thou, thou idol ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers? What are thy rents? what are thy comingsin? O ceremony! show me but thy worth. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 256 'Tis not the balm, the scepter and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world, No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 280 O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts; Possess them not with fear; take from them now The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers Pluck their hearts from them. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 309 But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 28 This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a-tiptoe when this day is named. And rouse him at the name of Crispian. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 40 We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 60 The saying is true, "The empty vessel makes the greatest sound." William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 72 There is occasions and causes why and wherefore 1 in all things. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 3 1 See The Comedy of Errors By this leek, I will most horribly revenge. I eat and eat, I swear. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 49 All hell shall stir for this. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 72 The naked, poor, and mangled Peace, Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 34 Grow like savages-as soldiers will, That nothing do but meditate on blood. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 59 For these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rime themselves into ladies' favors, they do always reason themselves out again. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 162 My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 246 O Kate! nice customs curtsy to great kings. William Shakespeare King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 291 He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 15 How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 28 A very valiant trencher-man. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 52 There's a skirmish of wit between them. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 64 He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 76 I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 79 What! my dear Lady Disdain, are you yet living? William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 123 Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 209 In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 271 Benedick the married man. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 278 I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 31 As merry as the day is long. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 52 Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 64 I have a good eye, uncle: I can see a church by daylight. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 86 Speak low, if you speak love. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 104 Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. 1 William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 184 1 See Longfellow She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 257 Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 319  It keeps on the windy side of care. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 328 There was a star danced, and under that was I born. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 351  I will tell you my drift. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 406 He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 19 Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore; To one thing constant never. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 65 Sits the wind in that corner? 1 William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 108 1 See Malory Bait the hook well: this fish will bite. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 121 Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No; the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 260 From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 9 He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 12 Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 28 Are you good men and true? William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 1 To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 14 If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 49  They that touch pitch will be defiled. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 61 The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 147 A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 36 O! what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 19 O! what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 35 For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 219 Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves, and it will go near to be thought so shortly. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 23 Flat burglary as ever was committed. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 54 Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 60 O that he were here to write me down an ass! William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 80 Patch griefs with proverbs. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 17 Charm ache with air, and agony with words. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 26 For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 35 Some of us will smart for it. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 108  What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 135 I was not born under a riming planet. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 40 The trumpet of his own virtues. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 91 Done to death by slanderous tongues. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 3 Fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 126 Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 59 The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 97 Well said: that was laid on with a trowel. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 113 Your heart's desires be with you! William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 214 One out of suits with fortune. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 263 My pride fell with my fortunes. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 269 Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 301 Heavenly Rosalind! William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 306 O, how full of briers is this working-day world! William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 12 Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 113 We'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 123 Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 2 Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 1 2 3 William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 12 1 See St. Bernard 2 See As You Like It 3 See Wordsworth The big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 38 "Poor deer," quoth he, "thou mak'st a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much." William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 47 Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 55 And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 43 Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 47 Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 52 Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 59 Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I: when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travelers must be content. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 16 If you remember'st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 34 We that are true lovers run into strange capers. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 53 Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 57 I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit, till I break my shins against it. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 59 Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 1 I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 12 Who doth ambition shun, And loves to live i' the sun, Seeking the food he eats, And pleased with what he gets. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 38 I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 12 And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking on it with lack-luster eye, Says, very wisely, "It is ten o'clock; Thus may we see," quoth he, "how the world wags." William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 20 And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 26 My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative, And I did laugh sans intermission An hour by his dial. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 30 Motley's the only wear. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 34 If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 37 I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 47 The "why" is plain as way to parish church. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 52 But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have looked on better days, If ever been where bells have knolled to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity, and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 109 True is it that we have seen better days. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 120 Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 132 All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 139 Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 174 These trees shall be my books. 1 2 3 William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 5 1 See St. Bernard 2 See As You Like It 3 See Wordsworth The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 10 It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 21 He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 25 I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 78 From the east to western Ind, No jewel is like Rosalind. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 94 This is the very false gallop of verses. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 120 Let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 170 O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful, wonderful! and yet again wonderful! and after that out of all whooping. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 202 Answer me in one word. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 238 Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 265 I do desire we may be better strangers. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 276 Jacques: What stature is she of? Orlando: Just as high as my heart. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 286 Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 328 Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 377 Everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 405 Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 16 The wounds invisible That love's keen arrows make. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 30 Down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 57 I am falser than vows made in wine. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 73 It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 16 I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 28 Farewell, Monsieur Traveler: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are; or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 35 I'll warrant him heart-whole. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 51 Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers lacking-God warn us!-matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 77 Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 110 Forever and a day. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 151 Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 153 My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 219 The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 17 Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 103 "So so" is good, very good, very excellent good: and yet it is not; it is but so so. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 30 The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 35 No sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 37 But, O! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 48 It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 18 Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 36  An ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 60 Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 62 "The retort courteous." . . . "the quip modest." . . . "the reply churlish." . . . "the reproof valiant" . . . "the countercheck quarrelsome." . . . "the lie circumstantial," and "the lie direct." William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 75 Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if." William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 108 He uses his folly like a stalking horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. William Shakespeare As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 112 If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor! William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 1 O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high fantastical. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 9 When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 61 I am sure care's an enemy to life. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 2 Let them hang themselves in their own straps. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 13 I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 92 Wherefore are these things hid? William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 135 Is it a world to hide virtues in? William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 142 God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 14 One draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 139 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 259 Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 289 Holla your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out, "Olivia!" William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 293 Farewell, fair cruelty. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 309 O mistress mine! where are you roaming? William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 42 Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 46 What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 50 He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 91 Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time, in you? 1 William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 100 1 See Acts 10:34 Sir Toby: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Clown: Yes, by Saint Anne; and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 124  My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 184 These most brisk and giddy-paced times. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 6 If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are: Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 15 Let still the woman take An elder than herself, so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 29 Then, let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent; For women are as roses, whose fair flower Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 36 The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 44 Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 51 Duke:And what's her history? Viola: A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 112 I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 122 Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 25 I may command where I adore. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 116 Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 159 Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 168 Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 44 This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 68 Music from the spheres. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 122 How apt the poor are to be proud. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 141 Then westward-ho! William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 148 O! what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 159 Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 170 You will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 30 Let there be gall enough in thy ink. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 54 Laugh yourselves into stitches. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 75 I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 31 This is very midsummer madness. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 62 More matter for a May morning. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 158 He's a very devil. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 304 Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 380 I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 390 As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, "That that is, is." William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 14 Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 388 When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day. William Shakespeare Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 404 A surgeon to old shoes. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 26 As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 27 Have you not made a universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks, To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores? William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 48 Beware the ides of March. 1 William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 18 1 See Julius Caesar Set honor in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 86 Well, honor is the subject of my story. I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not to be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 92 Stemming it with hearts of controversy. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 109 Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: 1 2 3 4 5 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 134 1 See Sallust 2 See Bacon 3 See Tennyson 4 See Henley 5 See Nehru Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, That he is grown so great? William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 148 Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; 1 He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 191 1 See Julius Caesar He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 200 Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 204 But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 288 Yesterday the bird of night did sit, Even at noonday, upon the marketplace, Hooting and shrieking. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 26 So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 101 O! he sits high in all the people's hearts: And that which would appear offense in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 157 The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins Remorse from power. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 18 'Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 21 Therefore think him as a serpent's egg Which, hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 32 Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 63 O conspiracy! Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, When evils are most free? William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 77 Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 173 But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 207 Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 230 You are my true and honorable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 288 Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded? William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 296 When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 30 Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 32 Antony, that revels long o' nights. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 116 How hard it is for women to keep counsel! William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 9 But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 60 Speak, hands, for me! William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 76 Et tu, Brute! 1 William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 77 1 See Julius Caesar Some to the common pulpits, and cry out, "Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement." William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 79 How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er, In states unborn and accents yet unknown! William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 111 O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure? William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 148 The choice and master spirits of this age. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 163 Though last, not least in love. 1 2 William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 189 1 See Spenser 2 See King Lear O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 254 Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 273 Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 13 Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 22 As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 27 If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 36 Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones. 1 William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 79 1 See Euripides For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 88 When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 97 O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 110 But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 124 If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 174 See what a rent the envious Casca made. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 180 This was the most unkindest cut of all. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 188 Great Caesar fell. O! what a fall was there, my countrymen; Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourished over us. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 194 What private griefs they have, alas! I know not. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 217 I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 220 For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 225 Put a tongue In every wound of Caesar, that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 232 When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 20 An itching palm. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 10 I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 27 I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, When you are waspish. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 49 There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 66 A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 85 All his faults observed, Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 96 There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 217 We must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 222 The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And nature must obey necessity. 1 William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 225 1 See Leonardo da Vinci But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 34 Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then, this parting was well made. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 117 O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 123 O Julius Caesar! thou art mighty yet! Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords In our own proper entrails. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 94 The last of all the Romans, fare thee well! William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 99 This was the noblest Roman of them all. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 68 His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" 1 William Shakespeare Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 73 1 See Hamlet For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 8 Not a mouse stirring. 1 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 10 1 See Clement Clarke Moore Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 42 But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 68 Whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 75 This sweaty haste Doth make the night joint-laborer with the day. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 77 In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 113 The moist star Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 118 And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 148 The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 150 Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 153 It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 157 But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 166 The memory be green. 1 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 2 1 See Thomas Moore With one auspicious and one dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 11 So much for him. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 25 A little more than kin, and less than kind. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 65 Thou know'st 'tis common; all that live must die, Passing through nature to eternity. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 72 Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 76 But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 85 To persever In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief: It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, A heart unfortified, a mind impatient. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 92 O! that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 129 Things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 136 So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 139 Why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 143 Frailty, thy name is woman! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 146 Like Niobe, all tears. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 149 A beast, that wants discourse of reason. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 150 It is not nor it cannot come to good. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 158 A truant disposition. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 169 Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I had met my dearest foe 1 in heaven Ere I had ever seen that day. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 180 1 See Henry IV, Part I In my mind's eye, Horatio. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 185 He was a man, take him for all in all, 1 I shall not look upon his like again. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 187 1 See Julius Caesar Season your admiration for a while. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 192 In the dead vast and middle of the night. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 198 Armed at points exactly, cap-a-pe. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 200 Distilled Almost to jelly with the act of fear. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 204 A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 231 While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 237 Hamlet: His beard was grizzled, no? Horatio: It was, as I have seen it in his life, A sable silvered. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 239 Give it an understanding, but no tongue. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 249 All is not well; I doubt some foul play. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 254 Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 256 The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon; Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes; The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 36 Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. 1 2 And recks not his own rede. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 47 1 See Bion 2 See Macbeth Give thy thoughts no tongue. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 59 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar; Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 61 Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, Bear 't that th' opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; 1 For the apparel oft proclaims the man. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 65 1 See Samuel Wesley Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. 1 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 75 1 See Bacon 'Tis in my memory locked, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 85 You speak like a green girl, Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 101 Springes to catch woodcocks. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 115 When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 116 Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 121 The air bites shrewdly. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 1 But to my mind-though I am native here And to the manner born-it is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 14 Angels and ministers of grace defend us! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 39 Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 42 What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 51 I do not set my life at a pin's fee. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 65 The dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 70 My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 81 Unhand me, gentlemen, By heaven! I'll make a ghost of him that lets me. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 84 Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 90 I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 15 And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 32 O my prophetic soul! My uncle! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 40 O Hamlet! what a falling-off was there. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 47 But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel linked, Will sate itself in a celestial bed, And prey on garbage. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 53 In the porches of mine ears. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 63 Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled, No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. 1 2 3 4 5 6 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 76 1 See Homer 2 See Horace 3 See Chaucer 4 See Milton 5 See Scott 6 See Byron Leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 86 The glowworm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 89 While memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 96 Within the book and volume of my brain. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 103 O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables-meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 106 There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark, But he's an arrant knave. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 123 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 166 To put an antic disposition on. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 172 Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 182 The time is out of joint; O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 188 Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 63 Ungartered, and down-gyved to his ankle. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 80 This is the very ecstasy of love. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 102 Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 90 More matter, with less art. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 95 That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 97 Find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 101 Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 115 Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 173 To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 179  Hamlet: For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion-Have you a daughter? Polonius: I have, my lord. Hamlet: Let her not walk i' the sun. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 183 Still harping on my daughter. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 190 Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 195 They have a plentiful lack of wit. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 204 Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 211 These tedious old fools! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 227 The indifferent children of the earth. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 235 Happy in that we are not over happy. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 236 There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 259 O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 263 Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 286 This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 317 And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 328 There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 392  I am but mad north-northwest: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 405 They say an old man is twice a child. 1 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 413 1 See Aristophanes One fair daughter and no more, The which he loved passing well. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 435 Come, give us a taste of your quality. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 460 The play, I remember, pleased not the million; 'twas caviare to the general. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 465 They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 555 Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? 1 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 561 1 See Montaigne O! what a rogue and peasant slave am I. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 584 What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 593 Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 607 But I am pigeon-livered, and lack gall To make oppression bitter. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 613 The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 641 With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 47 To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay. The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns, 1 2 puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; 3 And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 56 1 See The Song of the Harper 2 See Catullus 3 See Wilde Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 89 To the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 100 Get thee to a nunnery. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 124 What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth? We are arrant knaves, all. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 128 Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 142 I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 150 O! what a noble mind is here o'erthrown: The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 159 The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 162 Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 166 O! woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 169 Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the towncrier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and-as I may say-whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O! it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 1 Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 20 To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 25 I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 38 No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 65 A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 72 They are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee. Something too much of this. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 75 My imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 88 The chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed; you cannot feed capons so. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 98 Nav, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 138 There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 141 Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 148 Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 165 Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; When little fears grow great, great love grows there. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 183 Wormwood, wormwood. 1 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 193 1 See Lamentations of Jeremiah 3:19 The lady doth protest too much, methinks. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 242 Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 256 Why, let the stricken deer go weep, 1 The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 287 1 See Cowper You would pluck out the heart of my mystery. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 389 Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 393 Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale. 1 2 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 400 1 See Aristophanes 2 See Antony and Cleopatra They fool me to the top of my bent. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 408 By and by is easily said. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 411 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 413 I will speak daggers to her, but use none. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 421 O! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 36 Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do 't: and so he goes to heaven; And so I am revenged. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 73 With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 81 My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 97 How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 23 False as dicers' oaths. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 45 A rhapsody of words. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 48 See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill. A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 55 At your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 68 O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame When the compulsive ardor gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn, And reason panders will. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 82 A king of shreds and patches. 1 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 102 1 See W. S. Gilbert Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 145 Confess yourself to heaven; Repent what's past; avoid what is to come. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 149 For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 153 Assume a virtue, if you have it not. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 160 Refrain tonight; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 165 I must be cruel, only to be kind. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 178 For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 206 Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all. 1 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 9 1 See Hippocrates A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 29 We go to gain a little patch of ground, That hath in it no profit but the name. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 18 How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 32 Some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 40 Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 53 So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 19 How should I your true love know From another one? By his cockle hat and staff, And his sandal shoon. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 23 He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 29 We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 43 Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 72 When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 78 We have done but greenly, In hugger-mugger to inter him. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 84 There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would. 1 2 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 123 1 See Montaigne 2 See Tennyson There's rosemary, that's for remembrance . . . and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 174 O! you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 181 A very riband in the cap of youth. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 77 Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 188 There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. 1 2 3 4 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 32 1 See Genesis 2:8 2 See Bacon 3 See King Henry VI, Part II 4 See Kipling Cudgel thy brains no more about it. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 61 Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making? William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 71 Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 73 A politician . . . one that would circumvent God. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 84 Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 104 One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 145 How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 147 The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 150 Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come; make her laugh at that. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 201 To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole? William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 222 Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 235 Lay her i' the earth; And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! 1 2 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 260 1 See FitzGerald 2 See Tennyson A ministering angel shall my sister be. 1 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 263 1 See Sir Walter Scott Sweets to the sweet: farewell! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 265 I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, And not have strewed thy grave. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 267 Though I am not splenetive and rash Yet have I in me something dangerous. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 283 I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 291 Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 305 Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day. 1 2 William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 313 1 See Borrow 2 See Kingsley There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 10 I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 33 It did me yeoman's service. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 36  Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 232 A hit, a very palpable hit. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 295 This fell sergeant, death, Is strict in his arrest. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 350 Report me and my cause aright. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 353 I am more an antique Roman than a Dane. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 355 O God! Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 358 The rest is silence. William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 372 Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 373 O proud death! 1 What feast is toward in thine eternal cell? William Shakespeare Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 378 1 See Donne I will make a Star Chamber matter of it. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 2 She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 48 Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 65 I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 205 "Convey," the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase! William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 30 I am almost out at heels. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 32 Thou art the Mars of malcontents. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 111 Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 5 Dispense with trifles. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 47 Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 158 Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 2 This is the short and the long of it. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 62 Like a fair house built upon another man's ground. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 229 Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 332 I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 20 He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 71 O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 32 A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 106 I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 13  As good luck would have it. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 86 A man of my kidney. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 119 [He] curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 24 Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 110 This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. . . . There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. 1 2 William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 2 1 See Pliny the Elder 2 See Samuel Lover Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak. William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 10 Property was thus appalled, That the self was not the same; Single nature's double name Neither two nor one was called. William Shakespeare The Phoenix and the Turtle [1601],l. 37 Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together. William Shakespeare The Phoenix and the Turtle [1601],l. 41 The chance of war. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],prologue, l. 31 I have had my labor for my travail. 1 William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 73 1 See Cervantes Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 310 Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 313 The sea being smooth, How many shallow bauble boats dare sail Upon her patient breast. 1 William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 34 1 See Publilius Syrus The heavens themselves, the planets, and this center, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 85 O! when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. 1 William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 101 1 See Publilius Syrus Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 109 Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce a universal prey, And last eat up himself. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 119 Like a strutting player, whose conceit Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 'Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 153 And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come. 1 2 3 4 William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 343 1 See Cicero 2 See Thomas Campbell 3 See Shelley 4 See H. G. Wells Who wears his wit in his belly, and his guts in his head. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 78 Modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 15 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 56 He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 165 I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 17 Words pay no debts. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 56 To fear the worst oft cures the worse. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 77 All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 89 For to be wise, and love, Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 163 If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, When time is old and hath forgot itself, When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, And blind oblivion swallowed cities up. And mighty states characterless are grated To dusty nothing, yet let memory, From false to false, among false maids in love Upbraid my falsehood! when they have said "as false As air, as water, 1 wind, or sandy earth, As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf, Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son"; Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood, "As false as Cressid." William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 191 1 See Othello Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 145 Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 150 For honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 154 Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 168 Beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 171 And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 178 My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred; And I myself see not the bottom of it. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 314 You do as chapmen do, Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 75 As many farewells as be stars in heaven. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 44 And sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 95 The kiss you take is better than you give. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 38 Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 54 What's past and what's to come is strewed with husks And formless ruin of oblivion. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 165 The end crowns all, 1 2 3 4 5 And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 223 1 See Anonymous Latin 2 See Heywood 3 See All's Well That Ends Well 4 See Herrick 5 See Quarles Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 109 Hector is dead; there is no more to say. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: V, Scene: x, Line: 22 O world! world! world! thus is the poor agent despised. William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: V, Scene: x, Line: 36 Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 74 1 See  It were all one That I should love a bright particular star And think to wed it, he is so above me. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 97 The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 103 My friends were poor, but honest. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 203 Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 145 They say miracles are past. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 1 A young man married is a man that's marred. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 315 The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 83 There's place and means for every man alive. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 379 All's well that end's well: still the fine's the crown; Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. 1 2 3 4 5 William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 35 1 See Anonymous Latin 2 See Heywood 3 See Hamlet 4 See Herrick 5 See Quarles I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratched. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 28 Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 19 The inaudible and noiseless foot of time. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 41 Love that comes too late, Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 57 All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well [1601-1603], 1 Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 216 Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 35 Good counselors lack no clients. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 115 And liberty plucks justice by the nose. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 29 I hold you as a thing enskyed and sainted. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 34 A man whose blood Is very snow-broth; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 57 Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. 1 William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 78 1 See Macbeth We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 1 The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 19 Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 38 Great with child, and longing . . . for stewed prunes. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 94 This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 144 His face is the worst thing about him. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 167 Condemn the fault, and not the act of it? William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 37 No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. 1 William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 59 1 See The Merchant of Venice Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 73 The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 90 O! it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 107 But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 117 That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 130 It oft falls out, To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 118 The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 2 Be absolute for death. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 5 A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 8 Thou hast nor youth nor age; But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich, Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 32 The sense of death is most in apprehension, 1 And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 76 1 See Publilius Syrus If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in my arms. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 81 The cunning livery of hell. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 93 Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 116 The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 127 The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. 1 William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 182 1 See Spenser Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 214  There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 279 This news is old enough, yet it is every day's news. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 249 He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 283 O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 293 Take, O take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again; Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 1 Music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. 1 William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 16 1 See Congreve Every true man's apparel fits your thief. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 46 I am a kind of burr; I shall stick. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 193 We would, and we would not. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 37 A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 12 Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 45 Neither maid, widow, nor wife. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 173 Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure, Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 411 They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 440 What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. 1 William Shakespeare Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 539 1 See Plautus Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 14 A fellow almost damned in a fair wife. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 21 The bookish theoric. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 24 We cannot all be masters. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 43 And when he's old, cashiered. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 48 In following him, I follow but myself. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 58 But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 64 An old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 88 You are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 108 Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 117 Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 59 The wealthy curled darlings of our nation. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 68 The bloody book of law You shall yourself read in the bitter letter After your own sense. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 67 Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 81 Little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnished tale deliver Of my whole course of love. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 88 A maiden never bold; Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion Blushed at herself. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 94 Still questioned me the story of my life From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes That I have passed. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 129 Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 134 Hills whose heads touch heaven. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 141 And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 143 My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man; she thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 158 I do perceive here a divided duty. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 181 To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 204 The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 208 Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 324 Put money in thy purse. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 345 The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter at coloquintida. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 354 Framed to make women false. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 404 The enchafed flood. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 17 One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 63 You are pictures out of doors, Bells in your parlors, wildcats in your kitchens, Saints in your injuries, devils being offended, Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 109 For I am nothing if not critical. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 119 I am not merry, but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 122 She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 148 Iago: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer. 1 Desdemona: O most lame and impotent conclusion! William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 160 1 See King Henry VI, Part II You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 165 If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 192 Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 218 Egregiously an ass. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 321 I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 34 Potations pottle deep. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 57 Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 106 Silence that dreadful bell! it frights the isle From her propriety. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 177 But men are men; the best sometimes forget. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 243 Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter. 1 William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 249 1 See Cervantes Reputation, reputation, reputation! O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 264 Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 270 O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 285 O God! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 293 Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 315 Play the villain. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 345 How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 379 Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. 1 William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 99 1 See Venus and Adonis Men should be what they seem. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 126 Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 131 Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 155 O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But, O! what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly loves! William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 165 Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 172 Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 177 I humbly do beseech you of your pardon For too much loving you. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 212 If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 260 I am declined Into the vale of years. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 265 O curse of marriage! That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites. I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapor of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 268 Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 323 Not poppy, nor mandragora, 1 Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 331 1 See Antony and Cleopatra I swear 'tis better to be much abused Than but to know 't a little. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 337 He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know 't and he's not robbed at all. 1 William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 343 1 See Publilius Syrus O! now, forever Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamors counterfeit, Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone! William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 348 Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 361 No hinge nor loop To hang a doubt on. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 366 On horror's head horrors accumulate. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 371 Take note, take note, O world! To be direct and honest is not safe. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 378 But this denoted a foregone conclusion. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 429 Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics' tongues! William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 450 Like to the Pontick sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 454 Our new heraldry is hands not hearts. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 48 But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they are jealous; 'tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 158 'Tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many and be beguiled by one. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 97 They laugh that win. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 123 My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O! the world hath not a sweeter creature; she might lie by an emperor's side and command him tasks. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 190 O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 198 But yet the pity of it, Iago! O! Iago, the pity of it, Iago! William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 205 Is this the noble nature Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue The shot of accident nor dart of chance, Could neither graze nor pierce? William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 276 I understand a fury in your words, But not the words. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 31 Steeped me in poverty to the very lips. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 49 But, alas! to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow and moving finger at. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 52 Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 62 O thou weed! Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 66 O heaven! that such companions thou'dst unfold, And put in every honest hand a whip To lash the rascals naked through the world. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 141 Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 159 The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree, Sing all a green willow; 1 Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, Sing willow, willow, willow. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 41 1 See Heywood It makes us, or it mars us. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 4 Every way makes my gain. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 14 He hath a daily beauty in his life. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 19 This is the night That either makes me or fordoes me quite. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 128 And smooth as monumental alabaster. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 5 Put out the light, and then put out the light: If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 7 It is the very error of the moon; She comes more near the earth than she was wont, And makes men mad. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 107 She was as false as water. 1 William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 132 1 See Troilus and Cressida Curse his better angel from his side, And fall to reprobation. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 206 Here is my journey's end, here is my butt, And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 266 An honorable murderer, if you will; For naught I did in hate, but all in honor. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 293 I have done the state some service, and they know 't; No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then, must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their med'cinable gum. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 338 In Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him thus. William Shakespeare Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 354 My love's More richer than my tongue. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: 1, Line: 79 Now, our joy, Although our last, not least. 1 2 William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 84 1 See Spenser 2 See Julius Caesar Nothing will come of nothing. 1 William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 92 1 See Lucretius Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 96 Lear: So young, and so untender? Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 108 Come not between the dragon and his wrath. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 124 Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 166 I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 227 A still-soliciting eye. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 234 Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides; Who covers faults, at last shame them derides. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 282 The infirmity of his age. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 296 Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 11 We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 125 This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune-often the surfeit of our own behavior-we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 129 Edgar-[Enter Edgar] and pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy: my cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 149 That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 36 Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 125 Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 132 Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, Than the sea-monster. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 283 How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 312 Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 371 The son and heir of a mongrel bitch. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 23 I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 99 A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 164 Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel! William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 180 Hysterica passio! down, thou climbing sorrow! Thy element's below. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 57 That sir which serves and seeks for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack when it begins to rain, And leave thee in the storm. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 79 Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 149 Necessity's sharp pinch! William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 214 Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 267 Let not women's weapons, waterdrops, Stain my man's cheeks! William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 280 I have full cause of weeping, but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or e'er I'll weep. O fool! I shall go mad. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 287 Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man! William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 1 I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 16 A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 20 There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 35 I will be the pattern of all patience. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 37 I am a man More sinned against than sinning. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 59 The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 70 He that has and a little tiny wit, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain. Must make content with his fortunes fit, Though the rain it raineth every day. 1 William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 76 1 See Twelfth-Night O! that way madness lies; let me shun that. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 21 Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 28 Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 33 Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill: Halloo, halloo, loo, loo! William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 75 Out-paramoured the Turk. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 91 Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come; unbutton here. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 105 'Tis a naughty night to swim in. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 113 The green mantle of the standing pool. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 137 But mice and rats and such small deer Have been Tom's food for seven long year. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 142 The prince of darkness is a gentleman. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 147 Poor Tom's a-cold. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 151 Child Rowland to the dark tower came, His word was still, Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 185 He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 20 The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 65 Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts? William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 81 I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: vii, Line: 54 Out, vile jelly! William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: vii, Line: 83 The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 3 The worst is not, So long as we can say, "This is the worst." William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 27 As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 36 You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 30 She that herself will sliver and disbranch From her material sap, perforce must wither And come to deadly use. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 34 Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savor but themselves. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 38 Tigers, not daughters. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 39 It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 34 Our foster-nurse of nature is repose. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 12 How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice, and yond tall anchoring bark Diminished to her cock, her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 12 Nature's above art in that respect. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 87 Ay, every inch a king. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 110 The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 115 Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 133 A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 154 Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 169 Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 175 When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 187 Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill! William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 192 Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 36 Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 46 I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 60 Pray you now, forget and forgive. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 84 Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: Ripeness is all. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 9 Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a walled prison, packs and sets of great ones That ebb and flow by the moon. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 8 Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 20 The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 172 The wheel is come full circle. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 176 Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones: Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vaults should crack. She's gone forever. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 259 Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 274 And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! 1 2 Pray you, undo this button. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 307 1 See Pitt 2 See Churchill Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 315 The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long. William Shakespeare King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 325 First Witch: When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch: When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 1 Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 12 Banners flout the sky. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 50 A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munched, and munched, and munched: "Give me," quoth I: "Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed ronyon cries. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 4 Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 19 Dwindle, peak, and pine. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 23 So foul and fair a day I have not seen. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 38 If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 58 And to be king Stands not within the prospect of belief. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 73 The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 79 Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner? William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 84 And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's In deepest consequence. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 123 As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 128 I am Thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 134 If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 143 Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 146 Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd, As 'twere a careless trifle. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 7 There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 11 Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 16 The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 38 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, "Hold, hold!" William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 54 Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 63 Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 66 Duncan: This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. Banquo:This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vi, Line: 1 If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 1 This even-handed justice. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 10 Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued 1 against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 16 1 See Matthew 24:31 I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 32 Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 44 I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 46 Nor time nor place Did then adhere. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 51 I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 54 Macbeth: If we should fail- Lady Macbeth:We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 59 Memory, the warder of the brain. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 65 Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 81 The moon is down. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 2 There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 4 Merciful powers! Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 7 Shut up In measureless content. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 16 Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 33 Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead; and wicked dreams abuse The curtained sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 49 Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout. 1 2 William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 56 1 See Habakkuk 2:11 2 See Luke 19:40 The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 62 It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 4 The attempt and not the deed Confounds us. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 12 Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 14 I had most need of blessing, and "Amen" Stuck in my throat. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 33 Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!" the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 36 Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more! William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 43 Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 53 Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 61 The primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. 1 2 William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 22 1 See Bion 2 See Hamlet It [drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 34 The labor we delight in physics pain. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 56 Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence The life o' the building! William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 72 Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit. 1 2 3 4 William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 83 1 See Homer 2 See Virgil 3 See Daniel 4 See Shelley Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality, All is but toys; renown and grace is dead, The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 98 Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 115 In the great hand of God I stand, and thence Against the undivulged pretense I fight Of treasonous malice. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 137 To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 143 A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 12 I must become a borrower of the night For a dark hour or twain. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 27 To be thus is nothing; But to be safely thus. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 48 Murderer:We are men, my liege. Macbeth: Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 91 I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 108 So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend it or be rid on 't. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 112 Things without all remedy Should be without regard: what's done is done. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 11 We have scotched the snake, not killed it. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 13 Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 22 Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flown His cloistered flight, ere, to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 40 Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 46 Now spurs the lated traveler apace To gain the timely inn. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 6 But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 24 Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both! William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 38 Thou canst not say I did it: never shake Thy gory locks at me. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 50 The air-drawn dagger. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 62 I drink to the general joy of the whole table. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 89 What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger, Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 99 Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal Mockery, hence! William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 106 Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 119 It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood: Stones have been known to move and trees to speak. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 122 Macbeth:What is the night? Lady Macbeth: Almost at odds with morning, which is which. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 126 I am in blood Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 136 Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 10 Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 14 Finger of birth-strangled babe, Ditch-delivered by a drab. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 30 By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks! William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 44 How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags! William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 48 A deed without a name. 1 William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 49 1 See Ann Radcliffe Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 79 But yet I'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 83 Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 92 Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like shadows, so depart. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 110 What! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 117 The weird sisters. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 136 When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 3 He wants the natural touch. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 9 Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 22 Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 98 Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 209 All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What! all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop? William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 216 Malcolm: Dispute it like a man. Macbeth:I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were That were most precious to me. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 219 Out, damned spot! out, I say! William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 38 Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 40 Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 42 The Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now? William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 46 All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 56 Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love; now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 19 The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon Where gott'st thou that goose look? William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 11 Thou lily-livered boy. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 15 I have lived long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; 1 And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 22 1 See Byron Macbeth: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? Doctor:Therein the patient Must minister to himself. Macbeth: Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 40 I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 53 Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still, "They come"; our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 1 My fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in 't. I have supped full with horrors. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 11 She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 17 I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish the estate o' the world were now undone. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 49 Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 51 Why should I play the Roman fool, and die On mine own sword? William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 30 I bear a charmed life. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 41 And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 48 Live to be the show and gaze o' the time. William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 53 Lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!" William Shakespeare Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 62 You shall see in him The triple pillar of the world transformed Into a strumpet's fool. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 12 There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 15 Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 33 In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 11 I love long life better than figs. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 34 On the sudden A Roman thought hath struck him. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 90 Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows bent. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 35 O! my oblivion is a very Antony, And I am all forgotten. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 90 Give me to drink mandragora. 1 . . . That I might sleep out this great gap of time My Antony is away. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 4 1 See Othello O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony! William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 21 The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm And burgonet of men. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 23 Where's my serpent of old Nile? William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 25 A morsel for a monarch. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 31 My salad days, When I was green in judgment. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 73 We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 5 Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 24 No worse a husband than the best of men. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 135 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 199 Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety; other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies; for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 243 I have not kept my square; but that to come Shall all be done by the rule. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 6 Music, moody food Of us that trade in love. 1 William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 1 1 See Twelfth-Night Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news. 1 2 William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 85 1 See Sophocles 2 See King Henry IV, Part II Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne! William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 120 Ambition, The soldier's virtue. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 22 Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: vii, Line: 24 We have kissed away Kingdoms and provinces. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: viii, Line: 17 He wears the rose Of youth upon him. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: xi, Line: 20 Men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes, and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: xi, Line: 31 I found you as a morsel, cold upon Dead Caesar's trencher. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: xi, Line: 116 Let's have one other gaudy night. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: xi, Line: 182 Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: xi, Line: 194 To business that we love we rise betime, And go to 't with delight. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 20 O infinite virtue! com'st thou smiling from The world's great snare uncaught? William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: viii, Line: 17 The shirt of Nessus is upon me. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: x, Line: 56 Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapor sometime like a bear or lion, A towered citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't. 1 2 William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: xii, Line: 2 1 See Aristophanes 2 See Hamlet Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done, And we must sleep. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: xii, Line: 35 But I will be A bridegroom in my death, and run into 't As to a lover's bed. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: xii, Line: 99 O sun! Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in; dark-ling stand The varying shore o' the world. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: xiii, Line: 10 I am dying, Egypt, dying; only I here importune death awhile, until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: xiii, Line: 18 O! withered is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n; young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: xiii, Line: 64 Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make death proud to take us. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: xiii, Line: 87 And it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 4 His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm Crested the world; his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in 't, an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping; his delights Were dolphin-like, they showed his back above The element they lived in; in his livery Walked crowns and crownets, realms and islands were As plates dropped from his pocket. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 82 The bright day is done, And we are for the dark. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 192 Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' the posture of a whore. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 217 A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 274 I have Immortal longings in me. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 282 If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desired. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 296 Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep? William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 311 Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies A lass unparalleled. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 317 First Guard: . . . Charmian, is this well done? Charmian: It is well done, and fitting for a princess Descended of so many royal kings. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 327 As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace. William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 348 The gods sent not Corn for the rich men only. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 213 They threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' the moon, Shouting their emulation. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 218 All the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 93 Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 6 A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. 1 William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 52 1 See Lovelace My gracious silence, hail! William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 194 He himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude. 1 2 3 4 5 William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 18 1 See Horace 2 See Machiavelli 3 See King Henry IV, Part II 4 See Coriolanus 5 See Pope Bid them wash their faces, And keep their teeth clean. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 65 I thank you for your voices, thank you, Your most sweet voices. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 179 The mutable, rank-scented many. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 65 Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you His absolute "shall"? William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 88 What is the city but the people? 1 William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 198 1 See Sophocles His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder. 1 2 His heart's his mouth: What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 254 1 See Manilius 2 See Benjamin Franklin The beast With many heads butts me away. 1 2 3 4 5 William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 1 1 See Horace 2 See Machiavelli 3 See King Henry IV, Part II 4 See Coriolanus 5 See Pope O! a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! 1 William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 44 1 See Byron Chaste as the icicle That's curdied by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 65 He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 25 They'll give him death by inches. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 43 If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli: Alone I did it. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 114 Thou hast done a deed whereat valor will weep. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 135 He shall have a noble memory. William Shakespeare Coriolanus [1607-1608],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 155 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support him after. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 108 I call the gods to witness. 1 William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 138 1 See Deuteronomy 4:26 I wonder men dare trust themselves with men. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 45 Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, Honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 60 Immortal gods, I crave no pelf; I pray for no man but myself: Grant I may never prove so fond, To trust man on his oath or bond. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 64 Men shut their doors against a setting sun. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 152 Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 30 Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 3 You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 107 We have seen better days. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 27 O! the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 30 I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 53 Life's uncertain voyage. William Shakespeare Timon of Athens [1607-1608],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 207 See, where she comes appareled like the spring. William Shakespeare Pericles [1608-1609],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 12 Few love to hear the sins they love to act. William Shakespeare Pericles [1608-1609],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 92 The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy. William Shakespeare Pericles [1608-1609],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 2  Third Fisherman: . . . Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. First Fisherman: Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. William Shakespeare Pericles [1608-1609],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 29 Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 186 Hath his bellyful of fighting. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 24 Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, 1 His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With everything that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 22 1 See Lyly As chaste as unsunned snow. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 13 Some griefs are med'cinable. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 33 O! for a horse with wings! William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 49 The game is up. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 107 Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 35 I have not slept one wink. 1 2 William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 103 1 See Cervantes 2 See Pope Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 33 An angel! or, if not, An earthly paragon! William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 42 Society is no comfort To one not sociable. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 12 I wear not My dagger in my mouth. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 78 Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 258 Quiet consummation have; And renowned be thy grave! William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 280 Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 46 Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 264 From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die. William Shakespeare Sonnets [1609], 1, l. 1 When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field. William Shakespeare Sonnet 2, l. 1 Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. William Shakespeare Sonnet 3, l. 9 Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweet war not, joy delights in joy. William Shakespeare Sonnet 8, l. 1 Everything that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment. William Shakespeare Sonnet 15, l. 1 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. William Shakespeare Sonnet 18,l. 1 But thy eternal summer shall not fade. William Shakespeare Sonnet 18,l. 9 The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories, once foiled, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. William Shakespeare Sonnet 25, l. 9 When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries. William Shakespeare Sonnet 29, l. 1 Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee. William Shakespeare Sonnet 29,l. 7 For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. William Shakespeare Sonnet 29,l. 13 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear times' waste. William Shakespeare Sonnet 30,l. 1 But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end. William Shakespeare Sonnet 30,l. 13 Full many a glorious morning have I seen. William Shakespeare Sonnet 33, l. 1 Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. All men make faults. William Shakespeare Sonnet 35, l. 2 Be thou the tenth Muse. William Shakespeare Sonnet 38, l. 9 For nimble thought can jump both sea and land. William Shakespeare Sonnet 44, l. 7 Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass, And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye, When love, converted from the thing it was, Shall reasons find of settled gravity. William Shakespeare Sonnet 49, l. 5 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rime. William Shakespeare Sonnet 55, l. i. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. William Shakespeare Sonnet 60,l. 1 Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow. William Shakespeare Sonnet 60,l. 9 When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age. William Shakespeare Sonnet 64,l. 1 When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store. William Shakespeare Sonnet 64,l. 5 Tired with all these, for restful death I cry. William Shakespeare Sonnet 66,l. 1 And art made tongue-tied by authority. William Shakespeare Sonnet 66,l. 9 And simple truth miscalled simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill. William Shakespeare Sonnet 66,l. 11 No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell. William Shakespeare Sonnet 71, l. 1 That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, 1 Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. William Shakespeare Sonnet 73, l. 1 1 See Byron Clean starved for a look. William Shakespeare Sonnet 75, l. 10 Who is it that says most? which can say more Than this rich praise-that you alone are you? William Shakespeare Sonnet 84, l. 1 Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou know'st thy estimate. William Shakespeare Sonnet 87,l. 1 In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. William Shakespeare Sonnet 87,l. 14 Ah! do not, when my heart hath 'scaped this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquered woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purposed overthrow. William Shakespeare Sonnet 90, l. 5 They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow. William Shakespeare Sonnet 94,l. 1 They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die. William Shakespeare Sonnet 94,l. 7 Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. William Shakespeare Sonnet 94,l. 14 The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge. William Shakespeare Sonnet 95, l. 14 How like a winter hath my absence been. William Shakespeare Sonnet 97, l. 1 From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything. William Shakespeare Sonnet 98, l. 1 Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. William Shakespeare Sonnet 102, l. 12 To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. William Shakespeare Sonnet 104, l. 1 When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rime, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such a beauty as you master now. William Shakespeare Sonnet 106, l. 1 Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured, And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assured, And peace proclaims olives of endless age. William Shakespeare Sonnet 107, l. 1 O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seemed my flame to qualify. William Shakespeare Sonnet 109,l. 1 That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels, I return again. William Shakespeare Sonnet 109,l. 5 Alas! 'tis true I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offenses of affections new. William Shakespeare Sonnet 110, l. 1 My nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. William Shakespeare Sonnet 111, l. 6 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. William Shakespeare Sonnet 116 What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, Distilled from limbecks foul as hell within. William Shakespeare Sonnet 119,l. 1 O benefit of ill! William Shakespeare Sonnet 119,l. 9 And ruined love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. William Shakespeare Sonnet 119,l. 11 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be receives reproach of being. William Shakespeare Sonnet 121, l. 1 The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight; Past reason hunted; and no sooner had, Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof-and proved, a very woe; Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. William Shakespeare Sonnet 129 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. William Shakespeare Sonnet 130, l. 1 When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies. William Shakespeare Sonnet 138, l. 1 Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still. William Shakespeare Sonnet 144, l. 1 Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth. William Shakespeare Sonnet 146,l. 1 So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. William Shakespeare Sonnet 146,l. 13 Past cure I am, now Reason is past care, And frantic-mad with evermore unrest. William Shakespeare Sonnet 147,l. 9 For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. William Shakespeare Sonnet 147,l. 13 You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 18 Two lads that thought there was no more behind But such a day tomorrow as today, And to be boy eternal. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 63 We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' the sun, And bleat the one at the other: what we changed Was innocence for innocence. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 67 Paddling palms and pinching fingers. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 116 Affection! thy intention stabs the center: Thou dost make possible things not so held, Communicat'st with dreams. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 139 He makes a July's day short as December. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 169 A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 24 The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 41 It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in 't. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 115 I am a feather for each wind that blows. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 153 What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 223  Exit, pursued by a bear. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 57 This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 127 Then comes in the sweet o' the year. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 3 A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 26 For the life to come, I sleep out the thought of it. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 30 Jog on, jog on, the footpath way, And merrily hent the stile-a: A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 133 For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 74 Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 118 What you do Still betters what is done. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 135 When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 140 Lawn as white as driven snow. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 220 I love a ballad in print, a-life, for then we are sure they are true. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 262 The self-same sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 457 I'll queen it no inch further, But milk my ewes and weep. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 462 Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 586 Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 747 To purge melancholy. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 792 There's time enough for that. William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale [1610-1611],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 128 He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 33 Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 70 I would fain die a dry death. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 73 What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 49 By telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 100 Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 106 My library Was dukedom large enough. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 109 The very rats Instinctively have quit it. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 147 Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me, From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 166 From the still-vexed Bermoothes. 1 William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 229 1 See Richard Rich I [Ariel] will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 297 You taught me language; and my profit on 't Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid you, For learning me your language! William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 363 Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Curtsied when you have, and kissed- The wild waves whist- Foot it featly here and there. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 375 This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury, and my passion, With its sweet air. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 389 Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 394 The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 405 Lest too light winning Make the prize light. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 448 There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 454 He receives comfort like cold porridge. 1 2 William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 10 1 See King John 2 See William Bradford I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 154 What's past is prologue. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 261 Open-eyed Conspiracy His time doth take. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 309 A very ancient and fish-like smell. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 27 Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 42 I shall laugh myself to death. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 167 'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-Caliban, Has a new master-Get a new man. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 197 For several virtues Have I liked several women. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 42 Ferdinand: . . . Here's my hand. Miranda: And mine, with my heart in't. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 89 Moon-calf. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 25 Thou deboshed fish thou. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 30 Keep a good tongue in your head. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 41 Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; Thought is free. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 133 He that dies pays all debts. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 143 The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 146 A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 38 Do not give dalliance Too much the rein. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 51 Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 148 With foreheads villainous low. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 252 I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 54 Where the bee sucks, there suck I In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily: Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 88 O brave new world, That has such people in't! William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 183 Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that's gone. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 199 My ending is despair. William Shakespeare The Tempest [1611-1612],Epilogue, l. 15 No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 52 The force of his own merit makes his way. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 64 Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 140 If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 26 The mirror of all courtesy. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 53 Go with me, like good angels, to my end; And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me, Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, And lift my soul to heaven. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 75 This bold bad man. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 44 'Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glist'ring grief And wear a golden sorrow. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 19 I would not be a queen For all the world. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 45 Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 3 Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 99 'Tis well said again; And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 153 And then to breakfast with What appetite you have. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 203 I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 224 Press not a falling man too far. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 334 Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, 1 I hate ye: I feel my heart new opened. O! how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 352 1 See The Book of Common Prayer A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 380 A load would sink a navy. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 384 And sleep in dull cold marble. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 434 Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 441 Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues: be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell! Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 444 Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 456 An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 21 He gave his honors to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 29 So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 31 He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 33 Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. 1 2 3 4 5 William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 45 1 See Sophocles 2 See Catullus 3 See Sir Thomas More 4 See Bacon 5 See Keats He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading: Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; But, to those men that sought him sweet as summer. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 51 To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 30 Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 40 Whenever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, His honor and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 51 Some come to take their ease And sleep an act or two. William Shakespeare King Henry the Eighth [1613],Epilogue, l. 2 Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. William Shakespeare Shakespeare's epitaph John Davies, of Hereford c. 1565-1618 Beauty's but skin deep. John Davies, of Hereford A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Overburie's Wife [1616], VI Thomas Campion 1567-1620 My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. 1 2 3 4 Thomas Campion A Book of Airs [1601; with Philip Rosseter]. My Sweetest Lesbia, st. 1 1 See Catullus 2 See Jonson 3 See Herrick 4 See Fouche Never love unless you can Bear with all the faults of man. Thomas Campion Third Book of Airs [1617]. Never Love, st. 1 There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; A heavenly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow. There cherries grow which none may buy, Till "cherry-ripe" themselves do cry. Thomas Campion Fourth Book of Airs [1617].Cherry-Ripe,st. 1 Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row, 1 Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds filled with snow. Thomas Campion Fourth Book of Airs [1617].Cherry-Ripe,st. 2 1 See Herrick The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights. Thomas Campion Fourth Book of Airs [1617].Winter Nights, st. 2 Thomas Nashe 1567-1601 Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! Thomas Nashe Summer's Last Will and Testament [1600].Spring, st. 1 From winter, plague and pestilence, good Lord, deliver us! Thomas Nashe Summer's Last Will and Testament [1600].Autumn, refrain Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us! Thomas Nashe Summer's Last Will and Testament [1600].Adieu! Farewell Earth's Bliss! Tommaso Campanella 1568-1639 Now that they are called masters, [they] are ashamed again to become disciples. Tommaso Campanella The Defense of Galileo The new philosophy proceeds from the world, the book of God. Tommaso Campanella The Defense of Galileo Sir Henry Wotton 1568-1639 Love lodged in a woman's breast Is but a guest. Sir Henry Wotton A Woman's Heart [1651] How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Sir Henry Wotton The Character of a Happy Life [1614],st. 1 Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend. Sir Henry Wotton The Character of a Happy Life [1614],st. 5 Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. 1 2 Sir Henry Wotton The Character of a Happy Life [1614],st. 6 1 See II Corinthians 6:10 2 See Terence You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? Sir Henry Wotton On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia, st. 1 He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died. Sir Henry Wotton Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife [1651] Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to. Sir Henry Wotton The Disparity Between Buckingham and Essex [1651]  An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. Sir Henry Wotton Reliquiae Wottonianae [1651]  The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches. Sir Henry Wotton A Panegyric to King Charles [1651] Sir John Davies 1569-1626 I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall. Sir John Davies Nosce Teipsum [1599],st. 44 I know my life's a pain, and but a span; 1 2 I know my sense is mocked in ev'ry thing: And to conclude, I know myself a man, Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing. Sir John Davies Nosce Teipsum [1599],st. 45 1 See Bacon 2 See The New England Primer Johannes Kepler 1571-1630  So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things. Johannes Kepler Somnium [1634] Thomas Dekker 1572-1632 This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. Thomas Dekker Old Fortunatus [1600] Honest labor bears a lovely face. Thomas Dekker Patient Grissell [1603], act I, sc. i The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed. Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore,pt. I [1604] (in collaboration withThomas Middleton ), act I, sc. ii We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore,pt. II [1630], act I, sc. ii Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it. Thomas Dekker The Sun's Darling [1656] (in collaboration with John Ford) John Donne 1572-1631  I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den? John Donne The Good Morrow,st. 1 And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one. John Donne The Good Morrow,st. 2 My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest, Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp North, without declining West? John Donne The Good Morrow,st. 3 Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot. Teach me to hear mermaids singing. 1 John Donne Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star),st. 1 1 See T. S. Eliot And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair. John Donne Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star),st. 2 Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three. John Donne Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star),st. 3 I have done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid. John Donne The Undertaking,st. 1 But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes. John Donne The Undertaking,st. 4 And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She. John Donne The Undertaking,st. 5 Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? John Donne The Sun Rising,st. 1 Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. John Donne The Sun Rising,st. 1 She is all states, and all princes, I, Nothing else is. John Donne The Sun Rising,st. 3 For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love. John Donne The Canonization,st. 1 The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love. John Donne The Canonization,st. 3 As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs. John Donne The Canonization,st. 4 I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry. John Donne The Triple Fool,st. 1 Who are a little wise, the best fools be. John Donne The Triple Fool,st. 2 Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feigned deaths to die. John Donne Song (Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go),st. 1 Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today. John Donne Song (Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go),st. 2 But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep. John Donne Song (Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go),st. 5 When I died last, and dear, I die As often as from thee I go. John Donne The Legacy, st. 1 Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone. John Donne A Fever, st. 1 Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name. John Donne Air and Angels, st. 1 'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together. John Donne Break of Day, st. 1 All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day. John Donne The Anniversary, st. 1 Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee. John Donne The Message, st. 1 'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's. John Donne A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, being the shortest day,st. 1 The world's whole sap is sunk: The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk, Dead and interred; yet all these seem to laugh, Compared with me, who am their epitaph. John Donne A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, being the shortest day,st. 1 For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not. John Donne A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, being the shortest day,st. 2 Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. John Donne The Bait, st. 1 Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. John Donne A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,st. 4 Our two souls therefore which are one, 1 2 3 4 Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. John Donne A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,st. 6 1 See Aristotle 2 See Zeno 3 See Cicero 4 See Horace If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. John Donne A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,st. 7 Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread Our eyes, upon one double string; So to entergraft our hands, as yet Was all the means to make us one, And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation. John Donne The Extasy,l. 7 That subtle knot which makes us man: So must pure lovers' souls descend T' affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies. John Donne The Extasy,l. 64 Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. John Donne The Extasy,l. 71 I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born. John Donne Love's Deity,st. 1 To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love. John Donne Love's Deity,st. 3 Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution. John Donne The Funeral, st. 1 A bracelet of bright hair about the bone. John Donne The Relic, st. 1 Take heed of loving me. John Donne The Prohibition, st. 1 So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away. John Donne The Expiration, st. 1 Ah cannot we As well as cocks and lions jocund be, After such pleasures? John Donne Farewell to Love, st. 3 Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne Elegies, no.2, The Anagram, l. 27 Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love. John Donne Elegies, no.7, Nature's Lay Idiot,l. 1 The Alphabet Of flowers. John Donne Elegies, no.7, Nature's Lay Idiot,l. 9 She, and comparisons are odious. 1 John Donne Elegies, no.8, The Comparison, l. 54 1 See Fortescue No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. John Donne Elegies, no.9, The Autumnal, l. 1 The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety. John Donne Elegies, no.17, Variety, l. 1 Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick. John Donne Elegies, no.18, Love's Progress,l. 1 The Sestos and Abydos of her breasts Not of two lovers, but two loves the nests. John Donne Elegies, no.18, Love's Progress,l. 61 Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright. John Donne Elegies, no.19, To His Mistress Going to Bed,l. 24 O my America! my new-found land. John Donne Elegies, no.19, To His Mistress Going to Bed,l. 27 Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, To taste whole joys. John Donne Elegies, no.19, To His Mistress Going to Bed,l. 33 Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak. John Donne Verse Letter to Sir Henry Wotton, written before April 1598, l. 1 And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men confess that this world's spent, When in the planets, and the firmament They seek so many new; then see that this Is crumbled out again to his atomies. 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all relation: Prince, subject, Father, Son, are things forgot. John Donne An Anatomy of the World. The First Anniversary [first published 1611], l. 205 Her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought. John Donne Of the Progress of the Soul. The Second Anniversary [first published 1612], l. 244 I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite. John Donne Holy Sonnets, no.5, l. 1 At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls. John Donne Holy Sonnets, no.7,l. 1 All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain. John Donne Holy Sonnets, no.7,l. 6 If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be? John Donne Holy Sonnets, no.9, l. 1 Death be not proud, 1 though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. John Donne Holy Sonnets, no.10,l. 1 1 See Shakespeare Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men. John Donne Holy Sonnets, no.10,l. 9 One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; 1 death, thou shalt die. John Donne Holy Sonnets, no.10,l. 13 1 See Revelation 21:4 What if this present were the world's last night? John Donne Holy Sonnets, no.13, l. 1 Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend. John Donne Holy Sonnets, no.14, l. 1 Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear. John Donne Holy Sonnets, no.18, l. 1 Since I am coming to that holy room, Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore, I shall be made thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before. John Donne Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness [written c. 1623 or 1631],st. 1 Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed. John Donne Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness [written c. 1623 or 1631],st. 2 I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease. John Donne Devotions upon Emergent Occasions [1624], no.6 I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner. 1 John Donne Devotions upon Emergent Occasions [1624], no.12 1 See Browne The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. John Donne Devotions upon Emergent Occasions [1624], no.12 No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, 1 2 3 a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne Devotions upon Emergent Occasions [1624], no.17 1 See Romans 14:7 2 See Bacon 3 See Quarles What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God? John Donne LXXX Sermons [1640], no.76, preached to the Earl of Carlisle, c. autumn 1622 Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons. John Donne LXXX Sermons [1640], no.3, preached on Christmas Day, 1625 I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. John Donne LXXX Sermons [1640], no.80, preached at the funeral of Sir William Cokayne, December 12, 1626 And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet? John Donne LXXX Sermons [1640], no.54, preached to the King at Whitehall, April 5, 1628 Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul! John Donne LXXX Sermons [1640], no.48, preached upon the Day of St. Paul's Conversion, January 25, 1629 When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, 1 when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust. John Donne XXVI Sermons [1661], no. 26, Death's Duel, last sermon, February 15, 1631 1 See Job 24:20 Ben Jonson c. 1573-1637  As sure as death. Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour [1598], actII, sc. i As he brews, so shall he drink. Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour [1598], actII, sc. i It must be done like lightning. Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour [1598], actIV, sc. 5 Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. Ben Jonson Every Man out of His Humour [1599], actI, sc. i There shall be no love lost. Ben Jonson Every Man out of His Humour [1599], actII, sc. i True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. Ben Jonson Cynthia's Revels [1600], actIII, sc. ii Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright. Ben Jonson Cynthia's Revels [1600], actV, sc. iii That old bald cheater, Time. Ben Jonson The Poetaster [1601], act I, sc. i Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer. Ben Jonson Sejanus [1603], act I Calumnies are answered best with silence. Ben Jonson Volpone [1606], act II, sc. ii Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. 1 2 3 4 5 Ben Jonson Song, To Celia [1607] 1 See Catullus 2 See Shakespeare 3 See Campion 4 See Herrick 5 See Fouche Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast. Ben Jonson Epicene; or, The Silent Woman [1609], act I, sc. i Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. 1 Ben Jonson Epicene; or, The Silent Woman [1609], act I, sc. i 1 See Herrick The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. Ben Jonson Catiline's Conspiracy [1611], act III, sc. ii Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne'er so much. Ben Jonson On Truth [1616], st. 1 Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression. Ben Jonson The Masque of Hymen [1616] Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy! My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy. Ben Jonson Epigrams [1616].On My First Son [written c. 1603] Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry: For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much. Ben Jonson Epigrams [1616].On My First Son [written c. 1603] Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbor give To more virtue than doth live. Ben Jonson Epigrams [1616].Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H-- Follow a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to fly it, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Ben Jonson The Forest [1616].Follow a Shadow, st. 1 Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice-almighty gold. Ben Jonson The Forest [1616].Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. Ben Jonson The Forest [1616].To Celia,st. 1 I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honoring thee As giving it a hope that there It could not withered be. But thou thereon didst only breathe, And sent'st it back to me; Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. Ben Jonson The Forest [1616].To Celia,st. 2 Reader, look, Not at his picture, but his book. Ben Jonson On the portrait of Shakespeare prefixed to the First Folio [1623] Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. 1 Ben Jonson To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare [1623] 1 See William Basse Marlowe's mighty line. Ben Jonson To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare [1623] And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek. Ben Jonson To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare [1623] Call forth thundering Aeschylus. Ben Jonson To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare [1623] He was not of an age but for all time. 1 Ben Jonson To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare [1623] 1 See Robert Whittinton Who casts to write a living line, must sweat. Ben Jonson To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare [1623] For a good poet's made, as well as born. 1 Ben Jonson To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare [1623] 1 See Florus Sweet Swan of Avon! Ben Jonson To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare [1623] Those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink. Ben Jonson Underwoods [1640].An Epistle, Answering to One That Asked to Be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson Underwoods [1640].To the Immortal Memory of Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry Morison The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand." Ben Jonson Timber; or, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter [1640] I loved the man [Shakespeare] and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. Ben Jonson Timber; or, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter [1640] Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first. Ben Jonson Timber; or, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter [1640] Though the most be players, some must be spectators. Ben Jonson Timber; or, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter [1640] Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Ben Jonson Timber; or, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter [1640] Richard Barnfield 1574-1627 The waters were his winding sheet, the sea was made for his tomb; Yet for his fame the ocean sea, was not sufficient room. Richard Barnfield Epitaph on Hawkins [1595] As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made. Richard Barnfield Poems:In Divers Humours [1598]. Ode King Pandion, he is dead, All thy friends are lapped in lead. Richard Barnfield Poems:In Divers Humours [1598]. Ode Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want. Richard Barnfield Poems:In Divers Humours [1598]. Ode If music and sweet poetry agree. Richard Barnfield Poems:To His Friend, Mr. R. L. Joseph Hall 1574-1656 So little in his purse, so much upon his back. Joseph Hall Portrait of a Poor Gallant 'Mongst all these stirs of discontented strife, O, let me lead an academic life; To know much, and to think for nothing, know Nothing to have, yet think we have enow. Joseph Hall Discontent of Men with Their Condition Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. 1 2 3 Joseph Hall Epistles [1608-1611]. Decade III, epistle 2 1 See The Wisdom of Solomon 5:13 2 See Nabokov 3 See Beckett There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be. 1 Joseph Hall Contemplations [c. 1630], bk. IV, The Veil of Moses 1 See Thomas Gray Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. Joseph Hall Christian Moderation [1640], introduction Thomas Heywood c. 1574 - c. 1641 Within the red-leaved table of my heart. Thomas Heywood A Woman Killed with Kindness [1607], actII, sc. iii I will walk on eggs. Thomas Heywood A Woman Killed with Kindness [1607], actIV, sc. vi O God! O God! that it were possible To undo things done; to call back yesterday! 1 That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days, and to redeem these hours. Thomas Heywood A Woman Killed with Kindness [1607], actIV, sc. vi 1 See Shakespeare Pack clouds away, and welcome day, With night we banish sorrow. Thomas Heywood Pack Clouds Away [1630], st. 1 I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom. Thomas Heywood Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels [1635] Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roof to shroud his head. Thomas Heywood Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels [1635] John Marston c. 1575 - c. 1634 Oblivioni sacrum [Sacred to oblivion]. John Marston Epitaph Henry Peacham c. 1576 - c. 1643 Affect not as some do that bookish ambition to be stored with books and have well-furnished libraries, yet keep their heads empty of knowledge; to desire to have many books, and never to use them, is like a child that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping. Henry Peacham The Compleat Gentleman [1622] Robert Burton 1577-1640 All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].The Author's Abstract  I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].Democritus to the Reader They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. 1 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].Democritus to the Reader 1 See Shakespeare We can say nothing but what hath been said. 1 2 3 Our poets steal from Homer. . . . Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].Democritus to the Reader 1 See Ecclesiastes 1:9 2 See Terence 3 See La Bruyere I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. 1 2 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].Democritus to the Reader 1 See Lucan 2 See Newton  It is most true, stilus virum arguit-our style betrays us. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].Democritus to the Reader Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. 1 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].Democritus to the Reader 1 See Pope Penny wise, pound foolish. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].Democritus to the Reader Women wear the breeches . . . in a word, the world turned upside downward. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].Democritus to the Reader Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].Democritus to the Reader All poets are mad. 1 2 3 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].Democritus to the Reader 1 See Democritus 2 See Wordsworth 3 See Robert Lowell Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 1, subsec. 2 That which Pythagoras said to his scholars of old, may be forever applied to melancholy men, A fabis abstinete, eat no beans. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 2,subsec. 1 Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 2,subsec. 2  No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 2,subsec. 3 Idleness is an appendix to nobility. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 2,subsec. 6 Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 3,subsec. 2 They do not live but linger. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 3,subsec. 10 [Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin [St. Augustine], still going round as in a ring. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 3,subsec. 11 [The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors. 1 2 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 3,subsec. 12 1 See Bion 2 See Ingersoll Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 3,subsec. 12 A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich. 1 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 3,subsec. 12 1 See Samuel Johnson I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 3,subsec. 13  All our geese are swans. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 3,subsec. 14 They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud. 1 2 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 3,subsec. 14 1 See Coleridge 2 See Southey We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 3,subsec. 15  Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 4,subsec. 4  See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 4,subsec. 7 One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 2,member 4,subsec. 7 Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. I,sec. 3,member 1, subsec. 3 Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. II,sec. 2,member 1, subsec. 1 Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. II,sec. 2,member 2 As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?" Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. II,sec. 2,member 2 Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. II,sec. 2,member 3  Many things happen between the cup and the lip. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. II,sec. 2,member 3 All places are distant from heaven alike. 1 2 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. II,sec. 2,member 4 1 See Gilbert 2 See Fields The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war." 1 2 3 4 5 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. II,sec. 2,member 6 1 See Aristotle 2 See Vegetius 3 See Fenelon 4 See Washington 5 See Lowell Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. II,sec. 2,member 6 Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases . . . but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. II,sec. 4, member 2, subsec. 2 "Let me not live," said Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play." Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 1,member 1,subsec. 1  Birds of a feather will gather together. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 1,member 1,subsec. 2  No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 2,member 1,subsec. 2  To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 2,member 1,subsec. 2 [Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels." Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 2,member 1,subsec. 2 Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 2,member 1,subsec. 5 England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes. 1 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 3, member 1, subsec. 2 1 See Florio For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 4,member 1, subsec. 2  The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 4,member 1, subsec. 2 One religion is as true as another. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 4,member 2,subsec. 1 Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 4,member 2,subsec. 3 A good conscience is a continual feast. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 4,member 2,subsec. 3 Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses . . . grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 4,member 2,subsec. 3 What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 4,member 2,subsec. 5 Be not solitary, be not idle. 1 Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy [1621-1651].pt. III,sec. 4,member 2,subsec. 6 1 See Johnson William Harvey 1578-1657 The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm. William Harvey De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis [1628],dedication to King Charles All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown. William Harvey De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis [1628],dedication to Dr. Argent and Other Learned Physicians I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature. William Harvey De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis [1628],dedication to Dr. Argent and Other Learned Physicians I avow myself the partisan of truth alone. William Harvey De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis [1628],dedication to Dr. Argent and Other Learned Physicians As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known. William Harvey De Generatione Animalium (On the Generation of Animals) [1651], introduction I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge. William Harvey De Generatione Animalium (On the Generation of Animals) [1651], introduction John Fletcher 1579-1625 Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do 't tomorrow. John Fletcher Rollo, Duke of Normandy [1639] (in collaboration withJonson and others), actII, sc. ii And he that will to bed go sober Falls with the leaf in October. John Fletcher Rollo, Duke of Normandy [1639] (in collaboration withJonson and others), actII, sc. ii Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we. As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallows tree. John Fletcher Rollo, Duke of Normandy [1639] (in collaboration withJonson and others), actIII, sc. iii O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil! John Fletcher Monsieur Thomas [1639], act III, sc. i Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. John Fletcher The Honest Man's Fortune [1647] (in collaboration with three other authors), epilogue That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man. 1 2 John Fletcher The Honest Man's Fortune [1647] (in collaboration with three other authors), epilogue 1 See Pope 2 See Burns Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again. John Fletcher The Queen of Corinth [1647] (in collaboration withMassinger and a third author), act III, sc. ii Of all the paths lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest. John Fletcher The Knight of Malta [1647] (in collaboration withMassinger ), act I, sc. i Go to grass. John Fletcher The Little French Lawyer [1647] (in collaboration withMassinger ), act IV, sc. vii There is no jesting with edge tools. John Fletcher The Little French Lawyer [1647] (in collaboration withMassinger ), act IV, sc. vii Let's meet, and either do or die. John Fletcher The Island Princess [1647], act II, sc. iv Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy! John Fletcher The Nice Valor [1647].Melancholy Thomas Middleton 1580-1627  Better the day, better the deed. Thomas Middleton Michaelmas Term [1607], actIII, sc.i  Since the worst comes to the worst. Thomas Middleton Michaelmas Term [1607], actIII, sc.iv  What is got over the Devil's back (that's by knavery), is spent under the belly (that's by lechery). Thomas Middleton Michaelmas Term [1607], actIV, sc. i As true as I live. Thomas Middleton The Family of Love [1608], actV, sc.iii  Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering? Thomas Middleton The Family of Love [1608], actV, sc.v  By my faith the fool has feathered his nest well. Thomas Middleton The Roaring Girl [1611], act I, sc. i  That disease of which all old men sicken-avarice. Thomas Middleton The Roaring Girl [1611], act I, sc. i Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes. Thomas Middleton The Roaring Girl [1611], act I, sc. i As the case stands. Thomas Middleton The Old Law [1656], actII, sc. i On his last legs. Thomas Middleton The Old Law [1656], actV, sc. i As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet. Thomas Middleton More Dissemblers Besides Women [1657], actI, sc. iv 'Tis a stinger. Thomas Middleton More Dissemblers Besides Women [1657], actIII, sc. ii How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days! Thomas Middleton No Wit, No Help, Like a Woman's [1657], actII, sc. i By many a happy accident. Thomas Middleton No Wit, No Help, Like a Woman's [1657], actIV, sc. i Anything for a Quiet Life. Thomas Middleton Title of play [1662] This was a good week's labor. Thomas Middleton Anything for a Quiet Life, act V, sc. iii There's no hate lost between us. Thomas Middleton The Witch [written c. 1627], actIV, sc. iii Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray, Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may. Thomas Middleton The Witch [written c. 1627], actV, sc. ii Richard Rich fl. 1610 God will not let us fall . . . For . . . our work is good, We hope to plant a nation, Where none before hath stood. Richard Rich Newes from Virginia: The Flock Triumphant [1610] John Webster c. 1580 - c. 1625 Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. 1 2 John Webster Westward Hoe [1607], (in collaboration with Dekker), act II, sc. ii 1 See Bacon 2 See Goldsmith I saw him now going the way of all flesh. John Webster Westward Hoe [1607], (in collaboration with Dekker), act II, sc. ii Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. John Webster The White Devil [1612], actV, sc.iv But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again. John Webster The White Devil [1612], actV, sc.iv Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. John Webster The White Devil [1612], actV, sc.vi Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near have neither heat nor light. John Webster Duchess of Malfi [1623], act IV, sc. ii Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth, weeping: Their life, a general mist of error, Their death, a hideous storm of terror. John Webster Duchess of Malfi [1623], act IV, sc. ii I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits. John Webster Duchess of Malfi [1623], act IV, sc. ii Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees. John Webster Duchess of Malfi [1623], act IV, sc. ii Ferdinand: Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; 1 she died young. Bosola: I think not so; her infelicity Seemed to have years too many. John Webster Duchess of Malfi [1623], act IV, sc. ii 1 See O. W. Holmes Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. John Webster The Devil's Law Case [1623], song Sir Thomas Overbury 1581-1613 Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By nature wise, not learned much by art. Sir Thomas Overbury A Wife [1614] He disdains all things above his reach, and preferreth all countries before his own. 1 2 3 Sir Thomas Overbury An Affectate Traveller [1614] 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Canning 3 See Gilbert Richard Corbet 1582-1635 Farewell, rewards and fairies, 1 Good housewives now may say. Richard Corbet Farewell to the Fairies, st. 1 1 See Kipling Who of late for cleanliness, Finds sixpence in her shoe? Richard Corbet Farewell to the Fairies, st. 1 Nor too much wealth nor wit come to thee, So much of either may undo thee. Richard Corbet To His Son, Vincent Corbet Jacques du Laurens 1583-1650 I do not attack fools, but foolishness. Jacques du Laurens Satires [1624] Philip Massinger 1583-1640 Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. 1 Philip Massinger Duke of Milan [1623], act I, sc. ii 1 See Mather He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself. 1 Philip Massinger The Bondman [1624], act I, sc. iii 1 See Rabelais To be nobly born Is now a crime. Philip Massinger The Roman Actor [1629], actI, sc.i Whose wealth Arithmetic cannot number. Philip Massinger The Roman Actor [1629], actI, sc.iii Grim death. 1 Philip Massinger The Roman Actor [1629], actIV, sc. ii 1 See Milton A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Philip Massinger Title of play [1632] Francis Beaumont c. 1584-1616  What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that everyone from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool, the rest Of his dull life. Francis Beaumont Letter to Ben Jonson [1640] Beaumont Fletcher Francis Beaumont c. 1584-1616 John Fletcher 1579-1625  It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire. John Fletcher The Faithful Friends [c. 1608], act I, sc. ii As cold as cucumbers. John Fletcher Cupid's Revenge [1615], act I, sc. i Kiss till the cow comes home. John Fletcher Scornful Lady [1616], act III, sc. i There is a method in man's wickedness- It grows up by degrees. 1 2 John Fletcher A King and No King [1619], act V, sc. iv 1 See Juvenal 2 See Racine Upon my buried body lie lightly, gentle earth. 1 2 3 John Fletcher The Maid's Tragedy [1619], act I, sc. ii 1 See Euripides 2 See Anonymous Latin 3 See Twain The devil take the hindmost! John Fletcher Philaster [1620], act V Whistle, and she'll come to you. 1 John Fletcher Wit Without Money [1639], act IV, sc. iv 1 See Burns Calamity is man's true touchstone. 1 John Fletcher Four Plays in One. The Triumph of Honour [1647], sc. i 1 See Seneca Though I say it that should not say it. John Fletcher Wit at Several Weapons (probably in collaboration withWilliam Rowley [c. 1585-c. 1642]), act II, sc. ii John Selden 1584-1654 Scrutamini scripturas [Let us look at the scriptures]. These two words have undone the world. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Bible, Scripture Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Equity Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Humility Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Humility Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Judgments Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Law No man is the wiser for his learning. 1 2 3 4 5 6 John Selden Table Talk [1689].Learning 1 See Lao-tzu 2 See Confucius 3 See Heraclitus 4 See Chaucer 5 See Penn 6 See Newman Wit and wisdom are born with a man. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Learning Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Learning Take a straw and throw it up into the air-you may see by that which way the wind is. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Libels Philosophy is nothing but discretion. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Philosophy Marriage is a desperate thing. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Marriage  Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Pope They that govern the most make the least noise. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Power Syllables govern the world. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Power Never tell your resolution beforehand. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Wisdom Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Wisdom Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Pleasure Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Preaching A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. John Selden Table Talk [1689].Of a King Tirso de Molina Gabriel Tellez Tirso de Molina c. 1584-1648 Through his honor I conquered him. For these peasants carry their honor in their hands so that they may constantly consult it; this same honor that once felt so much at home in the city but now has taken refuge in a more rural setting. Tirso de Molina El Burlador de Sevilla (The Rogue of Seville) [1630], act III, sc. iii John Ford c. 1586-1639 Diamond cut diamond. John Ford The Lover's Melancholy [1629], act I, sc. i 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. John Ford Title of play [1633] Thomas Rainsborough d. 1648 The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he. Thomas Rainsborough In the army debates at Putney [October 29, 1647] Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan [1651],pt. I, ch.4 The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan [1651],pt. I, ch.5 Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan [1651],pt. I, ch.6 The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan [1651],pt. I, ch.8 During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war, as is of every man, against every man. 1 Thomas Hobbes Leviathan [1651],pt. I, ch.13 1 See Swift [In a state of nature] No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan [1651],pt. I, ch.13 The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan [1651],pt. IV, ch. 47 The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan [1651],Review and Conclusion Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan [1651],Review and Conclusion I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. Thomas Hobbes Last words John Winthrop 1588-1649 For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. 1 The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world. John Winthrop A Model of Christian Charity [1630], a sermon delivered on board the Arbella 1 See Matthew 5:14 George Wither 1588-1667 Shall I wasting in despair Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be? George Wither Fair Virtue [1622]. Sonnet 4, st. 1 'Twas I that beat the bush, The bird to others flew. George Wither A Love Sonnet [1622], st. 11 Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit. George Wither The Shepherd's Hunting [1622] Honorat de Bueil , Marquis de Racan 1589-1670 Nothing in the world lasts Save eternal change. Honorat de Bueil , Marquis de Racan Odes. The Coming of Spring  The good effect of Fortune may be short-lived. To build on it is to build on sand. Honorat de Bueil , Marquis de Racan Poesies Diverses William Bradford 1590-1657  They knew they were pilgrims. William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation [1620-1647], ch.7 So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed. William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation [1620-1647], ch.9 Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees 1 and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element. William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation [1620-1647], ch.9 1 See Evarts Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness. William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation [1620-1647], ch.9 The loss of . . . honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price. William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation [1620-1647], ch.12 But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead. William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation [1620-1647], ch.12 Cold comfort to fill their hungry bellies. 1 William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation [1620-1647], ch.13 1 See Shakespeare Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor. William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation [1620-1647], ch.13 Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, 1 and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation. 2 3 William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation [1620-1647], ch.21 1 See Dryden 2 See Matthew 5:15 3 See Shakespeare William Basse died c. 1653 Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer; and rare Beaumont, lie A little nearer Spenser; to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold fourfold tomb. To lodge all four in one bed make a shift Until Doomsday; for hardly will a fift, Betwixt this day and that, by fate be slain, For whom your curtains may be drawn again. 1 William Basse On Mr. Wm. Shakespeare [c. 1616] 1 See Jonson William Browne 1591-1643 Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learned and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee. William Browne Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke [1621] There is no season such delight can bring, As summer, autumn, winter, and the spring. William Browne Variety Robert Herrick 1591-1674 I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Argument of His Book What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].A Kiss Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be, Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].To Anthea Cherry ripe, 1 ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy! If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer, there, Where my Julia's lips do smile; There's the land, or cherry-isle. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Cherry Ripe 1 See Campion It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. 1 2 3 4 Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].The End 1 See Anonymous Latin 2 See Heywood 3 See Shakespeare 4 See Quarles Some asked how pearls did grow, and where? Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl. 1 Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls 1 See Campion A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Delight in Disorder A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat, A careless shoestring, in whose tie I see a wild civility, Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part. 1 Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Delight in Disorder 1 See Jonson You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long. 1 2 Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Love Me Little, Love Me Long 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Anonymous Night makes no difference 'twixt the Priest and Clerk; Joan as my Lady is as good i' the dark. 1 Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].No Difference i' th' Dark 1 See Plutarch Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, 1 To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].To Anthea: Ah, My Anthea! 1 See Catullus Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. 1 2 3 4 Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].To the Virgins to Make Much of Time 1 See Wisdom of Solomon 2:8 2 See Horace 3 See Ronsard 4 See Spenser Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].To Daffodils Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, 1 As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].To Mistress Susanna Southwell 1 See Suckling Her eyes the glowworm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].The Night Piece to Julia Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. 1 Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve 1 See Tennyson Made us nobly wild, not mad. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Ode for Ben Jonson Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Ode for Ben Jonson Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Seek and Find Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Corinna's Going A-Maying 'Tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in. Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Corinna's Going A-Maying So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. 1 2 3 4 Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Corinna's Going A-Maying 1 See Catullus 2 See Campion 3 See Jonson 4 See Fouche Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes.Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free; Oh how that glittering taketh me! Robert Herrick Hesperides [1648].Upon Julia's Clothes Here a little child I stand Heaving up my either hand. Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, For a benison to fall On our meat, and on us all. Robert Herrick Noble Numbers [1648]. A Child's Grace Julius Wilhelm Zincgref 1591-1635 One who longs for death is miserable, but more miserable is he who fears it. Julius Wilhelm Zincgref Apophthegmata, bk. II [1628] Laws and police regulations can be compared to a spider's web that lets the big mosquitoes through and catches the small ones. 1 2 Julius Wilhelm Zincgref Apophthegmata, bk. II [1628] 1 See Anacharsis 2 See Swift Henry King 1592-1669 Thou art the book, The library whereon I look. Henry King The Exequy [1657] Then we shall rise And view ourselves with clearer eyes In that calm region where no night Can hide us from each other's sight. Henry King The Exequy [1657] Sleep on, my Love, in thy cold bed, Never to be disquieted! My last good-night! Thou wilt not wake, Till I thy fate shall overtake; Till age, or grief, or sickness, must Marry my body to that dust It so much loves, and fill the room My heart keeps empty in thy tomb. Stay for me there; I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale. Henry King The Exequy [1657] I am content to live Divided, with but half a heart. Henry King The Exequy [1657] We that did nothing study but the way To love each other, with which thoughts the day Rose with delight to us, and with them set, Must learn the hateful art, how to forget. Henry King The Surrender Francis Quarles 1592-1644 No man is born unto himself alone; 1 2 3 Who lives unto himself, he lives to none. Francis Quarles Esther [1621],Sec. 1, Meditation 1 1 See Romans 14:7 2 See Bacon 3 See Donne The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that has no cross deserves no crown. 1 2 3 Francis Quarles Esther [1621],Sec. 9, Meditation 9 1 See Matthew 10:38 2 See Penn 3 See Bennard Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks. 1 Francis Quarles Divine Fancies [1632] 1 See Edward Young We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil; We tire the night in thought, the day in toil. Francis Quarles Emblems [1635], bk.II, no.2 Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. Francis Quarles Emblems [1635], bk.II, no.2 This house is to be let for life or years; Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears. Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known, She must be dearly let, or let alone. Francis Quarles Emblems [1635], bk.II, no.10, Epigram The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made. Francis Quarles Emblems [1635], bk.II, no.13 The road to resolution lies by doubt: The next way home's the farthest way about. Francis Quarles Emblems [1635], bk.IV, no. 2, Epigram It is the lot of man but once to die. Francis Quarles Emblems [1635], bk.V, no. 7 My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play. 1 2 3 4 Francis Quarles Epigram. Respice Finem 1 See Anonymous Latin 2 See Heywood 3 See Shakespeare 4 See Herrick And what's a life?-a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. Francis Quarles What Is Life? Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day: Let sorrow, sickness, and a troubled mind Be stranger to thee. Francis Quarles To a Bride Thomas Ravenscroft c. 1592 - c. 1635 Nose, nose, nose, nose! And who gave thee this jolly red nose? Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, And they gave me this jolly red nose. Thomas Ravenscroft Deuteromelia [1609]. Song no. 7 George Herbert 1593-1633 A verse may find him who a sermon flies. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church Porch,st. 1 Drink not the third glass, 1 2 3 which thou canst not tame When once it is within thee. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church Porch,st. 5 1 See Addison 2 See Hugo 3 See Sill Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church Porch,st. 13 By all means use sometimes to be alone. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church Porch,st. 25 By no means run in debt: take thine own measure. Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church Porch,st. 30 Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church Porch,st. 41 Be useful where thou livest. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church Porch,st. 55 Man is God's image; but a poor man is Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church Porch,st. 64 Was ever grief like mine? George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Sacrifice,refrain For thirty pence he did my death devise, 1 2 Who at three hundred did the ointment prize. 3 George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Sacrifice,st. 5 1 See Zechariah 11:12 2 See Matthew 26:15 3 See John 12:4- Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Sacrifice,st. 51 I got me flowers to strew Thy way, I got me boughs off many a tree: But Thou wast up by break of day, And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.Easter, st. 4 Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? 1 George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.Jordan, st. 1 1 See Keats Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.Virtue,st. 1 Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.Virtue,st. 3 Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.Virtue,st. 4 Who goes to bed and does not pray, Maketh two nights to every day. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.Charms and Knots, st. 4 Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.Providence,st. 28 Most things move th' under-jaw, the crocodile not. Most things sleep lying, th' elephant leans or stands. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.Providence,st. 35 I struck the board, and cried, No more: I will abroad. What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free; free as the road, Loose as the wind, as large as store. Shall I be still in suit? Have I no harvest but a thorn To let me blood, and not restore What I have lost with cordial fruit? Sure there was wine Before my sighs did dry it; there was corn Before my tears did drown it; Is the year only lost to me? Have I no bays to crown it? George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Collar Call in thy death's head there: tie up thy fears. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Collar But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild At every word, Methought I heard one calling, Child! And I replied, My Lord. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Collar He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature: So both should losers be. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Pulley,st. 3 Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Pulley,st. 4 Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Flower,st. 1 Who would have thought my shriveled heart Could have recovered greenness? George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Flower,st. 2 And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he On whom thy tempests fell all night. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Flower,st. 6 The harbingers are come. See, see their mark; White is their color, and behold my head. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Forerunners, st. 1 Teach me, my God and King, In all things thee to see And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Elixir,st. 1 A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine: Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.The Elixir,st. 5 Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning, If I lacked anything. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.Love,st. 1 You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat: So I did sit and eat. George Herbert The Temple [1633].The Church.Love,st. 3 Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. George Herbert The Church Militant [1633], l. 235 Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. 1 George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.49 1 See Anonymous: Spanish Ill ware is never cheap. Pleasing ware is half sold. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.61 When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him drink. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.77 Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.105 Who would do ill ne'er wants occasion. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.116 A snow year, a rich year. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.125 Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.138 Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. 1 George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.141 1 See Robert Frost Marry your son when you will; your daughter when you can. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.149 The mill cannot grind with the water that's past. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.153 Good words are worth much, and cost little. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.155  Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.170 Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.187  Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.196 By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.272  The lion is not so fierce as they paint him. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.289 Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.290 The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.296  When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.338 He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.343 He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.349  The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.390 My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escurial. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.413 Trust not one night's ice. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.453 For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. 1 George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.499 1 See Benjamin Franklin Pension never enriched young man. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.515 Living well is the best revenge. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.520 One enemy is too much. 1 George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.523 1 See Ali ibn-Abi-Talib Thursday come, and the week is gone. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.587 Time is the rider that breaks youth. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.615 Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.652 One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.686 Reason lies between the spur and the bridle. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.711 One sword keeps another in the sheath. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.725 God's mill grinds slow, but sure. 1 2 George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.747 1 See Euripides 2 See von Logau He that lends, gives. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.787  Words are women, deeds are men. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.842 Poverty is no sin. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.844 None knows the weight of another's burthen. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.880 One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.882 He hath no leisure who useth it not. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.897 Half the world knows not how the other half lives. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.907 Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.917 Every mile is two in winter. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.949 The eye is bigger than the belly. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.1018 His bark is worse than his bite. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.1090 There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.1143 Woe be to him that reads but one book. George Herbert Jacula Prudentum [1651], no.1146 Izaak Walton 1593-1683 But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own. 1 2 Izaak Walton Life of Donne [1640] 1 See Genesis 32:24 2 See Gray I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].Epistle to the Reader Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].Epistle to the Reader As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].Epistle to the Reader I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].Epistle to the Reader I am, Sir, a brother of the Angle. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.1  Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. Sir Henry Wotton . . . was a most dear lover, and a frequent practicer of the art of angling; of which he would say, "it was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent . . . a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practiced it." Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.1  You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.1 I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business." Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.2 An honest ale-house where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.2 Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.2 The Chavender or Chub. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.3 An excellent angler, and now with God. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.4 Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.4 I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.5 No man can lose what he never had. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.5  We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did"; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.5 Thus use your frog. . . . Put your hook through his mouth, and out at his gills; . . . and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming-wire of your hook; or tie the frog's leg, above the upper joint, to the armed-wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.8 This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.8 Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.21 Let the blessing of St. Peter's Master be . . . upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling. Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler [1653-1655].pt. I, ch.21 The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon. 1 Izaak Walton Life of Herbert [1670] 1 See Howell James Howell c. 1594-1666 Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates are secretaries of Nature. 1 James Howell Letters, bk. II, letter 2 1 See Walton All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 1 2 3 James Howell Proverbs [1659] 1 See Ptahhotpe 2 See Herodotus 3 See Cervantes Thomas Carew c. 1595 - c. 1639 Here lies a King that ruled, as he thought fit The universal monarchy of wit; Here lies two flamens, and both those the best: Apollo's first, at last the true God's priest. Thomas Carew Elegy on the Death of Donne [1633] Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauty's orient deep These flowers, as in their causes, sleep. Thomas Carew Poems [1640].To Celia,st. 1 Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale when May is past; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters and keeps warm her note. Thomas Carew Poems [1640].To Celia,st. 3 Ask me no more if east or west The Phoenix builds her spicy nest; For unto you at last she flies, And in your fragrant bosom dies. Thomas Carew Poems [1640].To Celia,st. 5 Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid or the frozen zone: Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none. Thomas Carew Poems [1640].Mediocrity in Love Rejected, st. 1 Thou shalt confess the vain pursuit Of human glory yields no fruit But an untimely grave. 1 Thomas Carew Poems [1640].On the Duke of Buckingham 1 See Gray He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or, from starlike eyes, doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. Thomas Carew Poems [1640].Disdain Returned, st. 1 The firstling of the infant year. Thomas Carew Poems [1640].The Primrose Then fly betimes, for only they Conquer Love that run away. Thomas Carew Poems [1640].Conquest by Flight The magic of a face. Thomas Carew Poems [1640].Epitaph on the Lady S-- Rene Descartes 1596-1650 Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. Rene Descartes Le Discours de la Methode [1637],I It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes Le Discours de la Methode [1637],I The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. Rene Descartes Le Discours de la Methode [1637],I The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. Rene Descartes Le Discours de la Methode [1637],I One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. 1 2 Rene Descartes Le Discours de la Methode [1637],II 1 See Cicero 2 See Goethe I think, therefore I am [Cogito, ergo sum; Je pense, donc je suis]. 1 Rene Descartes Le Discours de la Methode [1637],IV 1 See Aristotle James Shirley 1596-1666 How little room Do we take up in death that, living, know No bounds! James Shirley The Wedding [1626] I presume you're mortal, and may err. 1 2 3 James Shirley The Lady of Pleasure [1635] 1 See Plutarch 2 See Anonymous Latin 3 See Pope Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. James Shirley The Lady of Pleasure [1635] Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. James Shirley Cupid and Death [1653] The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armor against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings. 1 2 James Shirley Contention of Ajax and Ulysses [1659], sc. iii 1 See Horace 2 See Publilius Syrus Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658 A few honest men are better than numbers. Oliver Cromwell Letter to Sir W. Spring [September 1643] The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. Oliver Cromwell Before the battle of Marston Moor [July 2, 1644]  I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. Oliver Cromwell Letter to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland [August 3, 1650] It is not fit that you sit here any longer! . . . you shall now give place to better men. Oliver Cromwell To the Rump Parliament [January 22, 1654] Necessity hath no law. 1 2 Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by. Oliver Cromwell To Parliament [September 12, 1654] 1 See Publilius Syrus 2 See St. Augustine I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. Oliver Cromwell To Parliament [1658]  Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. Oliver Cromwell From Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England [1762-1771] It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone. Oliver Cromwell Dying words Pedro Calderon de la Barca 1600-1681  What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Life Is a Dream, actII, l. 1195 But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Life Is a Dream, actIII, l.236 The treason past, the traitor is no longer needed. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Life Is a Dream, actIII, l.1109 What surprises you, if a dream taught me this wisdom, and if I still fear I may wake up and find myself once more confined in prison? And even if this should not happen, merely to dream it is enough. For this I have come to know, that all human happiness finally ceases, like a dream. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Life Is a Dream, actIII, l.1114 Martin Parker c. 1600 - c. 1656 Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease, Ah! little do you think upon The dangers of the seas. Martin Parker Song When the stormy winds do blow. 1 Martin Parker Song 1 See Campbell Jules Cardinal Mazarin 1602-1661  I must leave all that! Farewell, dear paintings that I have loved so much and which have cost me so much. Jules Cardinal Mazarin Remark shortly before his death Sir Kenelm Digby 1603-1665  The hot water is to remain upon it [the tea] no longer than whiles you can say the Miserere Psalm very leisurely. Sir Kenelm Digby The Closet Opened. Tea with Eggs All matter is indifferent to form. Sir Kenelm Digby Of the Vegetation of Plants [1660] Roger Williams c. 1603-1683 There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that both Papists and Protestants, Jews and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges-that none of the papists, Protestants, Jews or Turks be forced to come to the ship's prayers or worship, nor compelled from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any. I further add that I never denied that, notwithstanding this liberty, the commander of this ship ought to command the ship's course, yea, and also command that justice, peace, and sobriety be kept and practiced, both among the seamen and all the passengers. Roger Williams Letter to the Town of Providence [January 1655] Friedrich von Logau 1604-1655 Armed peace. Friedrich von Logau Poetic Aphorisms [1654] This month is a kiss Which heaven gives the earth That she now become a bride And then a future mother. Friedrich von Logau Poetic Aphorisms [1654]Characteristics of May Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. Friedrich von Logau Poetic Aphorisms [1654]Retribution Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682 I dare, without usurpation, assume the honorable style of a Christian. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.1 I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.6 Many . . . have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.6 A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.6 As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.9 I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my Reason to an O altitudo! 1 Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.9 1 See Aiken Rich with the spoils of Nature. 1 Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.13 1 See Thomas Gray We carry with us the wonders we seek without us: There is all Africa and her prodigies in us. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.15  All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.16 Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. 1 Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.25 1 See Sterne Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.25 Not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.35 This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.38 I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof. 'Tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our nearest friends, wife, and children, stand afraid and start at us. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.40 Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.45 How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.48 The heart of man is the place the devils dwell in: I feel sometimes a hell within myself. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.51 1 See Virgil 2 See Marlowe 3 See Milton 4 See Eliot 5 See Sartre 6 See Lowell There is no road or ready way to virtue. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.I, sec.54 All places, all airs make unto me one country; I am in England, everywhere, and under any meridian. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.II, sec.1 They that endeavor to abolish vice, destroy also virtue; for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.II, sec.4 But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, 1 2 is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. 3 Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.II, sec.4 1 See I Timothy 5:4 2 See Terence 3 See Donne Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres. 1 Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.II, sec.9 1 See Shakespeare For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.II, sec.11 There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. 1 2 Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.II, sec.11 1 See Addison 2 See Emerson Sleep is a death; O, make me try, By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici [1642], pt.II, sec.12  When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. Sir Thomas Browne Vulgar Errors [1645] An old and gray-headed error. Sir Thomas Browne Vulgar Errors [1645]  Times before you, when even living men were antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number. Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].Dedication With rich flames, and hired tears, they solemnized their obsequies. Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].ch.3 Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].ch.4 These dead bones have . . . quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests. Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].ch.5 Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things. Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].ch.5 What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].ch.5 The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].ch.5 The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].ch.5  Herostratus lives that burnt the Temple of Diana-he is almost lost that built it. Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].ch.5 Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].ch.5 The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox? Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].ch.5 Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Sir Thomas Browne Urn-Burial; or, Hydriotaphia[1658].ch.5 That unextinguishable laugh in heaven. Sir Thomas Browne The Garden of Cyrus [1658], ch.2 Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God. Sir Thomas Browne The Garden of Cyrus [1658], ch.4 To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our Antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and, as some conjecture, all shall awake again? Sir Thomas Browne The Garden of Cyrus [1658], ch.5 The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity. Sir Thomas Browne Christian Morals [1716], III, 29 Pierre Corneille 1606-1684 To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille Le Cid [1636], actII, sc.ii Brave men are brave from the very first. Pierre Corneille Le Cid [1636], actII, sc.iii And the combat ceased for want of combatants. Pierre Corneille Le Cid [1636], actIV, sc. iii Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven. Pierre Corneille Horace [1639], actII, sc. viii All evils are equal when they are extreme. Pierre Corneille Horace [1639], actIII, sc. iv The worst of all states is the people's state. Pierre Corneille Cinna [1640], actII, sc. i Who is all-powerful should fear everything. Pierre Corneille Cinna [1640], actIV, sc. ii By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. Pierre Corneille Polyeucte [1640], act I, sc. iii The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. Pierre Corneille Le Menteur [1642], actI, sc. i A liar is always lavish of oaths. Pierre Corneille Le Menteur [1642], actIII, sc. v The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. Pierre Corneille Rodogune [1644], act III, sc. iv Guess if you can, choose if you dare. Pierre Corneille Heraclius [1646], act IV, sc. iv A service beyond all recompense Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense. Pierre Corneille Surena [1674], act III, sc. i I owe my fame only to myself. Pierre Corneille Poesies Diverses, 23 Sir William Davenant 1606-1668 The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest And, climbing, shakes his dewy wings. Sir William Davenant Song [1638], st. 1 Who dares doubt the poet wise? Sir William Davenant The Philosopher and the Lover: To a Mistress Dying [1638] I shall ask leave to desist, when I am interrupted by so great an experiment as dying. Sir William Davenant His apology, in illness, for not having finished Gondibert How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian. Sir William Davenant Prefatory letter to Thomas Hobbes. From S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria [1817], ch. 22 Edmund Waller 1606-1687 Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. Edmund Waller Panegyric to My Lord Protector Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own. 1 2 3 4 5 Edmund Waller To My Lord of Falkland 1 See Themistocles 2 See Bacon 3 See Washington 4 See Mahan 5 See Morison To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light. Edmund Waller An Apology for Having Loved Before [1664] That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. Edmund Waller On a Girdle [1664],st. 1 My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! Edmund Waller On a Girdle [1664],st. 2 Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Edmund Waller Go, Lovely Rose [1664], st. 1 So all we know Of what they do above Is that they happy are, and that they love. Edmund Waller Upon the Death of My Lady Rich [1664] Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. Edmund Waller Of English Verse [1668] And keeps the palace of the soul. 1 Edmund Waller Of Tea 1 See Byron Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. Edmund Waller Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace, De Arte Poetica The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Edmund Waller On the Divine Poems [1686] Paul Gerhardt 1607-1676 O sacred head, now wounded, With grief and shame bowed down; Now scornfully surrounded With thorns, thy only crown. Paul Gerhardt Passion Chorale [1656], based on twelfth-century Latin hymn, st. 1 Thomas Fuller 1608-1661 Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body. Thomas Fuller Life of Monica [1642] He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. 1 Thomas Fuller Life of the Duke of Alva [1642] 1 See Dryden He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. 1 Thomas Fuller The Holy State and the Profane State [1642].The Good Husband 1 See Homer One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience. Thomas Fuller The Holy State and the Profane State [1642].The Good Advocate Light, God's eldest daughter, 1 2 is a principal beauty in a building. Thomas Fuller The Holy State and the Profane State [1642].Of Building 1 See Genesis 1:3 2 See Milton Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. Thomas Fuller The Holy State and the Profane State [1642].Of Books Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs. Thomas Fuller The Holy State and the Profane State [1642].Of Marriage They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter. Thomas Fuller The Holy State and the Profane State [1642].Of Marriage Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. Thomas Fuller The Holy State and the Profane State [1642].Fame Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. Thomas Fuller The Holy State and the Profane State [1642].Of Anger It is always darkest just before the day dawneth. Thomas Fuller Pisgah Sight [1650], bk. II, ch. 2 John Milton 1608-1674 This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, That He our deadly forfeit should release, And with His Father work us a perpetual peace. John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity [1629],st. 1, l. 1 It was the winter wild While the Heav'n-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity [1629],Hymn,st. 1, l. 29 No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around. The idle spear and shield were high up hung. John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity [1629],Hymn,st. 4, l. 53 Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold. 1 2 John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity [1629],Hymn,st. 14, l. 135 1 See Horace 2 See Macaulay The Oracles are dumb. John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity [1629],Hymn,st. 19, l. 173 From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent. John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity [1629],Hymn,st. 20, l. 184 Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim. John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity [1629],Hymn,st. 22, l. 197 What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones, The labor of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? John Milton On Shakespeare [1630] How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year. John Milton On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three [1631] As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. John Milton On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three [1631] Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. John Milton Arcades [1630-1634], l. 68 Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy. 1 2 John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 1 1 See Burton 2 See Fletcher So buxom, blithe, and debonair. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 24 Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 25 Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 31 The mountain nymph, sweet liberty. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 36 Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 38 While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn door, Stoutly struts his dames before, Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumb'ring morn. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 49 And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 67 Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 75 And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 94 Then to the spicy nut-brown ale. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 100 Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 110 Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 117 Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 121 And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 127 Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 143 Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee, I mean to live. John Milton L'Allegro [1631],l. 148 Hence vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 1 The gay motes that people the sunbeams. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 8 Hail divinest Melancholy. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 12 Sober, steadfast, and demure. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 32 And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 39 Forget thyself to marble. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 42 And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 45 And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 49 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 61 I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heav'n's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 65 Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 73 Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 79 Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptered pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 97 Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 105 Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 109 Where more is meant than meets the ear. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 120 Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 141 And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 159 Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. John Milton Il Penseroso [1631],l. 173 Before the starry threshold of Jove's Court 1 My mansion is. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 1 1 See Blake Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 5 Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 12 An old, and haughty nation proud in arms. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 33 What never yet was heard in tale or song, From old or modern bard, in hall or bower. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 44 Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 46 These my sky-robes, spun out of Iris' woof. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 83 The star that bids the shepherd fold. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 93 And the gilded car of day, His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 95 Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 103 What hath night to do with sleep? John Milton Comus [1634],l. 122 Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn on th' Indian steep, From her cabined loophole peep. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 138 Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 143 When the gray-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phoebus' wain. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 188 A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 205 Was I deceived or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? John Milton Comus [1634],l. 221 Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 230 How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! John Milton Comus [1634],l. 249 Such sober certainty of waking bliss. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 263 With thy long leveled rule of streaming light. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 340 Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 373 The unsunned heaps Of miser's treasure. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 398 Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel. 1 John Milton Comus [1634],l. 420 1 See Shakespeare How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, 1 And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 476 1 See Shakespeare Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 550 I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 560 That power Which erring men call Chance. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 587 Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 663 Praising the lean and sallow abstinence. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 709 Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 739 Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features to keep home- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn? John Milton Comus [1634],l. 745 Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 790 Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honor's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 859 But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 1012 Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. John Milton Comus [1634],l. 1019 Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 1 He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 10 Without the meed of some melodious tear. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 14 Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 18 Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove afield; and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 26 But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return! John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 37 The gadding vine. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 40 As killing as the canker to the rose. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 45 Whom universal Nature did lament. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 60 Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 1 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 64 1 See Tacitus Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 78 That strain I heard was of a higher mood. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 87 It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 100 Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain, (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 108 Such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 114 Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 119 The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 123 Throw hither all your quaint enameled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 139 Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, 1 Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 156 1 See Thomson Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth. 1 John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 163 1 See Wolfe For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed; And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. 1 So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walked the waves. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 166 1 See Du Bartas He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 188 At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new. John Milton Lycidas [1637],l. 192 The lazy leaden-stepping Hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace. John Milton On Time [c. 1637] O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still. John Milton Sonnet, To the Nightingale [c. 1637] Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day. John Milton Sonnet, To the Nightingale [c. 1637] Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow. John Milton At a Solemn Music [c. 1637] A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. John Milton The Reason of Church Government [1641], bk. II, introduction By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die. John Milton The Reason of Church Government [1641], bk. II, introduction Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. John Milton The Reason of Church Government [1641], bk. II, introduction He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. John Milton Apology for Smectymnuus [1642] His words . . . like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command. John Milton Apology for Smectymnuus [1642]  Truth . . . never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth. John Milton The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce [1643], introduction Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. 1 John Milton The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce [1643], introduction 1 See Virgil Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees. John Milton Tractate of Education [1644] Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. John Milton Tractate of Education [1644] Ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato. . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate. John Milton Tractate of Education [1644] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. John Milton Tractate of Education [1644] Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. John Milton Areopagitica [1644] As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. John Milton Areopagitica [1644] A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. John Milton Areopagitica [1644] I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. John Milton Areopagitica [1644] Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton Areopagitica [1644] Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. John Milton Areopagitica [1644] Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton Areopagitica [1644] Though all the winds of doctrine 1 were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? 2 3 John Milton Areopagitica [1644] 1 See Ephesians 4:14 2 See Jefferson 3 See Holmes As that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. John Milton To the Lady Margaret Ley [c. 1644] Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. John Milton Tetrachordon [1644-1645] That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. John Milton On the Detraction Which Followed upon My Writing Certain Treatises [1645] In mirth, that after no repenting draws. John Milton To Cyriack Skinner [1646-1647?] For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains. John Milton To Cyriack Skinner [1646-1647?] For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiare. John Milton Eikonoklastes [1649], 23 None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. John Milton Tenure of Kings and Magistrates [1649] No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. 1 2 3 John Milton Tenure of Kings and Magistrates [1649] 1 See Acts 22:28 2 See Rousseau 3 See Davis Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war. John Milton To the Lord General Cromwell [1652] When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless. John Milton On His Blindness [1652] Doth God exact day-labor, light denied? John Milton On His Blindness [1652] Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his state Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait. John Milton On His Blindness [1652] Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not. John Milton On the Late Massacre in Piedmont [1655] Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate one jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up, and steer Right onward. John Milton To Cyriack Skinner, upon His Blindness [c. 1655] Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave. John Milton On His Deceased Wife [c. 1658] But oh! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night. John Milton On His Deceased Wife [c. 1658] Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 1 Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 16 What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 2 3 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 22 1 See Samson Agonistes 2 See Pope 3 See Housman The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 34 Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky 1 With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 44 1 See Luke 10:18 As far as angels' ken. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 59 No light, but rather darkness visible. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 63 Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 65 What though the field be lost? All is not lost; th' unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 105 Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 126 To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 157 And out of good still to find means of evil. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 165 The seat of desolation, void of light. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 181 A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 253 1 See Virgil 2 See Marlowe 3 See Browne 4 See Milton 5 See Eliot 6 See Sartre 7 See Lowell To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 262 His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 292 Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 302 Awake, arise, or be forever fallen! John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 330 Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 423 When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 500 Th' imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 536 Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds: At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 540 Anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 549 His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 591 The sun . . . In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 594 Care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 601 Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 619 Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 648 Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 679 Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 690 From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.I,l. 742 High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue Vain war with heav'n. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 1 Moloch, sceptered king, Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heav'n; now fiercer by despair. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 44 Rather than be less Cared not to be at all. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 47 My sentence is for open war. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 51 Which if not victory is yet revenge. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 105 But all was false and hollow; through his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. 1 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 112 1 See Aristophanes For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion? John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 146 His red right hand. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 174 Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved. 1 2 3 4 5 6 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 185 1 See Homer 2 See Horace 3 See Chaucer 4 See Shakespeare 5 See Scott 6 See Byron The never-ending flight Of future days. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 221 Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb Counseled ignoble ease, 1 2 and peaceful sloth, Not peace. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 226 1 See Virgil 2 See T. R. Roosevelt With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 300 To sit in darkness here Hatching vain empires. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 377 The palpable obscure. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 406 Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. 1 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 432 1 See Virgil Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 476 Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 557 Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 565 Arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. 1 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 568 1 See Shakespeare Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe the river of oblivion rolls. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 582 At certain revolutions all the damned Are brought: and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 597 The other shape, If shape it might be called. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 666 Whence and what art thou, execrable shape? John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 681 Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death 1 my son and foe. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 803 1 See Massinger Hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 898 To compare Great things with small. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 921 With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 995 And fast by hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.II,l. 1051 Hail, holy light! offspring of heav'n first born. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.III,l. 1 Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; 1 But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.III,l. 40 1 See Blake See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With Joy and Love triumphing. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.III,l. 337 Dark with excessive bright. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.III,l. 380 Into a limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.III,l. 495 The hell within him. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 20 At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 34 A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 55 Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 73 1 See Virgil 2 See Marlowe 3 See Browne 4 See Milton 5 See Eliot 6 See Sartre 7 See Lowell So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 108 And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 194 A heaven on earth. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 208 Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 256 Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 288 For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 297 Implied Subjection, but required with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best received, Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 307 Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 323 So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, 1 2 excused his devilish deeds. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 393 1 See Publilius Syrus 2 See William Pitt Imparadised in one another's arms. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 506 Live while ye may, Yet happy pair. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 533 Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 598 The wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 602 The timely dew of sleep. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 614 With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their change; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 639 Sweet the coming on Of grateful ev'ning mild, then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 646 Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 677 In naked beauty more adorned, More lovely, than Pandora. 1 2 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 713 1 See Cicero 2 See Thomson Eased the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 739 Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 750 Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 800 Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 830 Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 846 All hell broke loose. 1 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 918 1 See Robert Greene Like Teneriff or Atlas unremoved. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 987 The starry cope Of heaven. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IV,l. 992 His sleep Was airy light from pure digestion bred. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 3 My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight! John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 18 Good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 71 These are thy glorious works, Parent of good. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 153 Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 165 A wilderness of sweets. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 294 So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 331 Nor jealousy Was understood, the injured lover's hell. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 449 Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 538 What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 574 Hear all ye Angels, progeny of light, Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 600 All seemed well pleased, all seemed but were not all. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 617 Among the faithless, faithful only he. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.V,l. 897 Morn, Waked by the circling hours, with rosy hand 1 Unbarred the gates of light. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VI,l. 2 1 See Homer Servant of God, well done, 1 well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintained Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VI,l. 29 1 See Matthew 25:21 He onward came; far off his coming shone. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VI,l. 768 More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VII,l. 24 Out of one man a race Of men innumerable. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VII,l. 155 There Leviathan Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land, and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VII,l. 412 Endued With sanctity of reason. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VII,l. 507 The planets in their stations list'ning stood, While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. Open, ye everlasting gates, they sung, Open, ye heavens, your living doors; 1 let in The great Creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VII,l. 563 1 See Psalm 24:7 The angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VIII,l. 1 To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VIII,l. 192 Liquid lapse of murmuring streams. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VIII,l. 263 And feel that I am happier than I know. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VIII,l. 282 Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be wooed, and not unsought be won. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VIII,l. 502 The sum of earthly bliss. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VIII,l. 522 So absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VIII,l. 547 Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VIII,l. 561 Ofttimes nothing profits more Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right Well managed. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.VIII,l. 571 My unpremeditated verse. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 24 Pleased me long choosing, and beginning late. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 26 Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years damp my intended wing. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 44 The serpent subtlest beast of all the field. 1 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 86 1 See Genesis 3:1 For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 249 At shut of evening flowers. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 278 As one who long in populous city pent. 1 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 445 1 See Keats God so commanded, and left that command Sole daughter of his voice; 1 the rest, we live Law to ourselves, our reason is our law. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 652 1 See Wordsworth Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 780 So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 832 In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 853 O fairest of creation! last and best Of all God's works! creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflowered, and now to Death devote? John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 896 I feel The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, 1 and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 913 1 See Genesis 2:23 Our state cannot be severed; we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.IX,l. 958 I shall temper so Justice with mercy. 1 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.X,l. 77 1 See Shakespeare Pandemonium, city and proud seat Of Lucifer. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.X,l. 424 A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.X,l. 508 Death . . . on his pale horse. 1 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.X,l. 588 1 See Revelation 6:8 Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.XI,l. 485 Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven. 1 John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.XI,l. 553 1 See Martial A bevy of fair women. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.XI,l. 582 The evening star, Love's harbinger. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.XI,l. 588 The brazen throat of war. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.XI,l. 713 For now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.XI,l. 783 An olive leaf he brings, pacific sign. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.XI,l. 860 In me is no delay; with thee to go, Is to stay here; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my willful crime art banished hence. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.XII,l. 615 The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way. John Milton Paradise Lost [1667], bk.XII,l. 646 Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.I,l. 482 Skilled to retire, and in retiring draw Hearts after them tangled in amorous nets. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.II,l. 161 Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.II,l. 220 Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wrecked. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.II,l. 228 Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.III,l. 56 Elephants endorsed with towers. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.III,l. 329 Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.IV,l. 76 The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. 1 John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.IV,l. 220 1 See Wordsworth Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.IV,l. 240 The olive grove of Academe, 1 Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.IV,l. 244 1 See Horace Socrates . . . Whom well inspired the oracle pronounced Wisest of men. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.IV,l. 274 The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. 1 John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.IV,l. 293 1 See Socrates Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.IV,l. 327 Till morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice gray. John Milton Paradise Regained [1671], bk.IV,l. 426 Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves. 1 John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 41 1 See Judges 16:21 O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 80 The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 86 To live a life half dead, a living death. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 100 Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 129 Apt words have power to suage The tumors of a troubled mind. 1 John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 184 1 See Aeschylus Wisest men Have erred, and by bad women been deceived. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 210 Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; 1 2 3 Unless there be who think not God at all. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 293 1 See Paradise Lost 2 See Pope 3 See Housman A grain of manhood. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 408 What boots it at one gate to make defense, And at another to let in the foe? John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 560 My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them at rest. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 597 But who is this, what thing of sea or land? Female of sex it seems, That so bedecked, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play; An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger? John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 710 Dalila: In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. Samson: For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath! John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 903 Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild airy flight. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 971 Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possessed. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 1003 Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end; Not wedlock-treachery. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 1008 Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do What then thou would'st. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 1104 He's gone; and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 1350 For evil news rides post, while good news baits. 1 John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 1538 1 See Plutarch Suspense in news is torture. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 1569 Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 1721 All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of highest Wisdom brings about. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 1745 Calm of mind, all passion spent. John Milton Samson Agonistes [1671],l. 1758 Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air? John Milton The History of England [1670], bk. IV Toju Nakae 1608-1648  Filial piety is the root of man. When it is lost from one's heart, then one's life becomes like a rootless plant, and if one does not expire instantly, it is nothing but sheer luck. Toju Nakae Toju Sensei Zenshu (Collected Works), vol. I Sir Matthew Hale 1609-1676  Be not biased with compassion to the poor, or favor to the rich, in point of justice. Sir Matthew Hale Things Necessary to Be Continually Had in Remembrance Not to be solicitous what men will say or think. Sir Matthew Hale Things Necessary to Be Continually Had in Remembrance Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon 1609-1674 He [Hampden] had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief. 1 Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon History of the Rebellion [1702-1704], vol. III, bk. VII, sec. 84 1 See The Letters of Junius Sir John Suckling 1609-1642 Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Sir John Suckling Aglaura [1638]. Song,st. 1 Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move, This cannot take her. If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her. The devil take her! Sir John Suckling Aglaura [1638]. Song,st. 3 But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments. 1 Sir John Suckling Aglaura [1638]. Song,epilogue 1 See Pope High characters (cries one), and he would see Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor ne'er will be. Sir John Suckling The Goblins [1639], epilogue Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice, stole in and out, 1 As if they feared the light; But oh, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Sir John Suckling A Ballad upon a Wedding [1641],st. 8 1 See Herrick Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compared with that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly. Sir John Suckling A Ballad upon a Wedding [1641],st. 11 I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why then shouldst thou have mine? Sir John Suckling Fragmenta Aurea [1646].Song, st. 1 'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite Makes eating a delight. Sir John Suckling Fragmenta Aurea [1646].Of Thee, Kind Boy, st. 3 Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. Sir John Suckling Fragmenta Aurea [1646].A Poem with the Answer, st. 1 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear, Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were. Sir John Suckling Fragmenta Aurea [1646].Against Fruition, st. 4 William Cartwright 1611-1643 Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps young still. William Cartwright To Chloe [1651] Robert Leighton 1611-1684 Deliver me, O Lord, from the errors of wise men, yea, and of good men. Robert Leighton Saying Isaac de Benserade 1612-1691 In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And, born in bed, in bed we die. The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe. Isaac de Benserade [Agrave] Son Lit Anne Bradstreet c. 1612-1672 Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. Anne Bradstreet Meditations Divine and Moral [1664],3 Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Anne Bradstreet Meditations Divine and Moral [1664],12 If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Bradstreet Meditations Divine and Moral [1664],14 If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye women if you can. Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband [1678] Samuel Butler 1612-1680 When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 1 And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 11 Beside, 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak: That Latin was no more difficile Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 51 He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side, On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 67 He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 77 For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 81 For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 89 A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 93 For he by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 121 And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock doth strike, by algebra. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 125 Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 145 'Twas Presbyterian true blue. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 189 Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 193 And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 197 Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 213 The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 357 For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which like ships they steer their courses. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 457 And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 647 Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto I,l. 885 I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto III,l. 277 These reasons made his mouth to water. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto III,l. 379 I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower. 1 Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto III,l. 871 1 See Bunyan Cheered up himself with ends of verse, And sayings of philosophers. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto III,l. 1011 Cleric before, and Lay behind; A lawless linsey-woolsey brother, Half of one order, half another. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. I [1663],canto III,l. 1226 Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow; Some kicked, until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. II [1664],canto I,l. 221 For what is worth in anything But so much money as 'twill bring? Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. II [1664],canto I,l. 465 She that with poetry is won Is but a desk to write upon. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. II [1664],canto I,l. 591 Love is a boy by poets styled; Then spare the rod, and spoil the child. 1 2 Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. II [1664],canto I,l. 843 1 See Proverbs, 13:24 2 See Menander Oaths are but words, and words but wind. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. II [1664],canto II,l. 107 For truth is precious and divine- Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. II [1664],canto II,l. 257 He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it; Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made? Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. II [1664],canto II,l. 377 As the ancients Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance, 1 And look before you ere you leap; 2 For as you sow, ye are like to reap. 3 Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. II [1664],canto II,l. 501 1 See Lyly 2 See Heywood 3 See Galatians 6:7 Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. II [1664],canto III,l. 1 He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. II [1664],canto III,l. 261 As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon 't. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. III [1678],canto I,l. 481 What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. III [1678],canto I,l. 1277 Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, Though he gave his name to our Old Nick. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. III [1678],canto I,l. 1313 True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. III [1678],canto II,l. 175 He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. III [1678],canto III,l. 547 Neither have the hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away. Samuel Butler Hudibras,pt. III [1678],canto III,l. 569 And poets by their sufferings grow, 1 As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent, But only want and discontent. Samuel Butler Fragments 1 See Shelley James Graham, Marquess of Montrose 1612-1650 He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. James Graham, Marquess of Montrose My Dear and Only Love,st. 2 I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword. James Graham, Marquess of Montrose My Dear and Only Love,st. 5 Richard Crashaw c. 1613-1649 The conscious water saw its God, and blushed. Richard Crashaw Epigrammata Sacra [1634]. Aquae in Vinum Versae Two went to pray? Oh, rather say One went to brag, the other to pray. Richard Crashaw Steps to the Temple [1648].Two Went Up into the Temple to Pray 1 1 See Luke 18:10 Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me. Richard Crashaw Steps to the Temple [1648].Wishes to His Supposed Mistress,l. 1 Where'er she lie, Locked up from mortal eye, In shady leaves of destiny. Richard Crashaw Steps to the Temple [1648].Wishes to His Supposed Mistress,l. 4 Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend! Richard Crashaw Steps to the Temple [1648].Wishes to His Supposed Mistress,l. 85 Sidnaeian showers Of sweet discourse, whose powers Can crown old Winter's head with flowers. Richard Crashaw Steps to the Temple [1648].Wishes to His Supposed Mistress,l. 88 I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. Richard Crashaw Steps to the Temple [1648].On Marriage All is Caesar's, and what odds So long as Caesar's self is God's? Richard Crashaw Steps to the Temple [1648].Mark XII All those fair and flagrant things. Richard Crashaw The Flaming Heart upon the Book of Saint Teresa [1652],l. 34 Love's passives are his activ'st part. The wounded is the wounding heart. Richard Crashaw The Flaming Heart upon the Book of Saint Teresa [1652],l. 73 O thou undaunted daughter of desires! Richard Crashaw The Flaming Heart upon the Book of Saint Teresa [1652],l. 93 By all the eagle in thee, all the dove. Richard Crashaw The Flaming Heart upon the Book of Saint Teresa [1652],l. 95 Poor world (said I) what wilt thou do To entertain this starry stranger? Is this the best thou canst bestow? A cold, and not too cleanly, manger? Contend, ye powers of heav'n and earth, To fit a bed for this huge birth. Richard Crashaw Hymn of the Nativity [1652],st. 6 Proud world, said I, cease your contest, And let the mighty babe alone. The phoenix builds the phoenix' nest. Love's architecture is his own. The babe whose birth embraves this morn, Made his own bed ere he was born. Richard Crashaw Hymn of the Nativity [1652],st. 7 Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span. Richard Crashaw Hymn of the Nativity [1652],Full Chorus The modest front of this small floor, Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can- "Here lies a truly honest man!" Richard Crashaw Epitaph upon Mr. Ashton Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680  Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.Epigraph Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim2 We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. 1 Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim19 1 See Pope Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. 1 Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim22 1 See Goldsmith We need greater virtues to sustain good fortune than bad. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim25 If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim31 Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim32 Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of roles, even that of disinterestedness. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim39 We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim49 To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim56 There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim70 There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim71 True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim76 The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim78 Silence is the best tactic for him who distrusts himself. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim79 It is more ignominious to mistrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim84 Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim89 Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples. 1 Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim93 1 See Pope A man who is ungrateful is sometimes less to blame for it than his benefactor. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim96  The mind is always the dupe of the heart. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim102 Nothing is given so profusely as advice. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim110 The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim127 We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim138 Usually we praise only to be praised. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim146 Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim180 Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim209 Most people judge men only by their success or their good fortune. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim212 Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim218 Too great haste in paying off an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim226 There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim245 The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse. 1 Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim259 1 See Shelley Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim276 We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim294  The gratitude of most men is merely a secret desire to receive greater benefits. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim298 We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim304 Lovers never get tired of each other, because they are always talking about themselves. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim312 In jealousy there is more self-love than love. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim324 We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim327 We pardon to the extent that we love. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim330  We rarely find that people have good sense unless they agree with us. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim347 Jealousy is always born together with love, but it does not always die when love dies. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim361 Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. 1 Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim375 1 See Schopenhauer The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim377 We may give advice, but we do not inspire conduct. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim378 The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim416 Few people know how to be old. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim423 Nothing prevents our being natural so much as the desire to appear so. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim431 In their first passion women love their lovers, in the others they love love. 1 Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim471 1 See Byron Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim496  In the misfortune of our best friends we often find something that is not displeasing. Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims.maxim583 Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667 Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. Jeremy Taylor Holy Dying [1650-1651] Every schoolboy knows it. Jeremy Taylor On the Real Presence, V The union of hands and hearts. Jeremy Taylor Sermons [1653], The Marriage Ring, pt. I No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him. Jeremy Taylor Sermons [1653], The Marriage Ring, pt. I Thomas Ady fl. 1655 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, The bed be blest that I lie on. Four angels to my bed, Four angels round my head, One to watch, and one to pray, And two to bear my soul away. Thomas Ady A Candle in the Dark [1655] Richard Baxter 1615-1691 I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. Richard Baxter Poetical Fragments [1681]. Love Breathing Thanks and Praise  In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. Richard Baxter Motto Sir John Denham 1615-1669 Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Sir John Denham Cooper's Hill [1642], l. 189 Sir Roger L'Estrange 1616-1704 Though this may be play to you, 'tis death to us. 1 Sir Roger L'Estrange Fables [1692]. Fable 398, Boys and Frogs 1 See Bion Roger de Bussy-Rabutin 1618-1693  God is usually on the side of the big squadrons and against the small ones. Roger de Bussy-Rabutin Letter to the Comte de Limoges [October 18, 1677] ÿ Abraham Cowley 1618-1667 What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? Abraham Cowley The Motto This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Abraham Cowley The Vote [1636] Well then; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree; The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy, And they (methinks) deserve my pity, Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz and murmurings, Of this great hive, the city. Abraham Cowley The Wish [1647] Ah yet, ere I descend to the grave May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too! Abraham Cowley The Wish [1647] A mistress moderately fair. Abraham Cowley The Wish [1647] The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy. Abraham Cowley Inconstancy [1647] The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. Abraham Cowley Anacreon [1656],II, Drinking Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I, Why, man of morals, tell me why? Abraham Cowley Anacreon [1656],II, Drinking A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. Abraham Cowley Anacreon [1656],VII, Gold His time is forever, everywhere his place. Abraham Cowley Friendship in Absence Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last. Abraham Cowley Davideis [1656], bk. I, l. 25 Life is an incurable disease. 1 2 Abraham Cowley To Dr. Scarborough [1656] 1 See Pope 2 See Arnold Ye fields of Cambridge, our dear Cambridge, say, Have ye not seen us walking every day? Was there a tree about which did not know The love betwixt us two? Abraham Cowley On the Death of Mr. William Harvey [1657] 1 1 See William Harvey God the first garden made, and the first city. 1 2 3 4 Abraham Cowley The Garden [1664], essay 5 1 See Genesis 2:8 2 See Bacon 3 See Shakespeare 4 See Cowper Hence ye profane! I hate ye all, Both the great vulgar and the small. Abraham Cowley Horace, bk. III, ode 1 Charmed with the foolish whistling of a name. 1 Abraham Cowley Virgil, Georgics, bk. II, l. 72 1 See Pope Words that weep and tears that speak. Abraham Cowley The Prophet Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given The two most sacred names of earth and Heaven. Abraham Cowley On the Death of Mr. Crashaw 1 [1668] 1 See Crashaw His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. 1 Abraham Cowley On the Death of Mr. Crashaw 1 [1668] 1 See Pope Johann Franck 1618-1677 Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness. Johann Franck Hymn [1649] Richard Lovelace 1618-1658 Oh, could you view the melody Of every grace And music of her face, You'd drop a tear; Seeing more harmony In her bright eye Than now you hear. Richard Lovelace Lucasta [1649].Orpheus to Beasts Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. Richard Lovelace Lucasta [1649].To Lucasta: Going to the Wars,st. 1 I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. Richard Lovelace Lucasta [1649].To Lucasta: Going to the Wars,st. 3 When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The gods that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. Richard Lovelace Lucasta [1649].To Althea: From Prison,st. 1 When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames. 1 Richard Lovelace Lucasta [1649].To Althea: From Prison,st. 2 1 See Shakespeare Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. Richard Lovelace Lucasta [1649].To Althea: From Prison,st. 4 If to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone, You and I were alone; Then, my Lucasta, might I crave Pity from blust'ring wind, or swallowing wave. Richard Lovelace Lucasta [1649].To Lucasta: Going Beyond the Seas,st. 1 Ninon de L'Enclos 1620-1705  Old age is woman's hell. Ninon de L'Enclos Attributed Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine 1621-1695 We believe no evil till the evil's done. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.I [1668], fable8 We heed no instincts but our own. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.I [1668], fable8 The opinion of the strongest is always the best. 1 Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.I [1668], fable10 1 See Krylov Better to suffer than to die: that is mankind's motto. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.I [1668], fable16 By the work one knows the workman. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.I [1668], fable21 I bend but do not break. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.I [1668], fable22 It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.II [1668], fable 15 It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.III [1668], fable1 In everything one must consider the end. 1 Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.III [1668], fable5 1 See Ecclesiasticus 7:36 Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.VI [1668], fable5 On the wings of Time grief flies away. 1 2 Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.VI [1668], fable21 1 See Sophocles 2 See Terence The sign brings customers. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.VII [1678-1679], fable 15 People who make no noise are dangerous. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.VIII [1678-1679], fable23 He knows the universe, and himself he does not know. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.VIII [1678-1679], fable26  A hungry stomach cannot hear. Jean de La Fontaine Fables, bk.IX [1678-1679], fable 17 Andrew Marvell 1621-1678 The inglorious arts of peace. Andrew Marvell Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland [1650] He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try. Andrew Marvell Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland [1650] But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed. Andrew Marvell Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland [1650] So much one man can do, That does both act and know. Andrew Marvell Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland [1650] Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress [1650-1652] I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress [1650-1652] But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress [1650-1652] Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress [1650-1652] Though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress [1650-1652] Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Andrew Marvell The Garden [1650-1652] Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide. Andrew Marvell The Garden [1650-1652] The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere. Andrew Marvell The Loyal Scot [1650-1652] My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by despair Upon impossibility. Andrew Marvell The Definition of Love [1650-1652],st. 1 As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. Andrew Marvell The Definition of Love [1650-1652],st. 7 Where the remote Bermudas ride, In th' ocean's bosom unespied. Andrew Marvell Bermudas [1657] Orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green light. Andrew Marvell Bermudas [1657] And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. 1 Andrew Marvell Bermudas [1657] 1 See Thomas Moore Moliere Jean Baptiste Poquelin 1622-1673  To pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw. Moliere L'Etourdi [1655], act III, sc. vi We die only once, and for such a long time! Moliere Le Depit Amoureux [1656], act V, sc. iii I always make the first verse well, but I have trouble making the others. Moliere Les Precieuses Ridicules [1659], act I, sc. xi The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair. Moliere L'Ecole des Femmes [1662], act II, sc. vi There is no rampart that will hold out against malice. Moliere Tartuffe [1664], actI, sc.i Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. Moliere Tartuffe [1664], actI, sc.i  You are a fool in four letters, my son. Moliere Tartuffe [1664], actI, sc.i She is laughing up her sleeve at you. Moliere Tartuffe [1664], actI, sc.vi A woman always has her revenge ready. Moliere Tartuffe [1664], actII, sc. ii  Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things. Moliere Tartuffe [1664], actIII, sc. ii Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man. Moliere Tartuffe [1664], actIII, sc. iii To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin. Moliere Tartuffe [1664], actIV, sc. v I saw him, I say, saw him with my own eyes. Moliere Tartuffe [1664], actV, sc. iii  We have changed all that. Moliere Le Medecin Malgre Lui [1666], act II, sc. vi On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing. Moliere Le Misanthrope [1666], actI, sc. i He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue. Moliere Le Misanthrope [1666], actII, sc. v He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. Moliere Le Misanthrope [1666], actII, sc. v You see him laboring to produce bons mots. Moliere Le Misanthrope [1666], actII, sc. v The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. Moliere Le Misanthrope [1666], actII, sc. v Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. Moliere Le Misanthrope [1666], actIII, sc. vii Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. Moliere Le Misanthrope [1666], actIV, sc. i If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows. Moliere Le Misanthrope [1666], actV, sc.i It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love. Moliere Le Misanthrope [1666], actV, sc.iv I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue. Moliere Amphitryon [1666], actI, sc. iv One must eat to live, and not live to eat. 1 2 Moliere Amphitryon [1666], actIII, sc.i 1 See Socrates 2 See Franklin  The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners. Moliere Amphitryon [1666], actIII, sc.v My Lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill. Moliere Amphitryon [1666], actIII, sc.x  You've asked for it, Georges Dandin, you've asked for it. Moliere Georges Dandin [1668], act I, sc. ix Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. Moliere Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme [1670], actII, sc. iv All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose. Moliere Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme [1670], actII, sc. iv  My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship. Moliere Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme [1670], actIV, sc. i I will maintain it before the whole world. Moliere Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme [1670], actIV, sc. v  What the devil was he doing in that galley? Moliere Les Fourberies de Scapin [1671], act II, sc. xi  Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. Moliere Les Femmes Savantes [1672], actII, sc. vi It is seasoned throughout with Attic salt. Moliere Les Femmes Savantes [1672], actIII, sc. ii A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. Moliere Les Femmes Savantes [1672], actIV, sc. iii Ah, there are no longer any children! Moliere Le Malade Imaginaire [1673], actII, sc. xi Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. Moliere Le Malade Imaginaire [1673], actIII, sc. iii Richard Rumbold c. 1622-1685 I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. Richard Rumbold On the scaffold [1685]. From Macaulay, History of England, ch. 1 Algernon Sidney 1622-1683 This hand, unfriendly to tyrants, Seeks with the sword placid repose under liberty. Algernon Sidney Life and Memoirs of Algernon Sidney It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun. 1 Algernon Sidney Discourses on Government [1698], sec. 23 1 See Robert Burton Henry Vaughan 1622-1695 Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven doth chime. Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans [1655].The Night,l. 25 There is in God, some say, A deep but dazzling darkness. Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans [1655].The Night,l. 49 Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! 1 2 3 Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race. Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans [1655].The Retreat,l. 1 1 See Traherne 2 See Wordsworth 3 See Lowell But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans [1655].The Retreat,l. 19 Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move. Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans [1655].The Retreat,l. 29 I cannot reach it, and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity. Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans [1655].Childhood I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light. All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled. Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans [1655].The World They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans [1655].They Are All Gone,st. 1 I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth trample on my days, My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays. Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans [1655].They Are All Gone,st. 3 Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark! Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans [1655].They Are All Gone,st. 5 My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars Where stands a winged sentry All skillful in the wars: There, above noise and danger, Sweet Peace is crowned with smiles, And One born in a manger Commands the beauteous files. Henry Vaughan Silex Scintillans [1655].Peace,st. 1 Soko Yamaga 1622-1685  The business of the samurai consists in reflecting on his own station in life, in discharging loyal service to his master if he has one, in deepening his fidelity in associations with friends, and, with due consideration of his own position, in devoting himself to duty above all. Soko Yamaga The Way of the Samurai Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 Things are always at their best in their beginning. Blaise Pascal Lettres Provinciales [1656-1657], no.4  I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. Blaise Pascal Lettres Provinciales [1656-1657], no.16 True eloquence takes no heed of eloquence, true morality takes no heed of morality. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.4 Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.44 Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.67  What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.72 I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.101  The state of man: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.127 I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. 1 Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.139 1 See Bagehot Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.162  The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.206  We shall die alone. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.211  The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.277 We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.282 Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical. . . . Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.298  Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.347  Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.358 Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.408  To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.430 What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe. 1 Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.434 1 See Pope  Self is hateful. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.455 Men blaspheme what they do not know. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.556 Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal Pensees [1670], no.894 "The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob," not of philosophers and scholars. Blaise Pascal Writing found in Pascal's effects after his death William Walker 1623-1684 Learn to read slow: all other graces Will follow in their proper places. William Walker The Art of Reading Angelus Silesius Johannes Scheffler Angelus Silesius 1624-1677 God lives not without me. I know that without me God cannot live at all; Were I to go, he also to his death must fall. Angelus Silesius The Cherubic Wanderer [1657-1675] I am like God, and God like me. I am as large as God, he is as small as I: He cannot above me, nor I beneath him be. Angelus Silesius The Cherubic Wanderer [1657-1675] Everyone to his own. The bird is in the sky, the stone rests on the land, In water lives the fish, my spirit in God's hand. Angelus Silesius The Cherubic Wanderer [1657-1675] George Fox 1624-1691  The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts . . . his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them. 1 George Fox Journal [1694] 1 See I Corinthians 3:17 When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low. George Fox Journal [1694] Justice Bennet of Derby, was the first that called us Quakers, because I bid them tremble at the word of the Lord. This was in the year 1650. George Fox Journal [1694] He [Oliver Cromwell] said: "I see there is a people risen, that I cannot win either with gifts, honors, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can." George Fox Journal [1694] Thomas Sydenham 1624-1689 Fever itself is Nature's instrument. Thomas Sydenham Quoted in Bulletin of the NewYork Academy of Medicine, vol. IV[1928], p.922 Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout. Thomas Sydenham Quoted in Bulletin of the NewYork Academy of Medicine, vol. IV[1928], p.993 A man is as old as his arteries. Thomas Sydenham Quoted in Bulletin of the NewYork Academy of Medicine, vol. IV[1928], p.993 John Aubrey 1626-1697 He [Hobbes] had read much, but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have known no more than other men. John Aubrey Brief Lives [ed. 1898],I, 349 He [Milton] was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College. John Aubrey Brief Lives [ed. 1898],I, 349 Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came. John Aubrey Brief Lives [ed. 1898],II, 225 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne 1626-1696 True friendship is never serene. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne Lettres. [Agrave] Madame de Grignan [September 10, 1671] Racine will go out of style like coffee. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne Attributed Jacques Benigne Bossuet 1627-1704 The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak. Jacques Benigne Bossuet Politique Tiree de l'Ecriture Sainte The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life. 1 Jacques Benigne Bossuet From M. A. Couturier, Se Garder Libre 1 See Pascal Robert Boyle 1627-1691 I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature. Robert Boyle The Philosophical Works of Robert Boyle [1738], vol. I, preliminary discourse John Ray 1627-1705 In a calm sea every man is a pilot. John Ray English Proverbs [1670] If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. John Ray English Proverbs [1670] Money begets money. John Ray English Proverbs [1670] Blood is thicker than water. John Ray English Proverbs [1670] Misery loves company. 1 John Ray English Proverbs [1670] 1 See Publilius Syrus  To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone. John Ray English Proverbs [1670] John Bunyan 1628-1688 Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No." John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].Apology for His Book As I walked through the wilderness of this world. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other was Pliable. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I The name of the slough was Despond. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I  Every fat [vat] must stand upon his bottom. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I The gentleman's name was Mr. Worldly-Wise-Man. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I A very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I The valley of Humiliation. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I I will talk of things heavenly, or things earthly; things moral, or things evangelical; things sacred, or things profane; things past, or things to come; things foreign, or things at home; things more essential, or things circumstantial. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 'tis kept is lighter than vanity. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I Hanging is too good for him, said Mr. Cruelty. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I My great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way, and rowing another. 1 John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I 1 See Plutarch A castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I They came to the Delectable Mountains. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I A great horror and darkness fell upon Christian. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I So I awoke, and behold it was a dream. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. I A man that could look no way but downwards with a muckrake in his hand. 1 John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].pt. II 1 See Roosevelt He that is down, needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride. 1 John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].Shepherd Boy's Song 1 See Butler Who would true valor see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather. There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].Shepherd Boy's Song My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].Shepherd Boy's Song So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress [1678].Shepherd Boy's Song The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave. John Bunyan The Life and Death of Mr. Badman [1680] Sir William Temple 1628-1699 Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. Sir William Temple Miscellanea, pt. II [1690].Ancient and Modern Learning When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. Sir William Temple Miscellanea, pt. II [1690].Of Poetry George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham 1628-1687 Ay, now the plot thickens very much upon us. George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham The Rehearsal [written 1663, performed 1671], act III, sc. ii Charles II 1630-1685 This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'. Charles II Reply to Lord Rochester 1 1 See Rochester Let not poor Nelly starve. Charles II On his deathbed. From Gilbert Burnet, The History of My Own Times [1724-1734], vol. I, bk. 2, ch. 17 He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; he hoped that they would excuse it. Charles II From Macaulay, History of England [1849], vol. I, ch. 4 Walter Pope c. 1630-1714 May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better, as strength wears away, Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay. Walter Pope The Old Man's Wish [1685] John Tillotson 1630-1694 If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men. 1 2 John Tillotson Sermon 1 See Ovid 2 See Voltaire They who are in highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are most observed. John Tillotson Reflections Richard Cumberland 1631-1718 It is better to wear out than to rust out. Richard Cumberland From Bishop George Horne [1730-1792], Sermon on the Duty of Contending for the Truth John Dryden 1631-1700 By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow. 1 John Dryden Annus Mirabilis [1667], st. 155 1 See William Bradford He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. John Dryden Essay of Dramatic Poesy [1668] He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. John Dryden Essay of Dramatic Poesy [1668] Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. John Dryden Tyrannic Love [1669], act IV, sc. i I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. John Dryden The Conquest of Granada [1669-1670], pt. I, act I, sc. i Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. John Dryden Aureng-Zebe [1676], act IV, sc. i When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day. John Dryden Aureng-Zebe [1676], act IV, sc. i None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. John Dryden Aureng-Zebe [1676], act IV, sc. i The wretched have no friends. John Dryden All for Love [1678], actIII, sc. i Your Cleopatra; Dolabella's Cleopatra; every man's Cleopatra. John Dryden All for Love [1678], actIV, sc. i With how much ease believe we what we wish! Whatever is, is in its causes just. 1 2 John Dryden Oedipus [1679] (with Nathaniel Lee), actIII, sc. i 1 See Marcus Aurelius 2 See Pope His hair just grizzled, As in a green old age. John Dryden Oedipus [1679] (with Nathaniel Lee), actIII, sc. i Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long- Even wondered at, because he dropped no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. John Dryden Oedipus [1679] (with Nathaniel Lee), actIV, sc. i In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 1 Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone, 'twas natural to please. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 27 Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 83 Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay: 1 And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 150 1 See Thomas Fuller Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 168 And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, 1 a son. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 169 1 See Diogenes the Cynic In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 173 And Heaven had wanted one immortal song. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 197 The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream! 1 John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 238 1 See Joel 2:28 His courage foes, his friends his truth proclaim. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 357 All empire is no more than power in trust. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 411 Better one suffer, than a nation grieve. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 416 Who think too little, and who talk too much. 1 John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 534 1 See Jonson A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. 1 John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 545 1 See Juvenal So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 557 His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 645 Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 781 Large was his wealth, but larger was his heart. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 826 Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yet In his own worth. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 900 Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. I [1680],l. 1005 Made still a blund'ring kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in. Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. II [1682],l. 413 For every inch that is not fool is rogue. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel,pt. II [1682],l. 463 There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know. John Dryden The Spanish Friar [1681], actII, sc. i And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. John Dryden The Spanish Friar [1681], actII, sc. i He's a sure card. John Dryden The Spanish Friar [1681], actII, sc. i They say everything in the world is good for something. John Dryden The Spanish Friar [1681], actIII, sc. ii Or break the eternal Sabbath of his rest. John Dryden The Spanish Friar [1681], actV, sc. ii All human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey. John Dryden Mac Flecknoe [1682],l. 1 The rest to some faint meaning make pretense, But Shadwell 1 never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; 2 3 4 But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. John Dryden Mac Flecknoe [1682],l. 19 1 See Shadwell 2 See Cervantes 3 See Bacon 4 See Heine And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. John Dryden Mac Flecknoe [1682],l. 208 Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. John Dryden To the Memory of Mr. Oldham [1684], l. 15 Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. 1 2 John Dryden Imitation of Horace, bk. III, ode 29 [1685],l. 65 1 See Horace 2 See Sydney Smith Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. John Dryden Imitation of Horace, bk. III, ode 29 [1685],l. 71 I can enjoy her [Fortune] while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away. John Dryden Imitation of Horace, bk. III, ode 29 [1685],l. 81 And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. John Dryden Imitation of Horace, bk. III, ode 29 [1685],l. 87 Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they passed. John Dryden Threnodia Augustalis [1685], l. 124 Since heaven's eternal year is thine. John Dryden To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew [1686],l. 15 O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy! John Dryden To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew [1686],l. 56 Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. John Dryden To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew [1686],l. 70 Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, 1 In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. John Dryden A Song for St. Cecilia's Day[1687],st. 1 1 See Milton What passion cannot Music raise and quell? John Dryden A Song for St. Cecilia's Day[1687],st. 2 The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. John Dryden A Song for St. Cecilia's Day[1687],st. 3 The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers. John Dryden A Song for St. Cecilia's Day[1687],st. 4 The trumpet shall be heard on high The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky! John Dryden A Song for St. Cecilia's Day[1687],Grand Chorus She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.I,l. 4 And doomed to death, though fated not to die. John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.I,l. 8 For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be loved needs only to be seen. 1 John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.I,l. 33 1 See Pope Of all the tyrannies on human kind The worst is that which persecutes the mind. John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.I,l. 239 Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.I,l. 261 And kind as kings upon their coronation day. John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.I,l. 271 And leaves the private conscience for the guide. John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.I,l. 478 All have not the gift of martyrdom. John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.II,l. 59 War seldom enters but where wealth allures. 1 2 3 John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.II,l. 706 1 See Bion 2 See Cicero 3 See Rabelais Much malice mingled with a little wit. John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.III,l. 1 Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul. John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.III,l. 73 For present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good. John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.III,l. 364 T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve, Is to hate traitors and the treason love. 1 John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.III,l. 706 1 See Caesar Secret guilt by silence is betrayed. John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.III,l. 763 Possess your soul with patience. 1 John Dryden The Hind and the Panther [1687], pt.III,l. 839 1 See Luke 21:19 Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray. 1 John Dryden Britannia Rediviva [1688], l. 1 1 See Goldsmith Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go. To make a third, she joined the former two. John Dryden Under Mr. Milton's Picture [1688] This is the porcelain clay of humankind. John Dryden Don Sebastian [1690], act I, sc. i A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow. John Dryden Amphitryon [1690], actI, sc. i  Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. John Dryden Amphitryon [1690], actIII, sc. iii, l. i I am the true Amphitryon. 1 John Dryden Amphitryon [1690], actV, sc. i 1 See Moliere Fairest Isle, all isles excelling, Seat of pleasures, and of loves; Venus here will choose her dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian groves. John Dryden King Arthur [1691], act II, sc. v, Song of Venus Theirs was the giant race, before the flood. 1 John Dryden Epistle to Congreve [1693],l. 5 1 See Genesis 6:4 Genius must be born, and never can be taught. John Dryden Epistle to Congreve [1693],l. 60 Be kind to my remains; and oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! John Dryden Epistle to Congreve [1693],l. 72 Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. John Dryden Juvenal, Satire X [1693] Arms, and the man I sing, 1 who, forced by fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate. John Dryden Virgil, Aeneid [1697], bk. I, l. 1 1 See Virgil None but the brave deserves the fair. John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 15 With ravished ears The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 37 Sound the trumpets; beat the drums . . . Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes. 1 John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 50 1 See Morell Bacchus, ever fair and ever young. John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 54 Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain. John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 58 The king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 68 Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed, On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 77 Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth thy winning. Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 97 Sighed and looked, and sighed again. John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 120 And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 154 Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 160 He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. John Dryden Alexander's Feast [1697],l. 169 Words, once my stock, are wanting to commend So great a poet and so good a friend. John Dryden Epistle to Peter Antony Motteux [1698], l. 54 Lord of yourself, uncumbered with a wife. John Dryden Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton [1700],l. 18 Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. John Dryden Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton [1700],l. 92 A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. John Dryden The Secular Masque [1700],l. 38 The sword within the scabbard keep, And let mankind agree. John Dryden The Secular Masque [1700],l. 61 All, all of a piece throughout: Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing about; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new. 1 John Dryden The Secular Masque [1700],l. 86 1 See Tennyson Ill habits gather by unseen degrees- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. John Dryden Ovid, Metamorphoses [1700], bk. XV, The Worship of Aesculapius, l. 155 [Of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales] Here is God's plenty. John Dryden Fables Ancient and Modern [1700],preface For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. John Dryden Fables Ancient and Modern [1700],The Cock and the Fox, l. 452 Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. John Dryden Fables Ancient and Modern [1700],Cymon and Iphigenia,l. 1 He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. John Dryden Fables Ancient and Modern [1700],Cymon and Iphigenia,l. 84 She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense: Sex to the last. John Dryden Fables Ancient and Modern [1700],Cymon and Iphigenia,l. 367 Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk-the business of the day. John Dryden Fables Ancient and Modern [1700],Cymon and Iphigenia,l. 407 He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. John Dryden On the Death of a Very Young Gentleman [1700] Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I. John Dryden Epitaph intended for his wife William Stoughton 1631-1701  God hath sifted a nation that he might send choice grain into this wilderness. William Stoughton Election sermon at Boston [April 29, 1669] Anton van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723 We cannot in any better manner glorify the Lord and Creator of the universe than that in all things, how small soever they appear to our naked eyes, but which have yet received the gift of life and power of increase, we contemplate the display of his omnificence and perfections with the utmost admiration. Anton van Leeuwenhoek The Select Works of Anthony van Leeuwenhoek [1798] John Locke 1632-1704 New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding [1690],dedicatory epistle No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding [1690],bk.II, ch. 1, sec. 19 It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth. John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding [1690],bk.IV, ch.7, sec. 11 All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding [1690],bk.IV, ch.20, sec. 17 Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. 1 John Locke Second Treatise of Government [1690], sec. 202 1 See William Pitt A sound mind in a sound body, 1 is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. John Locke Some Thoughts Concerning Education [1693], sec.1 1 See Juvenal  Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. John Locke Some Thoughts Concerning Education [1693], sec.54 Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. John Locke Some Thoughts Concerning Education [1693], sec.64 He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. 1 John Locke Some Thoughts Concerning Education [1693], sec.65 1 See Juvenal The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. John Locke Some Thoughts Concerning Education [1693], sec.88 Benedict Baruch Spinoza 1632-1677  Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Theological-Political Treatise [1670] Nature abhors a vacuum. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.I, proposition15: note God and all the attributes of God are eternal. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.I, proposition19 Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.I, proposition36 He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.II, proposition42: proof Will and Intellect are one and the same thing. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.II, proposition49: corollary He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.III,preface Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.III,proposition2: note Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.III,proposition26: note It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.III,proposition30: note Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.III,proposition51: note It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.III,proposition54: note I refer those actions which work out the good of the agent to courage, and those which work out the good of others to nobility. Therefore temperance, sobriety, and presence of mind in danger, etc., are species of courage; but modesty, clemency, etc., are species of nobility. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.III,proposition59: note Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.III,definition13: explanation So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long is he determined not to do it: and consequently, so long it is impossible to him that he should do it. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.III,definition28: explanation Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.III,proposition 29: explanation One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.IV,preface Man is a social animal. 1 Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.IV,proposition35: note 1 See Blackstone Men will find that they can prepare with mutual aid far more easily what they need, and avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides, by united forces. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.IV,proposition35: note  Avarice, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.IV,proposition44: note He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconstant, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.IV,proposition58: note In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.IV,proposition70: note To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. . . . Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. 1 2 3 Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.IV,appendix,17 1 See Maimonides 2 See Johnson 3 See Carnegie None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.IV,appendix,21 Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.V, proposition10: note We feel and know that we are eternal. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.V, proposition23: note All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Ethics [1677], pt.V, proposition42: note The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good. Benedict Baruch Spinoza Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione [1677], I, 3 Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723 Si monumentum requiris circumspice [If you would see the man's monument, look around]. Sir Christopher Wren Inscription in St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Written by Wren's son Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon c. 1633-1685 Choose an author as you choose a friend. Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon Essay on Translated Verse [1684],l. 96 Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of decency is want of sense. Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon Essay on Translated Verse [1684],l. 113 The multitude is always in the wrong. Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon Essay on Translated Verse [1684],l. 183 My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me in my end. 1 Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon Translation of Dies Irae 1 See Tommaso di Celano Samuel Pepys 1633-1703 I pray God to keep me from being proud. Samuel Pepys Diary,March 22, 1660 This morning came home my fine camlet cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it. Samuel Pepys Diary,July 1, 1660 And so to bed. Samuel Pepys Diary,July 22, 1660, passim I am unwilling to mix my fortune with him that is going down the wind. Samuel Pepys Diary,September 6, 1660 A good honest and painful sermon. Samuel Pepys Diary,March 17, 1661 One, by his own confession to me, that can put on two several faces, and look his enemies in the face with as much love as his friends. But, good God! what an age is this, and what a world is this! that a man cannot live without playing the knave and dissimulation. Samuel Pepys Diary,September 1, 1661 Though he be a fool, yet he keeps much company, and will tell all he sees or hears, so a man may understand what the common talk of the town is. Samuel Pepys Diary,September 2, 1661 My wife, poor wretch. Samuel Pepys Diary,September 18, 1661, passim Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. Samuel Pepys Diary,January 26, 1662 As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me. Samuel Pepys Diary,October 31, 1662  Bought Hudibras again, it being certainly some ill humor to be so against that which all the world cries up to be the example of wit; for which I am resolved once more to read him, and see whether I can find it or no. Samuel Pepys Diary,February 6, 1663 To the Trinity House, where a very good dinner among the old soakers. Samuel Pepys Diary,February 15, 1665  But Lord! how everybody's looks, and discourse in the street, is of death, and nothing else; and few people going up and down, that the town is like a place distressed and forsaken. Samuel Pepys Diary,August 30, 1665 Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. Samuel Pepys Diary,November 9, 1665 Saw a wedding in the church; and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. Samuel Pepys Diary,December 25, 1665 Musick and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. Samuel Pepys Diary,March 9, 1666 The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it. Samuel Pepys Diary,March 10, 1666 Home, and, being washing-day, dined upon cold meat. Samuel Pepys Diary,April 4, 1666 Musick is the thing of the world that I love most. Samuel Pepys Diary,July 30, 1666 Busy till night, pleasing myself mightily to see what a deal of business goes off a man's hands when he stays by it. Samuel Pepys Diary,January 14, 1667 Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was. Samuel Pepys Diary,February 3, 1667 This day I am, by the blessing of God, 34 years old, in very good health and mind's content, and in condition of estate much beyond whatever my friends could expect of a child of theirs, this day 34 years. The Lord's name be praised! and may I be thankful for it. Samuel Pepys Diary,February 23, 1667 But it is pretty to see what money will do. Samuel Pepys Diary,March 21, 1667 To church; and with my mourning, very handsome, and new periwig, make a great show. Samuel Pepys Diary,March 31, 1667 But to think of the clatter they make with his coach, and their own fine clothes, and yet how meanly they live within doors, and nastily, and borrowing everything of neighbors. Samuel Pepys Diary,April 1, 1667 Whose red nose makes me ashamed to be seen with him. Samuel Pepys Diary,May 3, 1667 Gives me some kind of content to remember how painful it is sometimes to keep money, as well as to get it. Samuel Pepys Diary,October 11, 1667 I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it. Samuel Pepys Diary,June 17, 1668 In appearance, at least, he being on all occasions glad to be at friendship with me, though we hate one another, and know it on both sides. Samuel Pepys Diary,September 22, 1668 I do hate to be unquiet at home. Samuel Pepys Diary,January 22, 1669 And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me! Samuel Pepys Diary,May 31, 1669 (final entry) George Savile, Marquess of Halifax 1633-1695 Children and fools want everything, because they want wit to distinguish; there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary. George Savile, Marquess of Halifax Advice to a Daughter [1688] Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. George Savile, Marquess of Halifax Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections [1750] Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide. George Savile, Marquess of Halifax Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections [1750] Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. George Savile, Marquess of Halifax Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections [1750] Robert South 1634-1716  Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. Robert South Sermon [1676] Robert Hooke 1635-1703 The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things. Robert Hooke Micrographia [1665] Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux 1636-1711 Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux The Art of Poetry [1674], cantoI,l. 75  At last comes Malherbe and, the first to do so in France, brings to his verse a smooth cadence. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux The Art of Poetry [1674], cantoI,l. 131 Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux The Art of Poetry [1674], cantoI,l. 153 Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux The Art of Poetry [1674], cantoIII, l. 374 The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Satire 1,l. 46 A Cat's a cat, and Rolet is a knave. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Satire 1,l. 52 He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Satire 1,l. 94 In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Satire 4,l. 37 Greatest fools are oft most satisfied. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Satire 4,l. 128 If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Satire 5, l. 43 Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Satire 8,l. 1 But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Satire 8,l. 257 Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Satire 10, l. 167 Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong. 1 2 3 4 Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Satire 11, l. 141 1 See Tacitus 2 See Bussy-Rabutin 3 See Frederick the Great 4 See Gibbon Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Epistle 9 The terrible burden of having nothing to do. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Epistle 11 Thomas Ken 1637-1711 Awake, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run. Thomas Ken Morning Hymn [1695] Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! Thomas Ken Doxology [1709] Thomas Traherne c. 1637-1674 You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world. Thomas Traherne Centuries of Meditations [1908], CenturyI, sec. 29 The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. 1 Thomas Traherne Centuries of Meditations [1908], CenturyIII, sec. 3 1 See Psalm 90:2 How like an angel came I down! 1 2 3 Thomas Traherne Wonder [1910],st. 1 1 See Vaughan 2 See Wordsworth 3 See Lowell I within did flow With seas of life like wine. Thomas Traherne Wonder [1910],st. 3 Louis XIV 1638-1715  I am the state. Louis XIV Attributed remark before the parliament in 1651  Has God forgotten all I have done for him? Louis XIV Attributed remark upon hearing the news of the French defeat at Malplaquet [1709]  I almost had to wait. Louis XIV Attributed remark when a coach he had ordered arrived just in time Jean Racine 1639-1699 I loved him too much not to hate him at all! Jean Racine Andromaque [1667], act II You are Emperor, my lord, and yet you weep? Jean Racine Berenice [1670], act IV, sc. v My only hope lies in my despair. Jean Racine Bajazet [1672], act I, sc. iv  You have named him, not I. Jean Racine Phedre [1677], actI, sc. iii  It is no longer a passion hidden in my heart: it is Venus herself fastened to her prey. Jean Racine Phedre [1677], actI, sc. iii Innocence has nothing to dread. Jean Racine Phedre [1677], actIII, sc. vi Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license. 1 2 Jean Racine Phedre [1677], actIV, sc. ii 1 See Juvenal 2 See Beaumont and Fletcher To repair the irreparable ravages of time. Jean Racine Athalie [1691], act II, sc. v Sir Charles Sedley c. 1639-1701 Phyllis is my only joy, Faithless as the winds or seas; Sometimes coming, sometimes coy, Yet she never fails to please. Sir Charles Sedley Song [1702], st. 1 Aphra Behn 1640-1689 A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. Aphra Behn The Roundheads [1677] Variety is the soul of pleasure. Aphra Behn The Rover, PartII [1680], act I Come away; poverty's catching. Aphra Behn The Rover, PartII [1680], act I Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. Aphra Behn The Rover, PartIII, sc. i Beauty unadorned. Aphra Behn The Rover, PartIV, sc. ii Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow. Aphra Behn The Lucky Chance [1686-1687], act IV Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! Aphra Behn The Emperor of the Moon [1687], act I, sc. i Saikaku Ihara 1642-1693 Heaven says nothing, and the whole earth grows rich beneath its silent rule. Men, too, are touched by heaven's virtue; yet, in their greater part, they are creatures of deceit. They are born, it seems, with an emptiness of soul, and must take their qualities wholly from things without. To be born thus empty into this modern age, this mixture of good and ill, and yet to steer through life on an honest course to the splendors of success-this is a feat reserved for paragons of our kind, a task beyond the nature of the normal man. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.I,1 The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.I,1 Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.I,1 In life it is training rather than birth which counts. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.I,3 Ancient simplicity is gone . . . the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.I,4 Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.I,5 There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations. 1 Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.II,2 1 See Robert Burns When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.II,5 To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.II,5 For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind-to even the wisest and cleverest of us-is the plague of poverty. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.III,1 To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.III,4 If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.III,4 Like ice beneath the sun's rays-to such poverty did he fall . . . his fortune melted to water. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.III,5 If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done. Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.III,5 Harshness is for the good of a boy, softheartedness will ruin him. 1 Saikaku Ihara The Japanese Family Storehouse; or, The Millionaires' Gospel, bk.V,5 1 See Proverbs 13:24 Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727 If I have seen further (than you and Descartes) it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants. 1 2 Sir Isaac Newton Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675/1676 1 See Lucan 2 See Burton I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. Sir Isaac Newton Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675/1676 Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. Sir Isaac Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [1687],preface Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. Sir Isaac Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [1687],Laws of Motion,I  The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed. Sir Isaac Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [1687],Laws of Motion,II To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts. Sir Isaac Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [1687],Laws of Motion,III God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them. Sir Isaac Newton Optics [1704] I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton [1855], vol. II, ch. 27 O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! Sir Isaac Newton Said to a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers Thomas Shadwell c. 1642-1692  And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind. Thomas Shadwell A True Widow [1679], actII, sc. i The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. Thomas Shadwell A True Widow [1679], actIII, sc. i I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water. Thomas Shadwell A True Widow [1679], actIII, sc. i Every man loves what he is good at. Thomas Shadwell A True Widow [1679], actV, sc. i Basho Matsuo Basho Basho Matsuo 1644-1694 The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers. . . . I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming. Basho Matsuo Basho The Narrow Road of Oku (Oku no Hosomichi) Such stillness- The cries of the cicadas Sink into the rocks. Basho Matsuo Basho The Narrow Road of Oku (Oku no Hosomichi) My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet. Basho Matsuo Basho Prose Poem on The Unreal Dwelling (Genjuan no Fu)  My poetry is like a stove in the summer or a fan in the winter. It runs against the popular tastes and has no practical use. Basho Matsuo Basho The Rustic Gate. From the collection Basho Bunshu Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. Basho Matsuo Basho The Rustic Gate. From the collection Basho Bunshu The white chrysanthemum Even when lifted to the eye Remains immaculate. Basho Matsuo Basho Conversations with Basho. From the collection Kyoraisho Hyokai Clear cascades! Into the waves scatter Blue pine needles. Basho Matsuo Basho Conversations with Basho. From the collection Kyoraisho Hyokai An old pond- A frog leaping in- The sound of water. Basho Matsuo Basho Poem A rough sea! Stretched out over Sado The Milky Way. Basho Matsuo Basho Poem William Penn 1644-1718 No Cross, No Crown. 1 2 3 William Penn Title of pamphlet [1669] 1 See Matthew 10:38 2 See Quarles 3 See Bennard Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws. William Penn Frame of Government [1682] Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude [1693] It is a reproach to religion and government to suffer so much poverty and excess. William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude [1693] They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude [1693] Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude [1693] It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable. William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude [1693] Have a care where there is more sail than ballast. William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude [1693] Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude [1693] The public must and will be served. William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude [1693] Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. 1 2 3 4 5 6 William Penn Advice to His Children [1699] 1 See Lao-tzu 2 See Confucius 3 See Heraclitus 4 See Chaucer 5 See Selden 6 See Newman Edward Taylor c. 1644-1729 Who spread its canopy? Or curtains spun? Who in this bowling alley bowled the sun? Edward Taylor Poetical Works [1939].God's Determinations Touching His Elect, preface For in Christ's coach saints sweetly sing As they to glory ride therein. Edward Taylor Poetical Works [1939].The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended Make me, O Lord, thy spinning-wheel complete. Edward Taylor Poetical Works [1939].Housewifery It's food too fine for angels; yet come, take And eat thy fill! It's Heaven's sugar cake. Edward Taylor Poetical Works [1939].Sacramental Meditations,8 This bread of life dropped in thy mouth doth cry: Eat, eat me, soul, and thou shalt never die. Edward Taylor Poetical Works [1939].Sacramental Meditations,8 Is Christ thy advocate to plead thy cause? 1 Art thou his client? Such shall never slide. He never lost his case. Edward Taylor Poetical Works [1939].Sacramental Meditations,38 1 See I John 2:1- My case is bad. Lord, be my advocate. My sin is red: I'm under God's arrest. Edward Taylor Poetical Works [1939].Sacramental Meditations,38 Jean de La Bruyere Jean de La Bruyere 1645-1696 We come too late to say anything which has not been said already. 1 2 3 Jean de La Bruyere Les Caracteres [1688].Des Ouvrages de l'Esprit 1 See Ecclesiastes 1:9 2 See Terence 3 See Burton Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well timed. Jean de La Bruyere Les Caracteres [1688].Du Coeur Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. Jean de La Bruyere Les Caracteres [1688].Du Coeur We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. 1 2 Jean de La Bruyere Les Caracteres [1688].Du Coeur 1 See Beaumarchais 2 See Byron To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. Jean de La Bruyere Les Caracteres [1688].De la Societe There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. Jean de La Bruyere Les Caracteres [1688].De l'Homme Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable. Jean de La Bruyere Les Caracteres [1688].De l'Homme Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men. Jean de La Bruyere Les Caracteres [1688].Des Femmes Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz 1646-1716 I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general. 1 Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz Quoted in Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, vol. V [1929], p. 152 1 See Prior Henry Aldrich 1647-1710 If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine-a friend-or being dry- Or lest we should be by and by- Or any other reason why. Henry Aldrich Five Reasons for Drinking John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 1647-1680 Here lies our sovereign lord the King, Whose promise none relies on; He never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Written on the bedchamber door of Charles II 1 1 See Charles II For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, The best good man with the worst-natured muse. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester An Allusion to Horace, bk. I, satire X A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A Satire on King Charles II The world appears like a great family, Whose lord, oppressed with pride and poverty, (That to the few great bounty he may show) Is fain to starve the numerous train below. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Like a Great Family There's not a thing on earth that I can name, So foolish, and so false, as common fame. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Did E'er This Saucy World Reason, which fifty times to one does err, Reason, an ignis fatuus of the mind. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A Satire Against Mankind [1675],l. 11 Books bear him up a while, and make him try To swim with bladders of philosophy. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A Satire Against Mankind [1675],l. 20 Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death, and make him understand, After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A Satire Against Mankind [1675],l. 25 Dead, we become the lumber of the world. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Seneca's Troas, act 2, chorus Juana Ines de la Cruz 1648-1695 Foolish men who accuse a woman mindlessly- you cannot even see you cause what you abuse. Juana Ines de la Cruz Hombres Necios (Foolish Men),st. 1 Has anyone ever seen a stranger moral fervor? You who dirty the mirror cry that it isn't clean. Juana Ines de la Cruz Hombres Necios (Foolish Men),st. 6 I became a nun, because although I recognized it as having many ramifications . . . foreign to my temperament, still, given my completely negative feelings about marriage, it was the least disproportionate and most fitting thing I could do. Juana Ines de la Cruz Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz [1691] Since I first gained the use of reason my inclination towards learning has been so violent and strong that neither the scoldings of other people . . . nor my own reflections . . . have been able to stop me from following this natural impulse that God gave me. He alone must know why; and He knows too that I have begged Him to take away the light of my understanding, leaving only enough for me to keep His law, for anything else is excessive in a woman, according to some people, and others say it is even harmful. Juana Ines de la Cruz Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz [1691] John Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham and Normanby 1648-1721 Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. John Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham and Normanby Essay on Poetry [1682] Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. John Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham and Normanby Essay on Poetry [1682] And when I feigned an angry look, Alas! I loved you best. John Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham and Normanby The Reconcilement [1701] Sir Thomas Pope Blount 1649-1697 Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect, carries with it the impress of its Maker, and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity. 1 Sir Thomas Pope Blount A Natural History [1693] 1 See Tennyson William III , Prince of Orange 1650-1702  There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch. William III , Prince of Orange From Hume, History of England [1754-1757], ch. 65 Every bullet has its billet. William III , Prince of Orange From John Wesley, Journal[June 6, 1765] Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon 1651-1715 Do not men die fast enough without being destroyed by each other? Can any man be insensible of the brevity of life? and can he who knows it, think life too long! Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon Telemaque [1699], bk.VII To be always ready for war, said Mentor, is the surest way to avoid it. 1 2 3 4 5 Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon Telemaque [1699], bk.X 1 See Aristotle 2 See Vegetius 3 See Robert Burton 4 See Washington 5 See Lowell Some of the most dreadful mischiefs that afflict mankind proceed from wine; it is the cause of disease, quarrels, sedition, idleness, aversion to labor, and every species of domestic disorder. Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon Telemaque [1699], bk.X The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity. Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon Telemaque [1699], bk.XIII Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach. Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon Telemaque [1699], bk.XVIII Thomas Otway 1652-1685 What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was 't betrayed the Capitol?-A woman! Who lost Mark Antony the world?-A woman! Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes?-Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman! Thomas Otway The Orphan [1680], actIII, sc. i Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. Thomas Otway The Orphan [1680], actIV, sc. ii O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair, to look like you. Thomas Otway Venice Preserved [1682], act I, sc. i Nahum Tate 1652-1715 When I am laid in earth. Nahum Tate Dido and Aeneas [c. 1690] While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The angel of the Lord came down, And glory shone around. 1 Nahum Tate Christmas Hymn [1700], st. 1 1 See Luke 2:8- Glad tidings of great joy I bring To you and all mankind. 1 Nahum Tate Christmas Hymn [1700], st. 1 1 See Luke 2:10 Nahum Tate 1652-1715 Nicholas Brady 1659-1726 Through all the changing scenes of life, In trouble and in joy. Nicholas Brady New Version of the Psalms of David [1696],Psalm 34 As pants the hart for cooling streams When heated in the chase. Nicholas Brady New Version of the Psalms of David [1696],Psalm 42 Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia! Nicholas Brady Easter Hymn [1698], translated from the Latin [fourteenth century] Monzaemon Chikamatsu 1653-1725  In writing joruri, one attempts first to describe facts as they really are, but in so doing one writes things which are not true, in the interest of art. Monzaemon Chikamatsu Preface to Hozumi Ikan, Naniwa Miyage It is essential that one not say of a thing that "it is sad," but that it be sad of itself. Monzaemon Chikamatsu Preface to Hozumi Ikan, Naniwa Miyage [Literary composition] should have stylization; this makes it art, and is what delights men's minds. Monzaemon Chikamatsu Preface to Hozumi Ikan, Naniwa Miyage Nathaniel Lee c. 1653-1692  Then he will talk-good gods! how he will talk! Nathaniel Lee The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great [1677], actI, sc. iii When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. Nathaniel Lee The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great [1677], actIV, sc. ii 'Tis beauty calls, and glory shows the way. Nathaniel Lee The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great [1677], actIV, sc. ii Man, false man, smiling, destructive man! Nathaniel Lee Theodosius [1680], act III, sc. ii Ransetsu 1653-1708 Against the blue stands A pine tree etched By tonight's moon. Ransetsu Harvest Moon Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun 1655-1716 If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun Conversation Concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the Common Good of Mankind [1704] John Dennis 1657-1734 A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. John Dennis The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LI [1781], p. 324  They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder. John Dennis Remark Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657-1757  The geometrical mind is not so closely bound to geometry that it cannot be drawn aside and transferred to other departments of knowledge. A work of morality, politics, criticism, perhaps even eloquence will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Preface sur l'Utilite des Mathematiques et la Physique [1729] John Norris 1657-1711 How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone. But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong- Like angels' visits, short and bright; Mortality's too weak to bear them long. John Norris The Parting [1678] Daniel Defoe c. 1660-1731 Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; 1 And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. Daniel Defoe The True-Born Englishman [1701], pt.I,l. 1 1 See Luther From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman. Daniel Defoe The True-Born Englishman [1701], pt.I,l. 132 Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. Daniel Defoe The True-Born Englishman [1701], pt.I,l. 374 In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven. Daniel Defoe The True-Born Englishman [1701], pt.II,l. 104 And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. Daniel Defoe The True-Born Englishman [1701], pt.II,l. 299 When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings. Daniel Defoe The True-Born Englishman [1701], pt.II,l. 313 All men would be tyrants if they could. 1 Daniel Defoe The Kentish Petition [1712-1713] 1 See A. Adams The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. Daniel Defoe Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesley [1715] He bade me [Robinson Crusoe] observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1 [1719] 1 See Rousseau One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1 [1719] My man Friday. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1 [1719] Sir Samuel Garth 1661-1719 A barren superfluity of words. Sir Samuel Garth The Dispensary [1699], canto II, l. 95 Hard was their lodging, homely was their food; For all their luxury was doing good. Sir Samuel Garth Claremont, l. 148 Kikaku 1661-1707 A harvest moon! And on the mats- Shadows of pine boughs. Kikaku Harvest Moon Richard Bentley 1662-1742 No man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. 1 Richard Bentley From J. H. Monk, Life of Bentley [1831] 1 See Montaigne  It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer. Richard Bentley From Johnson, Life of Pope Matthew Henry 1662-1714 He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Psalm 36 Our creature comforts. Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Psalm 37 They that die by famine die by inches. Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Psalm 59 To fish in troubled waters. Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Psalm 60  Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life. Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Psalm 104 Hearkeners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves. Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Ecclesiastes 7 It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare." Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Isaiah 30 None so blind as those that will not see. 1 Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Jeremiah 20 1 See Jeremiah 5:21 Judas had given them the slip. Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Matthew 22 After a storm comes a calm. Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Acts9 Men of polite learning and a liberal education. Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Acts10 It is good news, worthy of all acceptation! and yet not too good to be true. Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Timothy1 It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. 1 2 3 4 Matthew Henry Commentaries [1708-1710],Timothy3 1 See Clay 2 See Calhoun 3 See Sumner 4 See Cleveland All this and heaven too. Matthew Henry Life of Philip Henry Samuel Wesley 1662-1735 Style is the dress of thought; 1 a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, 2 will true critics please. Samuel Wesley An Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry [1700] 1 See Chesterfield 2 See Shakespeare Thomas Tom Brown 1663-1704 I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. Thomas Tom Brown Written while a student at Christ Church, Oxford To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. 1 Thomas Tom Brown Laconics [1707] 1 See Goldsmith Mary de la Riviere Manley 1663-1724 No time like the present. Mary de la Riviere Manley The Lost Lover [1696], act IV, sc. i Cotton Mather 1663-1728 I write the wonders of the Christian religion, flying from the depravations of Europe, to the American strand: and, assisted by the Holy Author of that religion, I do, with all conscience of truth, required therein by Him, who is the Truth itself, report the wonderful displays of His infinite power, wisdom, goodness, and faithfulness, wherewith his Divine Providence hath irradiated an Indian wilderness. Cotton Mather Magnalia Christi Americana[1702], introduction You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps. Cotton Mather Advice to Benjamin Franklin upon approaching a low-hanging beam in his parsonage William Walsh 1663-1708 Of all the plagues a lover bears, Sure rivals are the worst. William Walsh Song,st. 1 I can endure my own despair, But not another's hope. William Walsh Song,st. 2 The New England Primer In Adam's fall We sinned all. The New England Primer My book and heart Must never part. The New England Primer Young Obadias, David, Josias- All were pious. The New England Primer Peter denied His Lord, and cried. The New England Primer Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly. The New England Primer Xerxes did die, And so must I. The New England Primer Zaccheus he Did climb the tree Our Lord to see. The New England Primer Our days begin with trouble here, Our life is but a span, 1 2 And cruel death is always near, So frail a thing is man. The New England Primer 1 See Bacon 2 See Davies Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. The New England Primer Sir John Vanbrugh 1664-1726 Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her. Sir John Vanbrugh The Relapse [1697], actII, sc. i No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so. Sir John Vanbrugh The Relapse [1697], actIII, sc. ii Belinda: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil. Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation. Sir John Vanbrugh The Provoked Wife [1698], act I, sc. i  He laughs best who laughs last. Sir John Vanbrugh The Country House [1706], act II, sc. v Much of a muchness. Sir John Vanbrugh The Provoked Husband [1728](completed byColley Cibber ) act I, sc. i Susannah Centlivre c. 1667-1723 The real Simon Pure. Susannah Centlivre A Bold Stroke for a Wife [1718], act V, sc. i John Pomfret 1667-1702 We live and learn, but not the wiser grow. John Pomfret Reason, l. 112 Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more. 1 Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub [1704],dedication 1 See Webster Books, the children of the brain. Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub [1704],sec.1 As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails. Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub [1704],sec.7 Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books [1704], preface Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. 1 Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books [1704], preface 1 See Matthew Arnold Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. 1 2 Jonathan Swift A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind [1707] 1 See Anacharsis 2 See Zincgref There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy. 1 2 3 4 Jonathan Swift A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind [1707] 1 See Heraclitus 2 See Racan 3 See Shelley 4 See Wilde 'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed. Jonathan Swift Journal to Stella[November 8, 1710] With my own fair hands. Jonathan Swift Journal to Stella[January 4, 1711] We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same. Jonathan Swift Journal to Stella[February 1, 1711] I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company. Jonathan Swift Journal to Stella[May 17, 1711] We were to do more business after dinner; but after dinner is after dinner-an old saying and a true, "much drinking, little thinking." Jonathan Swift Journal to Stella[February 26, 1712] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift Thoughts on Various Subjects; from Miscellanies[1711] Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Jonathan Swift Thoughts on Various Subjects; from Miscellanies[1711] Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. Jonathan Swift Thoughts on Various Subjects; from Miscellanies[1711] A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. Jonathan Swift Thoughts on Various Subjects; from Miscellanies[1711] Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift Thoughts on Various Subjects; from Miscellanies[1726] 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. Jonathan Swift Cadenus and Vanessa [1713] Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. Jonathan Swift Letter to a Young Clergyman [January 9, 1720] If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. Jonathan Swift Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh [August 12, 1720] He [the Emperor] is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders. Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels [1726].Voyage to Lilliput, ch. 2 I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels [1726].Voyage to Brobdingnag,ch. 6  And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels [1726].Voyage to Brobdingnag,ch. 6 He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels [1726].Voyage to Laputa,ch. 5  I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.) Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels [1726].Voyage to the Houyhnhnms I told him . . . that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst. Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels [1726].Voyage to the Houyhnhnmsch. 6 A set of phrases learnt by rote; A passion for a scarlet coat; When at a play to laugh, or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason why: Never to hold her tongue a minute; While all she prates has nothing in it. Jonathan Swift The Furniture of a Woman's Mind [1727] For conversation well endued; She calls it witty to be rude; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing. Jonathan Swift The Furniture of a Woman's Mind [1727] Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole. Jonathan Swift Letter to Bolingbroke [March 21, 1729] Yet malice never was his aim; He lashed the vice but spared the name. No individual could resent, Where thousands equally were meant. His satire points at no defect But what all mortals may correct; For he abhorred that senseless tribe Who call it humor when they gibe. Jonathan Swift Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift [1731], l. 459 Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. 1 Jonathan Swift On Poetry. A Rhapsody [1733] 1 See Hobbes So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind. Jonathan Swift On Poetry. A Rhapsody [1733] Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest. Give him always of the prime, And but little at a time. Carve to all but just enough, Let them neither starve nor stuff, And that you may have your due, Let your neighbor carve for you. Jonathan Swift Conversation Under an oak, in stormy weather, I joined this rogue and whore together; And none but he who rules the thunder Can put this rogue and whore asunder. Jonathan Swift Marriage certificate. From The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes,James Sutherland , ed. [1975], no. 77  The sight of you is good for sore eyes. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue1 'Tis as cheap sitting as standing. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue1 I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world. 1 Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue1 1 See The Book of Common Prayer, Holy Communion You were half seas over. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue1 I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue1 She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue1 She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue1 He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue2 That's as well said, as if I had said it myself. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue2 Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue2 She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue2 Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing! Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue2  The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue2 May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue2 I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue2 I thought you and he were hand-in-glove. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue2 She watches him, as a cat would watch a mouse. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue3 She pays him in his own coin. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue3 There was all the world and his wife. Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation [1738?], dialogue3 Hail, fellow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out if you can, Who's master, who's man. Jonathan Swift My Lady's Lamentation [1765],l. 171 I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top. Jonathan Swift From Sir Walter Scott, Life of Swift [1814] Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book [A Tale of a Tub]. Jonathan Swift From Sir Walter Scott, Life of Swift [1814]  Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit [Where savage indignation can lacerate his heart no more]. Jonathan Swift Epitaph. Inscribed on Swift's grave, St. Patrick's, Dublin Alain Rene Lesage 1668-1747 It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory. 1 Alain Rene Lesage Gil Blas [1715-1735], bk.III, ch. 11 1 See Sheridan A flatterer can risk everything with great personages. Alain Rene Lesage Gil Blas [1715-1735], bk.IV, ch. 7 Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. Alain Rene Lesage Gil Blas [1715-1735], bk.VII, ch.3 I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste. Alain Rene Lesage Gil Blas [1715-1735], bk.VII, ch.4 The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing. Alain Rene Lesage Gil Blas [1715-1735], bk.VII, ch.7 Facts are stubborn things. Alain Rene Lesage Gil Blas [1715-1735], bk.X, ch. 1 Giovanni Battista Giambattista Vico 1668-1774 The nature of things is nothing other than that they come into being at certain times and in certain ways. Wherever the same circumstances are present, the same phenomena arise and no others. Giovanni Battista Giambattista Vico Scienza Nuova [1725] In that dark night which shrouds from our eyes the most remote antiquity, a light appears which cannot lead us astray; I speak of this incontestable truth: the social world is certainly the work of man. Giovanni Battista Giambattista Vico Scienza Nuova [1725] Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature. 1 Giovanni Battista Giambattista Vico Scienza Nuova [1725] 1 See Jefferson William Congreve 1670-1729 Eternity was in that moment. William Congreve The Old Bachelor [1693], actIV, sc. vii Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. 1 William Congreve The Old Bachelor [1693], actV, sc. viii 1 See Shakespeare It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. William Congreve The Double Dealer [1694],epistle dedicatory Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. 1 William Congreve The Double Dealer [1694],actI, sc. i 1 See Fielding Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. William Congreve The Double Dealer [1694],actII, sc. iii No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise. William Congreve The Double Dealer [1694],actV, sc. iv Thou liar of the first magnitude. William Congreve Love for Love [1695], actII, sc.ii  I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper. William Congreve Love for Love [1695], actII, sc.ii O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell. William Congreve Love for Love [1695], actII, sc.x Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand. William Congreve Love for Love [1695], actIV, sc. iii Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, 1 To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. William Congreve The Mourning Bride [1697], actI, sc. i 1 See Shakespeare By magic numbers and persuasive sound. William Congreve The Mourning Bride [1697], actI, sc. i Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve The Mourning Bride [1697], actIII, sc. viii Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined. William Congreve The Way of the World [1700], actIII, sc. xii I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country. William Congreve The Way of the World [1700], actIV, sc.v Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all. William Congreve The Way of the World [1700], actIV, sc.v Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants. William Congreve The Way of the World [1700], actIV, sc.ix O, she is the antidote to desire. William Congreve The Way of the World [1700], actIV, sc.xiv Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. William Congreve Amoret Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. 1 2 William Congreve Letter to Cobham 1 See Euripides 2 See Edward Young Colley Cibber 1671-1757 As good be out of the world as out of the fashion. Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift [1696], act II Possession is eleven points in the law. Colley Cibber Woman's Wit [1697], actI Words are but empty thanks. Colley Cibber Woman's Wit [1697], actV Off with his head 1 2 -so much for Buckingham. Colley Cibber Richard III (altered) [1700], actIV, sc. iii 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Carroll Perish the thought! Colley Cibber Richard III (altered) [1700], actV, sc. v This business will never hold water. Colley Cibber She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not [1703], act IV Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended. Colley Cibber The Double Gallant [1707],prologue Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring! Colley Cibber The Double Gallant [1707],act I, sc. ii Stolen sweets are best. Colley Cibber The Rival Fools [1709], act I Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury 1671-1713 How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? 1 Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm [1708], sec. 2 1 See Chesterfield  Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one of those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to be viewed in order to a thorough recognition is ridicule itself. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor [1709], pt. I, sec. 1 Joseph Addison 1672-1719  For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. Joseph Addison A Letter from Italy [1703] And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. Joseph Addison The Campaign [1704], l. 91 Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison Tatler [1709-1711], no. 147 The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. 1 Joseph Addison Ode [in The Spectator, no. 465, August 23, 1712] 1 See Psalm 19:1 Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. Joseph Addison Ode [in The Spectator, no. 465, August 23, 1712] Forever singing as they shine, "The Hand that made us is divine." Joseph Addison Ode [in The Spectator, no. 465, August 23, 1712] Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. Joseph Addison Horace, Odes, bk. III, ode iii 1 1 See Horace 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actI, sc.ii Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actI, sc.iv 'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism. Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actI, sc.iv Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north. Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actI, sc.iv Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actI, sc.iv My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actII, sc. i The woman that deliberates is lost. Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actIV, sc.i Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actIV, sc.iv What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! 1 Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actIV, sc.iv 1 See Nathan Hale When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actIV, sc.iv It must be so-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 1 2 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actV, sc.i 1 See Browne 2 See Emerson Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actV, sc.iv From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow. Joseph Addison Cato [1713], actV, sc.iv Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes. Joseph Addison The Drummer [1716], prologue, l. 8 If I can any way contribute to the diversion or improvement of the country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain. 1 Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.1 [March 1, 1711] 1 See Grellet Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.1 [March 1, 1711] I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.10 [March 11, 1711] True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.15 [March 17, 1711] There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.73 [May 24, 1711] A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.93 [June 16, 1711] There is no defense against reproach but obscurity. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.101 [June 26, 1711] Much might be said on both sides. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.122 [July 20, 1711] Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.124 [July 23, 1711] Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.166 [September 10, 1711] Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.169 [September 13, 1711] Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies. 1 2 3 Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.195 [October 13, 1711] 1 See Herbert 2 See Hugo 3 See Sill A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.291 [February 2, 1712] These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.335 [March 25, 1712] Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.381 [May 17, 1712] Sir Roger made several reflections on the greatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that the Thames was the noblest river in Europe . . . with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.383 [May 20, 1712] Our disputants put me in mind of the skuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.476 [September 5, 1712] The fraternity of the henpecked. 1 Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.482 [September 12, 1712] 1 See Byron A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.574 [July 30, 1714] We are always doing something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us. Joseph Addison The Spectator, no.587 [August 20, 1714] See in what peace a Christian can die. Joseph Addison Dying words [1719]. From Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition [1759] Edmond Hoyle 1672-1769  When in doubt, win the trick. Edmond Hoyle Twenty-four Rules for Learners, rule 12 Sir Richard Steele 1672-1729 I am come to a tavern alone to eat a steak, after which I shall return to the office. Sir Richard Steele Letters to His Wife[October 28, 1707] I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. I will come within a pint of wine. Sir Richard Steele Letters to His Wife[Eleven at night, January 5, 1708] A little in drink, but at all times yr faithful husband. Sir Richard Steele Letters to His Wife[September 27, 1708] The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men. Sir Richard Steele Letters to His Wife[September 17, 1712]  Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education. Sir Richard Steele Tatler [1709-1711], no. 49 When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. Sir Richard Steele The Spectator, no.49 [April 26, 1711] Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. Sir Richard Steele The Spectator, no.139 [August 9, 1711] Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. Sir Richard Steele The Spectator, no.153 [August 25, 1711] Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. Sir Richard Steele The Spectator, no.238 [December 3, 1711] Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous. Sir Richard Steele The Spectator, no.266 [January 4, 1712] A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. Sir Richard Steele The Spectator, no.497 [September 30, 1712] Francois Goyot de Pitavals 1673-1743 Causes Celebres. Francois Goyot de Pitavals Title of book recounting famous trials and judgments Nicholas Rowe 1674-1718 As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, And none could be unhappy but the great. Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent [1703],prologue At length the morn and cold indifference came. Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent [1703],actI, sc. i Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario? Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent [1703],actV, sc. i Isaac Watts 1674-1748 Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul; The mind's the standard of the man. Isaac Watts Horae Lyricae [1706], bk. II, False Greatness Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Isaac Watts Divine Songs [1715],16, Against Quarreling and Fighting But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. Isaac Watts Divine Songs [1715],16, Against Quarreling and Fighting Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. Isaac Watts Divine Songs [1715],17, Love Between Brothers and Sisters How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, 1 And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! Isaac Watts Divine Songs [1715],20, Against Idleness and Mischief 1 See Lewis Carroll For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. Isaac Watts Divine Songs [1715],20, Against Idleness and Mischief Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still. Isaac Watts Divine Songs [1715],22, Against Pride in Clothes Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. Isaac Watts Divine Songs [1715],35, A Cradle Hymn 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, "You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." 1 Isaac Watts Divine Songs [1715],The Sluggard 1 See Lewis Carroll O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home. Isaac Watts Psalm 90 [1719],st. 1 A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. Isaac Watts Psalm 90 [1719],st. 4 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. 1 2 Isaac Watts Psalm 90 [1719],st. 5 1 See Marcus Aurelius 2 See Anonymous Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King. Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room, And heav'n and nature sing. Isaac Watts Psalm 98 [1719], st. 1 When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. Isaac Watts Hymns and Spiritual Songs, bk. II, hymn65 There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Isaac Watts Hymns and Spiritual Songs, bk. II, hymn66 William Somerville 1675-1742  Let all the learned say what they can, 'Tis ready money makes the man. William Somerville Ready Money [1727] There is something in a face, An air, and a peculiar grace, Which boldest painters cannot trace. William Somerville The Lucky Hit [1727] The chase, the sport of kings; Image of war, without its guilt. William Somerville The Chase [1735], I, 13 John Philips 1676-1709 Happy the man who, void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling. John Philips The Splendid Shilling [1701], l. 1 Sir Robert Walpole 1676-1745 The balance of power. Sir Robert Walpole Speech in the House of Commons [February 13, 1741] All those men have their price. Sir Robert Walpole From William Coxe, Memoirs of Walpole [1798], vol. IV, p. 369 Anything but history, for history must be false. Sir Robert Walpole Walpoliana, no. 141 Henry St. John , Viscount Bolingbroke 1678-1751 Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. Henry St. John , Viscount Bolingbroke Reflections upon Exile [1716] Nations, like men, have their infancy. Henry St. John , Viscount Bolingbroke On the Study and Use of History [1752], letter4 They [Thucydides and Xenophon] maintained the dignity of history. Henry St. John , Viscount Bolingbroke On the Study and Use of History [1752], letter5 It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word. 1 2 Henry St. John , Viscount Bolingbroke Letter to Alexander Pope 1 See Pope 2 See Jefferson ÿ George Farquhar 1678-1707 Reason still keeps its throne, but it nods a little, that's all. George Farquhar The Recruiting Officer [1706], act III, sc. ii I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. George Farquhar The Beaux' Stratagem [1707], actI, sc. i My Lady Bountiful. George Farquhar The Beaux' Stratagem [1707], actI, sc. i I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. George Farquhar The Beaux' Stratagem [1707], actIII, sc.i  'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad.-Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that. George Farquhar The Beaux' Stratagem [1707], actIII, sc.ii How a little love and good company improves a woman! George Farquhar The Beaux' Stratagem [1707], actIV, sc. i Spare all I have, and take my life. George Farquhar The Beaux' Stratagem [1707], actV, sc. ii Thomas Parnell 1679-1718 My days have been so wondrous free, The little birds that fly With careless ease from tree to tree, Were but as blessed as I. Thomas Parnell Song [1714], st. 1 Still an angel appear to each lover beside, But still be a woman to you. Thomas Parnell When Thy Beauty Appears [1722], st. 3 We call it only pretty Fanny's way. Thomas Parnell An Elegy to an Old Beauty [1722], st. 4 Let those love now who never loved before; Let those who always loved, now love the more. Thomas Parnell Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris 1 2 1 See Anonymous Latin 2 See Freiligrath Philippe Destouches Philippe Nericault 1680-1754  Those not present are always wrong. Philippe Destouches L'Obstacle Imprevu [1717], act I, sc. vi Criticism is easy, art is difficult. Philippe Destouches Le Glorieux [1732], act II, sc. v Edward Young 1683-1765 The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. Edward Young Love of Fame [1725-1728], satireI,l. 51 Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. Edward Young Love of Fame [1725-1728], satireI,l. 89 Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. Edward Young Love of Fame [1725-1728], satireII,l. 282 Forever most divinely in the wrong. Edward Young Love of Fame [1725-1728], satireVI,l. 105 For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem. Edward Young Love of Fame [1725-1728], satireVI,l. 187 One to destroy, is murder by the law; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. 1 2 3 Edward Young Love of Fame [1725-1728], satireVII,l. 55 1 See Seneca 2 See Porteus 3 See J. R. Lowell The man that makes a character makes foes. Edward Young To Mr. Pope, epistle I, l. 28 In records that defy the tooth of time. Edward Young The Statesman's Creed Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night I,l. 1 Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world. Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night I,l. 18 Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end. Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night I,l. 23 The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night I,l. 55 Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. 1 2 Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night I,l. 390 1 See Euripides 2 See Congreve Procrastination is the thief of time. Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night I,l. 393 At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same. Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night I,l. 417 All men think all men mortal but themselves. Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night I,l. 424 Man wants but little, nor that little long. 1 2 Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night IV,l. 118 1 See Goldsmith 2 See John Quincy Adams A God all mercy is a God unjust. Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night IV,l. 233 By night an atheist half believes a God. 1 Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night V,l. 177 1 See W. T. Cummings Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night V,l. 661 Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. 1 Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night V,l. 1011 1 See Quarles Too low they build, who build beneath the stars. Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night VIII,l. 215 Final Ruin fiercely drives Her plowshare o'er creation. 1 Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night IX,l. 167 1 See Burns An undevout astronomer is mad. Edward Young Night Thoughts [1742-1745].Night IX,l. 771 Sir William Pulteney, Earl of Bath 1684-1764  Since twelve honest men have decided the cause, And were judges of facts, though not judges of laws. Sir William Pulteney, Earl of Bath The Honest Jury [1731], III George Berkeley 1685-1753 And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities? George Berkeley The Analyst [1734], sec. 4 [Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. 1 George Berkeley Siris [1744],par. 217 1 See Cowper Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few. George Berkeley Siris [1744],par. 368 He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. George Berkeley Maxims Concerning Patriotism Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. George Berkeley On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America [1752], st. 6 Jane Brereton 1685-1740 The picture placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength, Wisdom, and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length. Jane Brereton On Beau Nash's Picture at Full Length Between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope Aaron Hill 1685-1750 Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. Aaron Hill Verses Written on a Window in Scotland Samuel Madden 1686-1765 In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot upon the ground. Samuel Madden Quoted by Samuel Johnson [1783]. FromBoswell, Life of Johnson [1791], vol. II, p. 457 (Everyman edition) Allan Ramsay 1686-1758 Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean. Allan Ramsay Lochaber No More [1724], st. 1 Henry Carey c. 1687-1743 Namby Pamby's little rhymes, Little jingle, little chimes. Henry Carey Namby Pamby Of all the girls that are so smart, There's none like pretty Sally. She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley. Henry Carey Sally in Our Alley [1729], st. 1 God save our gracious king! Long live our noble king! God save the king! Henry Carey God Save the King [c. 1740] John Gay 1688-1732 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. John Gay The What D'ye Call It [1715], act II, sc. viii Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night. John Gay Trivia [1716], bk. III All in the Downs the fleet was moored. John Gay Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan [1720] Adieu! she cries; and waved her lily hand. John Gay Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan [1720] My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear. John Gay My Lodging Is on the Cold Ground [1720], st. 1 Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? John Gay Fables, pt.I [1727].The Shepherd and the Philosopher Where yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another? John Gay Fables, pt.I [1727].The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. John Gay Fables, pt.I [1727].The Elephant and the Bookseller Those who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose. John Gay Fables, pt.I [1727].The Mastiffs I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. John Gay Fables, pt.I [1727].The Poet and the Rose And when a lady's in the case, You know all other things give place. John Gay Fables, pt.I [1727].The Hare and Many Friends In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree. 1 2 John Gay Fables, pt.I [1727].The Rat-catcher and Cat 1 See Hesiod 2 See Meredith From wine what sudden friendship springs! John Gay Fables, pt.II [1738]. The Squire and His Cur O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, By keeping men off, you keep them on. John Gay The Beggar's Opera [1728], 1 actI, sc.iv, air 9 1 See Brecht If with me you'd fondly stray. Over the hills and far away. John Gay The Beggar's Opera [1728], 1 actI, sc.xiii, air 16 Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous? John Gay The Beggar's Opera [1728], 1 actII, sc.i, air 19 If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears. John Gay The Beggar's Opera [1728], 1 actII, sc.iii, air 21 Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty. John Gay The Beggar's Opera [1728], 1 actII, sc.iv, air 22 Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets. John Gay The Beggar's Opera [1728], 1 actII, sc.viii, air 26 How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away! John Gay The Beggar's Opera [1728], 1 actII, sc.xiii, air 35 The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The Judges all ranged (a terrible show!) John Gay The Beggar's Opera [1728], 1 actIII, sc. xi, air 57 Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. John Gay My Own Epitaph Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1688-1763 In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough. Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard [1730], act I, sc. ii Alexander Pope 1688-1744  Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. 1 Alexander Pope Ode on Solitude [c. 1700],st. 1 1 See Horace Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. Alexander Pope Ode on Solitude [c. 1700],st. 5 Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade: Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. Alexander Pope Pastorals [written 1704]. Summer, l. 73 Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all. Alexander Pope The Temple of Fame [1711], l. 513 How vast a memory has Love! Alexander Pope Sappho to Phaon [1712], l. 52 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 1 Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.I,l. 9 1 See Suckling Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.I,l. 15 Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.I,l. 26 Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. 1 Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.I,l. 177 1 See Horace Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 1 A little learning is a dangerous thing; 1 Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 15 1 See Publilius Syrus Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 32 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 45 Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. 1 Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 53 1 See Suckling True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 97 Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 109 Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearned, and make the learned smile. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 126 Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 135 As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 142 Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 156 True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 162 At ev'ry trifle scorn to take offense. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 186 Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; For fools admire, but men of sense approve. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 190 Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 212 What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines! Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 218 Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 230 To err is human, to forgive divine. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 525 All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.II,l. 558 Be silent always when you doubt your sense. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.III,l. 6 Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.III,l. 15 The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.III,l. 53 For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 1 Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.III,l. 66 1 See Shakespeare But where's the man who counsel can bestow, Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know? 1 Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.III,l. 72 1 See Chaucer Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt.III,l. 182 Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! 1 Alexander Pope The Dying Christian to His Soul [1712], st. 1 1 See Hadrian What dire offense from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things! 1 Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoI, l. 1 1 See Robert Burton On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoII,l. 7 If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoII,l. 17 Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. 1 Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoII,l. 27 1 See Robert Burton Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take-and sometimes tea. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoIII,l. 7 At every word a reputation dies. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoIII,l. 16 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoIII,l. 21 Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoIII,l. 46 Coffee, which makes the politician wise. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoIII,l. 117 But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill! Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoIII,l. 125 The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoIII,l. 153 Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock [1712], cantoV, l. 34 To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage. Alexander Pope Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato [1713],l. 1 A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. Alexander Pope Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato [1713],l. 21 Ignobly vain, and impotently great. Alexander Pope Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato [1713],l. 29 Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. Alexander Pope Windsor Forest [1713],l. 11 Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air. Alexander Pope Windsor Forest [1713],l. 131 Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. 1 Alexander Pope Letter to E. Blount [August 27, 1714] 1 See Pope The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O goddess sing! Alexander Pope Translation of the Iliad [1715], 1 bkI, l. 1 1 See Bentley She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. Alexander Pope Translation of the Iliad [1715], 1 bkIII, l. 1 Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. Alexander Pope Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer [1721] Tell me, Muse, of the man of many wiles. 1 Alexander Pope Translation of the Odyssey [1725-1756], bk.I,l. 1 1 See Homer So perish all who do the like again. Alexander Pope Translation of the Odyssey [1725-1756], bk.I,l. 37 True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. 1 2 Alexander Pope Translation of the Odyssey [1725-1756], bk.XV, l. 83 1 See Homer 2 See Pope Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease! Alexander Pope A Farewell to London [1715],st. 1 Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days! Alexander Pope A Farewell to London [1715],st. 12 Oh name forever sad! forever dear! Still breathed in sighs, still ushered with a tear. Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard [1717],l. 31 Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom, Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard [1717],l. 37 Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard [1717],l. 57 No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee! Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard [1717],l. 88 And if I lose thy love, I lose my all. Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard [1717],l. 118 How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard [1717],l. 207 One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard [1717],l. 273 He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard [1717],l. 366 What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? Alexander Pope Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady [1717],l. 1 Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die? Alexander Pope Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady [1717],l. 6 Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods. Alexander Pope Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady [1717],l. 13 By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned! Alexander Pope Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady [1717],l. 51 How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be! Alexander Pope Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady [1717],l. 71 The fate of all extremes is such, Men may be read, as well as books, too much. To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th' observer's sake. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleI, To Lord Cobham [1734],l. 9 Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleI, To Lord Cobham [1734],l. 29 Not always actions show the man: we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleI, To Lord Cobham [1734],l. 109 'Tis education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleI, To Lord Cobham [1734],l. 149 Most women have no characters at all. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleII, To Mrs. M. Blount [1735],l. 2 Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleII, To Mrs. M. Blount [1735],l. 19 Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleII, To Mrs. M. Blount [1735],l. 71 Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought. You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleII, To Mrs. M. Blount [1735],l. 95 "With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleII, To Mrs. M. Blount [1735],l. 159 In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind; Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleII, To Mrs. M. Blount [1735],l. 207 Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleII, To Mrs. M. Blount [1735],l. 215 She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleII, To Mrs. M. Blount [1735],l. 261 And mistress of herself, though china fall. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleII, To Mrs. M. Blount [1735],l. 268 Woman's at best a contradiction still. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleII, To Mrs. M. Blount [1735],l. 270 Who shall decide when doctors disagree? Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleIII, To Lord Bathurst [1732],l. 1 But thousands die, without or this or that, Die, and endow a college, or a cat. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleIII, To Lord Bathurst [1732],l. 95 The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleIII, To Lord Bathurst [1732],l. 153 Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleIII, To Lord Bathurst [1732],l. 351 Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleIV, To Lord Burlington [1731], l. 43 Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honor clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend. Alexander Pope Moral Essays [1720-1735]. EpistleVII, To Mr. Addison [1720], l. 67  "Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude. Alexander Pope Letter to Fortescue [September 23, 1725] You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. Alexander Pope Epigram: An Empty House [1727] Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. Alexander Pope Martinus Scriblerus on the Art of Sinking in Poetry [1728], ch. 11 In wit a man, simplicity a child. Alexander Pope Epitaph on Gay [1732] 1 1 See Gay Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 1 Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise: Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. 1 2 Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 13 1 See Milton 2 See Housman Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 17 Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 83 Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, 1 2 Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 87 1 See Matthew 10:29 2 See Shakespeare Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 95 Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav'n. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 99 But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 111 In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies! Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels men rebel. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 123 Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. 1 2 3 Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 139 1 See Matthew 5:35 2 See Wells 3 See Day Die of a rose in aromatic pain? Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 200 All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 267 As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all! Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 277 All nature is but art unknown to thee, All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. 1 2 Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleI,l. 289 1 See Marcus Aurelius 2 See Dryden Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the skeptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! 1 Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleII,l. 1 1 See Pascal Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleII,l. 63 And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. 1 Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleII,l. 131 1 See Exodus 7:12 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; 1 Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleII,l. 217 1 See Dryden The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleII,l. 263 Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer books are the toys of age! Pleased with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleII,l. 274 Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIII,l. 177 For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. 1 In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIII,l. 303 1 See Cowley O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIV,l. 1 Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIV,l. 203 What's Fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIV,l. 237 A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God. 1 2 Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIV,l. 247 1 See Fletcher 2 See Burns One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas: And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIV,l. 255 If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind! Or ravished with the whistling of a name, 1 See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame! Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIV,l. 281 1 See Cowley Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. 1 2 Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIV,l. 331 1 See Bolingbroke 2 See Jefferson Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. 1 Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIV,l. 379 1 See Boileau Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph and partake the gale? 1 Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIV,l. 385 1 See Dante Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIV,l. 390 That true self-love and social are the same. 1 Alexander Pope An Essay on Man [1733-1734]. EpistleIV,l. 396 1 See John Quincy Adams Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker! say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 1 Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 5 Fired that the house reject him, "'S death, I'll print it, And shame the fools." Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 61 No creature smarts so little as a fool. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 84 Destroy his fib, or sophistry-in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 91 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 127 This long disease, my life. 1 2 Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 132 1 See Cowley 2 See Arnold Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 1 The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 169 1 See Martial Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 186 Were there one whose fires True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires, Blessed with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 193 Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he! Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 213 Oh let me live my own, and die so too (To live and die is all I have to do)! Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 261 Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 283 Let Sporus tremble-"What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 305 Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 309 Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 315 And he himself one vile antithesis. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 325 Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 333 Unlearned, he knew no schoolman's subtle art, No language, but the language of the heart. Alexander Pope Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [1734]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace,l. 398 I cannot sleep a wink. 1 2 Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],satireI,bk. II,l. 12 1 See Cervantes 2 See Shakespeare Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],satireI,bk. II,l. 69 But touch me, and no minister so sore. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],satireI,bk. II,l. 76 There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],satireI,bk. II,l. 127 For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. 1 2 Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],satireII, bk. II, l. 159 1 See Homer 2 See Pope I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. 1 Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],satireVI, bk. II,l. 1 1 See Horace Give me again my hollow tree, A crust of bread, and liberty. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],satireVI, bk. II,l. 220 A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],Epilogue to the Satires,Dialogue I,l. 41 Laugh then at any but at fools or foes; These you but anger, and you mend not those. Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore, So much the better, you may laugh the more. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],Epilogue to the Satires,Dialogue I,l. 53 Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],Epilogue to the Satires,Dialogue I,l. 135 Never gallop Pegasus to death. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.I,l. 14 When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.I,l. 38 Not to go back is somewhat to advance, And men must walk, at least, before they dance. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.I,l. 53 He's armed without that's innocent within. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.I,l. 94 Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. 1 Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.I,l. 103 1 See Horace Above all Greek, above all Roman fame. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.II,l. 26 The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God. 1 Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.II,l. 89 1 See Alcuin In quibbles angel and archangel join, And God the Father turns a school-divine. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.II,l. 101 (on Paradise Lost) The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.II,l. 108 One simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.II,l. 111 Who says in verse what others say in prose. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.II,l. 202 What will a child learn sooner than a song? Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.II,l. 205 Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art-the art to blot. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.II,l. 280 There still remains, to mortify a wit, The many-headed monster of the pit. 1 2 3 4 5 Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.II,l. 304 1 See Horace 2 See Machiavelli 3 See Shakespeare 4 See  5 See  We poets are (upon a poet's word) Of all mankind the creatures most absurd: The season when to come, and when to go, To sing, or cease to sing, we never know. 1 Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleI, bk.II,l. 358 1 See Robert Frost Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease, It gives men happiness, or leaves them ease. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleII, bk. II, l. 182 The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],EpistleVI, bk. I, l. 27 Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. 1 2 Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace [1733-1738],Odes, bk. IV, ode 9, st. 4 1 See Pindar 2 See Horace Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Alexander Pope The Universal Prayer [1738],st. 1 And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. Alexander Pope The Universal Prayer [1738],st. 3 And deal damnation round the land. Alexander Pope The Universal Prayer [1738],st. 7 Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. 1 Alexander Pope The Universal Prayer [1738],st. 10 1 See Spenser I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? Alexander Pope On the collar of a dog Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. Alexander Pope Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton Who dare to love their country, and be poor. Alexander Pope On his grotto at Twickenham [1740] This is the Jew That Shakespeare drew. Alexander Pope Of Macklin's performance in 1741 of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (attributed to Pope) I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. 1 Alexander Pope Thoughts on Various Subjects; published in Swift's Miscellanies [1727] 1 See La Rochefoucauld A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Alexander Pope Thoughts on Various Subjects; published in Swift's Miscellanies [1727] It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out. Alexander Pope Thoughts on Various Subjects; published in Swift's Miscellanies [1727] When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. 1 Alexander Pope Thoughts on Various Subjects; published in Swift's Miscellanies [1727] 1 See La Rochefoucauld Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few. 1 Alexander Pope Thoughts on Various Subjects; published in Swift's Miscellanies [1727] 1 See Pope Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.I,l. 21 Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.I,l. 52 While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.I,l. 93 Next o'er his books his eyes begin to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.I,l. 127 Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.I,l. 139 And gentle Dullness ever loves a joke. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.II,l. 34 A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.II,l. 44 Peeled, patched, and piebald, linsey-woolsey brothers, Grave mummers! sleeveless some, and shirtless others. That once was Britain. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.III,l. 115 And proud his mistress' order to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. 1 Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.III,l. 263 1 See Addison A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. 1 Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.IV,l. 90 1 See Quintilian The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.IV,l. 188 Stuff the head With all such reading as was never read: For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.IV,l. 249 To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.IV,l. 301 Led by my hand, he sauntered Europe round, And gathered every vice on Christian ground. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.IV,l. 311 Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire Chaos! is restored: Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all. Alexander Pope The Dunciad [1728-1743], bk.IV,l. 649 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1689-1762 And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The Lover [1748] Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu A Summary of Lord Lyttelton's Advice Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace, bk. II But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Letters and Works [1837]. The Answer Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu 1689-1755 How can anyone be Persian? Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu Lettres Persanes [1721], no.30 A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu Lettres Persanes [1721], no.40 If triangles had a god, he would have three sides. 1 Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu Lettres Persanes [1721], no.59 1 See Xenophanes Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu De l'Esprit des Lois [1748],XI, 3 Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu De l'Esprit des Lois [1748],XXIX, 16 If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman . . . because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. 1 Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu Pensees et Fragments Inedits de Montesquieu [1899], I 1 See Montaigne You have to study a great deal to know a little. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu Pensees et Fragments Inedits de Montesquieu [1899], I John Byrom 1692-1763 God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender; God bless-no harm in blessing-the Pretender; But who Pretender is, or who is King, God bless us all-that's quite another thing. John Byrom Miscellaneous Poems [1773].To an Officer in the Army, Extempore; Intended to Allay the Violence of Party Spirit Some say, that Signor Bononcini, Compared to Handel's a mere ninny; Others aver, to him, that Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. 1 Strange! that such high dispute should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. John Byrom Miscellaneous Poems [1773].On the Feuds Between Handel and Bononcini 1 See Lamb As clear as a whistle. John Byrom Epistle to Lloyd Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield 1694-1773 Measures not men. 1 2 3 Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].March 6, 1742 1 See Goldsmith 2 See Burke 3 See Adams Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].March 10, 1746 The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].October 4, 1746 An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].October 9, 1746 Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing. 1 2 3 4 Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].October 9, 1747 1 See Matthew 7:12 2 See Confucius 3 See Aristotle 4 See Kingsley Take the tone of the company that you are in. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].October 9, 1747  I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves." Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].November 6, 1747 Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].January 29, 1748 Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].February 22, 1748 Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].February 22, 1748 Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].July 1, 1748 Women, then, are only children of a larger growth. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].September 5, 1748 Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].September 5, 1748 Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].May 22, 1749 Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].July 20, 1749 Style is the dress of thoughts. 1 Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].November 24, 1749 1 See Samuel Wesley  Whatever subject he [Bolingbroke] either speaks or writes upon, he adorns with the most splendid eloquence. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].December 12, 1749 Dispatch is the soul of business. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].February 5, 1750 Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].May 8, 1750 Let blockheads read what blockheads write. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].November 1, 1750 It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, 1 that ridicule is the best test of truth. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].February 6, 1752 1 See Shaftesbury Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son [1774].March 16, 1752  The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield To Solomon Dayrolles, February 16, 1753 I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield The World [December 5, 1754], no. 101 Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Epigram on ("Long") Sir Thomas Robinson The dews of the evening most carefully shun- Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Advice to a Lady in Autumn Give Dayrolles a chair. Philip Dormer Stanhope , Earl of Chesterfield Last words Francis Hutcheson 1694-1746  That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. Francis Hutcheson Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil [1720], sec. 3 Francois Quesnay 1694-1774  Laissez faire, laissez passer. Francois Quesnay Attributed Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet 1694-1778 Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Oedipe [1718], act I, sc. iv O what fine times, this age of iron! Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Le Mondain [1736] Paradise is where I am. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Le Mondain [1736] The superfluous, a very necessary thing. 1 Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Le Mondain [1736] 1 See Holmes The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme [1738] Love truth, but pardon error. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme [1738] He who is merely just is severe. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Letter to Frederick the Great [1740] The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Merope [1743], act I, sc. iii It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. 1 Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Zadig [1747], ch. 6 1 See Blackstone They squeeze the orange and throw away the skin. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Letter to Madame Denis [September 2, 1751] referring to his quarrel with Frederick the Great This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Essai sur les Moeurs [1756]  In this best of possible worlds . . . all is for the best [Dr. Pangloss]. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Candide [1759], ch.1 If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Candide [1759], ch.6 Optimism, said Candide, is a mania for maintaining that all is well when things are going badly. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Candide [1759], ch.19  In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Candide [1759], ch.23 This is the happiest of mortals, for he is above everything he possesses. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Candide [1759], ch.26  Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and need. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Candide [1759], ch.30  We must cultivate our garden. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Candide [1759], ch.30 There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Letter to Cardinal de Bernis[April 23, 1761] One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Letter to Rousseau [August 31, 1761]  Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing [superstition], and love those who love you. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Letter to d'Alembert [November 28, 1762] Common sense is not so common. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Dictionnaire Philosophique [1764].Self-Love In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Dictionnaire Philosophique [1764].Money We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Dictionnaire Philosophique [1764].Liberty of the Press  The best is the enemy of the good. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Dictionnaire Philosophique [1764].Dramatic Art Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Dictionnaire Philosophique [1764].Women  The proper mean. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Letter to Count d'Argental[November 28, 1765] Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. 1 Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Dialogue 14. Le Chapon et la Poularde [1766] 1 See Robert South I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Letter to M. Damilaville [May 16, 1767]  History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet L'Ingenu [1767], ch. 10 Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Letter to d'Alembert [August 20, 1770] If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. 1 2 Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Ep[icirc ]tre a l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs [November 10, 1770] 1 See Ovid 2 See Tillotson Change everything, except your loves. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Sur l'Usage de la Vie I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Letter to d'Alembert [February 1776]  The embarrassment of riches. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Le Droit du Seigneur, actII, sc. vi He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Le Droit du Seigneur, actIV, sc. i Who has not the spirit of his age, Of his age has all the unhappiness. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Letter to Madame du Ch[acirc ]telet I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Letter to Madame du Deffand Liberty of thought is the life of the soul. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Essay on Epic Poetry (written in English) Whoever you are, behold your master, He is, or was, or has to be. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet On a statuette of Cupid in the Cirey Gardens I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Attributed I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstitution. Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Written February 28, 1778 Matthew Green 1696-1737 They politics like ours profess, The greater prey upon the less. Matthew Green The Grotto, l. 69 Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Laugh and be well. Matthew Green The Spleen [1737],l. 92 By happy alchemy of mind They turn to pleasure all they find. Matthew Green The Spleen [1737],l. 610 William Oldys 1696-1761 Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I. William Oldys On a Fly Drinking out of a Cup of Ale, st. 1 Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand 1697-1780 [Of Voltaire] He has invented history. Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand From Fournier, L'Esprit dans l'Histoire [1857]  The first step is the hardest. Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand Letter to d'Alembert [July 7, 1763] Mabuchi Kamo 1697-1769  Japanese poetry has as its subject the human heart. It may seem to be of no practical use and just as well left uncomposed, but when one knows poetry well, one understands also without explanation the reasons governing order and disorder in the world. Mabuchi Kamo Writings Charles Macklin c. 1697-1797  The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science. Charles Macklin Love a la Mode [1759], act II, sc. i Abbe Prevost Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles 1697-1763 And that is the story of Manon Lescaut. Abbe Prevost Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut [1731; translated 1831] William Warburton 1698-1779  Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy. William Warburton From Joseph Priestley [1733-1804], Memoirs, vol. I, p. 572 John Dyer c. 1700-1758 A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. 1 2 3 John Dyer Grongar Hill [1726], l. 89 1 See Shelley 2 See Bellamy 3 See Hoffenstein James Thomson 1700-1748 See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, 1 Sullen and sad. James Thomson The Seasons.Winter [1726],l. 1 1 See Cowper Welcome, kindred glooms! Congenial horrors, hail! James Thomson The Seasons.Winter [1726],l. 5 Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. James Thomson The Seasons.Winter [1726],l. 393 There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead. James Thomson The Seasons.Winter [1726],l. 431 Ships dim-discovered dropping from the clouds. James Thomson The Seasons.Summer [1727],l. 946 Sighed and looked unutterable things. James Thomson The Seasons.Summer [1727],l. 1188 Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come. James Thomson The Seasons.Spring [1728],l. 1 Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. James Thomson The Seasons.Spring [1728],l. 1149 An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. James Thomson The Seasons.Spring [1728],l. 1158 Crowned with the sickle, and the wheaten sheaf, While Autumn, nodding o'er the yellow plain, Comes jovial on. James Thomson The Seasons.Autumn [1730],l. 1 For loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most. 1 2 James Thomson The Seasons.Autumn [1730],l. 208 1 See Cicero 2 See Milton Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule, 1 2 and th' Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides. 3 James Thomson The Seasons.Autumn [1730],l. 871 1 See Virgil 2 See Seneca 3 See Milton Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise. James Thomson Hymn [1730], l. 118 O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O! James Thomson Sophonisba [1730], act III, sc. ii Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love, And, when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between and bid us part? James Thomson To Fortune When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain: Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. James Thomson Alfred [1740], act II, sc. v A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was. James Thomson The Castle of Indolence [1748], canto I,st. 6 A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems, Who, void of envy, guile, and lust of gain, On virtue still, and nature's pleasing themes, Poured forth his unpremeditated strain. James Thomson The Castle of Indolence [1748], canto I,st. 68 A little round, fat, oily man of God. James Thomson The Castle of Indolence [1748], canto I,st. 69 Philip Doddridge 1702-1751 Awake my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown. Philip Doddridge Hymns [1755]. Zeal and Vigor in the Christian Race, st. 1 Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758 Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. 1 Jonathan Edwards Seventy Resolutions 1 See Gellert Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure. Jonathan Edwards Diary [1723] A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth. Jonathan Edwards The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners [1734] I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. Jonathan Edwards The Freedom of the Will [1754] This dictate of common sense. Jonathan Edwards The Freedom of the Will [1754] Thomas Morell 1703-1784 See, the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpet, beat the drums! Thomas Morell Joshua [1748], pt. III John Wesley 1703-1791 I look upon the world as my parish. John Wesley Journal [1909-1916].June 11, 1739 That execrable sum of all villainies, commonly called the Slave Trade. John Wesley Journal [1909-1916].February 12, 1772 Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. John Wesley Letters [1831]. December 10, 1777  Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness." John Wesley Sermon 93, On Dress Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. John Wesley John Wesley's Rule Nathaniel Cotton 1705-1788 Yet still we hug the dear deceit. Nathaniel Cotton Content. Vision IV Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee. 1 2 Nathaniel Cotton Tomorrow 1 See Genesis 32:26 2 See Whittier Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790  The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here, food for worms; but the work shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author. 1 Benjamin Franklin Epitaph on Himself [composed in 1728] 1 See Clare Eat to live, and not live to eat. 1 2 Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1733].May 1 See Socrates 2 See Moliere After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1733].June There is no little enemy. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1733].September Without justice, courage is weak. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1734].January Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1734].February Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1734].May Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1734].November A little house well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1735].February Necessity never made a good bargain. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1735].April Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1735].July Opportunity is the great bawd. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1735].September Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1735].October Here comes the orator! with his flood of words, and his drop of reason. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1735].October Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1735].December God helps them that help themselves. 1 Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1736].June 1 See Aesop Don't throw stones at your neighbors', if your own windows are glass. 1 Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1736].August 1 See Herbert There are three faithful friends-an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1738].January If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1738].May Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1738].June None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1738].November An empty bag cannot stand upright. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1740].January He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1742].August Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. 1 Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1743].December 1 See Burke The used key is always bright. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1744].July  When the well's dry, we know the worth of water. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1746].January Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1746].June Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1748].January He that's secure is not safe. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1748].August Little strokes, Fell great oaks. 1 Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1750].August 1 See Lyly The cat in gloves catches no mice. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1754].February Work as if you were to live a hundred years, Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1757].May A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1758]. Preface: Courteous Reader He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1758]. Preface: Courteous Reader Three removes is as bad as a fire. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1758]. Preface: Courteous Reader A little neglect may breed great mischief . . . for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost. 1 Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac[1758]. Preface: Courteous Reader 1 See Herbert Eighth and lastly. They are so grateful!! Benjamin Franklin Reasons for Preferring an Elderly Mistress [1745]  Remember that time is money. Benjamin Franklin Advice to a Young Tradesman [1748] They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin Historical Review of Pennsylvania [1759] Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. Benjamin Franklin Letter on the Stamp Act [July 11, 1765] The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature. Benjamin Franklin To the editor of a London newspaper [1765], intended to chaff the English for their ignorance of America Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug. Benjamin Franklin Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley [September 1772]  There never was a good war or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin Letter to Josiah Quincy [September 11, 1773] You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am Yours, B. Franklin Benjamin Franklin Letter to William Strahan [July 5, 1775] We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin At the signing of the Declaration of Independence [July 4, 1776] Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle. Benjamin Franklin The Whistle [1779] Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years. Benjamin Franklin Letter to Washington [March 5, 1780] George Washington, Commander of the American armies, who, like Joshua of old, commanded the sun and the moon to stand still, and they obeyed him. Benjamin Franklin A toast at a dinner in Versailles No nation was ever ruined by trade. Benjamin Franklin Thoughts on Commercial Subjects I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Benjamin Franklin Letter to Sarah Bache [January 26, 1784] He [the sun] gives light as soon as he rises. Benjamin Franklin An Economical Project [1784]  A republic if you can keep it. Benjamin Franklin Response [September 18, 1787] Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin Letter to M. Leroy [1789] The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing. Benjamin Franklin Autobiography [1731-1759], ch.1 Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. Benjamin Franklin Autobiography [1731-1759], ch.6 I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office. Benjamin Franklin Autobiography [1731-1759], ch.8 Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. Benjamin Franklin Autobiography [1731-1759], ch.9 When men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome. Benjamin Franklin Autobiography [1731-1759], ch.10 George Louis Leclerc de Buffon 1707-1788 [Of the horse] The noblest conquest man has ever made. George Louis Leclerc de Buffon L'Histoire des Mammiferes. Le Cheval  The style is the man himself. George Louis Leclerc de Buffon Discourse (on his admission to the French Academy [1753]) Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. George Louis Leclerc de Buffon Attributed Henry Fielding 1707-1754 All Nature wears one universal grin. Henry Fielding Tom Thumb the Great [1730], act I, sc.i Today it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. Henry Fielding Tom Thumb the Great [1730], act I, sc.ii When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more. Henry Fielding Tom Thumb the Great [1730], act I, sc.iii Oh, the roast beef of England, And old England's roast beef! Henry Fielding The Grub Street Opera [1731], act III, sc. ii I am as sober as a judge. Henry Fielding Don Quixote in England [1734], act III, sc. xiv This story will never go down. Henry Fielding Tumble-Down Dick The dusky night rides down the sky, And ushers in the morn; The hounds all join in glorious cry, The huntsman winds his horn, And a-hunting we will go. Henry Fielding A-Hunting We Will Go [1734], st. 1 To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required. 1 Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews [1742], bk.II, ch. 8 1 See Luke 12:48 I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews [1742], bk.III, ch.1 They are the affectation of affectation. Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews [1742], bk.III, ch.3 Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews [1742], bk.III, ch.5 Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews [1742], bk.IV, ch. 6 Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. 1 Henry Fielding Love in Several Masques [1743] 1 See Congreve Every physician almost hath his favorite disease. Henry Fielding Tom Jones [1749], 1 bk.II, ch. 9 1 See Gibbon Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven. Henry Fielding Tom Jones [1749], 1 bk.III, ch. 10 Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things? Henry Fielding Tom Jones [1749], 1 bk.IV, ch. 4 Distinction without a difference. Henry Fielding Tom Jones [1749], 1 bk.VI, ch. 13 O! more than Gothic ignorance. Henry Fielding Tom Jones [1749], 1 bk.VII, ch. 3  An amiable weakness. Henry Fielding Tom Jones [1749], 1 bk.X, ch. 8 His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. Henry Fielding Tom Jones [1749], 1 bk.XI, ch. 4 Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune. Henry Fielding Tom Jones [1749], 1 bk.XIII, ch. 2 The republic of letters. Henry Fielding Tom Jones [1749], 1 bk.XIV, ch. 1 It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible. Henry Fielding Amelia [1751], bk.III, ch. 4 These are called the pious frauds of friendship. Henry Fielding Amelia [1751], bk.VI, ch.6 When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. Henry Fielding Amelia [1751], bk.VI, ch.8 There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. Henry Fielding Amelia [1751], bk.VI, ch. 10  One of my illustrious predecessors. Henry Fielding Covent Garden Journal [January 11, 1752] Linnaeus Carl von Linne 1707-1778 To live by medicine is to live horribly. Linnaeus Carl von Linne Diaeta Naturalis, introduction  Nature does not proceed by leaps. Linnaeus Carl von Linne Philosophia Botanica [1750], sec. 77 Mingle your joys sometimes with your earnest occupation. 1 2 3 4 Linnaeus Carl von Linne From biography of Linnaeus byBenjamin Daydon Jones, ch.9 1 See Menander 2 See Horace 3 See Montaigne 4 See Bacon A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars. Linnaeus Carl von Linne From biography of Linnaeus byBenjamin Daydon Jones, ch.9 Live innocently; God is here. Linnaeus Carl von Linne From biography of Linnaeus byBenjamin Daydon Jones, ch.15 (inscribed over the door of Linnaeus's bedchamber) If a tree dies, plant another in its place. Linnaeus Carl von Linne From biography of Linnaeus byBenjamin Daydon Jones, ch.15 (inscribed over the door of Linnaeus's bedchamber) Charles Wesley 1707-1788 "Christ, the Lord, is risen today," Sons of men and angels say, Raise your joys and triumphs high, Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply. Charles Wesley Hymns and Sacred Poems[1739]. Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Today Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the waters nearer roll, While the tempest still is high; Hide me, O my Savior, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven glide, O receive my soul at last. Charles Wesley Hymns and Sacred Poems[1740]. Jesus, Lover of My Soul Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee. Charles Wesley Hymns and Sacred Poems[1742]. Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild Soldiers of Christ, arise, And put your armor on. Charles Wesley Hymns and Sacred Poems[1749]. Soldiers of Christ, Arise Hark! the herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King; Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled! Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies; With th' angelic host proclaim Christ is born in Bethlehem. Charles Wesley Hymns and Sacred Poems[1753]. Christmas Hymn: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 1708-1778 The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman [Walpole] has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Speech in the House of Commons[March 6, 1741] I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Speech in the House of Commons[January 14, 1766] Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Speech in the House of Commons [January 14, 1766] Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; 1 2 and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins. 3 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Case of Wilkes. Speech [January 9, 1770] 1 See Shelley 2 See Lord Acton 3 See John Locke There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Speech in the House of Lords[March 2, 1770] I love the Americans because they love liberty, and I love them for the noble efforts they made in the last war. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Speech in the House of Lords[March 2, 1770]  Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Letter to the Earl of Shelburne [September 29, 1770] If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms-never-never-never! 1 2 You cannot conquer America. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Speech [November 18, 1777] 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Churchill I invoke the genius of the Constitution. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Speech [November 18, 1777] The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail-its roof may shake-the wind may blow through it-the storm may enter-the rain may enter-but the King of England cannot enter-all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Speech on the Excise Bill Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Samuel Johnson London [1738] (an imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal),l. 166 This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed- Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed. Samuel Johnson London [1738] (an imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal),l. 176 When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose; Each change of many-colored life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toiled after him in vain. Samuel Johnson Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre [1747] Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays, For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise. Samuel Johnson Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre [1747] Declamation roared, while Passion slept. Samuel Johnson Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre [1747] The wild vicissitudes of taste. Samuel Johnson Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre [1747] For we that live to please must please to live. Samuel Johnson Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre [1747] Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. Samuel Johnson Prologue to the Tragedy of Irene [1749] Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru. Samuel Johnson Vanity of Human Wishes [1749],l. 1 Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Samuel Johnson Vanity of Human Wishes [1749],l. 157 A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire. Samuel Johnson Vanity of Human Wishes [1749],l. 191 He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Samuel Johnson Vanity of Human Wishes [1749],l. 221 "Enlarge my life with multitude of days!" In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Samuel Johnson Vanity of Human Wishes [1749],l. 255 Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage. Samuel Johnson Vanity of Human Wishes [1749],l. 308 Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? Samuel Johnson Vanity of Human Wishes [1749],l. 345 Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Samuel Johnson Vanity of Human Wishes [1749],l. 356 With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. Samuel Johnson Vanity of Human Wishes [1749],l. 367 Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson The Rambler[March 12, 1751] No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Samuel Johnson The Rambler[March 23, 1751] I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. 1 Samuel Johnson Dictionary [1755], preface 1 See Herbert Club-An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions. Samuel Johnson Dictionary [1755], preface Essay-A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition. Samuel Johnson Dictionary [1755], preface Excise-A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. Samuel Johnson Dictionary [1755], preface Grubstreet-The name of a street near Moorsfield, London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems. Samuel Johnson Dictionary [1755], preface Lexicographer-A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. Samuel Johnson Dictionary [1755], preface  Oats-A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. Samuel Johnson Dictionary [1755], preface The joy of life is variety; 1 2 the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. Samuel Johnson The Idler [1758-1760], no.39 1 See Publilius Syrus 2 See Cowper He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. Samuel Johnson The Idler [1758-1760], no.57 Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Samuel Johnson Rasselas [1759], ch.1 To a poet nothing can be useless. Samuel Johnson Rasselas [1759], ch.10 Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed. Samuel Johnson Rasselas [1759], ch.11 Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. Samuel Johnson Rasselas [1759], ch.26 Example is always more efficacious than precept. Samuel Johnson Rasselas [1759], ch.29 The endearing elegance of female friendship. Samuel Johnson Rasselas [1759], ch.45 How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. Samuel Johnson Lines added to Goldsmith, The Traveller [1763-1764] That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona. Samuel Johnson Journey to the Western Islands [1775]. Inch Kenneth Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Samuel Johnson Lives of the Poets [1779-1781].Addison To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. Samuel Johnson Lives of the Poets [1779-1781].Milton The father of English criticism. Samuel Johnson Lives of the Poets [1779-1781].Dryden He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning. Samuel Johnson Lives of the Poets [1779-1781].Dryden The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. Samuel Johnson Lives of the Poets [1779-1781].Gray 1 1 See Gray His [Garrick's] death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. Samuel Johnson Lives of the Poets [1779-1781].Edmund Smith New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. Samuel Johnson Lives of the Poets [1779-1781].Pope Tomorrow I purpose to regulate my room. Samuel Johnson Prayers and Meditations [1785].1764 Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep. Samuel Johnson Prayers and Meditations [1785].1767 Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment. Samuel Johnson Prayers and Meditations [1785].1770 This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. Samuel Johnson Prayers and Meditations [1785].Against Inquisitive and Perplexing Thoughts I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good. Samuel Johnson From Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides [1785].September 14, 1773 Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. Samuel Johnson From Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides [1785].September 17, 1773 Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. Samuel Johnson From Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides [1785].September 20, 1773 Here closed in death th' attentive eyes That saw the manners in the face. Samuel Johnson Epitaph on Hogarth [1786] When the hoary Sage replied, "Come, my lad, and drink some beer." Samuel Johnson From Mrs. Piozzi, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson [1786] If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. Samuel Johnson From Mrs. Piozzi, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson [1786] He was a very good hater. Samuel Johnson From Mrs. Piozzi, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson [1786] The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. Samuel Johnson From Mrs. Piozzi, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson [1786] The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson From Mrs. Piozzi, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson [1786] Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson From Mrs. Piozzi, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson [1786] Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. Samuel Johnson From Sir John Hawkins, Life of Johnson [1787]. Apothegms As with my hat upon my head I walked along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. Samuel Johnson Anecdotes of Johnson by George Steevens Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. Samuel Johnson Anecdotes of Johnson by Hannah More Boswell: That, sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, sir; stark insensibility. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],November 5, 1728 [Of Pembroke College] Sir, we are a nest of singing birds. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1730 Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1743 I'll come no more behind your scenes, David [Garrick]; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1750 A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 1750 Wretched un-ideaed girls. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1753 Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],February 7, 1754 (Letter to Lord Chesterfield) [Of Lord Chesterfield] This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords! Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1754 Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel, and a coward: a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death. 1 Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 6, 1754 1 See Chesterfield  Ignorance, madame, pure ignorance. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1755  If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1755 Towering in the confidence of twenty-one. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],January 9, 1758 Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 1759 Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],July 20, 1762 A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],December 21, 1762  Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1763 The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England! Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],July 6, 1763  A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],July 14, 1763 If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],July 14, 1763 Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],July 21, 1763  Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],July 28, 1763 Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],July 31, 1763 I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],August 5, 1763 This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],August 5, 1763 The gloomy calm of idle vacancy. 1 Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],December 8, 1763 1 See Cowper [Of Sir John Hawkins] A very unclubable man. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1764 It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],October 26, 1769 That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1770 A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience. 1 Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1770 1 See  A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. 1 2 3 Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1770 1 See Maimonides 2 See Spinoza 3 See Carnegie  All denominations of Christians have really little difference in point of doctrine, though they may differ widely in external forms. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1772  Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 31, 1772 I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 31, 1772 There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 6, 1772 Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 6, 1772 A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 15, 1772  Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],Spring 1772  It is a foolish thing well done. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 3, 1773  No, sir, do you read books through? Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 19, 1773 An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. 1 Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 30, 1773 1 See Sydney Smith You are the most unscottified of your countrymen. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],May 1, 1773  The woman's a whore, and there's an end on 't. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],May 7, 1773  Was ever poet so trusted before? Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],July 4, 1774 Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 2, 1775 Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 6, 1775 A man will turn over half a library to make one book. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 6, 1775  Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 7, 1775 That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 14, 1775 Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 18, 1775 In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1775  There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 21, 1776 No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 5, 1776 Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],May 1776 Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],May 1776 Olivarii Goldsmith, Poetae, Physici, Historici, qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit, Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit [To Oliver Goldsmith, Poet, Naturalist, Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched nothing that he did not adorn]. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],June 22, 1776 Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],September 1, 1777 Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],September 19, 1777 When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],September 20, 1777 It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 9, 1778  Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of The Natural History of Iceland, from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: "Ch. LXXII. Concerning snakes. There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island." Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 13, 1778 Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 14, 1778 A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 14, 1778 I am willing to love all mankind, except an American. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 15, 1778 Pleasure of itself is not a vice. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 15, 1778 As the Spanish proverb says, "He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him," so it is in traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 17, 1778 It is better to live rich, than to die rich. 1 Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 17, 1778 1 See Robert Burton Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a duchess. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],May 9, 1778 I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 26, 1779 I remember a passage in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, which he was afterwards a fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing." Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 26, 1779 Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 7, 1779 Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],October 12, 1779  If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],October 27, 1779 A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1780 Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1780 [Of Oliver Goldsmith] No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1780 The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],1780 Come to me, my dear Bozzy, and let us be as happy as we can. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 14, 1781 There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 1781 We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. 1 Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],April 4, 1781 1 See Edward Moore Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],May 8, 1781  My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],May 1781 A jest breaks no bones. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],June 4, 1781 Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],January 20, 1782 (on the death of Robert Levett) To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 20, 1782 Whatever you have, spend less. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],December 7, 1782 I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me. 1 2 Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],March 23, 1783 1 See Byron 2 See Emerson Clear your mind of cant. 1 Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],May 15, 1783 1 See Carlyle  Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],June 1784 I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],June 1784 Blown about by every wind of criticism. 1 Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],June 1784 1 See Ephesians 4:14 Don't attitudenize. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],June 1784 I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],November 1784 God bless you, my dear! Samuel Johnson From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791],December 13, 1784 (last words) Julien Offray de La Mettrie 1709-1751 Man is a machine and . . . in the whole universe there is but a single substance variously modified. Julien Offray de La Mettrie L'Homme Machine [1748],conclusion George , Lord Lyttelton 1709-1773 Women, like princes, find few real friends. George , Lord Lyttelton Advice to a Lady What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair. George , Lord Lyttelton Advice to a Lady The lover in the husband may be lost. George , Lord Lyttelton Advice to a Lady Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle. George , Lord Lyttelton Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country Theodore Tronchin 1709-1781 In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial. Theodore Tronchin Quoted in Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, V [1929], 151 Oliver Edwards 1711-1791 I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. Oliver Edwards From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791]. April 17, 1778 David Hume 1711-1776 Avarice, the spur of industry. David Hume Essays [1741-1742].Of Civil Liberty Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. 1 David Hume Essays [1741-1742].Of Tragedy 1 See Hungerford Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [1748],pt. 1 No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [1748],Of Miracles Opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a-quarreling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy. David Hume The Natural History of Religion [1757] Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. David Hume My Own Life [1777], ch. 1 Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov 1711-1765  Carolus V, 1 Emperor of Rome, was wont to say that the Hispanic tongue was seemly for converse with God, the French with friends, the German with enemies, the Italian with the feminine sex. Had he been versed in the Russian tongue, however, he would of a certainty have added to this that it is appropriate to converse with all of the above, inasmuch as he would have found in it the magnificence of the Hispanic tongue, the sprightliness of the French, the sturdiness of the German, the tenderness of the Italian and, over and above all that, the richness and conciseness of powerful imagery, of the Greek and Latin tongues. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov Russian Grammar [1755] 1 See Charles V Frederick the Great 1712-1786 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. 1 Frederick the Great At Prague [May 6, 1757] 1 See William Prescott  Rascals, would you live forever? Frederick the Great When the Guards hesitated at Kolin [June 18, 1757] The prince is the first servant of his state. Frederick the Great Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg [1758] God is always with the strongest battalions. 1 2 3 4 Frederick the Great Letter to the Duchess Luise Dorothea von Gotha [May 8, 1760] 1 See Tacitus 2 See Bussy-Rabutin 3 See Boileau 4 See Gibbon I am tired of ruling over slaves. Frederick the Great Last words [April 1, 1786] George Grenville 1712-1770 A wise government knows how to enforce with temper or to conciliate with dignity. George Grenville Speech against expulsion of John Wilkes, in Parliament [1769] Edward Moore 1712-1757 This is adding insult to injury. 1 Edward Moore The Foundling [1748], act V, sc. ii 1 See Phaedrus I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. 1 Edward Moore The Gamester [1753], act II, sc. ii 1 See Johnson Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778 The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. Jean Jacques Rousseau Discours sur l'Origine et le Fondement de l'Inegalite Parmi les Hommes [1754] Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited. Jean Jacques Rousseau Discours sur l'Origine et le Fondement de l'Inegalite Parmi les Hommes [1754] Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. Jean Jacques Rousseau Discours sur l'Origine et le Fondement de l'Inegalite Parmi les Hommes [1754]  Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean Jacques Rousseau Du Contrat Social [1762],I, ch.1 The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty. Jean Jacques Rousseau Du Contrat Social [1762],I, ch.3 The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. Jean Jacques Rousseau Du Contrat Social [1762],I, ch.4 In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. Jean Jacques Rousseau Du Contrat Social [1762],III, ch.4 The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction. Jean Jacques Rousseau Du Contrat Social [1762],III, ch.11 Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. Jean Jacques Rousseau Du Contrat Social [1762],III, ch.15 Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man. Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile; ou, De l'Education [1762],I I shall always maintain that whoso says in his heart, "There is no God," while he takes the name of God upon his lips, is either a liar or a madman. Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile; ou, De l'Education [1762],I People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile; ou, De l'Education [1762],I What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? 1 Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile; ou, De l'Education [1762],II 1 See I Corinthians, 13:1 Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile; ou, De l'Education [1762],III There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe. Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile; ou, De l'Education [1762],III Self-love makes more libertines than love. Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile; ou, De l'Education [1762],IV Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile; ou, De l'Education [1762],IV A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please. Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile; ou, De l'Education [1762],V Where is the man who owes nothing to the land in which he lives? Whatever that land may be, he owes to it the most precious thing possessed by man, the morality of his actions and the love of virtue. 1 Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile; ou, De l'Education [1762],V 1 See John F. Kennedy I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself. Jean Jacques Rousseau Les Confessions [1781-1788],I Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. Jean Jacques Rousseau Les Confessions [1781-1788],II It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living. Jean Jacques Rousseau Les Confessions [1781-1788],II Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. Jean Jacques Rousseau Les Confessions [1781-1788],V  At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake." Jean Jacques Rousseau Les Confessions [1781-1788],VI The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. Jean Jacques Rousseau Les Confessions [1781-1788],IX  He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king. Jean Jacques Rousseau Les Confessions [1781-1788],XII Josiah Tucker 1712-1799  What is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation. Josiah Tucker Tract Against Going to War for the Sake of Trade [1763] Alison Cockburn 1713-1794 I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favors and found its decay. Alison Cockburn The Flowers of the Forest [1764] The flowers of the forest are withered away. 1 Alison Cockburn The Flowers of the Forest [1764] 1 See Jane Elliott Denis Diderot 1713-1784  My thoughts are my trollops. Denis Diderot Le Neveu de Rameau, ch. 1 I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it. Denis Diderot Pensees Philosophiques [1746], no. 29  L'esprit de l'escalier [staircase wit]. Denis Diderot Paradoxe sur le Comedien From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. Denis Diderot Essai sur le Merite de la Vertu Laurence Sterne 1713-1768 Only the brave know how to forgive. . . . A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. Laurence Sterne Sermons, vol. I [1760], no.12  This sad vicissitude of things. Laurence Sterne Sermons, vol. I [1760], no.15 I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.I [1760], ch.1 "Pray, my dear," quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?"-"Good G-!" cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time-"Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?" Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.I [1760], ch.1 So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the king's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him-pray, sir, what have either you or I to do with it? Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.I [1760], ch.7 For every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.I [1760], ch.12 He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.I [1760], ch.12 Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.I [1760], ch.16 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause-and of obstinacy in a bad one. 1 Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.I [1760], ch.17 1 See Browne Persuasion hung upon his lips. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.I [1760], ch.19 Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine-they are the life, the soul of reading; take them out of this book for instance-you might as well take the book along with them. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.I [1760], ch.22 The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.I [1760], ch.25 The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.II [1760], ch.3 Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is), is but a different name for conversation. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.II [1760], ch.11 Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.II [1760], ch.12 (Uncle Toby to the fly)  That's another story, replied my father. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.II [1760], ch.17 Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.II [1760], ch.17 Good-bad-indifferent. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.III [1761-1762], ch.2 "Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my uncle Toby-"but nothing to this." Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.III [1761-1762], ch.11 Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.III [1761-1762], ch.12 'Twould be as much as my life was worth. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.III [1761-1762], ch.20 One of the two horns of my dilemma. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.IV [1761-1762], ch.26 The feather put into his cap of having been abroad. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.IV [1761-1762], ch.31 Now or never was the time. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.IV [1761-1762], ch.31 There is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.V [1761-1762], ch. 42  The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.VI [1761-1762], ch. 8 A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.VII [1765], ch.2 Ho! 'tis the time of salads. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.VII [1765], ch.17 L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about?-A Cock and a Bull, said Yorick. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy, bk.IX [1767], ch. 33 They order, said I, this matter better in France. Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey [1768],l. 1 I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren! Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey [1768],In the Street, Calais Tant pis and tant mieux, being two of the great hinges in French conversation, a stranger would do well to set himself right in the use of them before he gets to Paris. Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey [1768],Montreuil Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it. Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey [1768],The Pulse, Paris God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb. 1 Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey [1768],Maria 1 See Estienne Etienne Bonnot de Condillac L'Abbe de Condillac 1715-1780 We cannot recollect the ignorance in which we were born. Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Traite des Sensations [1754],dedication The statue is therefore nothing but the sum of all it has acquired. May not this be the same with man? Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Traite des Sensations [1754],conclusion Christian Furchtegott Gellert 1715-1769 Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying. 1 Christian Furchtegott Gellert Of Death, st. 2 1 See Jonathan Edwards Claude Adrien Helvetius 1715-1771 Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. Claude Adrien Helvetius De l'Esprit [1758], preface What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded. Claude Adrien Helvetius De l'Esprit [1758], preface We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ. Claude Adrien Helvetius De l'Esprit [1758], preface Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues 1715-1747 Great thoughts come from the heart. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues Reflexions et Maximes, [c. 1747] no.127 Lazy people are always looking for something to do. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues Reflexions et Maximes, [c. 1747] no.458 The things we know best are those we have not learned. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues Reflexions et Maximes, [c. 1747] no.479 William Whitehead 1715-1785 Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now And Caelia has undone me; And yet I swear I can't tell how The pleasing plague stole on me. William Whitehead The Je ne scay quoi song An old tale which every schoolboy knows. William Whitehead The Roman Father, prologue Thomas Gray 1716-1771 Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the wat'ry glade. Thomas Gray On a Distant Prospect of Eton College [1742],st. 1 Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Thomas Gray On a Distant Prospect of Eton College [1742],st. 4 Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond today. Thomas Gray On a Distant Prospect of Eton College [1742],st. 6 Grim-visaged comfortless Despair. Thomas Gray On a Distant Prospect of Eton College [1742],st. 7 To each his suff'rings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan, The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. 1 Thomas Gray On a Distant Prospect of Eton College [1742],st. 10 1 See Ecclesiastes 1:18 Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! Thomas Gray Hymn to Adversity [1742],st. 1 What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe. Thomas Gray Hymn to Adversity [1742],st. 2 What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish? Thomas Gray On the Death of a Favorite Cat [1747],st. 4 A fav'rite has no friend! Thomas Gray On the Death of a Favorite Cat [1747],st. 6 As sickly plants betray a niggard earth, Whose barren bosom starves her gen'rous birth. Thomas Gray The Alliance of Education and Government [c. 1748],l. 1 The social smile, the sympathetic tear. Thomas Gray The Alliance of Education and Government [c. 1748],l. 37 When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawned from Bullen's eyes. Thomas Gray The Alliance of Education and Government [c. 1748],l. 108 The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 1 1 See Samuel Johnson Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 2 Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 3 Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 4 The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 5 For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care. 1 Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 6 1 See Homer Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 8 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 1 Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 9 1 See Carew Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 10 Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death? Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 11 Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 12 But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; 1 Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 13 1 See Sir Thomas Browne Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 14 Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. 1 Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 15 1 See Mencken To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 16 Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 17 Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 19 Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 20 For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 22 E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. 1 Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 23 1 See Chaucer Mindful of th' unhonored dead. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 st. 24 Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth. And Melancholy marked him for her own. 1 Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 The Epitaph,st. 1 1 See Walton Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heav'n did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry all he had, a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('twas all he wished) a friend. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 The Epitaph,st. 2 No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [1750], 1 The Epitaph,st. 3 The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. Thomas Gray Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude [1754], l. 49 O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. Thomas Gray The Progress of Poesy [1754],I.3, l. 16 Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid. Thomas Gray The Progress of Poesy [1754],III.1,l. 1 Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Thomas Gray The Progress of Poesy [1754],III.1,l. 12 He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. Thomas Gray The Progress of Poesy [1754],III.2, l. 4 Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray The Progress of Poesy [1754],III.3, l. 4 Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait, Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state. Thomas Gray The Bard [1757],I.1, l. 1 Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room and verge enough, The characters of hell to trace. Thomas Gray The Bard [1757],II.1, l. 1 Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey. Thomas Gray The Bard [1757],II.2, l. 9 Visions of glory, spare my aching sight, Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! Thomas Gray The Bard [1757],III,1, l. 11 And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. Thomas Gray The Bard [1757],III,3, l. 3 Now my weary lips I close; Leave me, leave me to repose! Thomas Gray Descent of Odin [1761], l. 71 Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. Thomas Gray The Fatal Sisters [1761] Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. Thomas Gray On His Own Character [1761] I shall be but a shrimp of an author. Thomas Gray Letter to Horace Walpole [February 25, 1768] Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, The bee's collected treasures sweet, Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet The still small voice 1 of gratitude. Thomas Gray Ode for Music [1769] 1 See I Kings 19:12 Jean Le Rond d' Alembert 1717-1783 Nothing is more indisputable than the existence of our senses. Jean Le Rond d' Alembert The Encyclopedia (L'Encyclopedie), vol. I [1751], preliminary discourse David Garrick 1717-1779 Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run. 1 David Garrick On the Death of Mr. Pelham 1 See Pompey Heart of oak 1 are our ships, Heart of oak are our men: We always are ready; Steady, boys, steady; We'll fight, and we'll conquer again and again. David Garrick Heart of Oak [c. 1770] 1 See Rabelais Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll. David Garrick Impromptu epitaph on Goldsmith Horace Walpole 1717-1797 Our supreme governors, the mob. Horace Walpole Letters.To Horace Mann [September 7, 1743] Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. Horace Walpole Letters.To George Montagu [July 3, 1752] It is charming to totter into vogue. Horace Walpole Letters.To G. A. Selwyn [December 2, 1765] The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra. 1 Horace Walpole Letters.To Mann [November 24, 1774] 1 See Macaulay This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. Horace Walpole Letters.To the Countess of Upper Ossory [August 16, 1776] Prognostics do not always prove prophecies-at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first. Horace Walpole Letters.To Thomas Walpole[February 19, 1785] All his [Sir Joshua Reynolds's] own geese are swans, as the swans of others are geese. Horace Walpole Letters.To Thomas Walpole[December 1, 1786] Samuel Foote 1720-1777  Born in a cellar . . . and living in a garret. Samuel Foote The Author [1757], act II Matt Minikin won't set fire to the Thames though he lives near the Bridge. Samuel Foote Trip to Calais [1776] He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others. 1 Samuel Foote From James Boswell, Life of Johnson 1791, 1783 1 See Shakespeare So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyalies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots. Samuel Foote Nonsense written to test the boasted memory of Charles Macklin, The Quarterly Review [1854]. Credited to Foote byMaria Edgeworth , Harry and Lucy Concluded [1825], vol. II Dennis O'Kelly 1720-1787 It will be Eclipse first, the rest nowhere. Dennis O'Kelly Declaration at Epsom [May 3, 1769], when the great racehorse Eclipse was to run his first race. Annals of Sporting, vol. II, p. 271 John Woolman 1720-1772 Though I felt uneasy at the thought of writing an instrument of slavery . . . through weakness I gave way and wrote it; but . . . said before my master and the Friend that I believed slavekeeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion. This, in some degree, abated my uneasiness; yet . . . I should have been clearer if I had desired to be excused from it, as a thing against my conscience. John Woolman Journal [1774] William Collins 1721-1759 How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blessed! William Collins Ode Written in the Year 1746,st. 1 By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there! William Collins Ode Written in the Year 1746,st. 2 In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong. William Collins Ode to Simplicity [1747], st. 1 If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, O pensive Eve, to soothe thine ear. William Collins Ode to Evening [1747],l. 1 Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn. William Collins Ode to Evening [1747],l. 9 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. William Collins The Passions [1747],l. 28 With eyes upraised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sate retired, And from her wild sequestered seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul. William Collins The Passions [1747],l. 57 In hollow murmurs died away. William Collins The Passions [1747],l. 68 O Music, sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid! William Collins The Passions [1747],l. 95 Jeanne Antoinette Poisson , Marquise de Pompadour 1721-1764  Apres nous le deluge [After us the deluge]. Jeanne Antoinette Poisson , Marquise de Pompadour Reputed reply to Louis XV [November 5, 1757] after the defeat of the French and Austrian armies by Frederick the Great in the battle of Rossbach Tobias Smollett 1721-1771 He was formed for the ruin of our sex. Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Roderick Random [1748], ch. 22 8 June. At London. I am pent up in frowsy lodgings, where there is not room enough to swing a cat. Tobias Smollett The Expedition of Humphry Clinker [1771], vol. II Samuel Adams 1722-1803 Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, 1 2 and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom." It is a very serious consideration . . . that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event. Samuel Adams Speech [1771] 1 See The Teaching for Merikare 2 See Tacitus  What a glorious morning for America! Samuel Adams Upon hearing the gunfire at Lexington [April 19, 1775] Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum. 1 Samuel Adams Speech, Philadelphia [August 1, 1776] 1 See Thomas Paine Christopher Smart 1722-1771 Tell them I Am, Jehovah said To Moses; while earth heard in dread, And smitten to the heart, At once above, beneath, around, All nature, without voice or sound, Replied, O Lord, Thou art. Christopher Smart A Song to David [1763],st. 40 For adoration all the ranks Of angels yield eternal thanks, And David in the midst. Christopher Smart A Song to David [1763],st. 51 Where ask is have, where seek is find, Where knock is open wide. 1 Christopher Smart A Song to David [1763],st. 77 1 See Matthew 7:7 And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, dared, and done. Christopher Smart A Song to David [1763],st. 86 For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world. Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno,frag. B1,l. 79 Let James rejoice with the Skuttle-Fish who foils his foe by the effusion of his ink. Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno,frag. B1,l. 125 For the Mouse (mus) prevails in Latin. For Edi-mus, bibi-mus, vivi-mus, oremus. Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno,frag. B2,l. 638 For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey, For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him. Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno,frag. B2,l. 697 For he counteracts the Devil, who is Death, by brisking about the life. Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno,frag. B2,l. 722 Sir William Blackstone 1723-1780  Man was formed for society. 1 Sir William Blackstone Commentaries [1765-1769],introduction 1 See Spinoza The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island. Sir William Blackstone Commentaries [1765-1769],bk.I, ch.13  Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Sir William Blackstone Commentaries [1765-1769],bk.I, ch.18 That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. Sir William Blackstone Commentaries [1765-1769],bk.III, ch. 17 It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. 1 Sir William Blackstone Commentaries [1765-1769],bk.IV, ch. 27 1 See Voltaire Adam Smith 1723-1790 A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate. Adam Smith Wealth of Nations [1776], vol.I,bk. I, ch.7 People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. Adam Smith Wealth of Nations [1776], vol.I,bk. I, ch.10, pt. 2 It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. . . . They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. Adam Smith Wealth of Nations [1776], vol.I,bk. II, ch. 3 Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally indeed neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. . . . He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. . . . By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. Adam Smith Wealth of Nations [1776], vol.I,bk. IV, ch. 2 Defense, however, is of much more importance than opulence. Adam Smith Wealth of Nations [1776], vol.I,bk. IV, ch. 2 To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a proj-ect altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. 1 Adam Smith Wealth of Nations [1776], vol.II, bk. IV,ch. 7, pt. 3 1 See Josiah Tucker Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. Adam Smith Wealth of Nations [1776], vol.II, bk. IV,ch.8 All systems either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient: the duty of superintending the industry of private people. Adam Smith Wealth of Nations [1776], vol.II, bk. IV,ch.9 John Home 1722-1808 I'll woo her as the lion woos his brides. John Home Douglas [1756], actI, sc. i My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home. John Home Douglas [1756], actIII, sc. i Like Douglas conquer, or like Douglas, die. John Home Douglas [1756], actV, sc. i Immanuel Kant 1724-1804 Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant Critique of Practical Reason [1788] Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant Critique of Practical Reason [1788]  There is . . . only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Immanuel Kant The Metaphysic of Morals [1797], ch. 11 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 1724-1803 The immortality of poetry is worth the sweat of noblemen. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Lake Zurich [1750] Robert , Lord Clive 1725-1774 By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation! Robert , Lord Clive Reply During Parliamentary Inquiry [1773] Chief Logan 1725-1780  I appeal to any white man to say if he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked and he clothed him not? 1 Chief Logan Message to Lord Dunmore, governor of Virginia [November 11, 1774]. From Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia [1784-1785] 1 See Matthew 25:35-6 George Mason 1725-1792 That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. George Mason Virginia Bill of Rights [June 12, 1776], article1 Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration. 1 George Mason Virginia Bill of Rights [June 12, 1776], article3 1 See Jefferson The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. George Mason Virginia Bill of Rights [June 12, 1776], article12 John Newton 1725-1807  Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. John Newton Olney Hymns [1779]. 1 Amazing Grace 1 See Cowper Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God. John Newton Olney Hymns [1779]. 1 Glorious Things James Otis 1725-1783  An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void. James Otis Argument Against the Writs of Assistance [1761]  Taxation without representation is tyranny. James Otis Attributed [1763] Ubi libertas ibi patria [Where liberty is, there is my country]. James Otis His motto James Hutton 1726-1797 The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry [into the age of the earth] is, that we find no vestige of a beginning-no prospect of an end. James Hutton The Theory of the Earth [1795] William Prescott 1726-1795  Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. William Prescott At Bunker Hill [June 17, 1775] Jane Elliot 1727-1805 I've heard them lilting, at the ewe milking, Lasses a' lilting, before dawn of day; But now they are moaning, on ilka green loaning; The flowers of the forest are a' wede away. Jane Elliot The Flowers of the Forest Anne Robert Jacques Turgot , Baron de l'Aulne 1727-1781  They [the Americans] are the hope of this world. They may become its model. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot , Baron de l'Aulne Letter to Dr. Richard Price [March 22, 1778] John Wilkes 1727-1797 Earl of Sandwich: 'Pon my honor, Wilkes, I don't know whether you'll die on the gallows or of the pox. Wilkes: That must depend, my Lord, upon whether I first embrace your Lordship's principles, or your Lordship's mistresses. John Wilkes From Sir Charles Petrie, The Four Georges [1935] Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774 One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. Oliver Goldsmith The Bee [1759],no.1 As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent. Oliver Goldsmith The Bee [1759],no.175. Upon Unfortunate Merit Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize, Who never wanted a good word- From those who spoke her praise. Oliver Goldsmith The Bee [1759],Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize [1759], st. 1 A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay, A cap by night-a stocking all the day! Oliver Goldsmith Description of an Author's Bedchamber [1760] That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise. Oliver Goldsmith The Captivity, An Oratorio [1764], actI O Memory! thou fond deceiver. Oliver Goldsmith The Captivity, An Oratorio [1764], actI To the last moment of his breath On hope the wretch relies; And e'en the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. 1 2 Oliver Goldsmith The Captivity, An Oratorio [1764], actII 1 See Terence 2 See Cicero Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. Oliver Goldsmith The Captivity, An Oratorio [1764], actII Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 1 Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untraveled fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 7 Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 73 Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 91 Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 126 But winter lingering chills the lap of May. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 172 They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 265 To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 281 Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 327 The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 356 For just experience tells; in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 371 Laws grind the poor, 1 and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 386 1 See Isaiah 3:15 Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind. Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller [1764],l. 423 A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],preface I . . . chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.1 We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.1 Handsome is that handsome does. 1 Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.1 1 See Chaucer That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.5 I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.7 Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. 1 2 Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.8. The Hermit [Edwin and Angelina],st. 8 1 See Edward Young 2 See John Quincy Adams She was all of a muck of sweat. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.8. The Hermit [Edwin and Angelina],st. 9  They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.8. The Hermit [Edwin and Angelina],st. 9 Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.8. The Hermit [Edwin and Angelina],st. 13 The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.17. An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog,st. 3 And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.17. An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog,st. 4 The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.17. An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog,st. 5 The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.17. An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog,st. 8 When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away? 1 Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.29. Song,st. 1 1 See T. S. Eliot The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is-to die. Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield [1766],ch.29. Song,st. 2 This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. 1 Oliver Goldsmith The Good-Natured Man [1768], actI 1 See La Rochefoucauld He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence. Oliver Goldsmith The Good-Natured Man [1768], actI All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. Oliver Goldsmith The Good-Natured Man [1768], actI Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. Oliver Goldsmith The Good-Natured Man [1768], actI Silence gives consent. Oliver Goldsmith The Good-Natured Man [1768], actII Measures, not men, have always been my mark. 1 2 3 Oliver Goldsmith The Good-Natured Man [1768], actII 1 See Chesterfield 2 See Burke 3 See John Adams Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 1 The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 29 Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; 1 A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 51 1 See Burns His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 61 How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 99 Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 109 The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 121 A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 141 Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 161 And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 167 Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. 1 Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 179 1 See Dryden Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 183 A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned; Yet he was kind; or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 197 In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 211 Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 223 The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 227 The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 232 To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 253 And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 263 Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 329 In all the silent manliness of grief. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 384 Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village [1770],l. 413 In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer [1775], actI I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. 1 2 Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer [1775], actI 1 See Bacon 2 See Webster The very pink of perfection. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer [1775], actI Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer [1775], actI I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer [1775], actI A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer [1775], actII This is Liberty Hall, gentlemen. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer [1775], actII The first blow is half the battle. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer [1775], actII We are the boys That fear no noise Where the thundering cannons roar. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer [1775], actII They liked the book the better the more it made them cry. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer [1775], actII  Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer [1775], actIII Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree! Oliver Goldsmith Retaliation [1774],l. 11 Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind . . . Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. Oliver Goldsmith Retaliation [1774],l. 29 His conduct still right, with his argument wrong. Oliver Goldsmith Retaliation [1774],l. 46 Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. Oliver Goldsmith Retaliation [1774],l. 93 As a wit, if not first, in the very first line. Oliver Goldsmith Retaliation [1774],l. 96 On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting. Oliver Goldsmith Retaliation [1774],l. 101 He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Oliver Goldsmith Retaliation [1774],l. 107 Who peppered the highest was surest to please. Oliver Goldsmith Retaliation [1774],l. 112 When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff. Oliver Goldsmith Retaliation [1774],l. 145 Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. 1 Oliver Goldsmith The Haunch of Venison [1776] 1 See Tom Brown There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. Oliver Goldsmith From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791].October 26, 1769 [To Dr. Johnson] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. Oliver Goldsmith From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791].April 27, 1773 You may all go to pot. Oliver Goldsmith Verses in reply to an invitation to dine at Dr. Baker's John Stark 1728-1822 My men, yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and ten pence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight, the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow! John Stark Before the battle of Bennington [August 16, 1777] Edmund Burke 1729-1797  Custom reconciles us to everything. 1 Edmund Burke On the Sublime and Beautiful [1756], sec. 18 1 See Pushkin There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. Edmund Burke Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation [1769]  The wisdom of our ancestors. Edmund Burke Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation [1769] When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents [April 23, 1770] Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures; 1 2 3 a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement. Edmund Burke Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents [April 23, 1770] 1 See Chesterfield 2 See Goldsmith 3 See John Adams So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen. Edmund Burke Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents [April 23, 1770] Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy. Edmund Burke Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents [April 23, 1770] Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading up to your eyes in blood, you could only end just where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found, to-my voice fails me; my inclination indeed carries me no farther-all is confusion beyond it. Edmund Burke First Speech on the Conciliationwith America. American Taxation [April 19, 1774] Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmund Burke Speech to the Electors of Bristol [November 3, 1774] I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] Young man, there is America-which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth; invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] Through a wise and salutary neglect [of the colonies], a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] Nothing less will content me, than whole America. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] In no country perhaps in the world is law so general a study [as in America]. . . . This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources. . . . They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] The march of the human mind is slow. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] All government-indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act-is founded on compromise and barter. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] Deny them [the colonies] this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] It is the love of the [British] people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you both your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race. Edmund Burke Second Speech on Conciliation with America. The Thirteen Resolutions [March 22, 1775] Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution. Edmund Burke Speech on the Economical Reform [1780] He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself. Edmund Burke On Pitt's first speech [February 26, 1781] A rapacious and licentious soldiery. Edmund Burke Speech on Fox's East India Bill [1783] The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire [1784] There never was a bad man that had ability for good service. Edmund Burke Impeachment of Warren Hastings[February 15, 1788] Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. Edmund Burke Impeachment of Warren Hastings[February 17, 1788] An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. Edmund Burke Impeachment of Warren Hastings[May 5, 1789] Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication. Edmund Burke Impeachment of Warren Hastings[May 7, 1789] There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity-the law of nature, and of nations. Edmund Burke Impeachment of Warren Hastings[May 28, 1794] They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. Edmund Burke On the Army Estimates [1790] People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] The age of chivalry has gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] That chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shriveled, meager, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust. 1 2 3 4 Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France [1790] 1 See Clay 2 See Calhoun 3 See Sumner 4 See Cleveland You can never plan the future by the past. 1 Edmund Burke Letter to a member of the National Assembly [1791] 1 See Patrick Henry Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out. Edmund Burke Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians [1792] The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. Edmund Burke Preface to Brissot's Address [1794] All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. Edmund Burke Letters on a Regicide Peace [1796], no. 1 Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. 1 Edmund Burke Letters on a Regicide Peace [1796], no. 1 1 See Franklin Mere parsimony is not economy. . . . Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy. Edmund Burke Letter to a Noble Lord [1796] Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. Edmund Burke Letter to a Noble Lord [1796] And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. Edmund Burke Thoughts and Details on Scarcity [1800] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke Attributed Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-1781 He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Emilia Galotti [1772], act IV, sc. vii No person must have to. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Nathan der Weise [1779], actI, sc.iii People are not always what they seem. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Nathan der Weise [1779], actI, sc.vi The true beggar is the true king. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Nathan der Weise [1779], actII, end Not all are free who scorn their chains. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Nathan der Weise [1779], actIV, sc. iv One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Lieder John Parker 1729-1775 Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here! John Parker To his Minute Men at Lexington [April 19, 1775] Speckled Snake c. 1729-1829  When the white man had warmed himself before the Indians' fire and filled himself with their hominy, he became very large. With a step he bestrode the mountains, and his feet covered the plains and the valleys. His hand grasped the eastern and the western sea, and his head rested on the moon. Speckled Snake Statement when President Andrew Jackson recommended that the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles move west beyond the Mississippi [1829]  Brothers, I have listened to a great many talks from our great father. But they always began and ended in this: "Get a little further; you are too near me." Speckled Snake Statement when President Andrew Jackson recommended that the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles move west beyond the Mississippi [1829] Johann Georg Hamann 1730-1788 Poetry is the mother tongue of mankind. Johann Georg Hamann Aesthetica in Nuce [1762] Thomas Osbert Mordaunt 1730-1809 One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Thomas Osbert Mordaunt Verses Written During the War [1756-1763]. From the Bee [October 12, 1791] Norinaga Motoori 1730-1801  Sages are superior to other people only in their cleverness. The fact is that they were all impostors. Among them the least blameworthy was Confucius. Norinaga Motoori Arrowroot The Tale of Genji 1 is simply a tale of human life which leaves aside and does not profess to take up at all the question of good and bad, and which dwells only upon the goodness of those who are aware of the sorrow of human existence. Norinaga Motoori Tama no Ogushi 1 See Murasaki Shikibu John Scott 1730-1783 I Hate That Drum's Discordant Sound. John Scott Title of poem Josiah Wedgwood 1730-1795 Am I not a man and a brother? Josiah Wedgwood On a medallion [1787] Charles Churchill 1731-1764 Genius is of no country. Charles Churchill The Rosciad [1761],l. 207 Learned without sense, and venerably dull. Charles Churchill The Rosciad [1761],l. 591 Those who would make us feel-must feel themselves. 1 Charles Churchill The Rosciad [1761],l. 962 1 See Frost Apt alliteration's artful aid. Charles Churchill The Prophecy of Famine [1763], l. 86 Fame Is nothing but an empty name. Charles Churchill The Ghost [1763], bk.I, l. 229 Just to the windward of the law. Charles Churchill The Ghost [1763], bk.III, l. 56 Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read. Charles Churchill The Candidate [1764], l. 57 Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still. Charles Churchill The Farewell, l. 27 William Cowper 1731-1800 Oh! for a closer walk with God. William Cowper Olney Hymns [1779], 1 no.1 1 See John Newton What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. William Cowper Olney Hymns [1779], 1 no.1 God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. William Cowper Olney Hymns [1779], 1 no.35 Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. William Cowper Olney Hymns [1779], 1 no.35 Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. William Cowper Table Talk [1782],l. 246 Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. William Cowper Table Talk [1782],l. 260 Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. William Cowper Table Talk [1782],l. 542 Low ambition and the thirst of praise. William Cowper Table Talk [1782],l. 591 [Pope] Made poetry a mere mechanic art. William Cowper Table Talk [1782],l. 656 Lights of the world, and stars of human race. William Cowper The Progress of Error [1782],l. 97 How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! William Cowper The Progress of Error [1782],l. 415 A fool must now and then be right, by chance. William Cowper Conversation [1782],l. 96 He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own. William Cowper Conversation [1782],l. 121 A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. William Cowper Conversation [1782],l. 193 Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. William Cowper Conversation [1782],l. 251 I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume. William Cowper Conversation [1782],l. 283 His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock it never is at home. William Cowper Conversation [1782],l. 303 Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. William Cowper Conversation [1782],l. 357 A business with an income at its heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels. William Cowper Retirement [1782],l. 615 Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. William Cowper Retirement [1782],l. 623 Built God a church, and laughed His word to scorn. William Cowper Retirement [1782],l. 688 Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark. William Cowper Retirement [1782],l. 691 I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd- How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper-solitude is sweet. William Cowper Retirement [1782],l. 739 I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute. William Cowper Verses Supposed to Be Written by Alexander Selkirk [1782], st. 1 O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? William Cowper Verses Supposed to Be Written by Alexander Selkirk [1782], st. 1 Though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. William Cowper History of John Gilpin [1785],st. 8 A hat not much the worse for wear. William Cowper History of John Gilpin [1785],st. 46 Now let us sing-Long live the king, And Gilpin, long live he; And, when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see! William Cowper History of John Gilpin [1785],st. 63 God made the country, and man made the town. 1 2 3 4 5 William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.I, The Sofa, l. 749 1 See Genesis 2:8 2 See Varro 3 See Bacon 4 See Shakespeare 5 See Cowley Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, 1 2 Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.II, The Timepiece,l. 1 1 See Jeremiah 9:2 2 See Byron Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. 1 William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.II, The Timepiece,l. 17 1 See Tecumseh Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free! They touch our country, and their shackles fall. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.II, The Timepiece,l. 40 Presume to lay their hand upon the ark 1 Of her magnificent and awful cause. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.II, The Timepiece,l. 231 1 See II Samuel 6:6 Variety's the very spice of life. 1 2 William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.II, The Timepiece,l. 606 1 See Publilius Syrus 2 See Johnson His head, Not yet by time completely silvered o'er, Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, But strong for service still, and unimpaired. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.II, The Timepiece,l. 702 Guilty splendor. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.III, The Garden,l. 70 I was a stricken deer 1 that left the herd Long since. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.III, The Garden,l. 108 1 See Shakespeare Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.III, The Garden,l. 161 From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. 1 William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.III, The Garden,l. 188 1 See Sydney Smith Riches have wings, 1 2 and grandeur is a dream. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.III, The Garden,l. 265 1 See Amenemope 2 See Proverbs 23:5 Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.III, The Garden,l. 566 Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, 1 wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.IV, The Winter Evening,l. 36 1 See Berkeley 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.IV, The Winter Evening,l. 88 O Winter, ruler of the inverted year! 1 William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.IV, The Winter Evening,l. 120 1 See Thomson With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.IV, The Winter Evening,l. 217 In indolent vacuity of thought. 1 William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.IV, The Winter Evening,l. 297 1 See Samuel Johnson It seems the part of wisdom. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.IV, The Winter Evening,l. 336 All learned, and all drunk! William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.IV, The Winter Evening,l. 478 Gloriously drunk, obey th' important call. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.IV, The Winter Evening,l. 510 Silently as a dream the fabric rose- No sound of hammer or of saw was there. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.V, The Winter Morning Walk,l. 144 But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.V, The Winter Morning Walk,l. 187 There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk, or grave: Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.VI, Winter Walk at Noon,l. 1 Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.VI, Winter Walk at Noon,l. 85 Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.VI, Winter Walk at Noon,l. 96 Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. William Cowper The Task [1785], bk.VI, Winter Walk at Noon,l. 223 An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. William Cowper Epistle to Joseph Hill [1785], l. 62 Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a luster, he that runs may read. 1 William Cowper Tirocinium [1785], l. 79 1 See Habakkuk 2:2 Toll for the brave- The brave! that are no more; All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore! William Cowper On the Loss of the Royal George [1791], st. 1 And still to love, though prest with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary! William Cowper To Mary [1791], st. 11 Beware of desp'rate steps! The darkest day (Live till tomorrow) will have passed away. William Cowper The Needless Alarm [1794]. Moral The British warrior queen, Bleeding from the Roman rods. William Cowper Boadicea [1782] I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. William Cowper Pairing Time Anticipated [c. 1794] Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. William Cowper Pairing Time Anticipated [c. 1794]Moral Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. William Cowper The Castaway [1799] ÿ Erasmus Darwin 1731-1802 Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying-chariot through the fields of air. Erasmus Darwin The Botanic Garden, pt. I [1789], l. 289  Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament which the Great First Cause endued with animality . . . and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end! Erasmus Darwin Zoonomia [1794] Charles Lee 1731-1782  Beware that your Northern laurels do not change to Southern willows. Charles Lee To General Horatio Gates after the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga [October 17, 1777] Beilby Porteus 1731-1808 One murder made a villain, 1 2 3 Millions, a hero. Beilby Porteus Death [1759],l. 154 1 See Seneca 2 See Young 3 See J. R. Lowell War its thousands slays, Peace, its ten thousands. 1 Beilby Porteus Death [1759],l. 178 1 See I Samuel 18:7 Pierre de Beaumarchais 1732-1799 Judging by the virtues expected of a servant, does your Excellency know many masters who would be worthy valets? Pierre de Beaumarchais Le Barbier de Seville [1775], actI, sc. ii  I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry. Pierre de Beaumarchais Le Barbier de Seville [1775], actI, sc. ii If you assure me that your intentions are honorable. Pierre de Beaumarchais Le Barbier de Seville [1775], actIV, sc. vi If you are mediocre and you grovel, you shall succeed. Pierre de Beaumarchais Le Mariage de Figaro [1784], actIII, sc. iii  You went to some trouble to be born, and that's all. Pierre de Beaumarchais Le Mariage de Figaro [1784], actV, sc. iii If censorship reigns there cannot be sincere flattery, and only small men are afraid of small writings. Pierre de Beaumarchais Le Mariage de Figaro [1784], actV, sc. iii John Dickinson 1732-1808 Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. John Dickinson The Liberty Song [1768] Richard Henry Lee 1732-1794 That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. Richard Henry Lee Resolution moved at the Continental Congress [June 7, 1776; adopted July 2] 1 1 See John Adams Julie de Lespinasse 1732-1776 The logic of the heart is absurd. Julie de Lespinasse Letter to M. Guibert [August 27, 1774] George Washington 1732-1799  Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. George Washington Letter of Instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiments [July 29, 1759] Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. George Washington General Orders, Headquarters, New York [July 2, 1776] The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. George Washington Address to the Continental Army before the battle of Long Island [August 27, 1776] There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves. George Washington Letter to the president of Congress, Heights of Harlem [September 24, 1776] To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. George Washington Letter to the president of Congress, Heights of Harlem [September 24, 1776] Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious. 1 2 3 4 5 George Washington To Lafayette [November 15, 1781] 1 See Themistocles 2 See Bacon 3 See Waller 4 See Mahan 5 See Morison If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington Address to officers of the Army [March 15, 1783] The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. George Washington First Inaugural Address [April 30, 1789] Happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. George Washington Letter to the Jewish congregation of Newport, Rhode Island [1790] To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. 1 2 3 4 5 George Washington First Annual Address [to both houses of Congress, January 8, 1790] 1 See Aristotle 2 See Vegetius 3 See Robert Burton 4 See Fenelon 5 See Lowell The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. George Washington Farewell Address [September 17, 1796] Let me now . . . warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. George Washington Farewell Address [September 17, 1796] Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. . . . The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. George Washington Farewell Address [September 17, 1796] 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington Farewell Address [September 17, 1796] There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. George Washington Farewell Address [September 17, 1796] It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. George Washington Last words [December 14, 1799] Joseph Priestley 1733-1804  It was ill policy in Leo the Tenth to patronize polite literature. He was cherishing an enemy in disguise. And the English hierar-chy (if there be anything unsound in its constitution) has equal reason to tremble even at an air pump or an electrical machine. Joseph Priestley Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air [1775-1786] In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. Joseph Priestley Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air [1775-1786] Christoph Martin Wieland 1733-1813 To be not as eloquent would be more eloquent. Christoph Martin Wieland The Journal Merkur [January 1774] An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground. Christoph Martin Wieland Idris und Zenide [1768], canto III Too much light often blinds gentlemen of this sort. They cannot see the forest for the trees. Christoph Martin Wieland Musarion [1768], canto II Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer 1734-1815 There is only one illness and one cure. Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer Aphorismes de M. Mesmer [1785], ch. 16 John Adams 1735-1826  Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress of wrongs, the advancement of right, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue, to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice? John Adams Letter to Jonathan Sewall [October 1759] A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. John Adams Diary [November 14, 1760] I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. John Adams Notes for "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law" [1765] Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right . . . and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers. John Adams A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law [1765] Let us . . . cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. . . . Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing. John Adams A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law [1765] Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams Argument in Defense of the [British] Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials [December 1770] The law . . . will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations and wanton tempers of men. . . . On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder, 1 to the clamors of the populace. John Adams Argument in Defense of the [British] Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials [December 1770] 1 See Psalm 58:4- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams Notes for an Oration at Braintree [Spring 1772] This is the most magnificent movement of all! There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this last effort of the patriots that I greatly admire. The people should never rise without doing something to be remembered-something notable and striking. This destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important consequences, and so lasting, that I can't but consider it as an epocha in history! John Adams Diary [on the Boston Tea Party, December 17, 1773]  A government of laws, and not of men. John Adams "Novanglus" papers, Boston Gazette [1774], no. 7. Incorporated [1780] in the Massachusetts Constitution Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed. 1 John Adams "Novanglus" papers, Boston Gazette [1774], no. 7. Incorporated [1780] in the Massachusetts Constitution 1 See Jefferson I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams Letter to Horatio Gates [March 23, 1776] You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first. John Adams Letter to Abigail Adams[April 28, 1776] There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight. John Adams Letter to Abigail Adams[May 17, 1776] Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." 1 John Adams Letter to Abigail Adams[July 3, 1776] 1 See Richard Henry Lee  The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore. John Adams Second Letter to Abigail Adams [July 3, 1776] The happiness of society 1 2 is the end of government. John Adams Thoughts on Government [1776] 1 See Gibbon 2 See Jefferson Fear is the foundation of most governments. John Adams Thoughts on Government [1776] When annual elections end, there slavery begins. John Adams Thoughts on Government [1776] The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that. John Adams Thoughts on Government [1776] Virtue is not always amiable. John Adams Diary[February 9, 1779]  By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man. . . . Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypoc-risies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion. John Adams Diary[April 26, 1779] I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. 1 John Adams Letter to Abigail Adams [May 12, 1780] 1 See Caecilius Statius You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. 1 John Adams Letter to John Quincy Adams [May 14, 1781] 1 See Marti My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office [the vice-presidency] that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate. 1 John Adams Letter to Abigail Adams [December 19, 1793] 1 See Jefferson  I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. John Adams Letter to Abigail Adams [November 2, 1800] I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land [to] run away or break. 1 John Adams Autobiography [1802-1807] 1 See Trollope You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other. John Adams Letter to Thomas Jefferson [July 15, 1813] The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. John Adams Letter to Thomas Jefferson [November 13, 1815]  Thomas-Jefferson-still surv- John Adams Last words [July 4, 1826] Isaac Bickerstaffe c. 1735-c. 1812 There was a jolly miller once Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang from morn till night No lark more blithe than he. Isaac Bickerstaffe Love in a Village [1762], act I, sc. ii And this the burthen of his song Forever used to be, "I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me." Isaac Bickerstaffe Love in a Village [1762], act I, sc. ii Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur J. Hector St. John 1735-1813 Here [in America] individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. 1 Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur Letters from an American Farmer [1782], III 1 See Zangwill Charles Joseph , Prince de Ligne 1735-1814  The Congress doesn't run-it waltzes. Charles Joseph , Prince de Ligne Comment to La Garde-Chambonacs [1814] William Julius Mickle 1735-1788 For there's nae luck about the house, There's nae luck at a'; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. William Julius Mickle The Mariner's Wife, st. 1 Paul Revere 1735-1818 To the memory of the glorious Ninety-two: members of the Honorable House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay who, undaunted by the insolent menaces of villains in power, from a strict regard to conscience and the liberties of their constituents on the 30th of June 1768 voted not to rescind. Paul Revere Inscription on Revere's silver "Liberty" bowl [1768] If the British went out by water, to show two lanterns in the North Church steeple; and if by land, one as a signal, for we were apprehensive it would be difficult to cross the Charles River or get over Boston Neck. 1 Paul Revere Signal code arranged with Colonel Conant of the Charlestown Committee of Safety [April 16, 1775]. Letter to Dr. Jeremy Belknap 1 See Longfellow Patrick Henry 1736-1799 Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third ["Treason!" cried the Speaker]-may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. Patrick Henry Speech on the Stamp Act, House of Burgesses, Williamsburg, Virginia [May 29, 1765] I am not a Virginian, but an American. Patrick Henry Speech in the First Continental Congress, Philadelphia [October 14, 1774] It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, 1 the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. Patrick Henry Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond [March 23, 1775] 1 See Jeremiah 5:21 I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. 1 Patrick Henry Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond [March 23, 1775] 1 See Burke We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power. . . . The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; 1 it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Patrick Henry Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond [March 23, 1775] 1 See Ecclesiastes 9:11 If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained-we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us. Patrick Henry Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond [March 23, 1775] It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. The gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! but there is no peace. 1 The war has actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that the gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! 2 Patrick Henry Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond [March 23, 1775] 1 See Jeremiah 6:14 2 See Aeschylus That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. Patrick Henry Virginia Bill of Rights [June 12, 1776], article 16 Edward Gibbon 1737-1794 The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776-1788], ch.2 The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776-1788], ch.3  Their united reigns [the Antonines'] are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government. Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776-1788], ch.3 History . . . is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. 1 Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776-1788], ch.3 1 See Voltaire Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776-1788], ch.21 Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776-1788], ch.49 The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. 1 2 3 4 Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776-1788], ch.68 1 See Tacitus 2 See Bussy-Rabutin 3 See Boileau 4 See Frederick the Great Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776-1788], ch.71 All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776-1788], ch.71 The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. Edward Gibbon Memoirs (Autobiography) [1796] Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder. Edward Gibbon Memoirs (Autobiography) [1796] It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries. Edward Gibbon Memoirs (Autobiography) [1796] I saw and loved. Edward Gibbon Memoirs (Autobiography) [1796] I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. Edward Gibbon Memoirs (Autobiography) [1796] [Of London] Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. Edward Gibbon Memoirs (Autobiography) [1796]  The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers . . . has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire. Edward Gibbon Memoirs (Autobiography) [1796] It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. Edward Gibbon Memoirs (Autobiography) [1796] Thomas Paine 1737-1809 From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree. Thomas Paine The Liberty Tree [July 1775], st. 4 Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine Common Sense [1776] Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. Thomas Paine Common Sense [1776] When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine Common Sense [1776] O! ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the Old World is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her as a stranger and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive and prepare in time an asylum for mankind. 1 Thomas Paine Common Sense [1776] 1 See Samuel Adams These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. Thomas Paine The American Crisis, no.1 [December 23, 1776] Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered. Thomas Paine The American Crisis, no.1 [December 23, 1776] Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them. Thomas Paine The American Crisis, no.1 [December 23, 1776] A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men. Thomas Paine The American Crisis, no.2 [January 13, 1777] Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine The American Crisis, no.4 [September 12, 1777] It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. Thomas Paine The American Crisis, no.4 [September 12, 1777] We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. Thomas Paine The American Crisis, no.4 [September 12, 1777] It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. And if there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged. Thomas Paine The American Crisis, no.5 [March 21, 1778] Character is much easier kept than recovered. Thomas Paine The American Crisis, no.13 [April 19, 1783] War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. Thomas Paine Prospects on the Rubicon [1787] [Burke] is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Thomas Paine The Rights of Man, pt.I [1791] My country is the world and my religion is to do good. 1 2 3 4 Thomas Paine The Rights of Man, pt.II [1792], ch. 5 1 See Socrates 2 See Bacon 3 See Garrison 4 See F. D. Roosevelt Every religion is good that teaches man to be good. Thomas Paine The Rights of Man, pt.II [1792], ch. 5  A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine The Rights of Man, pt.II [1792], ch. 5 I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy. Thomas Paine The Age of Reason [1793], pt.I It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. Thomas Paine The Age of Reason [1793], pt.I When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous. 1 Thomas Paine The Age of Reason [1793], pt.II, note 1 See Napoleon Rudolf Erich Raspe 1737-1794 His tunes were frozen up in the horn, and came out now by thawing. 1 Rudolf Erich Raspe Travels of Baron Munchausen [1785], ch.6 1 See Plutarch If any of the company entertain a doubt of my veracity, I shall only say to such, I pity their want of faith. Rudolf Erich Raspe Travels of Baron Munchausen [1785], ch.6 A traveler has a right to relate and embellish his adventures as he pleases, and it is very impolite to refuse that deference and applause they deserve. Rudolf Erich Raspe Travels of Baron Munchausen [1785], ch.21 Ethan Allen 1738-1789  [Captain Delaplace] gazed at Allen in bewildered astonishment. "By whose authority do you act?" exclaimed he. "In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress!" replied Allen. Ethan Allen From Washington Irving, Life of Washington [1855-1859], vol. I, ch. 38 Jacques Delille 1738-1813  Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. Jacques Delille Malheur et Pitie [1803], canto I John Wolcot Peter Pindar 1738-1819 What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all! John Wolcot To the Royal Academicians [1782-1785] Daniel Bliss 1740-1806 God wills us free, man wills us slaves, I will as God wills, God's will be done. Daniel Bliss Epitaph on gravestone of John Jack, "A Native of Africa, who died March 1773, aged about 60 years. Tho' born in a land of slavery he was born free." 1 2 1 See Rousseau 2 See Schiller James Boswell 1740-1795  That favorite subject, Myself. James Boswell Letter to Temple [July 26, 1763] He who praises everybody, praises nobody. James Boswell Life of Johnson [1791], footnote[March 30, 1778] We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. James Boswell Life of Johnson [1791], footnote[September 1777] I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed; and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. James Boswell Life of Johnson [1791], footnote[June 1784] Louis Sebastien Mercier 1740-1814  Extremes Meet. Louis Sebastien Mercier Tableaux de Paris [1782], vol. IV, ch. 348, title Augustus Montague Toplady 1740-1778 Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee. Augustus Montague Toplady Rock of Ages [1775], st. 1 Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort 1741-1794 The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort Maxims and Thoughts,1 Chance is a nickname for Providence. Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort Maxims and Thoughts,62  Be my brother, or I will kill you. Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort From Carlyle, French Revolution [1837], vol. II, pt. 1, ch. 12 Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him. Johann Kaspar Lavater Aphorisms on Man [c. 1788], no.157  He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling. Johann Kaspar Lavater Aphorisms on Man [c. 1788], no.302 Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. Johann Kaspar Lavater Aphorisms on Man [c. 1788], no.449 The public seldom forgive twice. Johann Kaspar Lavater Aphorisms on Man [c. 1788], no.606 Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity. Johann Kaspar Lavater Aphorisms on Man [c. 1788], no.609 If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please. Johann Kaspar Lavater Aphorisms on Man [c. 1788], no.643 Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi Mrs. Thrale 1741-1821 Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth! Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi From James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791]. May 1781 Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher 1742-1819 Ever forward, but slowly. Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher While leading the Russians at Leipzig [October 19, 1813] May the pens of the diplomats not ruin again what the people have attained with such exertions. Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher After the battle of Waterloo [1813] Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742-1799 A knife without a blade, for which the handle is missing. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Gottingen Pocket Calendar [1798], describing an impossible existence Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorismen [1902-1908] To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorismen [1902-1908] I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorismen [1902-1908] Soothsayers make a better living in the world than truthsayers. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorismen [1902-1908]  It may not be natural for man to walk on two legs, but it was a noble invention. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorismen [1902-1908] The thing that astonished him was that cats should have two holes cut in their coat exactly at the place where their eyes are. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorismen [1902-1908] Anna Letitia Barbauld 1743-1825 Say not "Good night"; but in some brighter clime Bid me "Good morning." Anna Letitia Barbauld Ode to Life, st. 3 This dead of midnight is the noon of thought. Anna Letitia Barbauld A Summer's Evening Meditation Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin 1743-1816 I am a czar-a slave, I am a worm-a god. Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin God [1784] William Henry , Duke of Gloucester 1743-1805  Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon? William Henry , Duke of Gloucester Upon receiving from Edward Gibbon volume II of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1781]. From Best's Literary Memorials Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826 A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Robert Skipwith [August 3, 1771] The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. Thomas Jefferson Summary View of the Rights of British America [1774]  When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God 1 2 entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; 3 4 that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; 5 6 that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence [July 4, 1776] 1 See Bolingbroke 2 See Pope 3 See John Adams 4 See Gibbon 5 See Vico 6 See John Adams We must therefore . . . hold them [the British] as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence [July 4, 1776] And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence [July 4, 1776] Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia [1781-1785]. Query6 The Newtonian principle of gravitation is now more firmly established, on the basis of reason, than it would be were the government to step in, and to make it an article of necessary faith. Reason and experiment have been indulged, and error has fled before them. Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia [1781-1785]. Query17 Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia [1781-1785]. Query17 Is uniformity [of opinion] attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia [1781-1785]. Query17 Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia [1781-1785]. Query18 Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia [1781-1785]. Query19 He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr [August 19, 1785] The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington [January 16, 1787] Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington [January 16, 1787] I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Thomas Jefferson Letter to James Madison [January 30, 1787] What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. 1 2 It is its natural manure. Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Stevens Smith [November 13, 1787] 1 See Tertullian 2 See Barere The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Hunter [March 11, 1790] We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Lafayette [April 2, 1790] Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang-froid immovably, and to every obstacle, oppose patience, perseverance, and soothing language. Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Short [March 18, 1792] Delay is preferable to error. Thomas Jefferson Letter to George Washington [May 16, 1792] We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it. Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Carmichael and William Short [1793] The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery. 1 Thomas Jefferson Letter to Elbridge Gerry [May 13, 1797] 1 See John Adams Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Tench Coxe [May 21, 1799] I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush[September 23, 1800] We are all Republicans-we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. 1 2 Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1801] 1 See Milton 2 See Holmes But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1801] Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1801] Still one thing more, fellow citizens-a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities. Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1801] Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. . . . Freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civil instruction, the touchstone by which we try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1801] Whensoever hostile aggressions . . . require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Andrew Jackson [December 3, 1806] The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. 1 Thomas Jefferson To the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland [March 31, 1809] 1 See George Mason Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. Thomas Jefferson Letter to James Ogilvie [August 4, 1811] But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Charles Willson Peale [August 20, 1811] The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. Thomas Jefferson Letter to John W. Eppes [June 24, 1813] I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson Letter to John Adams [October 28, 1813] Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Horatio G. Spafford [March 17, 1814] I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson Letter to John Adams [June 10, 1815] If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey [January 6, 1816] Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Du Pont de Nemours [April 24, 1816] I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law. Thomas Jefferson Letter to papal nuncio Count Dugnani [February 14, 1818] But this momentous question [the Missouri Compromise], like a firebell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it the knell of the Union. Thomas Jefferson Letter to John Holmes [April 22, 1820] I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Charles Jarvis [September 28, 1820] We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Roscoe [December 27, 1820] That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. Thomas Jefferson Autobiography [January 6, 1821], on the United States Congress And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. In short, the flames kindled on the fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them. Thomas Jefferson Letter to John Adams [September 12, 1821] Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: (1) Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. (2) Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist; and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Thomas Jefferson Letter to Henry Lee [August 10, 1824] Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. Thomas Jefferson A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life [February 21, 1825] When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. 1 Thomas Jefferson A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life [February 21, 1825] 1 See Mark Twain The good old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all. Thomas Jefferson Thoughts on Lotteries [1826] This is the Fourth? Thomas Jefferson Last words [July 4, 1826] Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 1743-1794  It is impossible to dissociate language from science or science from language, because every natural science always involves three things: the sequence of phenomena on which the science is based; the abstract concepts which call these phenomena to mind; and the words in which the concepts are expressed. To call forth a concept a word is needed; to portray a phenomenon, a concept is needed. All three mirror one and the same reality. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Traite Elementaire de Chimie [1789]  If, by the term elements, we mean to express the simple and indivisible molecules that compose bodies, it is probable that we know nothing about them; but if, on the contrary, we express by the term elements or principles of bodies the idea of the last point reached by analysis, all substances that we have not yet been able to decompose by any means are elements to us. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Traite Elementaire de Chimie [1789] William Paley 1743-1805 Who can refute a sneer? William Paley Moral Philosophy [1785], vol. II, bk. V, ch. 9 The Letters of Junius 1769-1771  One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine. The Letters of Junius Dedication to the English Nation The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. The Letters of Junius Dedication to the English Nation I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed; but I am sure there is a fund of good sense in this country, which cannot be deceived. The Letters of Junius No. 16, to the Printer of the Public Advertiser (H. S. Woodfall) [July 19, 1769] We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. The Letters of Junius No. 20, to the Printer of the Public Advertiser [August 8, 1769] When the constitution is openly invaded, when the first original right of the people, from which all laws derive their authority, is directly attacked, inferior grievances naturally lose their force, and are suffered to pass by without punishment or observation. The Letters of Junius No. 30, to the Printer of the Public Advertiser [October 17, 1769] There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled. The Letters of Junius No. 35, to the Printer of the Public Advertiser [December 19, 1769] They [the Americans] equally detest the pageantry of a king, and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop. 1 The Letters of Junius No. 35, to the Printer of the Public Advertiser [December 19, 1769] 1 See Rufus Choate There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. The Letters of Junius No. 35, to the Printer of the Public Advertiser [December 19, 1769] The least considerable man among us has an interest equal to the proudest nobleman, in the laws and constitution of his country, and is equally called upon to make a generous contribution in support of them-whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute. 1 The Letters of Junius No. 37, to the Printer of the Public Advertiser [March 19, 1770] 1 See Hyde We lament the mistakes of a good man, and do not begin to detest him until he affects to renounce his principles. The Letters of Junius No. 41, to Lord Mansfield[November 14, 1770] The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles. The Letters of Junius No. 41, to Lord Mansfield[November 14, 1770] An honest man, like the true religion, appeals to the understanding, or modestly confides in the internal evidence of his conscience. The impostor employs force instead of argument, imposes silence where he cannot convince, and propagates his character by the sword. The Letters of Junius No. 41, to Lord Mansfield[November 14, 1770] If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us. The Letters of Junius No. 59, to the Printer of the Public Advertiser [October 5, 1771] The temple of fame is the shortest passage to riches and preferment. The Letters of Junius No. 59, to the Printer of the Public Advertiser [October 5, 1771] Constitution of the United States 1787 We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Constitution of the United States Preamble The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Constitution of the United States Article II, sec. 4 Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. Constitution of the United States Article III, sec. 3 This Constitution, and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the Supreme Law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. Constitution of the United States Article VI, sec. 2 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Constitution of the United States First Amendment [1791] A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Constitution of the United States Second Amendment [1791] The right of the people to be secure . . . against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause. Constitution of the United States Fourth Amendment [1791] Nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. Constitution of the United States Fifth Amendment [1791] In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed. Constitution of the United States Sixth Amendment [1791] The right to trial by jury shall be preserved. Constitution of the United States Seventh Amendment [1791] Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. Constitution of the United States Eighth Amendment [1791] All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall . . . abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Constitution of the United States Fourteenth Amendment [1868], sec. 1 The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged . . . on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Constitution of the United States Fifteenth Amendment [1870], sec. 1 The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be abridged . . . on account of sex. Constitution of the United States Nineteenth Amendment [1920], sec. 1 Abigail Adams 1744-1818  In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. 1 If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams[March 31, 1776] 1 See Defoe Shall we not be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word? Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams[May 7, 1776] Whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives. But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken-and notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet. Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams[May 7, 1776] Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams[August 5, 1776] If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. . . . If much depends as is allowed upon the early education of youth and the first principles which are instilled take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women. Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams[August 14, 1776] It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to . . . Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne. 1 Abigail Adams Letter to John Thaxter [February 15, 1778] 1 See Sand I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country. Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams [June 30, 1778] If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? Abigail Adams Letter to John Thaxter [September 29, 1778] Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons. Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams [February 13, 1779] These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great challenges are formed. . . . Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams Letter to John Quincy Adams [January 19, 1780] A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams [May 1, 1780] Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams Letter to John Quincy Adams [May 8, 1780] Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence. Even in the freest countries our property is subject to the control and disposal of our partners, to whom the laws have given a sovereign authority. Deprived of a voice in legislation, obliged to submit to those laws which are imposed upon us, is it not sufficient to make us indifferent to the public welfare? Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours. Abigail Adams Letter to John Adams [June 17, 1782] Johann Gottfried von Herder 1744-1803 A gain it is to find a beautiful human soul. Johann Gottfried von Herder Der Gerettete Jungling [1797] Light, love, life. Johann Gottfried von Herder Herder's Epitaph [1803] Rowland Hill 1744-1833 He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes. Rowland Hill Sermons. From E. W. Broome, The Reverend Rowland Hill, p. 93 Jean Baptiste Lamarck 1744-1829 first law. In every animal . . . a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ . . . while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears. second law. All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature in individuals . . . are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise. Jean Baptiste Lamarck Philosophie Zoologique [1809], pt. II, ch. 7  Habits form a second nature. Jean Baptiste Lamarck Philosophie Zoologique [1809], pt. II, ch. 7 Josiah Quincy 1744-1775 Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men. Josiah Quincy Observations on the Boston Port Bill [1774] Charles Dibdin 1745-1814 Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love, and a little for the bottle. Charles Dibdin Captain Wattle and Miss Roe Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has broached him to. Charles Dibdin Tom Bowling Sir Henry Bate Dudley 1745-1824 Wonders will never cease. Sir Henry Bate Dudley Letter to Garrick [September 13, 1776] Hannah More 1745-1833 Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. Hannah More Sensibility Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. Hannah More Florio and His Friend William Scott, Lord Stowell 1745-1836 A dinner lubricates business. William Scott, Lord Stowell From Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791] The elegant simplicity of the three per cents. William Scott, Lord Stowell From Campbell, Lives of the Lord Chancellors [1857], vol. X, ch. 212 Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes 1746-1828 The sleep of reason produces monsters [El sueno de la razon produce monstruos]. Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes Los Caprichos [1799]. Plate 43 Sir William Jones 1746-1794 On parent knees, a naked newborn child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. Sir William Jones From the Persian [1786] John Paul Jones 1747-1792 I have not yet begun to fight. John Paul Jones Aboard the Bonhomme Richard [September 23, 1779] Francois Alexandre Frederic , Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Francois Alexandre Frederic La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt 1747-1827 Louis XVI: Is it a revolt? La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt: No, Sire, it is a revolution. Francois Alexandre Frederic , Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Upon learning at Versailles of the fall of the Bastille [1789] John O'Keeffe 1747-1833 Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace Is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender! John O'Keeffe The Agreeable Surprise [1783], act II, sc. ii, Song You should always except the present company. John O'Keeffe The London Hermit; or, Rambles in Dorsetshire [1793]  Fat, fair and forty were all the toasts of the young men. John O'Keeffe The Irish Mimic; or, Blunders at Brighton [1795] Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes 1748-1836 I survived [J'ai vecu]. Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes Upon being asked what he had done during the Terror Charles James Fox 1749-1806 [On the fall of the Bastille] How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best! Charles James Fox Letter to Richard Fitzpatrick [July 30, 1789]. From Lord John Russell, Life and Times of C. J. Fox [1859-1866], vol. II, p. 361 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 There is strong shadow where there is much light. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotz von Berlichingen [1773], act I One lives but once in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Clavigo [1774], act I, sc. i. If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers [1774-1787].May 17 Radiant misery. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers [1774-1787].December 24 Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Claudine von Villa Bella [1776] Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Das Gottliche (The Divine) [1783] I sing as the bird sings That lives in the boughs. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) [1786-1830], bk.II, ch.11 Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) [1786-1830], bk.II, ch.13 Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose? 1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) [1786-1830], bk.III, ch. 1 1 See Byron If I love you, what business is it of yours? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) [1786-1830], bk.IV, ch. 9 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. 1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) [1786-1830], bk.V, ch. 1 1 See Charles Eliot Norton To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence-this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) [1786-1830], bk.VII, ch.5 Art is long, life short; 1 2 3 judgment difficult, opportunity transient. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) [1786-1830], bk.VII, ch.9 1 See Hippocrates 2 See Chaucer 3 See Longfellow Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenie auf Tauris [1787], actI, sc.i A useless life is an early death. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenie auf Tauris [1787], actI, sc.ii One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenie auf Tauris [1787], actI, sc.iii Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenie auf Tauris [1787], actII, sc. i Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenie auf Tauris [1787], actIV, sc. iv  In art the best is good enough. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Italian Journey. March 3, 1787 A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Torquato Tasso [1790], act I, sc.i A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Torquato Tasso [1790], act I, sc.ii We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. 1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hermann und Dorothea [1797] 1 See Gibran The spirits that I summoned up I now can't rid myself of. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) [1797] Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elective Affinities [1808], bk.I, ch. 9 The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elective Affinities [1808], bk.I, ch. 9 One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elective Affinities [1808], bk.II, ch.2 Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over monuments. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elective Affinities [1808], bk.II, ch.2 The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elective Affinities [1808], bk.II, ch.3 Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elective Affinities [1808], bk.II, ch.4 No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elective Affinities [1808], bk.II, ch.4 A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elective Affinities [1808], bk.II, ch.7 One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Letter to Karl Friedrich Zelter [December 3, 1812] Who wants to understand the poem Must go to the land of poetry; Who wishes to understand the poet Must go to the poet's land. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe West-ostlicher Diwan [1819],motto For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe West-ostlicher Diwan [1819],Buch des Paradies One must be something to be able to do something. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Conversation with Eckermann [October 20, 1828] If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Letter to Eckermann[February 4, 1829]  I call architecture frozen music. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Letter to Eckermann[March 23, 1829] The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it . . . but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Essay on Experimentation Age does not make us childish, as they say. It only finds us true children still. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.Prelude on the Stage Man errs as long as he strives. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.Prologue in Heaven And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand! no wiser than before. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.Night, Faust in His Study Am I a god? I see so clearly! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.Night, Faust in His Study Two souls alas! dwell in my breast. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.Outside the Gate of the Town I am the Spirit that always denies! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.Faust's Study Dear friend, all theory is gray, And green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.Mephistopheles and the Student Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.Mephistopheles and the Student A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.Auerbach's Cellar He who maintains he's right-if his the gift of tongues- Will have the last word certainly. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.Faust and Gretchen. A Street My peace is gone, My heart is heavy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.Gretchen's Room Fair I was also, and that was my ruin. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The First Part.A Prison Law is mighty, mightier necessity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The Second Part, actI, A Spacious Hall Once a man's thirty, he's already old, He is indeed as good as dead. It's best to kill him right away. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The Second Part, actII,The Gothic Chamber What wise or stupid thing can man conceive That was not thought of in ages long ago? 1 2 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The Second Part, actII,The Gothic Chamber 1 See Cicero 2 See Descartes I love those who yearn for the impossible. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The Second Part, actII,Classical Walpurgis Night The deed is everything, the glory nothing. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The Second Part, actIV, A High Mountain Range Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every day must conquer them anew. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The Second Part, actV,Court of the Palace Who strives always to the utmost, For him there is salvation. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The Second Part, actV,Mountain Gorges The Eternal Feminine draws us on. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust [1808-1832].The Second Part, actV,Heaven, last line Do you wish to roam farther and farther? See! The Good lies so near. Only learn to seize good fortune, For good fortune's always here. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Erinnerung In limitations he first shows himself the master, And the law can only bring us freedom. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Was Wir Bringen [1802] Create, artist! Do not talk! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Saying O'er all the hilltops Is quiet now, In all the treetops Hearest thou Hardly a breath; The birds are asleep in the trees: Wait; soon like these Thou too shalt rest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wandrers Nachtlied (Wanderer's Nightsong) Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spruche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose) Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spruche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose) Doubt grows with knowledge. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spruche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose) The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spruche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose) First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spruche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose) A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. 1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spruche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose) 1 See William of Wykeham  All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spruche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose)  Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spruche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose)  Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spruche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose) Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spruche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose)  America, you have it better than our continent, the old one. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wendts Musen-Almanach [1831] Without haste, but without rest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Motto More light! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Last words Pierre Simon de Laplace 1749-1827 Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eyes. Pierre Simon de Laplace Oeuvres, vol. VII, Theorie Analytique des Probabilites [1812-1820], introduction The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus. Pierre Simon de Laplace Oeuvres, vol. VII, Theorie Analytique des Probabilites [1812-1820], introduction  Sire, I have no need of that hypothesis. Pierre Simon de Laplace From Eric Temple Bell, Men of Mathematics [1937] Honore Gabriel Riquetti , Comte de Mirabeau 1749-1791 Go and tell those who have sent you that we are here by the will of the nation and that we shall not leave save at the point of bayonets. Honore Gabriel Riquetti , Comte de Mirabeau Speech in the States-General [June 23, 1789] John Philpot Curran 1750-1817  The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. John Philpot Curran Speech upon the Right of Election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin [July 10, 1790] James Madison 1751-1836 By a faction, understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. James Madison The Federalist [1787], no. 10 A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment of different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to cooperate for their common good. . . . But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. James Madison The Federalist [1787], no. 10 To secure the public good, and private rights, against the danger of . . . faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed. James Madison The Federalist [1787], no. 10 I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison Speech in the Virginia Convention [June 16, 1788] Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816 Mrs. Malaprop: Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actI, sc. ii 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actI, sc. ii A progeny of learning. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actI, sc. ii Never say more than is necessary. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actII, sc. i I know you are laughing in your sleeve. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actII, sc. i He is the very pineapple of politeness! Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actIII, sc.iii If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs! Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actIII, sc.iii As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actIII, sc.iii Too civil by half. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actIII, sc.iv Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actIV, sc.i No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actIV, sc.ii You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actIV, sc.ii The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actIV, sc.iii My valor is certainly going!-it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands! Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actV, sc. iii I own the soft impeachment. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],actV, sc. iii Through all the drama-whether damned or not- Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775],Epilogue An apothecary should never be out of spirits. Richard Brinsley Sheridan St. Patrick's Day [1775], actI, sc. i Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike-no bail, no demurrer. Richard Brinsley Sheridan St. Patrick's Day [1775], actII, sc. iv I ne'er could any luster see In eyes that would not look on me. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Duenna [1775], actI, sc.ii I loved him for himself alone. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Duenna [1775], actI, sc.iii I was struck all of a heap. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Duenna [1775], actII, sc.ii A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Duenna [1775], actII, sc.iii Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Duenna [1775], actII, sc.iv Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal [1777], actI, sc.i You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal [1777], actI, sc.i You had no taste when you married me. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal [1777], actI, sc.ii Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Let the toast pass- Drink to the lass; I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal [1777], actIII, sc. iii An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal [1777], actIV, sc. i Be just before you're generous. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal [1777], actIV, sc. i There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic [1779], actI, sc.i The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal-Not that I ever read them-no-I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic [1779], actI, sc.i Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic [1779], actI, sc.ii A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic [1779], actI, sc.ii The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. 1 2 Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic [1779], actI, sc.ii 1 See J. R. Lowell 2 See Bryce Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic [1779], actII, sc. i I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night. Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic [1779], actIII, sc. i You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Clio's Protest [1819]  An oyster may be crossed in love. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Clio's Protest [1819] The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. 1 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Sheridaniana. Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas 1 See Lesage Johann Heinrich Voss 1751-1826 Who does not love wine, women, and song Remains a fool his whole life long. Johann Heinrich Voss Attributed Thomas Chatterton 1752-1770 Mie love ys dedde, Gon to hys death-bedde, Al under the wyllowe-tree. Thomas Chatterton Mynstrelles Songe Philip Freneau 1752-1832 An age employed in edging steel Can no poetic raptures feel . . . No shaded stream, no quiet grove Can this fantastic century move. Philip Freneau Poems [1795]. To an Author, st. 6 Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear-but left the shield. Philip Freneau To the Memory of the Brave Americans Who Fell at Eutaw Springs, S.C., September 8, 1781 [1786], st. 5 O come the time, and haste the day, When man shall man no longer crush, When Reason shall enforce her sway, Nor these fair regions raise our blush, Where still the African complains, And mourns his yet unbroken chains. Philip Freneau On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country [1786] Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger 1752-1831 Sturm und Drang [Storm and Stress]. Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger Title of play [1776] Leonard MacNally 1752-1820 On Richmond Hill there lives a lass More bright than Mayday morn; Whose charms all other maids' surpass- A rose without a thorn. Leonard MacNally The Lass of Richmond Hill, st. 1 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla 1753-1811 Hail Our Lady of Guadalupe! Long live Independence! (Viva Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe! Viva la Independencia!) Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla The Cry of Dolores (El Grito de Dolores) [September 16, 1810], launching the Mexican War of Independence from Spain Joseph de Maistre 1753-1821 Every nation has the government it deserves. Joseph de Maistre Letter to X [1811] The sword of justice has no scabbard. Joseph de Maistre Les Soirees de Saint-Petersbourg [1821]. Premier Entretien Antoine de Rivarol 1753-1801 What is not clear is not French. Antoine de Rivarol Discours sur l'Universalite de la Langue Francaise [1784] Joel Barlow 1754-1812 My morning incense, and my evening meal- The sweets of Hasty Pudding. Joel Barlow The Hasty Pudding [1792], canto I George Crabbe 1754-1832 Habit with him was all the test of truth, "It must be right: I've done it from my youth." George Crabbe The Borough [1810]. Letter 3, The Vicar In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. George Crabbe The Birth of Flattery [1807] Cut and come again. George Crabbe Tales [1812]. VII, The Widow's Tale The ring, so worn as you behold, So thin, so pale, is yet of gold. George Crabbe His Mother's Wedding Ring William Drennan 1754-1820 Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile The cause, or the men, of the Emerald Isle. William Drennan Erin [1795], st. 3 Joseph Joubert 1754-1824 I had to grow old to learn what I wanted to know, and I should need to be young to say well what I know. Joseph Joubert Pensees [1842] Ask the young: they know everything! Joseph Joubert Pensees [1842] To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert Pensees [1842] Jeanne Manon Phlipon Madame Roland Roland de la Platiere 1754-1793 O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name! Jeanne Manon Phlipon Madame Roland Roland de la Platiere Last words, before her death on the guillotine. From Lamartine, Histoire des Girondins [1847] Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord 1754-1838 Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Recipe for coffee  [Of the Bourbons] They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord From Chevalier de Panat, letter to Mallet du Pan [January 1796]  [Of the battle of Borodino, 1812] It is the beginning of the end. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord From Edouard Fournier, L'Esprit dans l'Histoire [1857] The United States has thirty-two religions but only one dish. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Attributed Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses one. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Attributed  [To a young diplomat] Don't be eager! Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord From Charles Augustin Saint-Beuve, Portraits de Femmes [1858]. Madame de Stael  War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Attributed. Quoted by Briand to Lloyd George during World War I. Also attributed to Clemenceau Benjamin Waterhouse 1754-1846 Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil does proceed; It drains your purse, it burns your clothes, And makes a chimney of your nose. Benjamin Waterhouse From Oliver Wendell Holmes [1809-1894], who was vaccinated by Dr. Waterhouse Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac 1755-1841 The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants. 1 2 Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac Speech in the National Convention [January 16, 1793] 1 See Tertullian 2 See Jefferson It is only the dead who do not return. Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac Speech [1794] Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 1755-1826 Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. 1 Anthelme Brillat-Savarin La Physiologie du Go[ucirc ]t [The Physiology of Taste, 1825], ch.4 1 See Cervantes, 170:25, and Ruskin A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin La Physiologie du Go[ucirc ]t [The Physiology of Taste, 1825], ch.14 A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin La Physiologie du Go[ucirc ]t [The Physiology of Taste, 1825], ch.14 Nathan Hale 1755-1776 I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. 1 Nathan Hale Last words, before being hanged by the British as a spy [September 22, 1776] 1 See Addison Alexander Hamilton 1755-1804  A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. Alexander Hamilton Letter to Robert Morris [April 30, 1781] I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever produced. . . . This government has for its object public strength and individual security. Alexander Hamilton Debates of the Federal Convention [May 14-September 17, 1787].June 18, 1787 All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people. . . . The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government. Alexander Hamilton Debates of the Federal Convention [May 14-September 17, 1787].June 18, 1787 We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. Alexander Hamilton Debates of the Federal Convention [May 14-September 17, 1787].June 26, 1787 Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness. Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world! Alexander Hamilton The Federalist [1787-1788], no.11 Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. Alexander Hamilton The Federalist [1787-1788], no.15 Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. Alexander Hamilton The Federalist [1787-1788], no.15 Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power. Alexander Hamilton Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank [February 23, 1791] If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority. Alexander Hamilton Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank [February 23, 1791] Louis XVIII 1755-1824  Punctuality is the politeness of kings. Louis XVIII A favorite saying John Marshall 1755-1835 It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. . . . If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. . . . This is of the very essence of judicial duty. John Marshall Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 1317 [1803] We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding. John Marshall McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheaton 316,407 [1819] This provision is made in a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. John Marshall McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheaton 316,415 Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional. John Marshall McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheaton 316,421 The power to tax involves the power to destroy. 1 John Marshall McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheaton 316,431 1 See Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will. John Marshall Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheaton (19 U.S.) 264, 389 [1821] Martin Joseph Routh 1755-1854 You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir. Martin Joseph Routh From J. W. Burgon, Memoir of Dr. Routh, Quarterly Review [July 1878] Henry Light-Horse Harry Lee 1756-1818 To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Henry Light-Horse Harry Lee Resolutions presented to the House of Representatives on the death of Washington [December 1799] Wolfgang Amade Mozart 1756-1791 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amade Mozart Attributed William Blake 1757-1827 How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide! William Blake Poetical Sketches [1783].Song (How Sweet I Roamed),st. 1 He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. William Blake Poetical Sketches [1783].Song (How Sweet I Roamed),st. 4 My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away; And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have. William Blake Poetical Sketches [1783].Song (My Silks and Fine Array), st. 1 Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe, After night I do crowd, And with night will go; I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased; For light doth seize my brain With frantic pain. William Blake Poetical Sketches [1783].Mad Song, st. 3 How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few! William Blake Poetical Sketches [1783].To the Muses, st. 4 Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me:"Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear. William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].Introduction,st. 1, 2 And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].Introduction,st. 5 Sing louder around To the bells' cheerful sound, While our sports shall be seen On the echoing green. William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].The Echoing Green, st. 1 Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly bright. William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].The Lamb, st. 1 My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light. William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].The Little Black Boy,st. 1 And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love, And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].The Little Black Boy,st. 4 I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear To lean in joy upon our Father's knee; And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him and he will then love me. William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].The Little Black Boy,st. 7 When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].The Chimney Sweeper, st. 1 To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].The Divine Image,st. 1 For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, 1 2 And Peace, the human dress. 3 William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].The Divine Image,st. 3 1 See Milton 2 See A Divine Image 3 See A Divine Image The moon like a flower In heaven's high bower, With silent delight, Sits and smiles on the night. William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].Night,st. 1 And there the lion's ruddy eyes Shall flow with tears of gold, And pitying the tender cries, And walking round the fold, Saying: "Wrath by his meekness, And by his health, sickness, Is driven away From our immortal day." William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].Night,st. 5 "For washed in life's river, My bright mane forever Shall shine like the gold As I guard o'er the fold." William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].Night,st. 6 When the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast And everything else is still. William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].Nurse's Song, st. 1 Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? William Blake Songs of Innocence [1789-1790].On Another's Sorrow, st. 1 Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl? William Blake The Book of Thel [1789-1792]. Thel's Motto Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1790[ndash ]1793].The Argument The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1790[ndash ]1793].note to The Voice of the Devil The busy bee has no time for sorrow. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1790[ndash ]1793].Proverbs of Hell,l. 11 No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1790[ndash ]1793].Proverbs of Hell,l. 15 The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1790[ndash ]1793].Proverbs of Hell,l. 22 The cistern contains: the fountain overflows. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1790[ndash ]1793].Proverbs of Hell,l. 35 Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1790[ndash ]1793].Proverbs of Hell,l. 41 You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1790[ndash ]1793].Proverbs of Hell,l. 46 Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1790[ndash ]1793].Proverbs of Hell,l. 66 Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1790[ndash ]1793].Proverbs of Hell,l. 69 Enough! or too much. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1790[ndash ]1793].Proverbs of Hell,l. 70 Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly.I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart; Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears- Ah, she doth depart.Soon as she was gone from me A traveler came by Silently, invisibly- Oh, was no deny. William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.Never Seek to Tell I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries.As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame-And without one word said Had a peach from the tree, And still as a maid Enjoyed the lady. William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.I Asked a Thief Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming o'er the joys of night. Sleep, sleep: in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep. William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.A Cradle Song, st. 1 Why art thou silent and invisible, Father of Jealousy? William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.To Nobodaddy, st. 1 Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclined, Lawless, winged, and unconfined, And breaks all chains from every mind. William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.Love to Faults The sword sung on the barren heath, The sickle in the fruitful field; The sword he sung a song of death, But could not make the sickle yield. William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.The Sword Sung Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there. William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.Abstinence Sows Sand If you trap the moment before it's ripe, 1 The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe. William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.If You Trap the Moment 1 See Shakespeare He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.Several Questions Answered, no.1, He Who Binds The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire. William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.Several Questions Answered, no.2, The Look of Love What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require? The lineaments of gratified desire. William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.Several Questions Answered, no.4, What Is It You'll quite remove the ancient curse. William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.Several Questions Answered, no.5, An Ancient Proverb Then old Nobodaddy aloft Farted and belched and coughed, And said, "I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering." William Blake Poems [written c. 1791[ndash ]1792] from Blake's Notebook.Let the Brothels of Paris, st. 2 Hear the voice of the Bard! Who Present, Past, and Future sees, Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walked among the ancient trees. William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].Introduction,st. 1 Turn away no more. Why wilt thou turn away? The starry floor, The wat'ry shore Is giv'n thee till the break of day. 1 William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].Introduction,st. 4 1 See Milton Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].The Clod and the Pebble,st. 1 Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].The Clod and the Pebble,st. 3 O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm,Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].The Sick Rose Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away.Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me?For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].The Fly, st. 1-3 Tiger, Tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].The Tiger,st. 1, 2 What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].The Tiger,st. 4, 5 In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forged manacles I hear. William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].London,st. 2 But most through midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlot's curse Blasts the newborn infant's tear And blights with plagues the marriage hearse. William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].London,st. 4 Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor; And Mercy no more could be, If all were as happy as we. William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].The Human Abstract, st. 1 My mother groaned! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt: Helpless, naked, piping loud, Like a fiend hid in a cloud. William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].Infant Sorrow, st. 1 I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. William Blake Songs of Experience [1794].A Poison Tree, st. 1 Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror, the human form divine, 1 2 And Secrecy, the human dress. William Blake A Divine Image, st. 1 1 See Milton 2 See The Divine Image Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade, Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade. William Blake Annotations [c. 1798-1809] to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses,title page To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit-general knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess. William Blake Annotations [c. 1798-1809] to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses,pp. xcvii-xcviii My specter around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way. My emanation far within Weeps incessantly for my sin. William Blake Poems [written c. 1804] from Blake's Notebook.My Specter,st. 1 And throughout all eternity I forgive you, you forgive me. William Blake Poems [written c. 1804] from Blake's Notebook.My Specter,st. 14 Mock on, mock on, 1 Voltaire, Rousseau. Mock on, mock on-'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. William Blake Poems [written c. 1804] from Blake's Notebook.Mock On, st. 1 1 See Job 21:3 Terror in the house does roar, But Pity stands before the door. William Blake Poems [written c. 1804] from Blake's Notebook.Terror in the House There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].The Smile, st. 1 This cabinet is formed of gold And pearl and crystal shining bright, And within it opens into a world And a little lovely moony night. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].The Crystal Cabinet, st. 2 For a tear is an intellectual thing, And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King, And the bitter groan of the martyr's woe Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].The Gray Monk, st. 8 To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 1 A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 5 A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 9 He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 29 A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 53 Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 56 Every tear from every eye Becomes a babe in eternity. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 67 He who shall teach the child to doubt The rotting grave shall ne'er get out. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 87 The strongest poison ever known Came from Caesar's laurel crown. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 97 He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please. If the sun and moon should doubt They'd immediately go out. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 107 The harlot's cry from street to street Shall weave old England's winding sheet. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 115 Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to endless night. William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript [c. 1805].Auguries of Innocence,l. 123 Rouse up, O young men of the new age! Set your foreheads against the ignorant hirelings! For we have hirelings in the camp, the court, and the university who would, if they could, forever repress mental and prolong corporeal war. William Blake Milton [c. 1809],preface And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills?Bring me my bow of burning gold, Bring me my arrows of desire, Bring me my spear-O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire!I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land. William Blake Milton [c. 1809],prefatory poem Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street. William Blake Poems [written c. 1807-1809] from Blake's Notebook.Great Things Are Done If you have formed a circle to go into, Go into it yourself and see how you would do. William Blake Poems [written c. 1807-1809] from Blake's Notebook.To God The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, "Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth." William Blake Poems [written c. 1807-1809] from Blake's Notebook.The Angel That Presided Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven, I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven. William Blake Poems [written c. 1807-1809] from Blake's Notebook.Grown Old in Love Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish! William Blake Jerusalem [c. 1818-1820].To the Public, plate 1 He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer: For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars. William Blake Jerusalem [c. 1818-1820].ch.3, plate 55, l. 60 England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls? William Blake Jerusalem [c. 1818-1820].ch.4, prefatory poem, plate 77, st. 1 The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. William Blake The Everlasting Gospel [written c. 1818], sec.4,l. 1 Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white. William Blake The Everlasting Gospel [written c. 1818], sec.4,l. 13 This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye. William Blake The Everlasting Gospel [written c. 1818], sec.5, l. 101 I am sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew. William Blake The Everlasting Gospel [written c. 1818], sec.8 James Gillray 1757-1815  The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. James Gillray Title of cartoon [1797] John Philip Kemble 1757-1823 Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But-why did you kick me down stairs? John Philip Kemble The Panel, act I, sc. i Royall Tyler 1757-1826  Since General Shays has sneaked off and given us the bag to hold. Royall Tyler The Contrast [1787], actII, sc. ii I am at the end of my tether. Royall Tyler The Contrast [1787], actIII, sc. i Fisher Ames 1758-1808 A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water. Fisher Ames Speech in the House of Representatives [1795] John Heath 1758-1810  Love of wisdom [philosophy] the guide of life. John Heath Greek phrase for Phi Beta Kappa, society founded at the College of William and Mary [December 5, 1776] James Monroe 1758-1831 National honor is national property of the highest value. James Monroe First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1817] The American continents . . . are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. James Monroe Annual Message to Congress [December 2, 1823]. The Monroe Doctrine In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do. James Monroe Annual Message to Congress [December 2, 1823]. The Monroe Doctrine We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we . . . shall not interfere. But with the governments . . . whose independence we have . . . acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling, in any other manner, their destiny, by any European power, in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition towards the United States. James Monroe Annual Message to Congress [December 2, 1823]. The Monroe Doctrine Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson 1758-1805 Westminster Abbey, or victory! Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson At the battle of Cape St. Vincent [February 14, 1797]. From Robert Southey, Life of Nelson [1813], ch. 4 I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal. Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson At the battle of Copenhagen [1801]. Ib. 9 Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others. Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson Memorandum to the fleet, off Cadiz [October 9, 1805] But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson Memorandum to the fleet, off Cadiz [October 9, 1805]  England expects every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson At the battle of Trafalgar [October 21, 1805]. From Robert Southey, Life of Nelson [1813], ch. 9 Thank God, I have done my duty. Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson At the battle of Trafalgar [October 21, 1805]. From Robert Southey, Life of Nelson [1813], ch. 9 Kiss me, Hardy. Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson At the battle of Trafalgar [October 21, 1805]. From Robert Southey, Life of Nelson [1813], ch. 9 Red Jacket Sagoyewatha c. 1758-1830  We first knew you a feeble plant which wanted a little earth whereon to grow. We gave it to you; and afterward, when we could have trod you under our feet, we watered and protected you; and now you have grown to be a mighty tree, whose top reaches the clouds, and whose branches overspread the whole land, whilst we, who were the tall pine of the forest, have become a feeble plant and need your protection. Red Jacket Sagoyewatha Statement [c. 1792] Robert Burns 1759-1796 Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle! Robert Burns To a Mouse [1785],st. 1 I'm truly sorry man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union. Robert Burns To a Mouse [1785],st. 2 The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley. 1 Robert Burns To a Mouse [1785],st. 7 1 See Ihara Saikaku Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Robert Burns Man Was Made to Mourn [1786],st. 4 Man's inhumanity to man. 1 2 Makes countless thousands mourn! Robert Burns Man Was Made to Mourn [1786],st. 7 1 See Pliny 2 See Wordsworth He wales a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God" he says, with solemn air. Robert Burns The Cotter's Saturday Night [1786],st. 12 From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 1 "An honest man's the noblest work of God." 2 3 Robert Burns The Cotter's Saturday Night [1786],st. 19 1 See Goldsmith 2 See Fletcher 3 See Pope Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire. Robert Burns First Epistle to J. Lapraik [1786], st. 13 The social, friendly, honest man, Whate'er he be, 'Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan, And none but he! Robert Burns Second Epistle to J. Lapraik [1786], st. 15 On ev'ry hand it will allowed be, He's just-nae better than he should be. Robert Burns A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton [1786] It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour. Robert Burns Epistle to Davie [1786], st. 2 Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. Robert Burns The Vision [1786], II, st. 18 His locked, lettered, braw brass collar Showed him the gentleman an' scholar. Robert Burns The Twa Dogs[1786],st. 3 An' there began a lang digression About the lords o' the creation. Robert Burns The Twa Dogs[1786],st. 6 Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. Robert Burns To a Louse [1786], st. 8 Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem. Robert Burns To a Mountain Daisy [1786],st. 1 Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate, Full on thy bloom. 1 Robert Burns To a Mountain Daisy [1786],st. 9 1 See Edward Young Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. Robert Burns Epistle to a Young Friend [1786],st. 1 I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! Robert Burns Epistle to a Young Friend [1786],st. 6 An atheist-laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended. Robert Burns Epistle to a Young Friend [1786],st. 9 There's nought but care on ev'ry han', In every hour that passes, O: What signifies the life o' man, An' 't were nae for the lasses, O. Robert Burns Green Grow the Rashes, O [1787],st. 1 Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O: Her prentice han' she tried on man, An' then she made the lasses, O. Robert Burns Green Grow the Rashes, O [1787],st. 5 Green grow the rashes, O; Green grow the rashes, O; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend Are spent among the lasses, O. Robert Burns Green Grow the Rashes, O [1787],chorus I wasna fou, but just had plenty. Robert Burns Death and Dr. Hornbook [1787], st. 3 John Barleycorn got up again, And sore surprised them all. Robert Burns John Barleycorn [1787], st. 3 The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God. Robert Burns A Winter Night [1787] Ye're aiblins nae temptation. Robert Burns Address to the Unco Guid [1787],st. 6 Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human. Robert Burns Address to the Unco Guid [1787],st. 7 O, my Luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June. O, my Luve is like the melodie, That's sweetly played in tune. Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].A Red, Red Rose, st. 1 Contented wi' little and cantie wi' mair. Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].Contented wi' Little, st. 1 Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair? How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' o' care! Thou'll break my heart, thou warbling bird, That wantons thro' the flowering thorn! Thou minds me o' departed joys, Departed never to return. Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].The Banks o' Doon, st. 1 Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].Sensibility How Charming, st. 4 Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae farewell and then forever! 1 Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].Ae Fond Kiss,st. 1 1 See Byron But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. 1 2 Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met-or never parted- We had ne'er been brokenhearted. Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].Ae Fond Kiss,st. 2 1 See Halleck 2 See Tennyson It was a' for our rightfu' King We left fair Scotland's strand. Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].It Was A' for Our Rightfu' King,st. 1 Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].It Was A' for Our Rightfu' King,st. 2 He turn'd him right and round about Upon the Irish shore; And gae his bridle reins a shake, With adieu forevermore, My dear- And adieu forevermore! Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].It Was A' for Our Rightfu' King,st. 3 John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonie brow was brent; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snaw, But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo! Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].John Anderson My Jo, st. 1 Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birthplace of valor, the country of worth! Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].My Heart's in the Highlands,st. 1 My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. Robert Burns Johnson's Musical Museum [1787-1796].My Heart's in the Highlands,chorus O whistle, and I'll come to you, 1 my lad: Tho' father and mither and a' should gae mad. Robert Burns Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad 1 See Beaumont and Fletcher Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min'? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' auld lang syne? Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne [1788],st. 1 For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet For auld lang syne! Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne [1788],chorus Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise. My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Robert Burns Afton Water [1789], st. 1 This day Time winds th' exhausted chain, To run the twelvemonth's length again. Robert Burns New Year's Day [1791],st. 1 The voice of Nature loudly cries, And many a message from the skies, That something in us never dies. Robert Burns New Year's Day [1791],st. 3 When Nature her great masterpiece designed, And framed her last, best work, the human mind, Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan, She formed of various stuff the various Man. Robert Burns To Robert Graham [1791], st. 1 She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a lo'esome wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine. Robert Burns My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing [1792], chorus The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Robert Burns Highland Mary [1792],st. 2 But, oh! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early. Robert Burns Highland Mary [1792],st. 3 If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it; A chield's amang you takin' notes, And faith he'll prent it. Robert Burns On the Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland [1793], st. 1 Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit. Robert Burns The Selkirk Grace [1793] (attributed) O Mary, at thy window be! It is the wished, the trysted hour. Robert Burns Mary Morison [1793], st. 1 The lovely Mary Morison! Robert Burns Mary Morison [1793], st. 1 Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter [1793],l. 10 Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises. Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter [1793],l. 33 His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony; Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither- They had been fou for weeks thegither. Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter [1793],l. 43 Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter [1793],l. 57 But pleasures are like poppies spread- You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river- A moment white-then melts forever. Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter [1793],l. 59 That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane. Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter [1793],l. 69 Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil! Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter [1793],l. 105 As Tammie glow'red, amazed, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter [1793],l. 143 Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn, That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie. Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter [1793],l. 171 "Weel done, Cutty Sark!" Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter [1793],l. 189 Ah, Tam! Ah! Tam! Thou'll get thy fairin! In hell they'll roast you like a herrin! Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter [1793],l. 201 Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour! See approach proud Edward's power- Chains and slaverie! Robert Burns Scots Wha Hae [1794],st. 1, 2 Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die! 1 Robert Burns Scots Wha Hae [1794],st. 6 1 See Fletcher The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. Robert Burns For A' That and A' That [1795],st. 1 A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he mauna fa' that. Robert Burns For A' That and A' That [1795],st. 4 For a' that and a' that, It's coming yet, for a' that, That man to man the world o'er Shall brothers be for a' that. Robert Burns For A' That and A' That [1795],st. 5 For a' that, and a' that, An' twice as muckle 's a' that, I've lost but ane, I've twa behin', I've wife eneugh for a' that. Robert Burns Posthumous Pieces [1799].The Jolly Beggars, chorus God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be. Robert Burns Posthumous Pieces [1799].To the Reverend John M'Math, st. 8 If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this. Robert Burns Posthumous Pieces [1799].Epitaph on William Muir In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. Robert Burns Posthumous Pieces [1799].Epistle from Esopus to Maria It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause And bide by the buff and the blue. Robert Burns Posthumous Pieces [1799].Here's a Health to Them That's Awa', st. 1 Georges Jacques Danton 1759-1794 Everything belongs to the fatherland when the fatherland is in danger. Georges Jacques Danton Speech to the Legislative Assembly[August 28, 1792]  Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. Georges Jacques Danton Speech to the Legislative Assembly[September 2, 1792] Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. Georges Jacques Danton Last words, addressed to the executioner William Pitt 1759-1806 Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 1 2 William Pitt Speech in the House of Commons [November 18, 1783] 1 See Publilius Syrus 2 See Milton Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1759-1805 I feel an army in my fist. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die R[auml ]uber (The Robbers) [1781], act II, end The lemonade is weak, like your soul. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Kabala und Liebe [1784], act V, sc. vii The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller The Conspiracy of Fiesco (Die Verschworung des Fiesco, 1783), act I, sc.vii Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar? Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller The Conspiracy of Fiesco (Die Verschworung des Fiesco, 1783), act I, sc.xviii Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller An die Freude (Ode to Joy) [1785],st. 1 Be embraced, ye millions! This kiss is for the whole world! Brothers, above the arch of stars A loving Father surely dwells. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller An die Freude (Ode to Joy) [1785],st. 5 There are three lessons I would write, Three words as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Hope, Faith, and Love [c. 1786], st. 1 World history is the world's court. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Resignation [1786] What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Resignation [1786] O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times? Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Don Carlos [1787], act I, sc.i O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Don Carlos [1787], act I, sc.ii Great souls suffer in silence. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Don Carlos [1787], act I, sc.iv A moment lived in paradise Is not atoned for too dearly by death. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Don Carlos [1787], act I, sc.v The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my own dominions never sets. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Don Carlos [1787], act I, sc.vi What the inner voice says Will not disappoint the hoping soul. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Hope [1797], last stanza If you want to know yourself, Just look how others do it; If you want to understand others, Look into your own heart. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Tabulae Votivae [1797] Man is created free, and is free, Though he be born in chains. 1 2 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful) [1797],st. 2 1 See Rousseau 2 See Bliss Virtue is no empty echo. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful) [1797],st. 3 Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp) [1798],prologue He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp) [1798],prologue Life is earnest, art is gay. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp) [1798],prologue Whatever is not forbidden is permitted. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp) [1798],sc. vi Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein) [1798], actI, sc.iv I have only an office here, and no opinion. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein) [1798], actI, sc.v Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein) [1798], actI, sc.vii Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein) [1798], actII, sc. ii There's no such thing as chance; And what to us seems merest accident Springs from the deepest source of destiny. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein) [1798], actII, sc. iii What is life without the radiance of love? Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein) [1798], actIV, sc. xii Time is man's angel. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein) [1798], actV, sc. xi What is the short meaning of the long speech? Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Piccolomini [1799], actI, sc. ii  War nourishes war. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Piccolomini [1799], actI, sc. ii In thy breast are the stars of thy fate. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Piccolomini [1799], actII, sc.vi You say it as you understand it. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Piccolomini [1799], actII, sc.vi When the wine goes in, strange things come out. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Piccolomini [1799], actII, sc.xii The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Piccolomini [1799], actIII, sc. viii O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller The Song of the Bell [1799] Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller To Goethe, when he put Voltaire's Mahomet on the stage [1800] Life is only error, And death is knowledge. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Cassandra [1802] I am better than my reputation. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Maria Stuart [1801], act III, sc. iv For this should the singer accompany the king: Both dwell on the heights of mankind. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Jungfrau von Orleans (Joan of Arc) [1801],actI, sc. ii Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Jungfrau von Orleans (Joan of Arc) [1801],actIII, sc. vi Pain is short, and joy is eternal. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Jungfrau von Orleans (Joan of Arc) [1801],last lines What are hopes, what are plans? Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina) [1803], actIII, sc. v Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina) [1803], actIV, sc. iv On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina) [1803], actIV, sc. vii The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wilhelm Tell [1804], actIII, sc.i Who reflects too much will accomplish little. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wilhelm Tell [1804], actIII, sc.i You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wilhelm Tell [1804], actIII, sc.i This feat of Tell, the archer, will be told While yonder mountains stand upon their base. By heaven! The apple's cleft right through the core. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wilhelm Tell [1804], actIII, sc.iii What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wilhelm Tell [1804], actIV, sc. ii The most pious man can't stay in peace If it doesn't please his evil neighbor. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Wilhelm Tell [1804], actIV, sc. iii Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 1759-1797 Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. Mary Wollstonecraft Thoughts on the Education of Daughters [1787]. Matrimony No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Men [1790] Virtue can only flourish amongst equals. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Men [1790] Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women [1792], ch.3 If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women [1792], ch.3 How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions? Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women [1792], ch.3 Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women [1792], ch.4 It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weakness. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women [1792], ch.4 It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women [1792], ch.4 Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women [1792], ch.9 Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women [1792], ch.11 Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. 1 Mary Wollstonecraft The French Revolution [1794], bk. V, ch. 4 1 See Coleridge The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless. Mary Wollstonecraft The French Revolution [1794], bk. V, ch. 4 Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances. Mary Wollstonecraft Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark [1796]. Letter19 The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized. Mary Wollstonecraft Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark [1796]. Letter19 We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel. Mary Wollstonecraft Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark [1796]. Letter19 It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature. 1 Mary Wollstonecraft Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark [1796]. Letter22 1 See Tennyson ÿ Francois Noel Babeuf Gracchus 1760-1797 Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other difference between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all. Francois Noel Babeuf Manifesto of the Equals [c. 1795] We aim at something more sublime and more equitable-the common good, or the community of goods. . . . We demand, we would have, the communal enjoyment of the fruits of the earth, fruits which are for everyone. Francois Noel Babeuf Manifesto of the Equals [c. 1795] Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle 1760-1836 Allons, enfants de la patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrive! . . . Aux armes, citoyens! Formez vos bataillons! Marchons! Marchons! Qu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons! Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle The Marseillaise [1792] Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph Boulay de la Meurthe 1761-1840  It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder [C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute]. Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph Boulay de la Meurthe On the execution of the Duc d'Enghien [1804] August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue 1761-1819 There is another and a better world. August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue The Stranger [1798], act I, sc. i William Lisle Bowles 1762-1850 The cause of Freedom is the cause of God! William Lisle Bowles The Right Honorable Edmund Burke [1791], l. 78 Andrew Cherry 1762-1812 Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge show'rd. Andrew Cherry The Bay of Biscay Till next day, There she lay, In the Bay of Biscay, O! Andrew Cherry The Bay of Biscay George Colmanthe Younger 1762-1836  Tell 'em Queen Anne's dead. George Colmanthe Younger The Heir-at-Law [1797], actI, sc. i Not to be sneezed at. George Colmanthe Younger The Heir-at-Law [1797], actII, sc. i Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. George Colmanthe Younger Broad Grins [1802].Lodgings for Single Gentlemen When taken, To be well shaken. George Colmanthe Younger Broad Grins [1802].The Newcastle Apothecary  John Bull; or, The Englishman's Fireside. George Colmanthe Younger Title of play [1803] His heart runs away with his head. George Colmanthe Younger Who Wants a Guinea? [1805], act I, sc. i O Miss Bailey! Unfortunate Miss Bailey! George Colmanthe Younger Love Laughs at Locksmiths [1806], act II, song Says he, "I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver." George Colmanthe Younger Love Laughs at Locksmiths [1806], act II, song I had a soul above buttons. George Colmanthe Younger Sylvester Daggerwood; or, New Hay at the Old Market [1808], sc. i Dorothea Jordan 1762-1816 "Oh where, and Oh! where is your Highland laddie gone?" "He's gone to fight the French, for King George upon the throne, And it's Oh! in my heart, how I wish him safe at home!" Dorothea Jordan The Blue Bells of Scotland Joseph Fouche 1763-1820 Death is an eternal sleep. 1 2 3 4 Joseph Fouche Inscription placed by his orders on cemetery gates [1794] 1 See Catullus 2 See Campion 3 See Jonson 4 See Herrick Johann Paul Friedrich Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825  Weltschmerz. Johann Paul Friedrich Jean Paul Richter Selina; oder, [Uuml ]ber die Unsterblichkeit (or, Above Immortality) [1827], 2 Samuel Rogers 1763-1855 Think nothing done while aught remains to do. Samuel Rogers Human Life,l. 49 Never less alone than when alone. 1 2 Samuel Rogers Human Life,l. 756 1 See Cicero 2 See Thoreau By many a temple half as old as Time. 1 Samuel Rogers Italy. A Farewell 1 See John William Burgon Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay. Samuel Rogers To---[1814], st. 1 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else. Samuel Rogers Table Talk Robert Hall 1764-1831 Call things by their right names. . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. Robert Hall From Olinthus Gregory, Brief Memoir of the Life of Hall Gaston Pierre Marc , Duc de Levis 1764-1830 Noblesse oblige [Rank has its obligations]. 1 2 Gaston Pierre Marc , Duc de Levis Maxims and Reflections [1808] 1 See Sophocles 2 See Euripides Thomas Morton 1764-1838 Push on-keep moving. Thomas Morton A Cure for the Heartache [1797], actII, sc. i Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. Thomas Morton A Cure for the Heartache [1797], actV, sc. ii What will Mrs. Grundy say? What will Mrs. Grundy think? 1 Thomas Morton Speed the Plow [1798], act I, sc. i 1 See Spencer Ann Radcliffe 1764-1823 Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed. 1 Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho [1794], motto 1 See Shakespeare Robert Goodloe Harper 1765-1825  Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute. Robert Goodloe Harper Toast at banquet for John Marshall [June 18, 1798] Sir James Mackintosh 1765-1832 Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. Sir James Mackintosh Vindiciae Gallicae [1791] The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. Sir James Mackintosh Vindiciae Gallicae [1791] The frivolous work of polished idleness. Sir James Mackintosh Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy [1830]. Remarks on Thomas Brown Disciplined inaction. Sir James Mackintosh History of the Revolution in England in 1688 [1834], ch. 7 Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon 1765-1815 The government has properly devolved upon the American nation, which has created a junta of individuals, natives of the country, in which resides the exercise of sovereignty. Let no European remain in governance of the nation. Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon Order [March 23, 1813] Long live Spain-but Sister Spain, and not the ruler of America. Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon After capturing Acapulco [August 20, 1813] James Smithson 1765-1829  To found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. James Smithson Bequest [1829] with which the Smithsonian Institution was established [1846] Isaac D'Israeli 1766-1848 Whatever is felicitously expressed risks being worse expressed: it is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. Isaac D'Israeli Curiosities of Literature [1834]. On Quotation Thomas Robert Malthus 1766-1834 Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. Thomas Robert Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population [1798] Ernst F riedrich Herbert von Munster 1766-1839 Absolutism tempered by assassination. Ernst F riedrich Herbert von Munster Description of the Russian Constitution Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne 1766-1845 Better lo'ed ye canna be, Will ye no come back again? Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne Life and Songs [1869].Bonnie Charlie's Now Awa' Charlie is my darling, the young Chevalier. Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne Life and Songs [1869].Charlie Is My Darling We'll up an' gie them a blaw, a blaw, Wi' a hundred pipers an' a', an' a'. Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne Life and Songs [1869].The Hundred Pipers Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'. Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne Life and Songs [1869].Gude Nicht A penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree. Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne Life and Songs [1869].The Laird o' Cockpen I'm wearin' awa' To the land o' the leal. Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne Life and Songs [1869].The Land o' the Leal There's nae sorrow there, John, There's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal. Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne Life and Songs [1869].The Land o' the Leal Madame de Stael Germaine , Baronne de Stael-Holstein 1766-1817  Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. Madame de Stael De l'Influence des Passions [1796] A man must know how to defy opinion; a woman how to submit to it. Madame de Stael Delphine [1802] The sight of such a monument is like a continuous and stationary music. 1 Madame de Stael Corinne [1807], bk.IV, ch. 3 1 See Goethe  To understand everything makes one tolerant. Madame de Stael Corinne [1807], bk.XVIII, ch. 5 I would gladly give half of the wit with which I am credited for half of the beauty you possess. Madame de Stael Letter to Madame Recamier John Quincy Adams 1767-1848  I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. 1 2 3 Fiat justitia, pereat coelum. 4 My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. John Quincy Adams Letter to John Adams [August 1, 1816] 1 See Charles Churchill 2 See Decatur 3 See Schurtz 4 See Anonymous Latin America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. John Quincy Adams Address [July 4, 1821] America . . . well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extraction, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. . . . She might become dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit. John Quincy Adams Address [July 4, 1821] Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation. John Quincy Adams Letter to James Lloyd [October 1, 1822] Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth be found. John Quincy Adams Poem This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind. John Quincy Adams From his epitaph for John Adams [1829] In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do. 1 John Quincy Adams Letter to A. Bronson [July 30, 1838] 1 See Lincoln My wants are many, 1 2 and, if told, Would muster many a score. John Quincy Adams The Wants of Man [1841],st. 1 1 See Young 2 See Goldsmith I want the seals of power and place, The ensigns of command, Charged by the people's unbought grace, To rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask But from my country's will, By day, by night, to ply the task Her cup of bliss to fill. John Quincy Adams The Wants of Man [1841],st. 22 The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community . . . that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same. 1 John Quincy Adams Society and Civilization; in the American Review [July 1845] 1 See Pope To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is . . . the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence. 1 John Quincy Adams Report on the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution [c. 1846] 1 See Smithson This is the last of earth! I am content. John Quincy Adams Last words [February 21, 1848] Black Hawk 1767-1838  I saw my evil day at hand. The sun rose dim on us in the morning, and at night it sank in a dark cloud, and looked like a ball of fire. That was the last sun that shone on Black Hawk. His heart is dead . . . He is now a prisoner to the white man. Black Hawk Speech upon surrender, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin [August 27, 1832]  [Black Hawk] has done nothing for which an Indian ought to be ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it. Black Hawk Speech upon surrender, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin [August 27, 1832] Andrew Jackson 1767-1845  The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and friend to her foe. Andrew Jackson Proclamation to the people of Louisiana from Mobile [September 21, 1814] The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger. Andrew Jackson To troops who had abandoned their lines during the battle of New Orleans [January 8, 1815] Our Federal Union! it must be preserved! Andrew Jackson Toast at Jefferson Birthday Celebration [1830] Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add . . . artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society-the farmers, mechanics, and laborers-who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government. Andrew Jackson Veto of the Bank Bill [July 10, 1832] There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. Andrew Jackson Veto of the Bank Bill [July 10, 1832] One man with courage makes a majority. Andrew Jackson Saying Francois Rene de Chateaubriand 1768-1848  [On his conversion to Christianity] I wept and I believed. Francois Rene de Chateaubriand Le Genie du Christianisme [1802]  The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. Francois Rene de Chateaubriand Le Genie du Christianisme [1802] Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory. 1 2 3 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand Les Natchez [1826], preface 1 See Pindar 2 See Alexander the Great 3 See Horace Tecumseh 1768-1813   These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners. The Great Spirit above has appointed this place for us, on which to light our fires, and here we will remain. As to boundaries, the Great Spirit knows no boundaries, nor will his red children acknowledge any. Tecumseh To Joseph Barron, messenger of President James Madison [1810] My father! The Great Spirit is my father! The earth is my mother-and on her bosom I will recline. Tecumseh Council at Vincennes, Indiana Territory [August 14, 1810].Answer to request to sit at "his father's" (Governor William Henry Harrison's) side I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them I take only my existence. From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own fortune. And oh, that I might make the fortunes of my red people, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules this universe. Tecumseh Council at Vincennes, Indiana Territory [August 14, 1810].Speech to Harrison Once they were a happy race. Now they are made miserable by the white people, who are never contented but are always encroaching. Tecumseh Council at Vincennes, Indiana Territory [August 14, 1810].Speech to Harrison Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? Tecumseh Council at Vincennes, Indiana Territory [August 14, 1810].Speech to Harrison  Our lives are in the hands of the Great Spirit. He gave to our ancestors the lands which we possess. We are determined to defend them, and if it is His will, our bones shall whiten on them, but we will never give them up. Tecumseh Speech to Major General Henry Procter, British commander, Fort Malden [September 1813] Ernst Moritz Arndt 1769-1860 What is the German Fatherland? Wherever the German tongue is heard. Ernst Moritz Arndt Was Ist des Deutschen Vaterland [1813] The Rhine: Germany's River, but Not Germany's Border. Ernst Moritz Arndt Title of work [1813] Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt 1769-1859 Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy. Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt Statement [1805] Ivan Krylov 1768-1844 Your guilt consists in this: I want to eat you up! 1 Ivan Krylov Fables [1809].Wolf and Lamb 1 See La Fontaine Heaven save you from a foolish friend; The too officious fool is worse than any foe. Ivan Krylov Fables [1809].Hermit and Bear Napoleon I Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 Soldiers, from the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you. Napoleon I In Egypt [July 21, 1798] Go, sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time. Napoleon I To an aide [1803]. From R. M. Johnston, The Corsican A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. Napoleon I [1803]. From J. Christopher Herold, The Mind of Napoleon [1955]  From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. Napoleon I To the Abbe du Pradt, on the return from Russia [1812], referring to the retreat from Moscow You write to me that it's impossible; the word is not French. Napoleon I Letter to General Lemarois [July 9, 1813]  What is the throne?-a bit of wood gilded and covered with velvet. I am the state 1 -I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public-people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France. Napoleon I To the Senate [1814] 1 See Louis XIV France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier. Napoleon I At Paris [January 23, 1814] The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast. Napoleon I At Montereau [February 17, 1814] The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country. Napoleon I Act of Abdication [April 4, 1814] Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation. Napoleon I Proclamation to the French People [June 22, 1815] Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England. Napoleon I At Rochefort [July 1815] Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. Napoleon I On board H.M.S. Bellerophon [August 1815] [Of his relations with the Empress Josephine] I generally had to give in. Napoleon I On St. Helena[May 19, 1816]  My maxim was, la carriere est ouverte aux talents, without distinction of birth or fortune. Napoleon I On St. Helena[March 3, 1817] Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined. Napoleon I To Dr. Arnott [April 1821]  Two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean unprepared courage. Napoleon I [December 4, 5, 1815]. From Las Cases, Memorial de Ste-Helene [1823] Madame Montholon having inquired what troops he considered the best, "Those which are victorious, Madame," replied the Emperor. Napoleon I From Bourrienne, Memoirs [1829] A silk stocking filled with mud. Napoleon I Description of Talleyrand  An army marches on its stomach. Napoleon I Attributed  Every French soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack. Napoleon I Attributed  Perfidious Albion. Napoleon I Attributed  Chief of the Army. Napoleon I Last words Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington 1769-1852 Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington Dispatch from the field of Waterloo [June 1815] I used to say of him [Napoleon] that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington From Philip Henry, Earl of Stanhope, Notesof Conversations with the Duke of Wellington [1888].[November 2, 1831] The only thing I am afraid of is fear. 1 2 3 4 5 Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington From Philip Henry, Earl of Stanhope, Notesof Conversations with the Duke of Wellington [1888].[November 3, 1831] 1 See Proverbs 3:25 2 See Montaigne 3 See Bacon 4 See Thoreau 5 See Roosevelt Ours [our army] is composed of the scum of the earth-the mere scum of the earth. Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington From Philip Henry, Earl of Stanhope, Notesof Conversations with the Duke of Wellington [1888].[November 4, 1831] My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day. Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington From Philip Henry, Earl of Stanhope, Notesof Conversations with the Duke of Wellington [1888].[November 2, 1835] They wanted this iron fist to command them. Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington From Philip Henry, Earl of Stanhope, Notesof troops sent by Wellington to the Canadian frontier in the war with America. [November 8, 1840] There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake. Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington Wellingtoniana [1832], p. 78 I don't care a twopenny damn what becomes of the ashes of Napoleon Buonaparte. Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington Attributed The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington From Sir William Fraser, Words on Wellington [1889] Publish and be damned. Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington Attributed; when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his letters Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827 I want to seize fate by the throat. Ludwig van Beethoven Letter to Dr. Franz Wegeler [November 16, 1801] Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? Ludwig van Beethoven Letter to Bettina von Arnim [August 11, 1810] The world is a king, and, like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse-it will not submit to the mold of flattery. Ludwig van Beethoven Conversations [March 1820] Pierre Jacques Etienne , Count Cambronne 1770-1842  The Guards die, but never surrender. Pierre Jacques Etienne , Count Cambronne Attributed George Canning 1770-1827 When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? No-here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. George Canning Song for the Inauguration of the Pitt Club [May 25, 1802] I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first. George Canning The Anti-Jacobin,no. 11 [1797]. The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, st. 9 I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- niversity of Gottingen. George Canning The Anti-Jacobin,no. 30 [1798]. The Rovers, song, st. 1 A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. George Canning The Anti-Jacobin,no 36 [1798]. New Morality,l. 113 And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black-nor white so very white. George Canning The Anti-Jacobin,no 36 [1798]. New Morality,l. 199 Give me the avowed, erect, and manly foe, Firm I can meet, perhaps return the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! George Canning The Anti-Jacobin,no 36 [1798]. New Morality,l. 207 In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. George Canning Dispatch to Sir Charles Bagot, British minister at The Hague [January 31, 1826] I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. George Canning The King's Message [December 12, 1826] Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770-1831 What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophy of Right [1821] What experience and history teach is this-that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophy of History [1832],introduction Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophy of History [1832],introduction To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophy of History [1832],introduction The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophy of History [1832],introduction We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophy of History [1832],introduction It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophy of History [1832],introduction Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophy of History [1832],introduction Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophy of History [1832],pt.I, sec. 2, ch. 1 It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?" Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophy of History [1832],pt.III, sec. 3, ch. 2 The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosophy of History [1832],pt.IV, sec. 3, ch. 3 James Hogg 1770-1835  We'll o'er the water, we'll o'er the sea, We'll o'er the water to Charlie; Come weal, come woe, we'll gather and go, And live and die wi' Charlie. James Hogg O'er the Water to Charlie For Kilmeny had been she knew not where, And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare. James Hogg Kilmeny, l. 38 Joseph Hopkinson 1770-1842 Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. Joseph Hopkinson Hail, Columbia [1798], st. 1 William Robert Spencer 1770-1834 Oh! where does faithful G[ecirc ]lert roam, The flow'r of all his race? So true, so brave; a lamb at home, A lion in the chase! William Robert Spencer Beth-G[ecirc ]lert, st. 4 William Wordsworth 1770-1850  And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. William Wordsworth Guilt and Sorrow [written 1791-1794], st. 41 --A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? William Wordsworth We Are Seven [1798], st. 1 Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man? 1 2 William Wordsworth Lines Written in Early Spring [1798], st. 6 1 See Pliny 2 See Burns Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. William Wordsworth Expostulation and Reply [1798], st. 6 Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth The Tables Turned [1798],st. 4 One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. 1 2 William Wordsworth The Tables Turned [1798],st. 6 1 See St. Bernard 2 See Shakespeare Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey [1798],l. 27 That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey [1798],l. 33 Blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened. William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey [1798],l. 37 While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey [1798],l. 47 The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey [1798],l. 76 I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man: A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. 1 William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey [1798],l. 88 1 See Shelley All the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create, And what perceive. William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey [1798],l. 105 Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey [1798],l. 122 A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. William Wordsworth Peter Bell [written 1798], pt. I, st. 12 Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear. William Wordsworth The Prelude [written 1799-1805], bk.I,l. 301 Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society. William Wordsworth The Prelude [written 1799-1805], bk.I,l. 340 The grim shape Towered up between me and the stars, and still, For so it seemed, with purpose of its own And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me. William Wordsworth The Prelude [written 1799-1805], bk.I,l. 381 Where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. William Wordsworth The Prelude [written 1799-1805], bk.III, l. 60 When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude. William Wordsworth The Prelude [written 1799-1805], bk.IV, l. 354 Brothers all In honor, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. William Wordsworth The Prelude [written 1799-1805], bk.IX, l. 227 Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! William Wordsworth The Prelude [written 1799-1805], bk.XI,l. 108 There is One great society alone on earth: The noble Living and the noble Dead. William Wordsworth The Prelude [written 1799-1805], bk.XI,l. 393 Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads [2nd ed., 1800]. Preface In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads [2nd ed., 1800]. Preface I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads [2nd ed., 1800]. Preface One of those heavenly days that cannot die. William Wordsworth Nutting [1800], l. 3 What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a lover's head! "O mercy!" to myself I cried, "If Lucy should be dead!" William Wordsworth Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known [1800], st. 7 She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love:A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! -Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! William Wordsworth She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways [1800] Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own." William Wordsworth Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower [1800], st. 1 A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years.No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. William Wordsworth A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal [1800] A fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave. William Wordsworth A Poet's Epitaph [1800],st. 5 A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual All-in-all! William Wordsworth A Poet's Epitaph [1800],st. 8 And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. William Wordsworth A Poet's Epitaph [1800],st. 11 The harvest of a quiet eye. William Wordsworth A Poet's Epitaph [1800],st. 13 The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. William Wordsworth Lucy Gray [1800],st. 2 And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind. William Wordsworth Lucy Gray [1800],st. 16 A youth to whom was given So much of earth-so much of heaven, And such impetuous blood. William Wordsworth Ruth [1800], st. 21 Something between a hindrance and a help. William Wordsworth Michael [1800], l. 189 Drink, pretty creature, drink! William Wordsworth The Pet Lamb [1800], st. 1 May no rude hand deface it, And its forlorn Hic jacet! William Wordsworth Ellen Irwin [1800], st. 7 She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy. William Wordsworth The Sparrows' Nest [1807], st. 2 I traveled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee. William Wordsworth I Traveled Among Unknown Men [1807], st. 1 My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; 1 And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. William Wordsworth My Heart Leaps Up [1807] 1 See Milton Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now. William Wordsworth To a Butterfly (I've Watched You Now a Full Half-Hour) [1807], st. 2 Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet. William Wordsworth To the Same Flower (the Small Celandine) [1807], st. 1 I thought of Chatterton, the marvelous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plow, along the mountainside: By our own spirits are we deified: We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. 1 2 3 William Wordsworth Resolution and Independence [1807],st. 7 1 See Democritus 2 See Robert Burton 3 See Robert Lowell Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach Of ordinary men. William Wordsworth Resolution and Independence [1807],st. 14 And mighty poets in their misery dead. William Wordsworth Resolution and Independence [1807],st. 17 Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 [1807],l. 1 Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will! Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 [1807],l. 11 Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. William Wordsworth Written in London, September 1802 [1807] It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. William Wordsworth It Is a Beauteous Evening [1807],l. 1 Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worship'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. William Wordsworth It Is a Beauteous Evening [1807],l. 12 Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee: And was the safeguard of the west. William Wordsworth On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic [1807],l. 1 And, when she took unto herself a mate, She must espouse the everlasting sea. William Wordsworth On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic [1807],l. 7 Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away. William Wordsworth On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic [1807],l. 13 Thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. William Wordsworth To Toussaint L'Ouverture [1807], l. 12 Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. William Wordsworth London, 1802 [1807],l. 1 Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness. William Wordsworth London, 1802 [1807],l. 9 We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. William Wordsworth It Is Not to Be Thought Of [1807], l. 11 Thou unassuming commonplace Of nature. William Wordsworth To the Same Flower (the Daisy) [1807],st. 1 Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose types of things through all degrees. William Wordsworth To the Same Flower (the Daisy) [1807],st. 2 And stepping westward seemed to be A kind of heavenly destiny. William Wordsworth Stepping Westward [1807], st. 2 Old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago. William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper [1807],st. 3 The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more. William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper [1807],st. 4 The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can. William Wordsworth Rob Roy's Grave [1807], st. 9 A brotherhood of venerable trees. William Wordsworth Sonnet. Composed at--Castle [1807], l. 6 O for a single hour of that Dundee, Who on that day the word of onset gave! William Wordsworth Sonnet. In the Pass of Killicranky [1803], l. 11 There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Appareled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore- Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 1 The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 2 The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 2 Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream? William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 4 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! 1 2 3 Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 5 1 See Vaughan 2 See Traherne 3 See Lowell The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 5 As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 7 O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 9 High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 9 Truths that wake, To perish never. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 9 Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 9 Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 10 In years that bring the philosophic mind. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 10 The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. William Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [1807],st. 11 O blithe newcomer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice. O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? William Wordsworth To the Cuckoo [1807],st. 1 No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery. William Wordsworth To the Cuckoo [1807],st. 4 She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. William Wordsworth She Was a Phantom of Delight [1807],st. 1 A spirit, yet a woman too! William Wordsworth She Was a Phantom of Delight [1807],st. 2 And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine. William Wordsworth She Was a Phantom of Delight [1807],st. 3 A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command. William Wordsworth She Was a Phantom of Delight [1807],st. 3 I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils. William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud [1807],st. 1 Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way. William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud [1807],st. 2 Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud [1807],st. 2 A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company. William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud [1807],st. 3 That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud [1807],st. 4 Stern daughter of the voice of God! 1 O Duty! William Wordsworth Ode to Duty [1807],st. 1 1 See Milton A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. William Wordsworth Ode to Duty [1807],st. 1 Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. William Wordsworth Ode to Duty [1807],st. 5 Stern Lawgiver! William Wordsworth Ode to Duty [1807],st. 7 Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. William Wordsworth Ode to Duty [1807],st. 7 The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream. William Wordsworth Elegiac Stanzas. Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm [1807], st. 4 Dear child of Nature, let them rail! William Wordsworth To a Young Lady [1807],st. 1 Thou, while thy babes around thee cling, Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made. William Wordsworth To a Young Lady [1807],st. 2 But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. William Wordsworth To a Young Lady [1807],st. 3 Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms would wish to be? William Wordsworth Character of the Happy Warrior [1807],l. 1 Who, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain. William Wordsworth Character of the Happy Warrior [1807],l. 12 More skillful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress. William Wordsworth Character of the Happy Warrior [1807],l. 23 But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover. William Wordsworth Character of the Happy Warrior [1807],l. 48 And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. William Wordsworth Character of the Happy Warrior [1807],l. 53 Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. William Wordsworth Character of the Happy Warrior [1807],l. 72 Like-but oh how different! William Wordsworth Yes, It Was the Mountain Echo [1807], st. 2 Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room. William Wordsworth Nuns Fret Not [1807], l. 1 The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! William Wordsworth The World Is Too Much with Us [1807],l. 1 Great God! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. William Wordsworth The World Is Too Much with Us [1807],l. 9 Where lies the land to which yon ship must go? 1 Fresh as a lark mounting at break of day, Festively she puts forth in trim array. William Wordsworth Where Lies the Land [1807], l. 1 1 See Clough Blessed barrier between day and day. William Wordsworth To Sleep (A Flock of Sheep) [1807], l. 13 Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. William Wordsworth Personal Talk [1807], sonnet 3 A power is passing from the earth. William Wordsworth Lines on the Expected Dissolution of Mr. Fox [1807], st. 5 Two voices are there: one is of the sea, One of the mountains; each a mighty voice. William Wordsworth Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland [1807], l. 1 The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. William Wordsworth Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle [1807], l. 163 Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. William Wordsworth Letter to Lady Beaumont [May 21, 1807] Strongest minds Are often those of whom the noisy world Hears least. William Wordsworth The Excursion [1814], bk.I,l. 91 The imperfect offices of prayer and praise. William Wordsworth The Excursion [1814], bk.I,l. 216 The good die first, 1 And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. William Wordsworth The Excursion [1814], bk.I,l. 500 1 See Menander Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. William Wordsworth The Excursion [1814], bk.III,l. 374 Society became my glittering bride. William Wordsworth The Excursion [1814], bk.III,l. 735 There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. William Wordsworth The Excursion [1814], bk.IV,l. 475 I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy, for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. William Wordsworth The Excursion [1814], bk.IV,l. 1132 One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition. William Wordsworth The Excursion [1814], bk.IV,l. 1293 Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven." William Wordsworth The Excursion [1814], bk.VI, l. 19 A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows. William Wordsworth The Excursion [1814], bk.VII, l. 557 A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules. William Wordsworth Alas! What Boots the Long Laborious Quest? [1815], l. 11 Surprised by joy-impatient as the wind. William Wordsworth Surprised by Joy [1815], l. 1 The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. William Wordsworth Laodamia [1815],st. 13 An ampler ether, a diviner air. William Wordsworth Laodamia [1815],st. 18 And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare That kill the bloom before its time; And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair. William Wordsworth Lament of Mary Queen of Scots [1820], st. 6 Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour. William Wordsworth The River Duddon [1820], sonnet 34, Afterthought,l. 10 We feel that we are greater than we know. William Wordsworth The River Duddon [1820], sonnet 34, Afterthought,l. 14 Habit rules the unreflecting herd. William Wordsworth Ecclesiastical Sonnets [1822], pt.II, sonnet 28, Reflections, l. 10 The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. William Wordsworth Ecclesiastical Sonnets [1822], pt.III, sonnet5. Walton's Book of Lives, l. 2 The unimaginable touch of Time. William Wordsworth Ecclesiastical Sonnets [1822], pt.III, sonnet34. Mutability Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less or more. William Wordsworth Ecclesiastical Sonnets [1822], pt.III, sonnet43. Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, l. 6 But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things. William Wordsworth Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G. H. B. [1827], st. 7 Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! William Wordsworth To a Skylark [1827], l. 1 Type of the wise who soar, but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home! William Wordsworth To a Skylark [1827], l. 1 Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honors; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. William Wordsworth Scorn Not the Sonnet [1827], l. 1 Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. William Wordsworth To a Child. Written in Her Album [1835] How does the meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold. William Wordsworth A Poet!- He Hath Put His Heart to School [1842], l. 9 Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive. William Wordsworth Yes, Thou Art Fair [1845], st. 2 Marie Francois Xavier Bichat 1771-1802 Life is the totality of those functions which resist death. Marie Francois Xavier Bichat Physiological Researches upon Life and Death [1800] Thomas Dibdin 1771-1841 Oh, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island. Thomas Dibdin The Snug Little Island James Montgomery 1771-1854 Give me the hand that is honest and hearty, Free as the breeze and unshackled by party. James Montgomery Give Me Thy Hand, st. 2 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. James Montgomery At Home in Heaven Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. James Montgomery What Is Prayer? st. 1 William Pitt d. 1840 A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill, Hark! Don't ye hear it roar, now? Lord help 'em, how I pities all Unhappy folks on shore now! William Pitt The Sailor's Consolation, st. 1 Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832 The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day. Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],introduction The unpremeditated lay. Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],introduction Such is the custom of Branksome Hall. Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],cantoI,st. 7 Steady of heart, and stout of hand. Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],cantoI,st. 21 If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight. Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],cantoII,st. 1 I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],cantoII,st. 22 In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],cantoIII, st. 2 For ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear: A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],cantoIV, conclusion Call it not vain; they do not err Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],cantoV,st. 1 True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind. Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],cantoV,st. 13 Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned 1 As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],cantoVI,st. 1 1 See Luke 24:32 2 See Homer 3 See Horace 4 See Chaucer 5 See Shakespeare 6 See Milton 7 See Byron O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood! Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],cantoVI,st. 2 That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away. 1 Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel [1805],cantoVI,st. 31 1 See Tommaso di Celano November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear. Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoI, introduction,st. 1 Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast! Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoI, introduction,st. 10 But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again? Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoI, introduction,st. 11 And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last. Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoII, introduction, st. 30 Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best. Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoV, st. 12[Lochinvar, st. 1] So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar. Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoV, st. 12[Lochinvar, st. 1] For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoV, st. 12[Lochinvar, st. 2] With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoV, st. 12[Lochinvar, st. 5] Heap on more wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoVI, introduction,st. 1 England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoVI, introduction,st. 4 And dar'st thou, then, To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoVI, introduction,st. 14 Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoVI, introduction,st. 17 O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade 1 By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! 2 Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoVI, introduction,st. 30 1 See Virgil 2 See Shakespeare "Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion. Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoVI, introduction,st. 32 To all, to each, a fair goodnight, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light! Sir Walter Scott Marmion [1808], cantoL'Envoy The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monan's rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartney's hazel shade. Sir Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake [1810], cantoI,st. 1 In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. Sir Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake [1810], cantoI,st. 17 The will to do, the soul to dare. Sir Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake [1810], cantoI,st. 21 Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. Sir Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake [1810], cantoI,st. 31 Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances! Sir Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake [1810], cantoII,st. 19 Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven. Sir Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake [1810], cantoII,st. 22 Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and forever! Sir Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake [1810], cantoIII, st. 16 [Coronach, st. 3] And, Saxon-I am Roderick Dhu! Sir Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake [1810], cantoV,st. 9 Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. Sir Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake [1810], cantoV,st. 10 Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. Sir Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake [1810], cantoV,st. 10 Where, where was Roderick then! One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men! Sir Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake [1810], cantoVI, st. 18 Still are the thoughts to memory dear. Sir Walter Scott Rokeby [1813], cantoI, st. 33 A mother's pride, a father's joy. Sir Walter Scott Rokeby [1813], cantoIII,st. 15 Oh, Brignal banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen. Sir Walter Scott Rokeby [1813], cantoIII,st. 16 O! many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! Sir Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles [1815], cantoV, st. 18 Randolph, thy wreath has lost a rose. Sir Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles [1815], cantoVI, st. 18 A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. Sir Walter Scott Guy Mannering [1815], ch. 37 It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives. 1 Sir Walter Scott The Antiquary [1816], ch. 11 1 See Thomas Hood Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended, Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded. Sir Walter Scott Pibroch of Donald Dhu [1816], st. 4 Time will rust the sharpest sword, Time will consume the strongest cord; That which molders hemp and steel, Mortal arm and nerve must feel. Sir Walter Scott Harold the Dauntless [1817], canto I, st. 4 Sea of upturned faces. Sir Walter Scott Rob Roy [1817], ch.20 There's a gude time coming. Sir Walter Scott Rob Roy [1817], ch.32 My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. Sir Walter Scott Rob Roy [1817], ch.34  Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be ay sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping. Sir Walter Scott The Heart of Midlothian [1818], ch. 8 Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die. Sir Walter Scott The Bride of Lammermoor [1819], ch. 3. Lucy Ashton's Song There is a southern proverb-fine words butter no parsnips. Sir Walter Scott The Legend of Montrose [1819], ch. 3 The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. 1 Sir Walter Scott The Monastery [1820].Answer of the Author of Waverley to the Letter of Captain Clutterbuck 1 See Daniel Webster As old as the hills. Sir Walter Scott The Monastery [1820].ch.9 Within that awful volume lies The mystery, of mysteries! Sir Walter Scott The Monastery [1820].ch.12 And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. Sir Walter Scott The Monastery [1820].ch.12 Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land. Sir Walter Scott The Monastery [1820].ch.25 Oh, poverty parts good company. Sir Walter Scott The Abbot [1820], ch. 7 Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea. Sir Walter Scott Quentin Durward [1823], ch. 4  Tell that to the marines-the sailors won't believe it. Sir Walter Scott Redgauntlet [1824], vol. II, ch. 7 Rouse the lion from his lair. Sir Walter Scott The Talisman [1825], heading, ch.6 Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. Sir Walter Scott The Talisman [1825], heading, ch.24 A miss is as good as a mile. Sir Walter Scott Journal [December 3, 1825] If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it. Sir Walter Scott Woodstock [1826], ch. 28 Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee! Sir Walter Scott The Doom of Devorgoil [1830]. Bonny Dundee, chorus One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum. 1 Sir Walter Scott Count Robert of Paris [1832], ch. 25 1 See Mordaunt Sydney Smith 1771-1845  If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes-some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong-and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other. Sydney Smith Sketches of Moral Philosophy [1850] That knuckle-end of England-that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.2 Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.3 Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,-nothing so expensive as glory. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.4 Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.6 Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.7 No furniture so charming as books. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.9 Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.9 He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. 1 Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.9 1 See Cowper Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.9 As the French say, there are three sexes-men, women, and clergymen. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.9 My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.9 Praise is the best diet for us, after all. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.9 Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam engine in trousers. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.9 Live always in the best company when you read. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.10 Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.10 He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library. 1 Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.11 1 See Anonymous Latin  Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.11 Macaulay is like a book in breeches . . . He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],vol. I, ch.11 Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl And, scarce suspected, animate the whole. 1 Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],Recipe for Salad 1 See R. L. Stevenson Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today. 1 2 Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],Recipe for Salad 1 See Horace 2 See Dryden What you don't know would make a great book. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],Recipe for Salad In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. 1 Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],Recipe for Salad 1 See Samuel Johnson Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?-how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],Recipe for Salad That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],Recipe for Salad We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith Lady Holland's Memoir [1855],Recipe for Salad12 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 Poor little foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. Samuel Taylor Coleridge To a Young Ass [1794], l. 1 Blest hour! it was a luxury-to be! Samuel Taylor Coleridge Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement [1795], l. 43 This Lime Tree Bower My Prison. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Title of poem [1797] In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan [1798] A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan [1798] Five miles meandering with a mazy motion. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan [1798] Ancestral voices prophesying war! Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan [1798] It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice! Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan [1798] A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan [1798] That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, 1 And drunk the milk of Paradise. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan [1798] 1 See Hesiod Sir Leoline, the Baron rich, Hath a toothless mastiff bitch. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel [1797-1800], pt.I,l. 6 And the spring comes slowly up this way. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel [1797-1800], pt.I,l. 22 The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel [1797-1800], pt.I,l. 49 Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel [1797-1800], pt.I,l. 237 A sight to dream of, not to tell! Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel [1797-1800], pt.I,l. 252 Saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all! Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel [1797-1800], pt.I,l. 330 And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel [1797-1800], pt.II,l. 410 It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. "By thy long gray beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?" Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.I,st. 1 The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.I,st. 2 He holds him with his glittering eye- The Wedding Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.I,st. 4 The ship was cheered, the harbor cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.I,st. 6 The Wedding Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.I,st. 8 The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.I,st. 9 And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.I,st. 13 The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound! Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.I,st. 15 "God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!- Why look'st thou so?"-"With my crossbow I shot the Albatross." Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.I,st. 20 The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrows followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.II,st. 5 As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.II,st. 8 Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.II,st. 9 The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.II,st. 10 About, about, in reel and rout The death fires danced at night. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.II,st. 11 I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail! a sail! Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.III,st. 4 Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.III,st. 11 "The game is done! I've won, I've won!" Quoth she, and whistles thrice. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.III,st. 12 The sun's rim dips, the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea Off shot the specter bark. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.III,st. 13 We listened and looked sideways up! Fear at my heart, as at a cup, My lifeblood seemed to sip. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.III,st. 14 The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.III,st. 14 Each turned his face with a ghastly pang, And cursed me with his eye. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.III,st. 15 I fear thee, ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.IV,st. 1 Alone, alone, all, all alone; Alone on a wide, wide sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.IV,st. 3 The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.IV,st. 10 Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoarfrost spread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.IV,st. 11 A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.IV,st. 14 Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.V,st. 1 We were a ghastly crew. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.V,st. 11 A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.V,st. 17 The man hath penance done, And penance more will do. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.V,st. 25 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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.VI,st. 10 Is this the hill? is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree? Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.VI,st. 14 No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.VI,st. 22 And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.VII,st. 5 "Ha! ha!" quoth he, "full plain I see, The Devil knows how to row." Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.VII,st. 12 "O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!" Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.VII,st. 14 O Wedding Guest! This soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.VII,st. 19 He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.VII,st. 22 He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.VII,st. 23 1 See Alexander A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner [1798], pt.VII,st. 25 With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty. Samuel Taylor Coleridge France: An Ode [1798], st. 1 The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight [1798],l. 1 Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight [1798],l. 72 Forth from his dark and lonely hiding place (Portentous-sight!) the owlet Atheism, Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, Cries out, "Where is it?" Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fears in Solitude [1798], l. 81 And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Devil's Thoughts [1799], st. 6 1 See Robert Burton Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Homeric Hexameter (translated from Schiller) [1799?] In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ovidian Elegiac Metre (translated fromSchiller ) [1799] All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Love [1799], st. 1 Aloof with hermit-eye I scan The present works of present man- A wild and dreamlike trade of blood and guile, Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile! Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ode to Tranquillity [1801], st. 4 Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star In his steep course? 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni [1802],l. 1 1 See Job 38:31 Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni [1802],last line What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge An Epigram [1802] 1 See Shakespeare I see, not feel, how beautiful they are! Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode [1802],st. 2 O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode [1802],st. 4 A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the earth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode [1802],st. 4 Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud- We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colors a suffusion from that light. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode [1802],st. 5 How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits Honor or wealth, with all his worth and pains! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Good Great Man [1802] Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Metrical Feet [1806] The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Knight's Tomb [c. 1817] With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots. Samuel Taylor Coleridge On Donne's Poetry [c. 1818] The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Reproof and Reply [1823] Nought cared this body for wind or weather, When youth and I lived in 't together. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Youth and Age [1823-1832],st. 1 Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Youth and Age [1823-1832],st. 2 All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring-birds are on the wing- And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Work Without Hope [February 21, 1825],l. 1 Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, And Hope without an object cannot live. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Work Without Hope [February 21, 1825],l. 13 In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems Written in Later Life [1826], motto I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cologne [1828] The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cologne [1828] Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication, of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Definitions of Poetry [1811]  Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could; they have tried their talents at one or at the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton [1811-1812] The last speech [Iago's soliloquy], the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity-how awful! Samuel Taylor Coleridge Notes on Shakespeare [c. 1812] Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former. Samuel Taylor Coleridge On the Principles of Genial Criticism [1814] The most general definition of beauty . . . Multeity in Unity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge On the Principles of Genial Criticism [1814] The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive. Samuel Taylor Coleridge On the Principles of Genial Criticism [1814] The imagination . . . that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Statesman's Manual [1816] Not the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry. 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.1 1 See Robert Frost Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.1 1 See Wollstonecraft Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.2 Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.2 Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.4 An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.9 Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating truth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.9 Never pursue literature as a trade. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.11 Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.12 During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.12 The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.13 The secondary imagination . . . dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.13 The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.13 The two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.14 That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.14 The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power . . . imagination. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.14 [Imagination] reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgment ever awake and steady self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement; and while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial, still subordinates art to nature; the manner to the matter; and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.14 No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.15 While [Shakespeare] darts himself forth and passes into all the forms of human character and passion, the one Proteus of the fire and the flood, [Milton] attracts all forms and things to himself, into the unity of his own Ideal. All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of Milton; while Shakespeare becomes all things, yet ever remaining himself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.15  Our myriad-minded Shakespeare. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.15  The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria [1817], ch.17 Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation. Samuel Taylor Coleridge On Poesy or Art [1818] The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols. Samuel Taylor Coleridge On Poesy or Art [1818] The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every . . . minutest fiber. Samuel Taylor Coleridge On Poesy or Art [1818] Schiller has the material sublime. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk[December 29, 1822] I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk[July 12, 1827] The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk[July 23, 1827] Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk[May 9, 1830] That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk[May 9, 1830] The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Friend. The Improvisatore [1828] Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seemedhe- Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S.T.C.! That he, who many a year, with toil of breath, Found death in life, may here find life in death. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Epitaph written for himself [1833] Novalis Baron Friedrich von Hardenberg 1772-1801 We are near awakening when we dream that we dream. Novalis Blutenstaub (Pollen) [1798] Josiah QuincyJr. 1772-1864  If this bill [for the admission of Orleans Territory as a State] passes, I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations; and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation-amicably if they can; violently if they must. Josiah QuincyJr. Speech in the House of Representatives [January 14, 1811] William Barnes Rhodes 1772-1826 Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echoed along the shore. Artaxaminous: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar; And the first lion thought the last a bore. William Barnes Rhodes Bombastes Furioso [1810], act I, sc. iv David Ricardo 1772-1823 Labor, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution. David Ricardo On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation [1817] There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down. David Ricardo On Protection to Agriculture [1820] Friedrich von Schlegel 1772-1829 The historian is a prophet in reverse. Friedrich von Schlegel Athenaeum [1798-1800] Horace Francois Bastien Sebastiani 1772-1851  Peace reigns in Warsaw [La tranquillite regne a Varsovie]. Horace Francois Bastien Sebastiani Announcement of the fall of Warsaw [1831] Stephen Grellet Etienne de Grellet du Mabillier 1773-1855  I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Stephen Grellet Attributed William Henry Harrison 1773-1841  We admit of no government by divine right . . . the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. William Henry Harrison Inaugural Address [March 4, 1841] Never with my consent shall an officer of the people, compensated for his services out of their pockets, become the pliant instrument of the Executive will. William Henry Harrison Inaugural Address [March 4, 1841] A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged. William Henry Harrison Inaugural Address [March 4, 1841] John Randolph 1773-1833 The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. John Randolph Speech in the House of Representatives [March 5, 1806] [Of Edward Livingston] He is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight. John Randolph From W. Cabell Bruce, John Randolph of Roanoke [1923],vol.II,p. 197 [Of Martin Van Buren] He rowed to his object with muffled oars. John Randolph From W. Cabell Bruce, John Randolph of Roanoke [1923],vol.II,p. 203 Robert Southey 1774-1843 As frozen as charity. 1 2 Robert Southey The Soldier's Wife [1795], st. 4 1 See Hood 2 See O'Reilly It was a summer evening; Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. Robert Southey The Battle of Blenheim [1798],st. 1 He came to ask what he had found, That was so large, and smooth, and round. Robert Southey The Battle of Blenheim [1798],st. 2 "'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he, "Who fell in the great victory." Robert Southey The Battle of Blenheim [1798],st. 3 But what they fought each other for, I could not well make out. Robert Southey The Battle of Blenheim [1798],st. 6 "And everybody praised the duke, Who this great fight did win." "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he; "But 'twas a famous victory." Robert Southey The Battle of Blenheim [1798],st. 11 "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William-a hearty old man: Now tell me the reason, I pray." Robert Southey The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them [1779],st. 1 "In the days of my youth, I remembered my God, And he hath not forgotten my age." Robert Southey The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them [1779],st. 6 And then they knew the perilous rock, And blessed the Abbot of Aberbrothok. Robert Southey The Inchcape Rock [1802],st. 4 Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock- "O Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock." Robert Southey The Inchcape Rock [1802],st. 15 Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue. 1 Robert Southey Madoc in Wales [1805], pt. I, 5 1 See Byron Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost. Robert Southey The Curse of Kehama [1810],motto They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Robert Southey The Curse of Kehama [1810],cantoX, st. 10 Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so. Robert Southey The Curse of Kehama [1810],cantoXV, st. 12 My days among the dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old. Robert Southey My Days Among the Dead Are Past [1818],st. 1 Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust. Robert Southey My Days Among the Dead Are Past [1818],st. 4 So I told them in rhyme, For of rhymes I had store. Robert Southey The Cataract of Lodore [1820] Agreed to differ. Robert Southey Life of Wesley [1820] The Satanic school. Robert Southey Vision of Judgment [1821], original preface The arts babblative and scribblative. Robert Southey Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society [1829], no.1, pt. 2 The march of intellect. Robert Southey Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society [1829], no.14 From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the world, And see how his stock went on. Robert Southey The Devil's Walk [1830], 1 st. 1 1 See Shelley His coat was red, and his breeches were blue, And there was a hole where his tail came through. Robert Southey The Devil's Walk [1830], 1 st. 3 And he owned with a grin, That his favorite sin Is pride that apes humility. 1 2 Robert Southey The Devil's Walk [1830], 1 st. 8 1 See Robert Burton 2 See Coleridge Jane Austen 1775-1817  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice [1813], ch.1 She [Mrs. Bennet] was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice [1813], ch.1 A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice [1813], ch.6 Mr. Collins had only to change from Jane to Elizabeth-and it was soon done-done while Mrs. Bennet was stirring the fire. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice [1813], ch.15 You have delighted us long enough. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice [1813], ch.18 Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice [1813], ch.42 You ought certainly to forgive them, as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice [1813], ch.57 For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice [1813], ch.57 I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice [1813], ch.58 One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen Emma [1815], ch.9 It was a delightful visit-perfect, in being much too short. Jane Austen Emma [1815], ch.13 Nobody who has not been in the interior of a family can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. Jane Austen Emma [1815], ch.18 Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. Jane Austen Emma [1815], ch.34 "Only a novel" . . . in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey [1818], ch. 5 She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older-the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning. Jane Austen Persuasion [1818], ch. 4 I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. Jane Austen Letters.To her sister Cassandra [December 24, 1798] The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor. Jane Austen Letters.To J. Edward Austen [December 16, 1816] Charles Lamb 1775-1834 I have something more to do than feel. Charles Lamb Letter to Coleridge after the death of Lamb's mother [1796] I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days- All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Charles Lamb Old Familiar Faces [1798]  For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentlehearted in print . . . substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question. Charles Lamb Letter to Coleridge [August 1800] Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life. Charles Lamb Letter to Wordsworth [1801] The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. Charles Lamb Letter to Thomas Manning [February 15, 1802] Nursed amid her [London's] noise, her crowds, her beloved smoke-what have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with usury to such scenes? Charles Lamb Letter to Thomas Manning [February 15, 1802] Gone before To that unknown and silent shore. Charles Lamb Hester [1803], st. 7 A good-natured woman, which is as much as you can expect from a friend's wife, whom you got acquainted with a bachelor. Charles Lamb Letter to Hazlitt [1805] This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized. Charles Lamb Letter to Thomas Manning [1815] Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. Charles Lamb Letter to Southey [1815] [Of Coleridge] An archangel a little damaged. Charles Lamb Letter to Wordsworth [1816] Fanny Kelly's divine plain face. Charles Lamb Letter to Mrs. Wordsworth [1818] The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. Charles Lamb Essays of Elia [1823].Oxford in the Vacation The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. Charles Lamb Essays of Elia [1823].The Two Races of Men Your borrowers of books-those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. Charles Lamb Essays of Elia [1823].The Two Races of Men A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game. Charles Lamb Essays of Elia [1823].Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist I have no ear. Charles Lamb Essays of Elia [1823].A Chapter on Ears Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune. Charles Lamb Essays of Elia [1823].A Chapter on Ears Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. Charles Lamb Essays of Elia [1823].Witches, and Other Night Fears Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. Charles Lamb Essays of Elia [1823].Valentine's Day It is good to love the unknown. Charles Lamb Essays of Elia [1823].Valentine's Day Presents, I often say, endear absents. Charles Lamb Essays of Elia [1823].A Dissertation upon Roast Pig I came home forever! Charles Lamb Letter to Bernard Barton [1825], on leaving his "33 years' desk" at the East India House Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down? Charles Lamb Work Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? Charles Lamb On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born [1827] Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites. For my part, I do not care a farthing candle For either of them, nor for Handel. 1 Charles Lamb Letter to Mrs. William Hazlitt [1830] 1 See John Byrom For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die. Charles Lamb A Farewell to Tobacco A poor relation-is the most irrelevant thing in nature. Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia [1833].Poor Relations I love to lose myself in other men's minds. Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia [1833].Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading Books think for me. Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia [1833].Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading Things in books' clothing. Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia [1833].Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself. Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia [1833].The Convalescent Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia [1833].Amicus Redivivus A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia [1833].Popular Fallacies:IX, That the Worst Puns Are the Best A presentation copy . . . is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return. Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia [1833].Popular Fallacies:XI, That We Must Not Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture. Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia [1833].Popular Fallacies:XIII, That You Must Love Me and Love My Dog The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. Charles Lamb Table Talk. In the Athenaeum [1834] Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864 But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue . . . Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. 1 Walter Savage Landor Gebir, bk. I [1798] 1 See Wordsworth Ah what avails the sceptered race, Ah what the form divine! Walter Savage Landor Rose Aylmer [1806] Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. Walter Savage Landor Rose Aylmer [1806] There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave: there are no voices, O Rhodope! that are not soon mute, however tuneful: there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated, of which the echo is not faint at last. Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations [1824-1829].Aesop and Rhodope, I Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one. Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations [1824-1829].Chesterfield and Chatham 'Tis verse that gives Immortal youth to mortal maids. Walter Savage Landor Verse When we play the fool, how wide The theatre expands! beside, How long the audience sits before us! How many prompters! what a chorus! Walter Savage Landor Plays [1846], st. 2 There is delight in singing, though none hear Beside the singer. Walter Savage Landor To Robert Browning [1846] Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's, Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walked along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. Walter Savage Landor To Robert Browning [1846] I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art. I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. Walter Savage Landor I Strove with None [1853] Around the child bend all the three Sweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity. Around the man bend other faces; Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces. Walter Savage Landor Dry Sticks [1858]. Different Graces Johann Friedrich Herbart 1776-1841 Psychology cannot experiment with men, and there is no apparatus for this purpose. So much the more carefully must we make use of mathematics. Johann Friedrich Herbart Lehrbuch zur Psychologie [1816; A Textbook in Psychology, 1891] Thomas Campbell 1777-1844 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thomas Campbell Pleasures of Hope [1799], pt.I,l. 7 Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked-as Kosciusko fell! Thomas Campbell Pleasures of Hope [1799], pt.I,l. 381 Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name? Thomas Campbell Pleasures of Hope [1799], pt.II,l. 5 And muse on Nature with a poet's eye. Thomas Campbell Pleasures of Hope [1799], pt.II,l. 98 Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh! leave the light of Hope behind! What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between? 1 Thomas Campbell Pleasures of Hope [1799], pt.II,l. 375 1 See John Norris On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I; No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray. Thomas Campbell The Harper [1799], st. 1 Ye mariners of England, That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze! Thomas Campbell Ye Mariners of England [1800],st. 1 While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. 1 Thomas Campbell Ye Mariners of England [1800],st. 1 1 See Parker Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. Thomas Campbell Ye Mariners of England [1800],st. 3 The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return. Thomas Campbell Ye Mariners of England [1800],st. 4 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. Thomas Campbell Lochiel's Warning [1802] The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry! Thomas Campbell Hohenlinden [1802], st. 7 There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath, For a time. Thomas Campbell Battle of the Baltic [1805],st. 2 Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save. Thomas Campbell Battle of the Baltic [1805],st. 5 Oh, how hard it is to find The one just suited to our mind! Thomas Campbell Song, st. 1 Oh leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree! 1 Thomas Campbell The Beech Tree's Petition, st. 1 1 See George Pope Morris A stoic of the woods-a man without a tear. Thomas Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming [1809], pt. I, st. 23 Oh! once the harp of Innisfail Was strung full high to notes of gladness; But yet it often told a tale Of more prevailing sadness. Thomas Campbell O'Connor's Child [1810], st. 1 Henry Clay 1777-1852 How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust! Henry Clay Letter [December 4, 1801] If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. Henry Clay Speech in the House of Representatives [January 22, 1812]  Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. Henry Clay Speech at Ashland, Kentucky [March 1829] The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. Henry Clay Speech in the Senate [March 14, 1834] Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence. . . . But a solitary precedent . . . which has never been reexamined, cannot be conclusive. Henry Clay Speech in the Senate [February 18, 1835] I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. . . . The Union, sir, is my country. Henry Clay Speech in the Senate [1848] The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity-unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. Henry Clay Speech in the Senate [January 29, 1850]  I would rather be right than be President. Henry Clay Speech in the Senate [1850] Lorenzo Dow 1777-1834 You will be damned if you do.-And you will be damned if you don't [definition of Calvinism]. Lorenzo Dow Reflections on the Love of God Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777-1855 It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however, that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Carl Friedrich Gauss Letter to H. C. Schumacher [1845] Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. Carl Friedrich Gauss From Sartorius von Walters-hausen, Gauss zum Ged[auml ]chtniss [1856] Valentine Blacker 1778-1823 Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry! Valentine Blacker From Edward Hayes, Ballads of Ireland [1856]. Oliver's Advice, An Orange Ballad Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux 1778-1868 What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable. 1 Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux From The Edinburgh Review [c. 1802], The Work of Thomas Young 1 See Daniel Webster  The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux Speech, Opening of Parliament [January 29, 1828] In my mind, he was guilty of no error he-was chargeable with no exaggeration-he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box. Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux Present State of the Law [February 7, 1828] Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties. Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux Title of book [1830] Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux Attributed The great unwashed. Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux Attributed William Hazlitt 1778-1830 One has no notion of him [William Cobbett] as making use of a fine pen, but a great mutton-fist; his style stuns readers. . . . He is too much for any single newspaper antagonist; "lays waste" a city orator or Member of Parliament, and bears hard upon the government itself. He is a kind of fourth estate in the politics of the country. 1 2 3 William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].Character of Cobbett 1 See Carlyle 2 See Macaulay 3 See Thackeray It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].On the Ignorance of the Learned What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it. . . . It is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things; . . . to take a thoughtful, anxious interest or curiosity in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it. William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].On Living to One's Self Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].On Living to One's Self There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].On Living to One's Self When a man is dead, they put money in his coffin, erect monuments to his memory, and celebrate the anniversary of his birthday in set speeches. Would they take any notice of him if he were living? No! 1 2 William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].On Living to One's Self 1 See Martial 2 See Thayer One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself. William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].On Going a Journey When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].On Going a Journey The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].On Going a Journey Give me a clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner-and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].On Going a Journey No young man ever thinks he shall die. William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].On the Fear of Death  Horus non numero nisi serenas is the motto of a sundial near Venice. There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. William Hazlitt Table Talk [1821-1822].Of a Sundial in Venice The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt Political Essays. The Times Newspaper We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. William Hazlitt Sketches and Essay. On Prejudice Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. William Hazlitt Characteristics, no. 416 [c. 1821] We are not hypocrites in our sleep. William Hazlitt On Dreams Stephen Decatur 1779-1820  Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. Stephen Decatur Toast given at Norfolk [April 1816] Thomas , Lord Denman 1779-1854 Trial by jury, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare. Thomas , Lord Denman O'Connell v. The Queen [September 4, 1844] Sir Robert Grant 1779-1838 Our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days, 1 Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise. Sir Robert Grant Hymn. O Worship the King [1833] 1 See Daniel 7:9 Francis Scott Key 1779-1843 Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? Francis Scott Key The Star-Spangled Banner [September 14, 1814],st. 1 Blessed with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our trust." Francis Scott Key The Star-Spangled Banner [September 14, 1814],st. 4 Clement Clarke Moore 1779-1863 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring-not even a mouse; 1 The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. Clement Clarke Moore A Visit from St. Nicholas [December 1823] 1 See Shakespeare "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight!" Clement Clarke Moore A Visit from St. Nicholas [December 1823] Thomas Tom Moore 1779-1852 Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. 1 Thomas Tom Moore Poems Relating to America. A Canadian Boat Song, st. 1 1 See Marvell Go where glory waits thee! 1 But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me! Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].Go Where Glory Waits Thee, st. 1 1 See Lowell Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonored his relics are laid. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].Oh Breathe Not His Name,st. 1 And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. 1 Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].Oh Breathe Not His Name,st. 2 1 See Shakespeare The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, st. 1 Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore, st. 1 Believe me, if all those endearing young charms Which I gaze on so fondly today, Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my arms, Like fairy gifts fading away, Thou would'st still be adored as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms, st. 1 But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].Love's Young Dream, st. 1 Eyes of unholy blue. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].By That Lake Whose Gloomy Shore, st. 2 'Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].The Last Rose of Summer, st. 1 The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him. His father's sword he has girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].The Minstrel Boy, st. 1 And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].The Young May Moon, st. 1 You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].Farewell! But Whenever, st. 3 No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].Come O'er the Sea, st. 2 The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].The Time I've Lost in Wooing, st. 1 My only books Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taught me. Thomas Tom Moore Irish Melodies [1807-1834].The Time I've Lost in Wooing, st. 1 A Persian's heaven is easily made: 'Tis but black eyes and lemonade. Thomas Tom Moore Intercepted Letters; or, The TwoPenny Post Bag [1813], VI Oft in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken. Thomas Tom Moore National Airs [1815].Oft in the Stilly Night,st. 1 I feel like one, Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed. Thomas Tom Moore National Airs [1815].Oft in the Stilly Night,st. 2 What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. Thomas Tom Moore National Airs [1815].Spring and Autumn, st. 1 Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah has triumphed-his people are free. Thomas Tom Moore Sacred Songs. Sound the Loud Timbrel, st. 1 Oh, call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold. Thomas Tom Moore Ballads and Songs. Oh, Call It by Some Better Name, st. 1 There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long. Thomas Tom Moore Lalla Rookh [1817], pt.II Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all. Thomas Tom Moore Lalla Rookh [1817], pt.II Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hope decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die. Thomas Tom Moore Lalla Rookh [1817], pt.V Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips. 1 Thomas Tom Moore Lalla Rookh [1817], pt.V 1 See Byron Paradise itself were dim And joyless, if not shared with him! Thomas Tom Moore Lalla Rookh [1817], pt.VI Lorenz Oken 1779-1851 The universe is the language of God. Lorenz Oken Elements of Physiophilosophy [1847], pt. I, par. 64 Joseph Story 1779-1849 I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage. 1 Joseph Story The Value and Importance of Legal Studies [August 5, 1829] 1 See Emerson William Ellery Channing 1780-1842 We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irrational and unscriptural doctrine of the Trinity. "To us," as to the Apostle and the primitive Christians, "there is one God, even the Father." With Jesus, we worship the Father, as the only living and true God. We are astonished, that any man can read the New Testament, and avoid the conviction, that the Father alone is God. William Ellery Channing Unitarian Christianity [Baltimore, 1819] The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. William Ellery Channing Review of Sir Walter Scott, The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte [1827]. From the Christian Examiner [September and October 1827]  I see the marks of God in the heavens and the earth, but how much more in a liberal intellect, in magnanimity, in unconquerable rectitude, in a philanthropy which forgives every wrong, and which never despairs of the cause of Christ and human virtue! I do and I must reverence human nature. 1 . . . I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race. William Ellery Channing Likeness to God [Providence, Rhode Island, 1828] 1 See Albert Schweitzer There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when . . . to dare, is the highest wisdom. 1 2 3 William Ellery Channing Complete Works [1879]. The Union [1829] 1 See Spenser 2 See Danton 3 See Patton It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. . . . God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. William Ellery Channing Self-Culture [Boston, September 1838] The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. William Ellery Channing Remarks on the Character and Writings of Fenelon [1843] I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven. William Ellery Channing Spiritual Freedom Karl von Clausewitz 1780-1831  War is not merely a political act, but also a political instrument, a continuation of political relations, a carrying out of the same by other means. Karl von Clausewitz Vom Kriege (On War) [1833] Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832 When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Charles Caleb Colton Lacon [1820-1822], vol.I, no.183 Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. Charles Caleb Colton Lacon [1820-1822], vol.I, no.217 The debt which cancels all others. Charles Caleb Colton Lacon [1820-1822], vol.II, no. 66 Charles Miner 1780-1865 When I see a merchant overpolite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter-thinks I, that man has an ax to grind. Charles Miner Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert the Scribe [1815]. Who'll Turn Grindstones Frances Milton Trollope 1780-1863 Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American manners, commence their travels in a Mississippi steamboat. Frances Milton Trollope Domestic Manners of the Americans [1832] Ebenezer Elliott 1781-1849 Not kings and lords, but nations! Not thrones and crowns, but men! Ebenezer Elliott Corn Law Rhymes [1828]. When Wilt Thou Save the People? st. 1 God save the people! Ebenezer Elliott Corn Law Rhymes [1828]. When Wilt Thou Save the People? st. 1 What is a communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Ebenezer Elliott Poetical Works [1846]. Epigram James Lawrence 1781-1813  Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks. James Lawrence On board the U.S. frigate Chesapeake [June 1, 1813] Thomas Hart Benton 1782-1858 This new page opened in the book of our public expenditures, and this new departure taken, which leads into the bottomless gulf of civil pensions and family gratuities. Thomas Hart Benton Speech in the Senate against a grant to President Harrison's widow [April 1841] John C aldwell Calhoun 1782-1850 Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. John C aldwell Calhoun Speech in the House of Representatives [December 12, 1811] The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, 1 2 3 4 5 bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. John C aldwell Calhoun Speech [February 13, 1835] 1 See Henry 2 See Burke 3 See Clay 4 See Sumner 5 See Cleveland  A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. John C aldwell Calhoun Speech [May 27, 1836] The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. John C aldwell Calhoun Speech in the Senate [February 19, 1847] It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. 1 John C aldwell Calhoun Speech in the Senate [January 1848] 1 See S. E. Morison Ann Taylor 1782-1866 Jane Taylor 1783-1824 Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother. Jane Taylor Original Poems for Infant Minds [1804]. My Mother [by Ann Taylor], st. 6 Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky! 1 Jane Taylor Rhymes for the Nursery [1806].The Star, st. 1 1 See Lewis Carroll I like little pussy, her coat is so warm; And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm. Jane Taylor Rhymes for the Nursery [1806].I Like Little Pussy [by Jane Taylor], st. 1 Oh, that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught. Jane Taylor Hymns for Infant Minds [1810].For a Very Little Child And willful waste, depend upon 't, Brings, almost always, woeful want! Jane Taylor Hymns for Infant Minds [1810].The Pin [by Ann Taylor], st. 6 Daniel Webster 1782-1852 It is, sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it. Daniel Webster Dartmouth College Case [1818] Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. Daniel Webster Speech at Plymouth, Massachusetts [December 22, 1820] Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. 1 Daniel Webster Speech [April 2, 1824] 1 See Lincoln We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Daniel Webster Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument [June 17, 1825] Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. Daniel Webster Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument [June 17, 1825] Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. Daniel Webster Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument [June 17, 1825] Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. Daniel Webster Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument [June 17, 1825]  Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. Daniel Webster Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson, Faneuil Hall, Boston [August 2, 1826]  It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment-Independence now and Independence forever. Daniel Webster Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson, Faneuil Hall, Boston [August 2, 1826] Washington is in the clear upper sky. Daniel Webster Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson, Faneuil Hall, Boston [August 2, 1826] The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing. 1 Daniel Webster Second Speech on Foote's Resolution [January 26, 1830] 1 See Hamilton  I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever. Daniel Webster Second Speech on Foote's Resolution [January 26, 1830]  The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. Daniel Webster Second Speech on Foote's Resolution [January 26, 1830] When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States disevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood. Daniel Webster Second Speech on Foote's Resolution [January 26, 1830] Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. Daniel Webster Second Speech on Foote's Resolution [January 26, 1830] There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. Daniel Webster Argument on the murder of Captain White [April 6, 1830] There is nothing so powerful as truth-and often nothing so strange. 1 Daniel Webster Argument on the murder of Captain White [April 6, 1830] 1 See Byron Fearful concatenation of circumstances. 1 Daniel Webster Argument on the murder of Captain White [April 6, 1830] 1 See Scott A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us. 1 Daniel Webster Argument on the murder of Captain White [April 6, 1830] 1 See Psalm 139:9 He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. 1 He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. Daniel Webster Speech on Hamilton [March 10, 1831] 1 See Numbers 20:11 On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, 1 and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. Daniel Webster Speech [May 7, 1834] 1 See Schiller God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. Daniel Webster Speech [June 3, 1834] One country, one constitution, one destiny. Daniel Webster Speech [March 15, 1837], There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation, and pernicious influence of wealth. They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations, and a means by which small capitalists become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. They would choke the fountain of industry and dry all streams. Daniel Webster Speech in the Senate [March 12, 1838] When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization. Daniel Webster On Agriculture [January 13, 1840] America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. Daniel Webster On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument [June 17, 1843] Thank God! I-I also-am an American! Daniel Webster On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument [June 17, 1843] Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. Daniel Webster On Mr. Justice Story [September 12, 1845]  Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. Daniel Webster Speech [July 25 and 27, 1846] Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. Daniel Webster Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner [May 10, 1847] The law: It has honored us; may we honor it. Daniel Webster Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner [May 10, 1847] I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable." 1 Daniel Webster Speech at Marshfield, Massachusetts [September 1, 1848] 1 See Lord Brougham I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. Daniel Webster Speech [July 17, 1850] Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty. Daniel Webster Letter [April 1851] Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers, a monster watch; and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men. Daniel Webster On the Old Man of the Mountain ; attributed I still live. Daniel Webster Last words [October 24, 1852] Simon Bolivar 1783-1830  A state too extensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability. Simon Bolivar Letter from Jamaica [Summer, 1815] Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own. Simon Bolivar Letter from Jamaica [Summer, 1815] Let us give to our republic a fourth power with authority over the youth, the hearts of men, public spirit, habits, and republican morality. Let us establish this Areopagus to watch over the education of the children, to supervise national education, to purify whatever may be corrupt in the republic, to denounce ingratitude, coldness in the country's service, egotism, sloth, idleness, and to pass judgment upon the first signs of corruption and pernicious example. Simon Bolivar Address to the Congress of Angostura [February 15, 1819] Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea. Simon Bolivar Attributed The three greatest dolts in the world: Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and I. Simon Bolivar Attributed Reginald Heber 1783-1826 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid. Reginald Heber Hymns.Epiphany [1811], st. 1 By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows! Reginald Heber Hymns.First Sunday After Epiphany [1812], no. 2 The Son of God goes forth to war, A kingly crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar; Who follows in His train? Reginald Heber Hymns.The Son of God Goes Forth to War [1812], st. 1 From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand. Reginald Heber Hymns.Missionary Hymn [1819],st. 1 Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile. Reginald Heber Hymns.Missionary Hymn [1819],st. 2 The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. Reginald Heber Hymns.Missionary Hymn [1819],st. 2 Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee: Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty! God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity. Reginald Heber Hymns.Holy, Holy, Holy! [1827] Washington Irving 1783-1859 How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god. Washington Irving Knickerbocker's History of New York [1809], bk.II, ch. 3 His wife "ruled the roast," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government. Washington Irving Knickerbocker's History of New York [1809], bk.IV, ch.4 They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler. Washington Irving Knickerbocker's History of New York [1809], bk.IV, ch.241 There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Washington Irving The Sketch-Book [1819-1820].The Wife Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Washington Irving The Sketch-Book [1819-1820].Rip Van Winkle A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving The Sketch-Book [1819-1820].Rip Van Winkle That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity. Washington Irving The Sketch-Book [1819-1820].Rip Van Winkle A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. Washington Irving The Sketch-Book [1819-1820].The Broken Heart Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time. Washington Irving The Sketch-Book [1819-1820].The Mutabilities of Literature There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. Washington Irving The Sketch-Book [1819-1820].The Mutabilities of Literature His [the author's] renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure. Washington Irving The Sketch-Book [1819-1820].Westminster Abbey [The Poets' Corner] The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Washington Irving The Sketch-Book [1819-1820].Rural Funerals Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. Washington Irving Bracebridge Hall [1822]. Bachelors I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories. Washington Irving Tales of a Traveler [1824]. To the Reader The almighty dollar, 1 that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. Washington Irving Wolfert's Roost [1855]. The Creole Village 1 See Jonson Stendhal Henri Beyle 1783-1842 Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely is, therefore, a great step towards happiness. Stendhal Journal [December 10, 1801] I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. Stendhal De l'Amour [1822],ch.1 A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. Stendhal De l'Amour [1822],ch.60 One can acquire everything in solitude-except character. Stendhal De l'Amour [1822],Fragments Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. Stendhal De l'Amour [1822],Fragments In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives. Stendhal De l'Amour [1822],Fragments A novel is a mirror that strolls along a highway. Now it reflects the blue of the skies, now the mud puddles underfoot. Stendhal Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) [1830] There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense. Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need. Stendhal Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) [1830] I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing. Stendhal Reply to Balzac [October 30, 1840] Wit lasts no more than two centuries. Stendhal Reply to Balzac [October 30, 1840] It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. Stendhal Manuscript note [1840] Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. Stendhal La Vie d'Henri Brulard [1890] Allan Cunningham 1784-1842 A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast. Allan Cunningham The Songs of Scotland [1825].A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea,st. 1 The hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea. Allan Cunningham The Songs of Scotland [1825].A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea,st. 3 It's hame and it's hame, hame fain wad I be- O, hame, hame, hame to my ain countree! Allan Cunningham The Songs of Scotland [1825].It's Hame and It's Hame, refrain Leigh Hunt 1784-1859  This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty. Leigh Hunt The Examiner [March 22, 1812] Where the light woods go seaward from the town. Leigh Hunt The Story of Rimini [1816], cantoI, l. 18 But most he loved a happy human face. Leigh Hunt The Story of Rimini [1816], cantoIII,l. 110 The world was all forgot, the struggle o'er, Desperate the joy.-That day they read no more. 1 Leigh Hunt The Story of Rimini [1816], cantoIII,l. 607 1 See Dante Green little vaulter in the sunny grass. Leigh Hunt To the Grasshopper and the Cricket [1817] Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace. Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem [1838] An angel writing in a book of gold. Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem [1838] Write me as one that loves his fellow men. Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem [1838] And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem [1838] Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me. Leigh Hunt Rondeau [1838] A Venus grown fat! Leigh Hunt Blue-Stocking Revels "No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that." Leigh Hunt The Glove and the Lions, st. 4 A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain. Leigh Hunt Letter to Alexander Ireland [June 2, 1848] Henry John Temple , Viscount Palmerston 1784-1865 We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests it is our duty to follow. Henry John Temple , Viscount Palmerston Speech on the Polish Question in the House of Commons [1848] Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 Hurrah for Old Kentuck! That's the way to do it. Give 'em hell, damn 'em. Zachary Taylor Shouted to the 2nd Kentucky Regiment on seeing them rally in battle [Buena Vista, Mexico, February 23, 1847] A little more grape, Captain Bragg. Zachary Taylor Attributed [Ib.] Tell him to go to hell. Zachary Taylor Reply to Santa Anna's demand for surrender [Ib.] Thomas De Quincey 1785-1859 The burden of the incommunicable. Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English OpiumEater [1822-1856], pt.I Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that? It is that man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. 1 Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English OpiumEater [1822-1856], pt.I 1 See Ephesians 4:26 So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee. Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English OpiumEater [1822-1856], pt.I Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated-everlasting farewells! Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English OpiumEater [1822-1856], pt.III Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. Thomas De Quincey Letter to Hessey [1823] If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Thomas De Quincey Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts [1827] Lady Caroline Lamb 1785-1828 [Of Byron] Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. Lady Caroline Lamb Journal [March 1812] Thomas Love Peacock 1785-1866 Not drunk is he who from the floor Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is he who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. Thomas Love Peacock The Misfortunes of Elphin [1829], ch.3, heading (translated from the Welsh) The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. Thomas Love Peacock The Misfortunes of Elphin [1829], ch.11 Ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant. Thomas Love Peacock Crotchet Castle [1831], ch.7 A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book-it is a plaything. Thomas Love Peacock Crotchet Castle [1831], ch.9 Oliver Hazard Perry 1785-1819  We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Oliver Hazard Perry Dispatch from U.S. brig Niagara to General William Henry Harrison, announcing his victory at the battle of Lake Erie [September 10, 1813] ÿ Samuel Woodworth 1785-1842 How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view! Samuel Woodworth The Old Oaken Bucket The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. Samuel Woodworth The Old Oaken Bucket Pickaxe, shovel, spade, crowbar, hoe, and barrow, Better not invade, Yankees have the marrow. Samuel Woodworth The Patriotic Diggers [1814], st. 1 David Crockett 1786-1836 I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right-then go ahead. David Crockett Autobiography [1834]  Don't shoot, Colonel, I'll come down: I know I'm a gone coon. David Crockett Story told by Crockett of a treed raccoon William Learned Marcy 1786-1857 They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy. William Learned Marcy Speech in the Senate [January 1832] Winfield Scott 1786-1866  The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to the slander. Charge! Winfield Scott Address to the 11th Infantry Regiment [Chippewa, Canada, June 5, 1814] Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace." Winfield Scott Letter to W. H. Seward [March 3, 1861] Seattle c. 1786-1866  My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain. . . . There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory. Seattle Statement on surrendering tribal lands on site of Seattle to Isaac Stevens, governor of Washington Territory [1855] What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. Seattle Statement on surrendering tribal lands on site of Seattle to Isaac Stevens, governor of Washington Territory [1855] At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. Seattle Statement on surrendering tribal lands on site of Seattle to Isaac Stevens, governor of Washington Territory [1855] Barry Cornwall Bryan Waller Procter 1787-1874 The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free. Barry Cornwall The Sea, st. 1 Francois Guizot 1787-1874  Enrich yourselves! Francois Guizot Speech [March 1, 1843] Emma Willard 1787-1870 Rocked in the cradle of the deep. Emma Willard The Cradle of the Deep [1831] George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824 "Friendship is Love without his wings!" George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron L'Amitie Est l'Amour sans Ailes [written 1806] I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer [1808], st. 2 When we two parted In silence and tears, Half brokenhearted, To sever for years. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron When We Two Parted [1808], st. 1 Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of Man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Boatswain, a dog. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Inscription on the monument of a Newfoundland dog [1808] The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Inscription on the monument of a Newfoundland dog [1808] 1 See Vest I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers [1809],l. 5 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers [1809],l. 51 A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure-critics all are ready-made. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers [1809],l. 63 With just enough of learning to misquote. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers [1809],l. 66 As soon Seek roses in December, ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers [1809],l. 75 Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers [1809],l. 102 'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers [1809],l. 826 1 See Aesop Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers [1809],l. 839 Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Maid of Athens [1810], st. 1 Vexed with mirth the drowsy ear of night. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto I [1812],st. 2 Had sighed to many, though he loved but one. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto I [1812],st. 5 Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto I [1812],st. 9 Might shake the saintship of an anchorite. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto I [1812],st. 11 My native land, good night! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto I [1812],st. 13 (song) Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto I [1812],st. 82 1 See Lucretius War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife!" George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto I [1812],st. 86 Gone-glimmering through the dream of things that were. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto II [1812],st. 2 A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an an hour! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto II [1812],st. 2 The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto II [1812],st. 6 1 See Waller Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto II [1812],st. 73 Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto II [1812],st. 76 Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto II [1812],st. 88 What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto II [1812],st. 98 Once more upon the waters, yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 2 Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 8 And Harold stands upon this place of skulls. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 18 There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 21 Did ye not hear it?-No! 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 22 Arm! Arm! it is-it is-the cannon's opening roar! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 22 And there was mounting in hot haste. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 25 Or whispering, with white lips, "The foe. They come! they come!" George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 25 Battle's magnificently stern array! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 28 Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 34 1 See Thomas Moore Thou fatal Waterloo. Millions of tongues record thee, and anew Their children's lips shall echo them, and say- "Here, where the sword united nations drew, Our countrymen were warring on that day!" And this is much, and all which will not pass away. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 35 He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 45 All tenantless, save to the crannying wind. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 47 History's purchased page to call them great. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 48 The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 55 To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 69 By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 71 I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 72 Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 107 Fame is the thirst of youth. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 112 I have not loved the world, nor the world me; 1 2 I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 113 1 See Johnson 2 See Emerson I stood Among them, but not of them; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto III [1816],st. 113 I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 1 Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 1 She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 2 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give No hollow aid; alone-man with his God must strive. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 33 The Ariosto of the North. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 40 Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 42 Let these describe the undescribable. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 53 The starry Galileo, with his woes. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 54 The poetry of speech. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 58 Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 77 O Rome! my country! city of the soul! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 78 The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 79 Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 98 Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 120 Of its own beauty is the mind diseased. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 122 Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 130 Butchered to make a Roman holiday! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 141 "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls-the world." George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 145 Oh! that the desert were my dwelling place. 1 2 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 177 1 See Jeremiah 9:2 2 See Cowper There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 178 Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean-roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin-his control Stops with the shore. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 179 He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. 1 2 3 4 5 6 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 179 1 See Homer 2 See Horace 3 See Chaucer 4 See Shakespeare 5 See Milton 6 See Scott Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow- Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 182 Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 183 Dark-heaving-boundless, endless, and sublime- The image of Eternity. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 183 And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 184 And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane-as I do here. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,canto IV [1818],st. 184 I awoke one morning and found myself famous. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Entry in Memoranda after publication of first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. From Thomas Moore, Life of Byron [1830], ch. 14 Clime of the unforgotten brave! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Giaour [1813],l. 103 And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own; And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Giaour [1813],l. 418 I die-but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Giaour [1813],l. 1114 Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? 1 Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Bride of Abydos [1813],canto I, st. 1 1 See Goethe Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine? George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Bride of Abydos [1813],canto I, st. 1 Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it-peace! 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Bride of Abydos [1813],canto II, st. 20 1 See Tacitus The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Corsair [1814].Dedication Such hath it been-shall be-beneath the sun The many still must labor for the one. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Corsair [1814].canto I, st. 8 He left a corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Corsair [1814].canto III, st. 24 The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of Washington To make man blush there was but one! 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte [1814], II 1 See The Age of Bronze Lord of himself-that heritage of woe. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Lara [1814], canto I, st. 2 She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Hebrew Melodies [1815].She Walks in Beauty, st. 1 The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Hebrew Melodies [1815].The Destruction of Sennacherib, 1 st. 1 1 See II Kings, 19:35 For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Hebrew Melodies [1815].The Destruction of Sennacherib, 1 st. 3 And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Hebrew Melodies [1815].The Destruction of Sennacherib, 1 st. 6 The glory and the nothing of a name. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Churchill's Grave, l. 43 For years fleet away with the wings of the dove. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The First Kiss of Love, st. 7 Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever, fare thee well. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Fare Thee Well [1816], st. 1 1 See Burns Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die, in molding Sheridan. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Monody on the Death of Sheridan [1816], l. 117 1 See Ariosto My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Prisoner of Chillon [1816],st. 1 O God! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Prisoner of Chillon [1816],st. 8 A light broke in upon my brain- It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Prisoner of Chillon [1816],st. 10 There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Stanzas for music [1816], st. 1 I had a dream which was not all a dream. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Darkness [1816] Though the day of my destiny's over, And the star of my fate hath declined. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Stanzas to Augusta [1816], st. 1 My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea; But, before I go, Tom Moore, Here's a double health to thee!Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And, whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron To Thomas Moore [1817], st. 1, 2 1 See Longfellow So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright.For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest.Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron So, We'll Go No More A-Roving [1817] Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Manfred [1817], act I, sc. i His heart was one of those which most enamor us, Wax to receive, and marble to retain. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Beppo [1818],st. 34 1 See Cervantes I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Beppo [1818],st. 44 I wish he would explain his explanation. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.Dedication [written 1818],st. 2 In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto I,st. 17 But-Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all? 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto I,st. 22 1 See Addison Her stature tall-I hate a dumpy woman. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto I,st. 61 What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, Is much more common where the climate's sultry. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto I,st. 63 Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto I,st. 83 A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering "I will ne'er consent"-consented. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto I,st. 117 'Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto I,st. 123 Sweet is revenge-especially to women. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto I,st. 124 1 See Shakespeare Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto I,st. 133 Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto I,st. 194 1 See Wilcox There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms As rum and true religion. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto II [1819],st. 34 A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto II [1819],st. 53 If this be true, indeed, Some Christians have a comfortable creed. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto II [1819],st. 86 Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. 1 2 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto II [1819],st. 178 1 See Dickens 2 See Ade In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others, all she loves is love. 1 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 3 1 See La Rochefoucauld Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life? George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 7 He was the mildest-mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 41 Even good men like to make the public stare. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 81 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 86[song, st. 1] Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 86[song, st. 1] The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 86[song, st. 3] And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now- The heroic bosom beats no more! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine? George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 86[song, st. 5] Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 86[song, st. 7] You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave- Think ye he meant them for a slave? George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 86[song, st. 10] Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 86[song, st. 11] Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swanlike, let me sing and die. 1 2 3 A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine- Dash down yon cup of Samian wine! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto III [1821],st. 86[song, st. 16] 1 See Plato 2 See Shakespeare 3 See Anonymous And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. 1 2 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto IV [1821],st. 4 1 See La Bruyere 2 See Beaumarchais These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto IV [1821],st. 93 I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted; time will doubt of Rome. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto IV [1821],st. 101 Oh! "darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," 1 As someone somewhere sings about the sky. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto IV [1821],st. 110 1 See Southey There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto V [1821],st. 5 And put himself upon his good behavior. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto V [1821],st. 47 That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul-the dinner bell. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto V [1821],st. 49 The women pardoned all except her face. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto V [1821],st. 113 Polygamy may well be held in dread, Not only as a sin, but as a bore. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto VI [1823],st. 12 A lady of "a certain age," which means Certainly aged. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto VI [1823],st. 69 Not so Leonidas and Washington, Whose every battlefield is holy ground, Which breathes of nations saved, not worlds undone. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto VIII [1823], st. 5 "Gentlemen farmers"-a race worn out quite. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto IX [1823], st. 32 When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter," And proved it-twas no matter what he said. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XI [1823],st. 1 And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XI [1823],st. 37 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XI [1823],st. 60 (of John Keats) 1 2 1 See Byron 2 See Shelley Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XII [1823], st. 12 Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XIII [1823],st. 11 The English winter-ending in July, To recommence in August. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XIII [1823],st. 42 Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XIII [1823],st. 95 All human history attests That happiness for man-the hungry sinner!- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XIII [1823],st. 99 Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so." George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XIV [1823],st. 50 'Tis strange-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XIV [1823],st. 101 The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XV [1824], st. 13 The antique Persians taught three useful things- To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan.canto XVI [1824], st. 1 In truth he was a noble steed. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Mazeppa [1819], st. 9 Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two and twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa [1821], st. 1 All farewells should be sudden. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Sardanapalus [1821], act V The best of prophets of the future is the past. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Journal [January 28, 1821] The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way- And the greatest of all is John Bull! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Letter to Thomas Moore [June 22, 1821] Because He is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow? I judge but by the fruits-and they are bitter- Which I must feed on for a fault not mine. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Cain [1821], act I, sc. i Who killed John Keats? "I," says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly; "'Twas one of my feats." 1 2 3 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron John Keats [c. 1821] 1 See Don Juan 2 See Shelley 3 See Anonymous He seems To have seen better days, as who has not Who has seen yesterday? George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Werner [1822], act I, sc. i The "good old times"-all times when old are good- Are gone. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Age of Bronze [1823],st. 1 Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth-whose dice were human bones. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Age of Bronze [1823],st. 3 While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven, Calming the lightning which he thence had riven, Or drawing from the no less kindled earth Freedom and peace to that which boasts his birth; 1 While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air. 2 George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Age of Bronze [1823],st. 5 1 See Franklin 2 See Ode to Napoleon Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Island [1823], canto II, st. 19 What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron The Deformed Transformed [1824], act III, sc. i My days are in the yellow leaf; 1 The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron On My Thirty-sixth Year [1824],st. 2 1 See Shakespeare Seek out-less often sought than found- A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron On My Thirty-sixth Year [1824],st. 10 Now Barabbas was a publisher. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Alleged alteration in the Bible, John 18:40 Sarah Josepha Hale 1788-1879 Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go. Sarah Josepha Hale Mary's Lamb, st. 1, 2. From The Juvenile Miscellany [September 1830] Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Idea [1819], vol. II Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. Arthur Schopenhauer Studies in Pessimism [1851].Psychological Observations Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer Studies in Pessimism [1851].Psychological Observations  Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection. Arthur Schopenhauer Studies in Pessimism [1851].Psychological Observations Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever. Arthur Schopenhauer Studies in Pessimism [1851].On Women Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought. Arthur Schopenhauer Studies in Pessimism [1851].On Noise The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer Essays.Personality; or, What a Man Is A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine. 1 Arthur Schopenhauer Essays.Personality; or, What a Man Is 1 See Matthew Arnold Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. 1 Arthur Schopenhauer Essays.Our Relation to Others, sec. 23 1 See La Rochefoucauld There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. Arthur Schopenhauer Essays.Our Relation to Ourselves, sec. 24 Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Arthur Schopenhauer Counsels and Maxims, ch. 2 James Fenimore Cooper 1789-1851 Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste. James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans [1826] 'Tis grand! 'tis solemn! 'tis an education of itself to look upon! James Fenimore Cooper The Deerslayer [1841], ch. 2 Those families, you know, are our upper crust-not upper ten thousand. 1 James Fenimore Cooper The Ways of the Hour [1850], ch. 6 1 See Sam Slick William Knox 1789-1825 Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? William Knox Songs of Israel [1824]. Mortality, st. 1 Peter Mere Latham 1789-1875 The practice of physic is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.I, ch.25 There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.I, ch.51 Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.I, ch.60 Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.I, ch.138 The diagnosis of disease is often easy, often difficult, and often impossible. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.I, ch.173 We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.I, ch.174 Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use, be it great or be it small! Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.II, ch.11 Common sense is in medicine the master workman. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.II, ch.389 It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.II, ch.398 Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.II, ch.408 It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.II, ch.415 It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meanings. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.II, ch.474 It is the great mystery of life itself which is at the bottom of all the mysterious language we are obliged to employ concerning it. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.II, ch.494 People in general have no notion of the sort and amount of evidence often needed to prove the simplest matter of fact. Peter Mere Latham Collected Works, bk.II, ch.525 Astolphe Louis Leonard , Marquis de Custine 1790-1857 This empire [Russia], vast as it is, is only a prison to which the emperor holds the key. 1 Astolphe Louis Leonard , Marquis de Custine La Russie en 1839.Peterhof, July 23, 1839 1 See Stalin Whoever has really seen Russia will find himself content to live anywhere else. It is always good to know that a society exists where no happiness is possible because, by a law of nature, man cannot be happy unless he is free. Astolphe Louis Leonard , Marquis de Custine La Russie en 1839.Conclusion Fitz-Greene Halleck 1790-1867 Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, 1 2 Nor named thee but to praise. Fitz-Greene Halleck On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake [1820], st. 1 1 See Burns 2 See Tennyson Strike-till the last armed foe expires, Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land! Fitz-Greene Halleck Marco Bozzaris [1855],st. 3 One of the few, the immortal names That were not born to die. Fitz-Greene Halleck Marco Bozzaris [1855],st. 7 Alphonse de Lamartine 1790-1869  O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days! Alphonse de Lamartine The Lake [1820],st. 6  I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night. Alphonse de Lamartine The Lake [1820],st. 8 Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god 1 who remembers the heavens. Alphonse de Lamartine Meditations Poetiques [1820].Sermon 2 1 See Emerson  What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? Alphonse de Lamartine Meditations Poetiques [1820].2nd series. Sermon 15 Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. Alphonse de Lamartine Speech at M[acirc ]con [1847] To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. Alphonse de Lamartine Graziella [1849], pt. IV, ch. 5 The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. Alphonse de Lamartine From Count d'Orsay, Letter to John Forster [1850] Ferdinand Raimund 1790-1836 No matter how fair the sun shines, Still it must set. Ferdinand Raimund Das M[auml ]dchen aus der Feenwelt (The Maiden from Fairyland) [1826] Samuel Gilman 1791-1858 Fair Harvard! Thy sons to thy Jubilee throng. Samuel Gilman Ode, Bicentennial, Harvard University [September 8, 1836], st. 1 First flower of their wilderness, star of their night, Calm rising through change and through storm. Samuel Gilman Ode, Bicentennial, Harvard University [September 8, 1836], st. 1 Henry Hart Milman 1791-1868 Ride on! ride on in majesty! In lowly pomp ride on to die. Henry Hart Milman Hymns. Ride On! John Howard Payne 1791-1852 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. John Howard Payne Home, Sweet Home. From the opera Clari, the Maid of Milan [1823] Lydia Huntley Sigourney 1791-1865 Their name is on your waters- Ye may not wash it out. Lydia Huntley Sigourney Select Poems [1841]. Indian Names, st. 1 Charles Sprague 1791-1875 Here lived and loved another race of beings. Beneath the same sun that rolls over your heads the Indian hunter pursued the panting deer. . . . The Indian of falcon glance and lion bearing, the theme of the touching ballad, the hero of the pathetic tale, is gone. Charles Sprague American Independence [1849; delivered July 4, 1825] Charles Wolfe 1791-1823 Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried. Charles Wolfe The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna [1817],st. 1 But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Charles Wolfe The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna [1817],st. 3 We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone- But we left him alone with his glory. Charles Wolfe The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna [1817],st. 8 John Bowring 1792-1872 Watchman, tell us of the night, 1 What its signs of promise are. John Bowring Hymn [1825] 1 See Isaiah 21:11 Victor Cousin 1792-1867 We need religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, art for art's sake. Victor Cousin Cours de Philosophie [1818] John Frederick William Herschel 1792-1871 Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one. The knowledge of reasons and their conclusions constitutes abstract, that of causes and their effects, and of the laws of nature, natural science. John Frederick William Herschel A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy [1830] John Keble 1792-1866 The voice that breathed o'er Eden That earliest wedding day. John Keble Poems [1869]. Holy Matrimony, st. 1 Frederick Marryat 1792-1848 All zeal, Mr. Easy. Frederick Marryat Midshipman Easy [1836], ch. 9 I haven't the gift of the gab, my sons-because I'm bred to the sea. Frederick Marryat The Old Navy, st. 1 It's just six of one and half a dozen of the other. Frederick Marryat The Pirate, ch. 4 Every man paddle his own canoe. Frederick Marryat Settlers in Canada [1844], ch. 8 Joseph Mohr 1792-1848 Silent night, holy night, All is calm, all is bright. Joseph Mohr Holy Night [1818] Lord John Russell 1792-1878 If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace. 1 2 Lord John Russell Speech at Greenock [September 19, 1853] 1 See Disraeli 2 See Chamberlain Among the defects of the bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence. 1 Lord John Russell Speech to the electors of the City of London [April 1859] 1 See Tacitus Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose, With care his sweet person adorning, He put on his Sunday clothes. 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley The Devil's Walk [1812], st. 1 1 See Southey How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep! 1 2 3 4 Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab [1813],I 1 See Homer 2 See Virgil 3 See Daniel 4 See Shakespeare Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; 1 2 and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton. Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab [1813],III 1 See Pitt 2 See Lord Acton The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us 1 -visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower. Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn to Intellectual Beauty [1816],st. 1 1 See Wordsworth Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form. Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn to Intellectual Beauty [1816],st. 2 Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep-that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live. Percy Bysshe Shelley Mont Blanc [1816], st. 3 Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. 1 2 3 4 Percy Bysshe Shelley Mutability [1816], I, st. 4 1 See Heraclitus 2 See Racan 3 See Swift 4 See Wilde I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read." Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias [1817] "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias [1817] With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam [1817], canto V, st. 23 I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me. Percy Bysshe Shelley Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples [1818], st. 4 Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],act I,l. 191 The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all best things are thus confused with ill. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],act I,l. 625 Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good: I am a God and cannot find it there. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],act I,l. 638 From the dust of creeds outworn. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],act I,l. 697 Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality! Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],act I,l. 748 To know nor faith, nor love nor law; to be Omnipotent but friendless is to reign. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],actII, sc.iv, l. 47 All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. . . . They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still. 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],actII, sc.v, l. 39 1 See La Rochefoucauld Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep, and it is lifted. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],actIII, sc.iii, l. 113 Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might overscar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],actIII, sc.iv, l. 200 Familiar acts are beautiful through love. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],actIV,l. 403 Man, who wert once a despot and a slave; A dupe and a deceiver; a decay; A traveler from the cradle to the grave 1 2 3 Through the dim light of this immortal day. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],actIV,l. 549 1 See Dyer 2 See Bellamy 3 See Hoffenstein Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound [1818-1819],closing lines I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be. Percy Bysshe Shelley Julian and Maddalo [1819],l. 14 Thou paradise of exiles, Italy! Percy Bysshe Shelley Julian and Maddalo [1819],l. 57 It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill- We might be otherwise-we might be all We dream of happy, high majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? Percy Bysshe Shelley Julian and Maddalo [1819],l. 170 Me-who am as a nerve o'er which do creep The else unfelt oppressions of this earth. Percy Bysshe Shelley Julian and Maddalo [1819],l. 449 Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley Julian and Maddalo [1819],l. 543 1 See Butler Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame. Percy Bysshe Shelley An Exhortation [1819], st. 1 O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes. Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind [1819],l. 1 Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear! Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind [1819],l. 13 Thou dirge Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast sepulcher. Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind [1819],l. 23 Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind [1819],l. 44 Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind [1819],l. 57 The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind [1819],l. 69 Men of England, wherefore plow For the lords who lay ye low? Percy Bysshe Shelley Song to the Men of England [1819], st. 1 Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Percy Bysshe Shelley Love's Philosophy [1819], st. 1 I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright. Percy Bysshe Shelley The Indian Serenade [1819], st. 1 Hell is a city much like London- A populous and smoky city. Percy Bysshe Shelley Peter Bell the Third [1819], pt. III,st. 1 Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies. Percy Bysshe Shelley Peter Bell the Third [1819], pt. III,st. 12 An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king. Percy Bysshe Shelley England in 1819 [written 1819], l. 1 I met Murder on the way- He had a mask like Castlereagh. Percy Bysshe Shelley The Mask of Anarchy [written 1819],st. 2 One by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew. Percy Bysshe Shelley The Mask of Anarchy [written 1819],st. 3 A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty. Percy Bysshe Shelley The Witch of Atlas [1820], st. 5 A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew. Percy Bysshe Shelley The Sensitive Plant [1820], pt. I, st. 1 I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams. Percy Bysshe Shelley The Cloud [1820],st. 1 I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores, I change, but I cannot die. Percy Bysshe Shelley The Cloud [1820],st. 6 Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Percy Bysshe Shelley To a Skylark [1821],st. 1 And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. Percy Bysshe Shelley To a Skylark [1821],st. 2 Thou art unseen-but yet I hear thy shrill delight. Percy Bysshe Shelley To a Skylark [1821],st. 4 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. Percy Bysshe Shelley To a Skylark [1821],st. 18 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness, From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Percy Bysshe Shelley To a Skylark [1821],st. 21 Kings are like stars-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley Hellas [1821],l. 195 1 See Bacon The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, 1 The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn. Percy Bysshe Shelley Hellas [1821],l. 1060 1 See Virgil The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last! Percy Bysshe Shelley Hellas [1821],final chorus What! alive, and so bold, O earth? Percy Bysshe Shelley Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon [1821], st. 1 The fields of immortality. Percy Bysshe Shelley Epipsychidion [1821],l. 133 I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though 'tis in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go. 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley Epipsychidion [1821],l. 149 1 See Hammarskjold I weep for Adonais-he is dead! Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head! Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 1 Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity! Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 1 Most musical of mourners, weep again! Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 4 To that high capital, where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay, He came. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 7 Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise! Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 10 Desires and Adorations, Winged Persuasions and veiled Destinies, Splendors, and Glooms, and glimmering Incarnations Of hopes and fears, and twilight Fantasies; And Sorrow, with her family of Sighs, And Pleasure, blind with tears, led by the gleam Of her own dying smile instead of eyes, Came in slow pomp. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 13 Ah woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 18 The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 20 Alas! that all we loved of him should be, But for our grief, as if it had not been, And grief itself be mortal! Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 21 As long as skies are blue, and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 21 The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 30 A pardlike spirit, beautiful and swift. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 32 In mockery of monumental stone. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 35 He hath awakened from the dream of life. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 39 He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 40 He lives, he wakes-tis Death is dead, not he. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 41 He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 42 He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 43 The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 52 The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonais [1821],st. 55 Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. Percy Bysshe Shelley To--: Music, When Soft Voices Die [1821] One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. Percy Bysshe Shelley To--: One Word Is Too Often Profaned [1821],st. 1 The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. Percy Bysshe Shelley To--: One Word Is Too Often Profaned [1821],st. 2 Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Percy Bysshe Shelley To Night [1821],st. 1 I ask of thee, beloved Night- Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon! Percy Bysshe Shelley To Night [1821],st. 5 Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Percy Bysshe Shelley Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou [1821],st. 1 Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure. Percy Bysshe Shelley Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou [1821],st. 4 I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good. Percy Bysshe Shelley Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou [1821],st. 7 There is no sport in hate when all the rage Is on one side. Percy Bysshe Shelley Lines to a Reviewer [1821] When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead- When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. Percy Bysshe Shelley When the Lamp Is Shattered [1822], st. 1 Best and brightest, 1 come away! Percy Bysshe Shelley To Jane: The Invitation [1822],l. 1 1 See Heber Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs. Percy Bysshe Shelley To Jane: The Invitation [1822],l. 21 I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields- Reflection, you may come tomorrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow.- You with the unpaid bill, Despair- You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care- I will pay you in the grave. Percy Bysshe Shelley To Jane: The Invitation [1822],l. 31 Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. 1 2 3 4 Percy Bysshe Shelley A Defense of Poetry [1821] 1 See Cicero 2 See Shakespeare 3 See Campbell 4 See Wells Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Percy Bysshe Shelley A Defense of Poetry [1821] Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley A Defense of Poetry [1821] John Clare 1793-1864 I am! yet what I am who cares, or knows? My friends forsake me like a memory lost. John Clare I Am Untroubling and untroubled where I lie- The grass below-above the vaulted sky. John Clare I Am The wind and clouds, now here, now there, Hold no such strange dominion As woman's cold, perverted will, And soon estranged opinion. John Clare When Lovers Part Till kicked and torn and beaten out he lies And leaves his hold and cackles, groans, and dies. John Clare Badger If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. 1 John Clare Letter to a friend. From J. W. and Anne Tibble, John Clare: A Life [1932] 1 See Benjamin Franklin Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1793-1835 The stately homes of England! How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land! Felicia Dorothea Hemans The Homes of England, st. 1 The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tossed. Felicia Dorothea Hemans The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,st. 1 A band of exiles moored their bark On a wild New England shore. Felicia Dorothea Hemans The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,st. 2 Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found- Freedom to worship God. Felicia Dorothea Hemans The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,st. 10 The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled. Felicia Dorothea Hemans Casabianca,st. 1 The flames rolled on; he would not go Without his father's word. Felicia Dorothea Hemans Casabianca,st. 3 Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone. Felicia Dorothea Hemans Tyrolese Evening Song, st. 1 Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death! Felicia Dorothea Hemans The Hour of Death, st. 1 In the busy haunts of men. Felicia Dorothea Hemans Tale of the Secret Tribunal, pt. I He Never Smiled Again. Felicia Dorothea Hemans Title and refrain of poem Henry Francis Lyte 1793-1847 Abide with me: fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide: When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me. Henry Francis Lyte Eventide [1847], st. 1 Lucretia Coffin Mott 1793-1880 Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life . . . Then in the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. Lucretia Coffin Mott Discourse on Woman [delivered December 17, 1849], last paragraph William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878 To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis [1817-1821],l. 1 Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis [1817-1821],l. 14 The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun. William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis [1817-1821],l. 37 Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste. William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis [1817-1821],l. 43 So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 1 2 William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis [1817-1821],l. 73 1 See Lucretius 2 See Horace He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. William Cullen Bryant To a Waterfowl [1818], st. 8 The groves were God's first temples. William Cullen Bryant A Forest Hymn [1824] Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower. William Cullen Bryant A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson [1828], st. 3 The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. 1 William Cullen Bryant The Death of the Flowers [1832], st. 1 1 See William Carlos Williams These are the gardens of the desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name- The prairies. William Cullen Bryant The Prairies [1833] Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. William Cullen Bryant The Battlefield [1839], st. 9 Edward Everett 1794-1865  The days of palmy prosperity are not those most favorable to the display of public virtue or the influence of wise and good men. In hard, doubtful, unprosperous, and dangerous times, the disinterested and patriotic find their way, by a species of public instinct, unopposed, joyfully welcomed, to the control of affairs. Edward Everett Mount Vernon Papers [1860], no. 14 William Whewell 1794-1866  And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into an horizontal line which is accurately straight. William Whewell Elementary Treatise on Mechanics [1819]. The Equilibrium of Forces on a Point Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. William Whewell Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences [1840], aphorism17 In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end. William Whewell Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences [1840], aphorism25 The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them. William Whewell Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences [1840], aphorism36 It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. William Whewell Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences [1840], aphorism39 Narcisse Achille , Comte de Salvandy 1795-1856 We are dancing on a volcano. Narcisse Achille , Comte de Salvandy At a f[ecirc ]te given by the Duc d'Orleans for the King of Naples [1830] Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.Richter [1827] The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.Richter [1827] The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.The State of German Literature [1827] Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.The State of German Literature [1827] In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.Goethe [1828] A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.Burns [1828] There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.Sir Walter Scott [1838] No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.Sir Walter Scott [1838] All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.Sir Walter Scott [1838] The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.Sir Walter Scott [1838] It can be said of him [Scott], when he departed he took a man's life along with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of time. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.Sir Walter Scott [1838] Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.Sir Walter Scott [1838] Aesop's Fly, sitting on the axle of the chariot, has been much laughed at for exclaiming: What a dust I do raise! Thomas Carlyle On Boswell's Life of Johnson [1832] Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or soot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it. 1 Thomas Carlyle On Boswell's Life of Johnson [1832] 1 See Voltaire  The stupendous Fourth Estate, whose wide world-embracing influences what eye can take in? Thomas Carlyle On Boswell's Life of Johnson [1832] All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. Thomas Carlyle On Boswell's Life of Johnson [1832] The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. Thomas Carlyle On Boswell's Life of Johnson [1832] No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. 1 Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.I, ch.4 1 See W. C. Fields He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.I, ch.5 Man is a tool-using animal. . . . Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.I, ch.5 The Everlasting No. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.I, ch.7 (chapter title) Be not the slave of Words. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.I, ch.8 The Everlasting Yea. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.I, ch.9 (chapter title) Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.I, ch.9 (chapter title) Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.I, ch.9 (chapter title) Wonder is the basis of worship. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.I, ch.10 What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.II, ch.1 Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.II, ch.4 With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.II, ch.4 Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.II, ch.7 Great men are the inspired (speaking and acting) texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.II, ch.8 Love not Pleasure; love God. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.II, ch.9 "Do the Duty which lies nearest thee," which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.II, ch.9  As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden-"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden"; or, as I might rather express it, speech is of time, silence is of eternity. Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus [1833-1834], bk.III, ch. 3 It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants 1 and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts. Thomas Carlyle Letter to His Wife [1835] 1 See Johnson France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams. Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution [1837],pt. I, bk.I, ch. 1 No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment-with the answer, No effects. Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution [1837],pt. I, bk.III, ch.1 To a shower of gold most things are penetrable. Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution [1837],pt. I, bk.III, ch.7  "The people may eat grass": hasty words, which fly abroad irrevocable-and will send back tidings. Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution [1837],pt. I, bk.III, ch.9 A whiff of grapeshot. Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution [1837],pt. I, bk.V, ch.3 O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution [1837],pt. I, bk.V, ch.5 Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution [1837],pt. I, bk.VII, ch.4 History a distillation of rumor. Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution [1837],pt. I, bk.VII, ch.5 The difference between Orthodoxy or My-doxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy. 1 Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution [1837],pt. II, bk.IV, ch. 2 1 See William Warburton The sea-green Incorruptible [Robespierre]. Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution [1837],pt. II, bk.VI, ch. 7 Aristocracy of the Moneybag. Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution [1837],pt. II, bk.VII, ch. 7 Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and gives in the long run a net result of zero. Thomas Carlyle Chartism [1839], ch. 6, Laissez-Faire No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship [1840].The Hero as Divinity  The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship [1840].The Hero as Divinity We must get rid of fear. Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship [1840].The Hero as Divinity A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship [1840].The Hero as Poet The Age of Miracles is forever here! Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship [1840].The Hero as Priest In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship [1840].The Hero as Man of Letters All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship [1840].The Hero as Man of Letters The true university of these days is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship [1840].The Hero as Man of Letters  The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship [1840].The Hero as Man of Letters Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. 1 Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship [1840].The Hero as Man of Letters 1 See Samuel Butler "A fair day's wages for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. Thomas Carlyle Past and Present [1843], bk.I, ch. 3  Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! Thomas Carlyle Past and Present [1843], bk.II, ch. 9 All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. . . . A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god. Thomas Carlyle Past and Present [1843], bk.III, ch.4 Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. Thomas Carlyle Past and Present [1843], bk.III, ch.7 Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle Past and Present [1843], bk.III, ch.4 He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech. Thomas Carlyle Past and Present [1843], bk.III, ch.11 Captains of Industry. Thomas Carlyle Past and Present [1843], bk.IV, ch. 4 (chapter title) There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done. Thomas Carlyle Francia [1845] He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. Thomas Carlyle Introduction to Cromwell's Letters and Speeches [1845]  Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. Thomas Carlyle Latter Day Pamphlets, no.1 [1850] A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. Thomas Carlyle Latter Day Pamphlets, no.6 A healthy hatred of scoundrels. Thomas Carlyle Latter Day Pamphlets, no.12 "Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all). 1 2 3 Thomas Carlyle Life of Frederick the Great [1858-1865], bk.IV, ch. 3 1 See Buffon 2 See Butler 3 See Hopkins  Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books! Thomas Carlyle Life of Frederick the Great [1858-1865], bk.XVI, ch. 1 So here hath been dawning Another blue day: Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Thomas Carlyle Today Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet. Thomas Carlyle Remark in discussion Joseph Rodman Drake 1795-1820 When Freedom from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Joseph Rodman Drake The American Flag [1819], st. 1 John Woodcock Graves 1795-1886 D' ye ken John Peel with his coat so gay? D' ye ken John Peel at the break of day? D' ye ken John Peel when he's far far away With his hounds and his horn in the morning?'Twas the sound of his horn brought me from my bed, And the cry of his hounds, has me ofttimes led; For Peel's view-hollo would waken the dead, Or the fox from his lair in the morning. John Woodcock Graves John Peel [1832] John Keats 1795-1821 I stood tiptoe upon a little hill. John Keats Poems [1817].I Stood Tiptoe,l. 1 And then there crept A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves. John Keats Poems [1817].I Stood Tiptoe,l. 10 Open afresh your round of starry folds, Ye ardent marigolds! John Keats Poems [1817].I Stood Tiptoe,l. 47 Where swarms of minnows show their little heads, Staying their wavy bodies 'gainst the streams. John Keats Poems [1817].I Stood Tiptoe,l. 72 Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low-hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings, Pausing upon their yellow flutterings. John Keats Poems [1817].I Stood Tiptoe,l. 87 Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain, Inconstant, childish, proud, and full of fancies. John Keats Poems [1817].Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain To one who has been long in city pent, 1 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven. John Keats Poems [1817].Sonnet. To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent 1 See Milton E'en like the passage of an angel's tear That falls through the clear ether silently. John Keats Poems [1817].Sonnet. To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. John Keats Poems [1817].On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific-and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise- Silent, upon a peak in Darien. John Keats Poems [1817].On First Looking into Chapman's Homer And other spirits there are standing apart Upon the forehead of the age to come; These, these will give the world another heart, And other pulses. Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings in a distant mart? Listen awhile, ye nations, and be dumb. John Keats Poems [1817].Sonnet. Addressed to the Same (Benjamin Robert Haydon) The poetry of earth is never dead. John Keats Poems [1817].Sonnet. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit. John Keats Poems [1817].Sleep and Poetry,l. 85 O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed That my own soul has to itself decreed. John Keats Poems [1817].Sleep and Poetry,l. 96 A drainless shower Of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm. John Keats Poems [1817].Sleep and Poetry,l. 235 But strength alone though of the Muses born Is like a fallen angel: trees uptorn, Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchers Delight it; for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life; forgetting the great end Of poesy, that it should be a friend To soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man. John Keats Poems [1817].Sleep and Poetry,l. 241 There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. John Keats Endymion [1818],preface The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages. John Keats Endymion [1818],preface A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. John Keats Endymion [1818],bk.I,l. 1 The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead. John Keats Endymion [1818],bk.I,l. 20 O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hushed and smooth! John Keats Endymion [1818],bk.I,l. 453 Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience. John Keats Endymion [1818],bk.I,l. 705 Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemized, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven! John Keats Endymion [1818],bk.I,l. 777 The crown of these Is made of love and friendship, and sits high Upon the forehead of humanity. John Keats Endymion [1818],bk.I,l. 800 A hope beyond the shadow of a dream. John Keats Endymion [1818],bk.I,l. 857 Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us. John Keats Endymion [1818],bk.I,l. 906 'Tis the pest Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest. John Keats Endymion [1818],bk.II,l. 365 To sorrow, I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind. John Keats Endymion [1818],bk.IV, l. 173 Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is-Love, forgive us!-cinders, ashes, dust. John Keats Poems [1820].Lamia, pt.II,l. 1 Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. John Keats Poems [1820].Lamia, pt.II,l. 234 "For cruel 'tis," said she, "To steal my Basil-pot away from me." John Keats Poems [1820].Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil, st. 62 St. Agnes' Eve-Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold. The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in wooly fold John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 1 The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 4 The music, yearning like a God in pain. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 7 She sighed for Agnes' dreams, the sweetest of the year. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 7 Asleep in lap of legends old. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 15 Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 16 A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 18 As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled in her dell. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 23 Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 25 Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 26 And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 30 And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 40 And they are gone: aye, ages long ago These lovers fled away into the storm. John Keats Poems [1820].The Eve of St. Agnes,st. 42 My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. 1 John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to a Nightingale,st. 1 1 See Horace That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to a Nightingale,st. 1 O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O, for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to a Nightingale,st. 2 Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to a Nightingale,st. 3 Already with thee! tender is the night. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to a Nightingale,st. 4 I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to a Nightingale,st. 5 The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to a Nightingale,st. 5 Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain- To thy high requiem become a sod. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to a Nightingale,st. 6 Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to a Nightingale,st. 7 Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to a Nightingale,st. 8 Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:-Do I wake or sleep? John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to a Nightingale,st. 8 Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape? John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on a Grecian Urn,st. 1 What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on a Grecian Urn,st. 1 Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on a Grecian Urn,st. 2 Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair! John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on a Grecian Urn,st. 2 Forever piping songs forever new. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on a Grecian Urn,st. 3 Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on a Grecian Urn,st. 4 O Attic shape! Fair attitude! John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on a Grecian Urn,st. 4 "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on a Grecian Urn,st. 4 To make delicious moan Upon the midnight hours. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to Psyche,st. 3 A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in! John Keats Poems [1820].Ode to Psyche,st. 5 Ever let the fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. John Keats Poems [1820].Fancy, l. 1 Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too? John Keats Poems [1820].Ode written on the blank page beforeBeaumont and Fletcher, The Fair Maid of the Inn Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine? John Keats Poems [1820].Lines on the Mermaid Tavern Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun. John Keats Poems [1820].To Autumn,st. 1 Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers. John Keats Poems [1820].To Autumn,st. 2 Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows. John Keats Poems [1820].To Autumn,st. 3 No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on Melancholy,st. 1 Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be Your mournful Psyche. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on Melancholy,st. 1 Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on Melancholy,st. 2 She dwells with Beauty-Beauty that must die. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on Melancholy,st. 3 Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veiled Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine; His soul shall taste the sadness of her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung. John Keats Poems [1820].Ode on Melancholy,st. 3 Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone. John Keats Poems [1820].Hyperion: A Fragment, bk.I,l. 1 That large utterance of the early Gods! John Keats Poems [1820].Hyperion: A Fragment, bk.I,l. 51 As when, upon a tranced summer-night, Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. John Keats Poems [1820].Hyperion: A Fragment, bk.I,l. 72 For to bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty. John Keats Poems [1820].Hyperion: A Fragment, bk.II, l. 203 Knowledge enormous makes a God of me. John Keats Poems [1820].Hyperion: A Fragment, bk.III, l. 113 My spirit is too weak-mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky. John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].On Seeing the Elgin Marbles This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calmed-see here it is- I hold it towards you. John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].Fragment: This Living Hand Shed no tear! O shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more! O weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core. John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].Faery Songs, I [written 1818] O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing! John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].La Belle Dame Sans Merci,st. 1 I met a lady in the meads Full beautiful, a faery's child; Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild. John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].La Belle Dame Sans Merci,st. 4 She looked at me as she did love, And made sweet moan. John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].La Belle Dame Sans Merci,st. 5 "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!" John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].La Belle Dame Sans Merci,st. 10 In a drear-nighted December Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity. John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].La Belle Dame Sans Merci,Stanzas But were there ever any Writhed not at passing joy? John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].La Belle Dame Sans Merci,Stanzas It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns. John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].On the Sea When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain. John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].Sonnet. When I Have Fears When I behold, upon the night's starred face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance. John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].Sonnet. When I Have Fears Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].Sonnet. When I Have Fears Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art- Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores. John Keats Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited byRichard Monckton Milnes [1848].Sonnet. Bright Star None can usurp this height . . . But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest. John Keats The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream, canto I, l. 147 I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination-what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth-whether it existed before or not. John Keats Letter to Benjamin Bailey [November 22, 1817] The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth. John Keats Letter to Benjamin Bailey [November 22, 1817] O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! John Keats Letter to Benjamin Bailey [November 22, 1817] I scarcely remember counting upon happiness-I look not for it if it be not in the present hour-nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights-or if a sparrow come before my window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel. John Keats Letter to Benjamin Bailey [November 22, 1817] At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously-I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. John Keats Letter to George and Thomas Keats [December 22, 1817] We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us-and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle or amaze with itself, but with its subject. John Keats Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds [February 3, 1818] Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. John Keats Letter to John Taylor [February 27, 1818] If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all. John Keats Letter to John Taylor [February 27, 1818] Scenery is fine-but human nature is finer. John Keats Letter to Benjamin Bailey [March 13, 1818] Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: we read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. John Keats Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds[May 3, 1818] I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me. John Keats Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds[May 3, 1818] There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality. John Keats Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds[September 22, 1818] I begin to get a little acquainted with my own strength and weakness. Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. John Keats Letter to James Hessey [October 9, 1818] The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself- In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice. John Keats Letter to James Hessey [October 9, 1818] I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats Letter to James Hessey [October 9, 1818] I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death. John Keats Letter to George and Georgiana Keats [October 14, 1818] The poetical character . . . is not itself-it has no self-it is everything and nothing. . . . It has as much delight in conceiving an Iago as an Imogen. John Keats Letter to Richard Woodhouse [October 27, 1818] A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity-he is continually infor[ming]-and filling some other body. John Keats Letter to Richard Woodhouse [October 27, 1818] A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory-and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life-a life like the Scriptures, figurative. . . . Lord Byron cuts a figure, but he is not figurative. Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it. John Keats Letter to George and Georgiana Keats[February 14-May 3, 1819] Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced-Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it. John Keats Letter to George and Georgiana Keats[February 14-May 3, 1819] I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of-I am, however young, writing at random-straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness-without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin? John Keats Letter to George and Georgiana Keats[March 19, 1819] Call the world if you please "The vale of soul-making." John Keats Letter to George and Georgiana Keats[April 21, 1819] I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. John Keats To Fanny Brawne[July 25, 1819] "If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me-nothing to make my friends proud of my memory-but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered." John Keats To Fanny Brawne[c. February 1820] You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. John Keats Letter to Shelley [August 1820] I can scarcely bid you good-bye, even in a letter. I always made an awkward bow. God bless you! John Keats Letter to Charles Armitage Brown; Keats's last letter [November 30, 1820]  Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats Epitaph for himself [1821] Leopold von Ranke 1795-1886  You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. Leopold von Ranke Geschichten der Romanischen und Germanischen Volker (History of the Romanic and Germanic Peoples) von 1492 bis 1535 [1824], preface Friedrich Wilhelm IV 1795-1861 I love an opposition that has convictions. Friedrich Wilhelm IV Speech [April 11, 1847] Henceforth Prussia goes forward as part of Germany. Friedrich Wilhelm IV Proclamation: To My People, to the German Nation [March 21, 1848] Alfred Bunn 1796-1860 I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side. Alfred Bunn The Bohemian Girl [1843], act II, song David Hartley Coleridge 1796-1849 The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed center. 1 David Hartley Coleridge To Shakespeare 1 See Millay Horace Mann 1796-1859 Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. Horace Mann Aphorism Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann Commencement Address, Antioch College [1859] James Robinson Planche 1796-1880 It would have made a cat laugh. James Robinson Planche The Queen of the Frogs [1879], act I, sc. iv William Hickling Prescott 1796-1859  What, then, must have been the emotions of the Spaniards, when, after working their toilsome way into the upper air, the cloudy tabernacle parted before their eyes, and they beheld these fair scenes in all their pristine magnificence and beauty! It was like the spectacle which greeted the eyes of Moses from the summit of Pisgah, and, in the warm glow of their feelings, they cried out, "It is the promised land!" William Hickling Prescott The Conquest of Mexico [1843], bk. III, ch. 8 The surest test of the civilization of a people-at least, as sure as any-afforded by mechanical art is to be found in their architecture, which presents so noble a field for the display of the grand and the beautiful, and which, at the same time, is so intimately connected with the essential comforts of life. William Hickling Prescott The Conquest of Peru [1847], bk.I, ch. 5 Drawing his sword he [Pizarro] traced a line with it on the sand from East to West. Then, turning towards the South, "Friends and comrades!" he said, "on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. 1 2 There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the South." So saying, he stepped across the line. William Hickling Prescott The Conquest of Peru [1847], bk.II, ch. 4 1 See Garibaldi 2 See Churchill Sam Slick Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1796-1865 I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Shiel, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and so on. These men are all upper crust here. 1 Sam Slick Sam Slick in England [1843-1844], ch. 24 1 See James Fenimore Cooper Circumstances alter cases. Sam Slick The Old Judge [1849], ch. 15 T homas H aynes Bayly 1797-1839 Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago. T homas H aynes Bayly Long, Long Ago Heinrich Heine 1797-1856  Out of my own great woe I make my little songs. Heinrich Heine Aus Meinen Grossen Schmerzen (Out of My Great Woe), st. 1 I cannot explain the sadness That's fallen on my breast. An old, old fable haunts me, And will not let me rest. Heinrich Heine Die Lorelei, st. 1 You're lovely as a flower, So pure and fair to see; I look at you, and sadness Comes stealing over me. Heinrich Heine Du Bist Wie eine Blume, st. 1 At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it-but I did bear it. The question remains: how? Heinrich Heine An Karl von U. A knight of the holy spirit. Heinrich Heine Harzreise Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. Heinrich Heine Almansor: A Tragedy [1823] Every woman is the gift of a world to me. Heinrich Heine Ideas: The Book Le Grand [1826] On the wings of song. Heinrich Heine Lyrisches Intermezzo [1823], no. 9, On the Wings of Song Don't send a poet to London. Heinrich Heine English Fragments [1828], ch. 2, London Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea. Heinrich Heine History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany [1834], vol.I Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance. Heinrich Heine History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany [1834], vol.III People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral. Heinrich Heine The French Stage (Franzosische Buhne) [1837], ch. 9 If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses. Heinrich Heine Letter to Julius Campe [March 18, 1840]  Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison. 1 Heinrich Heine Lutetia; or, Paris [1842]. From the Augsberg Gazette, 12, VII 1 See Yeats The future smells of Russian leather, of blood, of godlessness and of much whipping. I advise our grandchildren to come into the world with very thick skin on their backs. Heinrich Heine Lutetia; or, Paris [1842]. From the Augsberg Gazette, 12, VII No talent, but a character. Heinrich Heine Atta Troll [1843], ch. 24 Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid. 1 2 3 Heinrich Heine Of Savoye, appointed ambassador to Frankfurt by Lamartine [1848] 1 See Cervantes 2 See Bacon 3 See Dryden So we keep asking, over and over, Until a handful of earth Stops our mouths- But is that an answer? Heinrich Heine Lazarus, I [1854] Of course he [God] will forgive me; that's his business [Bien s[ucirc ]r, il me pardonnera; c'est son metier]. Heinrich Heine Last words [1856] Samuel Lover 1797-1868 Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye. Samuel Lover Rory O'More [1836],st. 1 "For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More. 1 2 Samuel Lover Rory O'More [1836],st. 3 1 See Pliny 2 See Shakespeare Sir Charles Lyell 1797-1875 Although we are mere sojourners on the surface of the planet, chained to a mere point in space, enduring but for a moment of time, the human mind is not only enabled to number worlds beyond the unassisted ken of mortal eye, but to trace the events of indefinite ages before the creation of our race, and is not even withheld from penetrating into the dark secrets of the ocean, or the interior of the solid globe; free, like the spirit which the poet described as animating the universe. Sir Charles Lyell Principles of Geology, vol. I [1830], ch. 13 It may be said that, so far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life-sensation, instinct, the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason, and lastly, the improvable reason of Man himself-presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter. Sir Charles Lyell The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man [1863] William Motherwell 1797-1835 I've wandered east, I've wandered west, Through many a weary way; But never, never can forget The love o' life's young day! William Motherwell Jeannie Morrison [1832], st. 1 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851 I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein [1818], ch. 5 Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein [1818], ch. 5 Sojourner Truth Isabella Van Wagener c. 1797-1883 Frederick, is God dead? Sojourner Truth Question to speaker Frederick Douglass [c. 1850] That man . . . says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place, and aren't I a woman? . . . I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me-and aren't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear the lash as well-and aren't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen them most all sold off into slavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heard-and aren't I a woman? Sojourner Truth Speech at Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio [1851] That . . . man . . . says women can't have as much rights as man, cause Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from? . . . From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him. Sojourner Truth Speech at Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio [1851] The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another. Sojourner Truth Saying Alfred de Vigny 1797-1863  I love the sound of the horn, at night, in the depth of the woods. Alfred de Vigny Le Cor [1826]  God! how sad is the sound of the horn deep in the woods! Alfred de Vigny Le Cor [1826] I [Nature] am called a mother, but I am a grave. Alfred de Vigny La Maison du Berger [1864] Love that which will never be seen twice. Alfred de Vigny La Maison du Berger [1864] Silence alone is great; all else is weakness. Alfred de Vigny La Mort du Loup [1864] Wilhelm I 1797-1888 In Germany, Prussia must make moral conquests through legislation. Wilhelm I Speech to the Cabinet [November 8, 1858] The Prussian army is the people in arms. Wilhelm I As Prince Regent [1860] I now have no time to be tired. Wilhelm I On his deathbed [March 8, 1888] Auguste Comte 1798-1857 Love our principle, order our foundation, progress our goal. Auguste Comte Systeme de Politique Positive [1851-1854]  Nothing at bottom is real except humanity. Auguste Comte Systeme de Politique Positive [1851-1854] The dead govern the living. Auguste Comte Catechisme Positiviste [1852] Eugene Delacroix 1798-1863 O young artist, you search for a subject-everything is a subject. Your subject is yourself, your impressions, your emotions in the presence of nature. Eugene Delacroix Oeuvres Litteraires The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes. Eugene Delacroix Journal [1893-1895] Painting is only a bridge linking the painter's mind with that of the viewer. Eugene Delacroix Journal [1893-1895] August Heinrich Hoffmann Hoffmann von Fallersleben 1798-1874  Deutschland, Deutschland uber Alles. August Heinrich Hoffmann Title of poem [September 1, 1841] Jules Michelet 1798-1874 England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person. Jules Michelet Histoire de France [1833-1867] What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. Jules Michelet Le Peuple [1846] David Macbeth Moir 1798-1851 From the lone sheiling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas- Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides. David Macbeth Moir The Lone Sheiling [Canadian Boat Song, 1829] Dionysios Solomos 1798-1857 We knew thee of old, O divinely restored, By the light of thine eyes And the light of thy sword.From the graves of our slain Shall thy valor prevail As we greet thee again- Hail, Liberty! Hail! Dionysios Solomos Hymn to Liberty [1823], st. 1, 2 On the blackened spine of Psara, Glory, pacing alone, Broods on her shining heroes; She crowns her hair with a band Born from the spare, few grasses That are left in the ruined land. Dionysios Solomos The Destruction of Psara [1825] Enclose in your soul Greece (or something equal) and you shall feel every kind of grandeur. Dionysios Solomos Note to "Free Besieged" [c. 1833] The nation must learn to consider as national whatever is true. Dionysios Solomos Table Talk [c. 1850] Amos Bronson Alcott 1799-1888 The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. Amos Bronson Alcott Orphic Sayings. From The Dial [July 1840]. The Teacher Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. Amos Bronson Alcott Tablets [1868] One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott Table Talk [1877].Quotation To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. Amos Bronson Alcott Table Talk [1877].Discourse I press thee to my heart as Duty's faithful child. Amos Bronson Alcott Sonnet to Louisa May Alcott [1882] Honore de Balzac 1799-1850 It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. Honore de Balzac Physiologie du Mariage [1829] I am a galley slave to pen and ink. Honore de Balzac Lettres [1832] Fame is the sun of the dead. Honore de Balzac La Recherche de l'Absolu [1834] Our heart is a treasury; if you spend all its wealth at once you are ruined. We find it as difficult to forgive a person for displaying his feeling in all its nakedness as we do to forgive a man for being penniless. Honore de Balzac Le Pere Goriot [1835] Man is no angel. He is sometimes more of a hypocrite and sometimes less, and then fools say that he has or has not principles. Honore de Balzac Le Pere Goriot [1835] "Temptations can be got rid of." "How?" "By yielding to them." 1 Honore de Balzac Le Pere Goriot [1835] 1 See Wilde I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. Honore de Balzac Letter to Madame de Hanska [1837] Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts. Honore de Balzac Cousin Bette [1846], ch. 15 Rufus Choate 1799-1859 The courage of New England was the "courage of conscience." It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself. Rufus Choate Address at Ipswich Centennial [1834] The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. Rufus Choate Speech in the Senate [July 2, 1841]  There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed. Rufus Choate Speech before the New England Society [December 22, 1843] We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union. Rufus Choate Letter to the Whig Convention, Worcester [October 1, 1855] The glittering and sounding generalities 1 of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. Rufus Choate Letter to the Maine Whig Committee [1856] 1 See Dickman Thomas Hood 1799-1845 They went and told the sexton, and The sexton tolled the bell. Thomas Hood Faithless Sally Brown [1826], st. 17 I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn. Thomas Hood I Remember, I Remember [1827],st. 1 Now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. Thomas Hood I Remember, I Remember [1827],st. 4 And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid. Thomas Hood Ode to Melancholy [1827] There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy. Thomas Hood Ode to Melancholy [1827] But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart. Thomas Hood The Lady's Dream [1827], st. 16 I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence. Thomas Hood Autumn [1827], st. 1 Straight down the Crooked Lane, And all round the Square. Thomas Hood A Plain Direction, st. 1 Never go to France Unless you know the lingo, If you do, like me, You will repent, by jingo. Thomas Hood French and English [1839], st. 1 No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member- No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November! Thomas Hood No! Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap In imperceptible water. Thomas Hood Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg [1841-1843].Her Christening, st. 10 O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. Thomas Hood Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg [1841-1843].Her Dream, st. 7 Another tumble!-that's his precious nose! Thomas Hood Parental Ode to My Infant Son, st. 3 With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread- Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt. Thomas Hood The Song of the Shirt [1843],st. 1 She sang the Song of the Shirt. Thomas Hood The Song of the Shirt [1843],st. 1 Work! work! work! Thomas Hood The Song of the Shirt [1843],st. 2 O men, with sisters dear! O men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! 1 Thomas Hood The Song of the Shirt [1843],st. 4 1 See Scott O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! Thomas Hood The Song of the Shirt [1843],st. 5 One more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death!Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair! Thomas Hood The Bridge of Sighs [1844],st. 1, 2 Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! 1 2 Thomas Hood The Bridge of Sighs [1844],st. 9 1 See Southey 2 See O'Reilly Mary Howitt 1799-1888 "Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly; Mary Howitt The Spider and the Fly [1844] Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; It keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain. Mary Howitt The Sale of the Pet Lamb [1844], last stanza Thomas Noel 1799-1861 Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns! Thomas Noel The Pauper's Drive, st. 1 Alexander Seergevich Pushkin 1799-1837  Reason's icy intimations, and records of a heart in pain. Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Eugene Onegin [1823],dedication Unforced, as conversation passed, he had the talent of saluting felicitously every theme, of listening like a judge supreme while serious topics were disputing, or, with an epigram-surprise, of kindling smiles in ladies' eyes. Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Eugene Onegin [1823],ch.1,st. 5 Always contented with his life, and with his dinner, and his wife. Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Eugene Onegin [1823],ch.1,st. 12 Why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind. Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Eugene Onegin [1823],ch.1,st. 25 The illness with which he'd been smitten should have been analyzed when caught, something like spleen, that scourge of Britain, or Russia's chondria, for short. Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Eugene Onegin [1823],ch.1,st. 38 Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness. 1 Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Eugene Onegin [1823],ch.2,st. 31 1 See Burke Love passed, the muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity newfound; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound. Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Eugene Onegin [1823],ch.2,st. 59 Moscow . . . how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts! Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Eugene Onegin [1823],ch.7, st. 36 Pimen [writing by lamplight]: One more, the final record, and my annals Are ended, and fulfilled the duty laid By God on me, a sinner. Not in vain Hath God appointed me for many years A witness, teaching me the art of letters; A day will come when some laborious monk Will bring to light my zealous, nameless toil, Kindle, as I, his lamp, and from the parchment Shaking the dust of ages, will transcribe My chronicles. Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Boris Godunov [written 1825] Like to some magistrate grown gray in office Calmly he contemplates alike the just And unjust, with indifference he notes Evil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity. Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Boris Godunov [written 1825] Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh! Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Boris Godunov [written 1825] Mosalsky: Good folk! Maria Godunov and her son Feodor have poisoned themselves. We have seen their dead bodies. [The people are silent with horror.] Why are you silent? Cry, Long live Czar Dimitri Ivanovich! [The people are speechless.] Alexander Seergevich Pushkin Boris Godunov [written 1825] And thus he mused: "From here, indeed Shall we strike terror in the Swede; And here a city, by our labor Founded, shall gall our haughty neighbor; "Here cut"-so Nature gives command- "Your window through on Europe: stand Firm-footed by the sea, unchanging!" Alexander Seergevich Pushkin The Bronze Horseman [written 1833] John Brown 1800-1859 Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends . . . every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment. John Brown Last speech to the court [November 2, 1859] I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. 1 2 I believe that to have interfered as I have done . . . in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done! John Brown Last speech to the court [November 2, 1859] 1 See Acts 10:34 2 See I Peter 1:17 This is a beautiful country. John Brown Remark as he rode to the gallows, seated on his coffin [December 2, 1859] Julia Crawford 1800-1885 Kathleen Mavourneen! the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill. Julia Crawford Kathleen Mavourneen [1835], st. 1 Oh! hast thou forgotten this day we must part? It may be for years, and it may be forever; Then why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart? Julia Crawford Kathleen Mavourneen [1835], st. 1 Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay 1800-1859  That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Essay on Mitford's History of Greece [1824] Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Essay on Mitford's History of Greece [1824] Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme today the helmet of Navarre. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Ivry: A Song of the Huguenots [1824], l. 29 Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Milton [1825] The dust and silence of the upper shelf. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Milton [1825] As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Milton [1825] Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even can enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Milton [1825] There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Milton [1825] Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Machiavelli [1827] The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. 1 2 3 Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Hallam's Constitutional History [1828] 1 See Hazlitt 2 See Carlyle 3 See Thackeray The English Bible-a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On John Dryden [1828] His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On John Dryden [1828] Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Southey's Colloquies on Society [1830] A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. 1 Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Southey's Colloquies on Society [1830] 1 See Arthur Hugh Clough That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Southey's edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress [1830] We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Moore's Life of Lord Byron [1831] From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Moore's Life of Lord Byron [1831] Reform, that you may preserve. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Debate on the First Reform Bill [March 2, 1831] Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Political Georgics The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Horace Walpole [1833] Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay The Armada [1833], l. 34 To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Lord Bacon [1837] An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Lord Bacon [1837] Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Lord Clive [1840]  She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Leopold von Ranke's History of the Popes [1840] She [the Catholic Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Leopold von Ranke's History of the Popes [1840] The Chief Justice was rich, quiet, and infamous. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Warren Hastings [1841] I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Letter to Macvey Napier [November 5, 1841] In order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Frederick the Great [1842] We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Frederick the Great [1842] Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth East and west and south and north, To summon his array. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome [1842]. Horatius,st. 1 To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods? Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome [1842]. Horatius,st. 27 But those behind cried "Forward!" And those before cried "Back!" Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome [1842]. Horatius,st. 50 Oh, Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome [1842]. Horatius,st. 59 And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome [1842]. Horatius,st. 60 The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Review of Lucy Aikin's Life and Writings of Addison [1843] He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Review of Lucy Aikin's Life and Writings of Addison [1843] A man who has never looked on Niagara has but a faint idea of a cataract; and he who has not read Barere's Memoirs may be said not to know what it is to lie. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay On Memoires de Bertrand Barere [1844] There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Speech in the House of Commons [April 14, 1845] Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Epitaph on a Jacobite [1845] Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age 1 2 which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay History of England [1849-1861], vol.I, ch.1 1 See Horace 2 See Milton I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay History of England [1849-1861], vol.I, ch.1  The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay History of England [1849-1861], vol.I, ch.2 There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay History of England [1849-1861], vol.I, ch.3 The ambassador [of Russia] and the grandees who accompanied him were so gorgeous that all London crowded to stare at them, and so filthy that nobody dared to touch them. They came to the court balls dropping pearls and vermin. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay History of England [1849-1861], vol.V, ch. 23 Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Letter to H. S. Randall, author of a Life of Thomas Jefferson [May 23, 1857] Soon fades the spell, soon comes the night; Say will it not be then the same, Whether we played the black or white, Whether we lost or won the game? Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay Sermon in a Churchyard, st. 8 Helmuth von Moltke 1800-1891  First ponder, then dare. Helmuth von Moltke Attributed The fate of every nation rests in its own power. Helmuth von Moltke To the German Reichstag [March 1, 1880] A war, even the most victorious, is a national misfortune. Helmuth von Moltke Letter [1880] Richard Bethell, Lord Westbury 1800-1873 Take a note of that; his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind. Richard Bethell, Lord Westbury Attributed Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle 1801-1866 A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth. Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle To Thomas Carlyle [January 1825] In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me. Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle To John Sterling [June 15, 1835] Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability! Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle To Eliza Stodart [February 29, 1836] Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity. Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle To John Sterling [August 5, 1845] I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled. Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle To Thomas Carlyle [September 28, 1845] The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle Journal,August 1849 Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written-as long as I keep my senses, at least. Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle Journal,July 16, 1858 The triumphal procession air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset-that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun. Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle To Miss Barnes [August 24, 1859] Thomas Cole 1801-1848 Over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths. Thomas Cole Essay on American Scenery [1835] David Glasgow Farragut 1801-1870 Damn the torpedoes-full speed ahead! David Glasgow Farragut At the battle of Mobile Bay [August 5, 1864] John Henry Cardinal Newman 1801-1890 Time hath a taming hand. John Henry Cardinal Newman Persecution [1832], st. 3 Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom; Lead thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home; Lead thou me on! Keep thou my feet: I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me. John Henry Cardinal Newman The Pillar of Cloud [1833]. Lead Kindly Light, st. 1 Growth is the only evidence of life. John Henry Cardinal Newman Apologia pro Vita Sua [1864] It is thy very energy of thought Which keeps thee from thy God. John Henry Cardinal Newman Dream of Gerontius [1866], pt. III Living Nature, not dull Art Shall plan my ways and rule my heart. John Henry Cardinal Newman Nature and Art [1868], st. 12 O Lord, support us all the day long, until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Then in thy mercy grant us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last. John Henry Cardinal Newman Sermon [1834]. Included in the Book of Common Prayer There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor. John Henry Cardinal Newman The Idea of a University [1873]. DiscourseV, pt.6 Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. John Henry Cardinal Newman The Idea of a University [1873]. DiscourseV, pt.9 The world is content with setting right the surface of things. John Henry Cardinal Newman The Idea of a University [1873]. DiscourseVIII, pt.8 A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called a grammar. 1 2 3 4 5 6 John Henry Cardinal Newman The Idea of a University [1873]. DiscourseVIII, pt.10 1 See Lao-tzu 2 See Confucius 3 See Heraclitus 4 See Chaucer 5 See Selden 6 See Penn Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem [From shadows and symbols into the truth]! John Henry Cardinal Newman His own epitaph at Edgbaston Brigham Young 1801-1877 This is the place! Brigham Young On first seeing the valley of the Great Salt Lake [July 24, 1847] Lydia Maria Child 1802-1880 We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. Lydia Maria Child An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans [1833] They [the slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians! Lydia Maria Child An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans [1833] I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me. Lydia Maria Child Letter to Ellis Gray Loring [1843] Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. Lydia Maria Child Flowers for Children [1844-1846]. Thanksgiving Day, st. 1 Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box. Lydia Maria Child Letter to Sarah Shaw [1856] The United States is . . . a warning rather than an example to the world. Lydia Maria Child To the twenty-fifth-anniversary meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society [1857] Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being. Lydia Maria Child Message to woman suffrage supporters [c. 1875] David Christy 1802 - c. 1868 Cotton Is King; or, The Economical Relations of Slavery. David Christy Title of book [1855] Alexandre Dumasthe Elder 1802-1870 All for one, one for all, that is our device. 1 Alexandre Dumasthe Elder The Three Musketeers [1844], ch. 9 1 See Shakespeare  Nothing succeeds like success. Alexandre Dumasthe Elder Ange Pitou [1854], vol. I  Let us look for the woman. Alexandre Dumasthe Elder The Mohicans of Paris [1854-1855], vol. III, ch. 10, 11 Victor Hugo 1802-1885 These two halves of God, the Pope and the emperor. Victor Hugo Hernani [1830], act IV, sc. ii  God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman. Victor Hugo Ruy Blas [1838], actII, sc. v Popularity? It is glory's small change. Victor Hugo Ruy Blas [1838], actIII, sc. v  An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo Histoire d'un Crime [written 1852], conclusion  Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Dismal plain. Victor Hugo Les Ch[acirc ]timents [1853]. L'Expiation The eye was in the tomb and stared at Cain. Victor Hugo La Conscience [1859]  You have created a new thrill. Victor Hugo Letter to Baudelaire [October 6, 1859] The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Fantine, bk. V, ch.4 Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Fantine, bk. V, ch.13 Napoleon . . . mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Cosette, bk.I, ch.13 Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Cosette, bk.I, ch.16 Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Cosette, bk.I, ch.17 What is that to the Infinite? Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Cosette, bk.I, ch.18 Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Cosette, bk.V, ch. 10 Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes. 1 2 3 Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Cosette, bk.VI, ch. 9 1 See George Herbert 2 See Addison 3 See Sill A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Cosette, bk.VII, ch. 8 No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Cosette, bk.VIII, ch. 8 Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Saint Denis, bk.I, ch. 4 Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Saint Denis, bk.II, ch. 1 Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Saint Denis, bk.II, ch. 1 Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view? Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Saint Denis, bk.III, ch. 3 A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Saint Denis, bk.VIII, ch. 1 Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Saint Denis, bk.XII, ch. 4 Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Victor Hugo Les Miserables [1862].Jean Valjean, bk. II, ch. 2 To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten. Victor Hugo Inscription over the door of Hugo's study I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party of revolution, civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World. Victor Hugo On the wall of the room in which Hugo died, Place des Vosges, Paris Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802-1838 Few, save the poor, feel for the poor. Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Poor Were it not better to forget Than but remember and regret? 1 Letitia Elizabeth Landon Despondency 1 See Christina Rossetti George Pope Morris 1802-1864 Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! 1 In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. George Pope Morris Woodman, Spare That Tree [1830], st. 1 1 See Campbell The union of hearts-the union of hands- And the flag of our Union forever! George Pope Morris The Flag of Our Union [1851] Friedrich Julius Stahl 1802-1861 Authority, not majority. Friedrich Julius Stahl Speech before the Erfurt Parliament [April 11, 1850] William Allen 1803-1879  Fifty-four forty, or fight! William Allen Speech in the Senate [1844] Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803-1849 The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea! Thomas Lovell Beddoes Sailor's Song, st. 2 If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing-bell; Some a light sigh. Thomas Lovell Beddoes Dream Pedlary George Borrow 1803-1881 There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die? George Borrow Lavengro [1851], ch.25 I learned . . . to fear God, and to take my own part. George Borrow Lavengro [1851], ch.86 Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. 1 2 George Borrow Lavengro [1851], ch.92 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Kingsley Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life of man, even though those five-and-twenty be spent in penury and contempt, and the rest in the possession of wealth, honors, respectability. George Borrow The Romany Rye [1857], ch. 30 Orestes A ugustus Brownson 1803-1876 The English laborer does not find his worst enemy in the nobility, but in the middling class. Orestes A ugustus Brownson Boston Quarterly Review [1840] ÿ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton 1803-1873 A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton The Disowned [1828], ch.33 The easiest person to deceive is one's own self. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton The Disowned [1828], ch.42 In other countries poverty is a misfortune-with us it is a crime. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton England and the English [1833] Rank is a great beautifier. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton The Lady of Lyons [1838], actII, sc. i Love, like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton The Lady of Lyons [1838], actIII, sc. ii Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton Richelieu [1839], act II, sc. ii In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As-fail. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton Richelieu [1839], act II, sc. ii Out-babying Wordsworth and outglittering Keats. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton The New Timon [1846], pt. I In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton Caxtonia.Hints on Mental Culture In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgment on the few. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton Caxtonia.Readers and Writers William Driver 1803-1886 I name thee Old Glory. William Driver As the flag was hoisted to the masthead of his brig Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend and I'm not thine. 1 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Good-bye,st. 1 1 See Johnson 2 See Byron For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Good-bye,st. 4 Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Each and All,st. 1 I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Each and All,st. 3 I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].The Problem,st. 1 Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].The Problem,st. 2 The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew- The conscious stone to beauty grew. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].The Problem,st. 2 Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].The Problem,st. 3 The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].The Problem,st. 3 Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].The Snowstorm Enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].The Snowstorm The frolic architecture of the snow. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].The Snowstorm Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark! Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].To J.W. There's no rood has not a star above it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Musketaquid All sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a Sphere. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Fable, The Mountain and the Squirrel In May, when sea winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].The Rhodora Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].The Rhodora For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Woodnotes II 1 See Muir Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Ode Inscribed to W. H. Channing There are two laws discrete, Not reconciled- Law for man, and law for thing. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Ode Inscribed to W. H. Channing Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Ode to Beauty Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit and the Muse, Nothing refuse. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Give All to Love,st. 1 Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Give All to Love,st. 4 Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Blight By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, Concord [July 4, 1837], st. 1 Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? 1 Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk? Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Forbearance 1 See Foss "Pass in, pass in," the angels say, "In to the upper doors, Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise." Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems [1847].Merlin I God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Boston Hymn,st. 2 Today unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound! Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Boston Hymn,st. 17 Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Ode,st. 1 Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Ode,st. 5 I think no virtue goes with size. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].The Titmouse So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Voluntaries, III Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Solution Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].In Memoriam E.B.E. Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Compensation, I He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Beauty Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867]."Suum Cuique" Too busied with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Nature Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Days I, too late, Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Days It is time to be old, To take in sail. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Terminus Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Terminus Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Sacrifice For what avail the plow or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Boston, st. 5 If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Brahma 1 See The Upanishads They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Brahma That book is good Which puts me in a working mood. Unless to Thought is added Will, Apollo is an imbecile. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Fragments on the Poetic Gift In the vaunted works of Art The master stroke is Nature's part. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Art I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].History Ever from one who comes tomorrow Men wait their good and truth to borrow. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Merlin's Song The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Merlin's Song Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived! Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Borrowing [from the French] A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs, The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. Ralph Waldo Emerson May-Day and Other Pieces [1867].Friendship To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal.December 20, 1822 Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see-not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal.April 11, 1834 I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal.June 27, 1839 You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal.October 1842 The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal.May 25, 1843 Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal.March 1845 I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal.May 1849 Blessed are those who have no talent! Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal.February 1850 The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal.February 12 (?), 1851  I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal.February 1855 The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal.July 1855 Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature [1836],introduction Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature [1836],sec.1 Standing on the bare ground . . . all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature [1836],sec.1 Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature [1836],sec.3 Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature [1836],sec.4 We are like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature [1836],sec.8 A man is a god in ruins. 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature [1836],sec.8 1 See Lamartine He who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks, and of all into whose language his own can be translated. Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar [1837], sec. 3  Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table. Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar [1837], sec. 3 What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat. Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar [1837], sec. 3  If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar [1837], sec. 3 Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid. Ralph Waldo Emerson Literary Ethics [1838] I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].History Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].History There is properly no history; only biography. 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].History 1 See Carlyle Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].History It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].History To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. 1 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance 1 See Browne 2 See Addison Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. . . . The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines. I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance Traveling is a fool's paradise. . . . My giant goes with me wherever I go. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance 1 See Melville Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Self-Reliance Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Compensation For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Compensation Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Compensation It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Compensation All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Love Thou art to me a delicious torment. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Friendship  Almost all people descend to meet. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Friendship Happy is the house that shelters a friend. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Friendship A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Friendship A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Friendship Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Friendship The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Friendship I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Friendship In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Prudence Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Heroism Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Circles One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Circles  Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Circles Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Circles Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Art Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series [1841].Art I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letter to Carlyle [October 30, 1841] A man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson Walter Savage Landor. From The Dial [1841], XII Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. Ralph Waldo Emerson Walter Savage Landor. From The Dial [1841], XII There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conservative [1842] For it is not meters, but a metermaking argument that makes a poem-a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series [1844].The Poet We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series [1844].The Poet Language is the archives of history. . . . Language is fossil poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series [1844].The Poet Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series [1844].Experience Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life? Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series [1844].Experience The only gift is a portion of thyself. 1 2 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series [1844].Gifts 1 See Lowell 2 See Whitman 3 See Gibran The less government we have, the better-the fewer laws, and the less confided power. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series [1844].Politics We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series [1844].Politics Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series [1844].Nominalist and Realist Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series [1844].Nominalist and Realist The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series [1844].Nominalist and Realist He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men [1850].Uses of Great Men When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear. Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men [1850].Uses of Great Men Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men [1850].Uses of Great Men Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men [1850].Plato; or, The Philosopher Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive. Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men [1850].Plato; or, The Philosopher  Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men [1850].Montaigne; or, The Skeptic Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men [1850].Montaigne; or, The Skeptic 1 See Montaigne Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Fugitive Slave Law [1854] Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. Ralph Waldo Emerson English Traits [1856] Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Fate Men are what their mothers made them. 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Fate 1 See Freud Coal is a portable climate. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Wealth The world is his, who has money to go over it. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Wealth Art is a jealous mistress. 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Wealth 1 See Story All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Culture Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Culture There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Behavior Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Behavior The highest compact we can make with our fellow is-"Let there be truth between us two forevermore." Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Behavior  Shallow men believe in luck. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Worship I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Considerations by the Way Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Considerations by the Way Make yourself necessary to somebody. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Considerations by the Way Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].Beauty Never read any book that is not a year old. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life [1860].In Praise of Books The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself. . . . The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. Ralph Waldo Emerson Life and Letters in New England [1867] God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Society and Solitude The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Civilization Hitch your wagon to a star. 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Civilization 1 See Carl Schurz The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops-no, but the kind of man the country turns out. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Civilization Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Art A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Art We boil at different degrees. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Eloquence The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Eloquence The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Domestic Life Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Works and Days 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Success We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude [1870].Old Age A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Power and Laws of Thought [c. 1870] Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. Ralph Waldo Emerson Parnassus [1874]. Preface There are two classes of poets-the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. Ralph Waldo Emerson Parnassus [1874]. Preface Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims [1875].Social Aims I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims [1875].Social Aims Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims [1875].Social Aims Every really able man, in whatever direction he work . . . if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims [1875].Immortality Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims [1875].Progress and Culture, Phi Beta Kappa Address [July 18, 1876]  Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims [1875].Quotation and Originality When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life." Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims [1875].Quotation and Originality By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims [1875].Quotation and Originality A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims [1875].Poetry and Imagination Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims [1875].The Comic The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims [1875].The Comic  What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson Fortune of the Republic [1878] To live without duties is obscene. Ralph Waldo Emerson Lectures and Biographical Sketches [1883].Aristocracy Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. Ralph Waldo Emerson Lectures and Biographical Sketches [1883].The Preacher Genius has no taste for weaving sand. Ralph Waldo Emerson Lectures and Biographical Sketches [1883].The Scholar A poet in verse or prose must have a sensuous eye, but an intellectual co-perception. Ralph Waldo Emerson Lectures and Biographical Sketches [1883].Plutarch All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Natural History of Intellect [1893] When you strike at a king, you must kill him. Ralph Waldo Emerson Recollected by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. From Max Lerner, The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes [1943] Robert Stephen Hawker 1803-1875 And shall Trelawny die? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why. Robert Stephen Hawker The Song of the Western Men [1825], st. 1 Richard Henry Hengist Horne 1803-1884 'Tis always morning somewhere in the world. 1 Richard Henry Hengist Horne Orion [1843], bk. III, canto 2 1 See Longfellow Douglas Jerrold 1803-1857 Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth. Douglas Jerrold Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold [1859] That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment. Douglas Jerrold Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold [1859]A Comic Author Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it. Douglas Jerrold Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold [1859]Meeting Troubles Halfway Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. Douglas Jerrold Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold [1859]A Matter-of-fact Man Robert Smith Surtees 1803-1864 Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities. Robert Smith Surtees Title of novel [1838] Full o' beans and benevolence. Robert Smith Surtees Handley Cross [1843], ch. 27 Three things I never lends-my 'oss, my wife, and my name. Robert Smith Surtees Hillingdon Hall [1845], ch. 33 More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. Robert Smith Surtees The Analysis of the Hunting Field [1846], ch. 1 Better be killed than frightened to death. Robert Smith Surtees Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds [1864], ch. 32 Fedor Tiutchev 1803-1873 A thought, once uttered, is a lie. Fedor Tiutchev Silentium [1830] Like first love, the heart of Russia will not forget you. Fedor Tiutchev Tribute to Pushkin [January 29, 1837] Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people. Fedor Tiutchev These Poor Villages [1855] Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield 1804-1881 The microcosm of a public school. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Vivian Grey [1826], bk.I, ch. 2 I hate definitions. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Vivian Grey [1826], bk.II, ch. 6 Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Vivian Grey [1826], bk.V, ch.1 Variety is the mother of Enjoyment. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Vivian Grey [1826], bk.V, ch.4 There is moderation even in excess. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Vivian Grey [1826], bk.VI, ch.1 I repeat . . . that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist. 1 2 3 4 5 Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Vivian Grey [1826], bk.VI, ch.7 1 See Wycliffe 2 See Webster 3 See Garrison 4 See Lincoln 5 See Parker Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Vivian Grey [1826], bk.VI, ch.7 A dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield The Young Duke [1831], bk. I, ch. 5  Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Reply to a taunt by Daniel O'Connell What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Henrietta Temple [1837], bk. II, ch. 4 Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me. 1 Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Maiden speech in the House of Commons [1837] 1 See Garrison Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient. 1 Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech on import duties [April 25, 1843] 1 See Grover Cleveland  The noble lord [Lord Stanley] is the Rupert of Parliamentary discussion. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech [April 1844] A government of statesmen or of clerks? Of Humbug or Humdrum? Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Coningsby [1844], bk.II, ch. 4 Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Coningsby [1844], bk.III, ch. 1 Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Coningsby [1844], bk.IV, ch. 13 I rather like bad wine . . . one gets so bored with good wine. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Sybil [1845], bk.I, ch. 1 Two nations, between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . the rich and the poor. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Sybil [1845], bk.II, ch.5  Property has its duties as well as its rights. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Sybil [1845], bk.II, ch.11 Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Sybil [1845], bk.III, ch.2  We all of us live too much in a circle. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Sybil [1845], bk.III, ch.7  The right honorable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech in the House of Commons [February 28, 1845] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech on Agricultural Interests [March 17, 1845] Duty cannot exist without faith. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Tancred [1847], bk.II, ch. 1 He was fresh and full of faith that "something would turn up." 1 Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Tancred [1847], bk.III, ch. 6 1 See Dickens Everything comes if a man will only wait. 1 2 Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Tancred [1847], bk.IV, ch. 8 1 See Emerson 2 See Burroughs A precedent embalms a principle. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech on the expenditures of the country [February 22, 1848] Justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech [February 11, 1851] How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech [January 24, 1860] Is man an ape or an angel? 1 2 I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those newfangled theories. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech at Oxford Diocesan Conference [November 25, 1864] 1 See Pascal 2 See Darwin In the character of the victim [Lincoln], and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech in the House of Commons[May 1, 1865] Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech in the House of Commons[May 14, 1866] Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech at Manchester [1866] However gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech [November 9, 1867] I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield To friends, on being made prime minister [1868] When a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Lothair [1870], ch.28 Every woman should marry-and no man. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Lothair [1870], ch.30 You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art. 1 2 3 Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Lothair [1870], ch.35 1 See Coleridge 2 See Lowell 3 See Flaubert "My idea of an agreeable person," said Hugo Bohun, "is a person who agrees with me." Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Lothair [1870], ch.35 Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester [April 3, 1872] The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech [June 24, 1872] A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech in the House of Commons [March 11, 1873] The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech [July 24, 1877] Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace-but a peace I hope with honor. 1 2 Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech in the House of Commons [July 16, 1878] 1 See Russell 2 See Chamberlain  A series of congratulatory regrets. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech at Knightsbridge [July 27, 1878] A sophistical rhetorician [Gladstone], inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech at Knightsbridge [July 27, 1878] The harebrained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech at the Guildhall, London [November 9, 1878] The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech at the Guildhall, London [November 9, 1878]52 "As for that," said Waldershare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "And pray, what is that?" inquired the prince. "Sensible men never tell." 1 Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Speech at the Guildhall, London [November 9, 1878]81 1 See Samuel Johnson Gavarni Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier 1804-1866 Les Enfants Terribles [The Terrible Children]. Gavarni Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier Title of series of prints [1865] Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. Nathaniel Hawthorne Wakefield [1835] His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come, for he is the type of New England's hereditary spirit; and his shadowy march, on the eve of danger, must ever be the pledge, that New England's sons will vindicate their ancestry. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Gray Champion [1835] By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places-whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest-where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot. Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown [1835] As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Maypole of Merrymount [1836] "What is the Unpardonable Sin?" asked the lime-burner. . . . "It is a sin that grew within my own breast," replied Ethan Brand. . . . "The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God." Nathaniel Hawthorne Ethan Brand [1850] On the breast of her gown, in red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter [1850], ch.2 My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter [1850], ch.4 There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter [1850], ch.5 Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter [1850], ch.9 Let the black flower blossom as it may! Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter [1850], ch.14 Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter [1850], ch.15 "Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own." Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter [1850], ch.17 The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers-stern and wild ones-and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter [1850], ch.18 No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter [1850], ch.20 Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: "Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred." Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter [1850], ch.24 The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages. Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice-Told Tales [1851], preface Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has provided himself with a moral-the truth, namely, that the wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones. Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables [1851],preface God will give him blood to drink! Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables [1851],ch.1 Life is made up of marble and mud. Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables [1851],ch.2 What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables [1851],ch.11 Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one . . . to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death. Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables [1851],ch.21 The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance [1852], ch.2 It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance [1852], ch.28 In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom they uttered long ago. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Snow Image [1852], preface No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. . . . Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marble Faun [1860],preface  Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marble Faun [1860],ch. 41 Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. Nathaniel Hawthorne Sketches from Memory [1868]. The Notch of the White Mountains Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve 1804-1869 Vigny, more secret, As if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Pensees d'Ao[ucirc ]t, a M. Villemain [1837], st. 3  Silence is the sovereign contempt. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Mes Poisons George Sand Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin , Baronne Dudevant 1804-1876  Love, bumping his head blindly against all the obstacles of civilization. George Sand Indiana [1832], preface No human creature can give orders to love. George Sand Jacques [1834] Deliberately, women are given a deplorable education . . . While man frees himself from constraining civil and religious bonds, he is only too glad to have woman hold tightly to the Christian principle of suffering and keeping her silence. 1 George Sand Letters to Marcie [1837] 1 See Abigail Adams We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. George Sand Mauprat [1837] Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society. George Sand Consuelo [1842] They [the peasants] were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. George Sand The Haunted Pool [1851] Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. George Sand Histoire de Ma Vie [1856] In our wholly factitious society, to have no cash at all means frightful want or absolute powerlessness. George Sand Histoire de Ma Vie [1856] There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand Letter to Lina Calamatta [March 31, 1862] Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander . . . in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. George Sand Letter to Des Planches [May 25, 1866] The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes. George Sand Nouvelles Lettres d'un Voyageur [1869] Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for. George Sand Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean [1872] I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent. George Sand Impressions et Souvenirs [1896] Sarah Flower Adams 1805-1848 Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee. Sarah Flower Adams Nearer, My God, to Thee, st. 2 Hans Christian Andersen 1805-1875 They could see she was a real princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a princess could be so delicate. Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales [1835].The Princess and the Pea Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass. But it is very deep too. . . . Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live. Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales [1835].The Little Mermaid We [sea folk] can live to be three hundred years old, but when we perish we turn into mere foam on the sea. Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales [1835].The Little Mermaid The Emperor's New Clothes. Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales [1835].Title of story "But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said. Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales [1835].The Emperor's New Clothes The little live nightingale . . . had come to sing of comfort and hope. As he sang, the phantoms grew pale, and still more pale, and the blood flowed quicker and quicker through the Emperor's feeble body. Even Death listened, and said, "Go on, little nightingale, go on!" Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales [1835].The Nightingale His own image . . . was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales [1835].The Ugly Duckling The Little Match Girl. Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales [1835].Title of story William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879 Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind. 1 2 3 4 William Lloyd Garrison Motto of The Liberator [1831] 1 See Socrates 2 See Bacon 3 See Paine 4 See F. D. Roosevelt Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble. William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator, no. 1 [January 1, 1831] I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation. 1 William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator, no. 1 [January 1, 1831] 1 See Paine I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard! 1 William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator, no. 1 [January 1, 1831] 1 See Disraeli The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. 1 William Lloyd Garrison Resolution adopted by the Anti-Slavery Society [January 27, 1843] 1 See Isaiah 28:15 With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison W. P.and F. J. T. Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison [1885-1889], vol.I,p. 188 Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his. William Lloyd Garrison and F. J. T. Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison [1885-1889], vol.I,p. 268 We may be personally defeated, but our principles never. William Lloyd Garrison and F. J. T. Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison [1885-1889], vol.I,p. 402 Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. William Lloyd Garrison and F. J. T. Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison [1885-1889], vol.III, p. 390 You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. 1 2 3 4 5 William Lloyd Garrison and F. J. T. Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison [1885-1889], vol.IV, p. 224 1 See Wycliffe 2 See Webster 3 See Disraeli 4 See Lincoln 5 See Parker Sidney Sherman 1805-1873  Remember the Alamo! Sidney Sherman Battle cry, San Jacinto [April 21, 1836]; attributed Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville 1805-1859 I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville Democracy in America,pt. I [1835], ch.3 Within these limits the power vested in the American courts of justice of pronouncing a statute to be unconstitutional forms one of the most powerful barriers that have ever been devised against the tyranny of political assemblies. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville Democracy in America,pt. I [1835], ch.6 I have never been more struck by the good sense and the practical judgment of the Americans than in the manner in which they elude the numberless difficulties resulting from their Federal Constitution. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville Democracy in America,pt. I [1835], ch.8 In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville Democracy in America,pt. I [1835], ch.9 They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville Democracy in America,pt. I [1835], ch.18 America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. The idea of novelty is there indissolubly connected with the idea of amelioration. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville Democracy in America,pt. I [1835], ch.18 Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure. . . . Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville Democracy in America,pt. II [1840], bk.I, ch. 17 Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville Democracy in America,pt. II [1840], bk.II, ch. 2 If I were asked . . . to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people [the Americans] ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville Democracy in America,pt. II [1840], bk.III, ch.12 The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness. . . . It may be said that it is the vehemence of their desires that makes the Americans so methodical; it perturbs their minds, but it disciplines their lives. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville Democracy in America,pt. II [1840], bk.III, ch.17 Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville Speech in the Constituent Assembly [September 12, 1848] Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man. Elizabeth Barrett Browning To George Sand, A Desire [1844] Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which, if cut deep down the middle, Shows a heart within blood-tinctured of a veined humanity. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lady Geraldine's Courtship [1844], st. 41 Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Vision of Poets [1844], last lines Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Cry of the Children [1844], st. 1 I tell you hopeless grief is passionless. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Grief [1844], l. 1 Therefore to this dog will I, Tenderly not scornfully, Render praise and favor. Elizabeth Barrett Browning To Flush, My Dog [1844], st. 14 "Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candlelight Will not look the same by day. Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Lady's "Yes" [1844], st. 1 By thunders of white silence overthrown. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Hiram Power's Greek Slave [1850], last line Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving! Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Woman's Shortcomings [1850], st. 5 "Guess now who holds thee?"-"Death," I said. But there The silver answer rang-"Not Death, but Love." Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese [1850], no.1 Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese [1850], no.6 If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese [1850], no.14 When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese [1850], no.22 God only, who made us rich, can make us poor. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese [1850], no.24 Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese [1850], no.26 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese [1850], no.43 I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese [1850], no.43 Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh 1 [1857], bk.I, l. 210 1 See Edward FitzGerald I should not dare to call my soul my own. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh 1 [1857], bk.II,l. 786 God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh 1 [1857], bk.II,l. 952 A little sunburnt by the glare of life. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh 1 [1857], bk.IV, l. 1140 Nay, if there's room for poets in this world A little overgrown (I think there is), Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh 1 [1857], bk.V, l. 200 Since when was genius found respectable? Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh 1 [1857], bk.VI, l. 275 Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh 1 [1857], bk.VII, l. 820 What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat With the dragonfly on the river. Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Musical Instrument [1860] Grief may be joy misunderstood; Only the Good discerns the good. Elizabeth Barrett Browning De Profundis [1862], st. 21 The fireflies and the nightingales, Throbbed each to either, flame and song. The nightingales, the nightingales! Elizabeth Barrett Browning Bianca Among the Nightingales [1862], st. 1 Friedrich Halm Eligius Franz Josef von Munch-Bellinghausen 1806-1871 Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. Friedrich Halm Der Sohn der Wildness [1842], act II John Stuart Mill 1806-1873 Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Taylor Coleridge-the two great seminal minds of England in their age. John Stuart Mill Bentham [1838] The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],introduction If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.2 There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.2 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.2 The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.2 We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.2 The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.3 All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.3 Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.3 Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.4 The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.5 The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.5 Liberty consists in doing what one desires. John Stuart Mill On Liberty [1859],ch.5 Unearned increment. John Stuart Mill Dissertations and Discussions [1859] Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government. John Stuart Mill Dissertations and Discussions [1859] The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism [1863], ch.2 It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism [1863], ch.2 The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that . . . he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body. John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism [1863], ch.3 It is only a man here and there who has any tolerable knowledge of the character even of the women of his own family. John Stuart Mill The Subjection of Women [1869], ch.1 The generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal. John Stuart Mill The Subjection of Women [1869], ch.2 Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. John Stuart Mill Autobiography [1873], ch. 5 Human existence is girt round with mystery; the narrow region of our experiences is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. John Stuart Mill Utility of Religion [1874] The prose of human life. John Stuart Mill Utility of Religion [1874] The essence of religion is the strong and earnest direction of the emotions and desires toward an ideal object, recognized as of the highest excellence and as rightfully paramount over all selfish objects of desire. This condition is fulfilled by the Religion of Humanity in as eminent a degree and in as high a sense as by the supernatural religions even in their best manifestations, and far more so than in any of their others. John Stuart Mill Utility of Religion [1874] Johann Bernhard , Graf von Rechberg 1806-1899 Guarantees which are not worth the paper they are written on. Johann Bernhard , Graf von Rechberg In a dispatch concerning the recognition of Italy [1861] Charles Francis Adams 1807-1886 It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war. Charles Francis Adams Dispatch to Earl Russell [September 5, 1863] Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 1807-1873 The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz Methods of Study in Natural History [1863], ch. 4 The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz Geological Sketches [1870], ch.2 The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz Geological Sketches [1870], ch.9 The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz Evolution and Permanence of Type [1874] Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807-1882 I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not with his lips only, follow me. 1 2 Giuseppe Garibaldi From G. M. Trevelyan, Garibaldi's Defense of the Roman Republic [1907-1911] 1 See Prescott 2 See Churchill Robert E dward Lee 1807-1870 It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. 1 Robert E dward Lee On seeing a Federal charge repulsed at Fredericksburg [December 1862] 1 See William T. Sherman Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. Robert E dward Lee Inscribed beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame Strike the tent. Robert E dward Lee Last words [October 12, 1870] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 Music is the universal language of mankind-poetry their universal pastime and delight. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Outre-Mer [1833-1834] I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hymn to Night [1839], st. 1 Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 1 2 Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life [1839],st. 1, 2 1 See Phaedrus 2 See Gilbert Art is long, and Time is fleeting, 1 2 3 And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life [1839],st. 4 1 See Hippocrates 2 See Chaucer 3 See Goethe Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life [1839],st. 7 Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; 1 Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life [1839],st. 9 1 See Byron There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Reaper and the Flowers [1839], st. 1  Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. 1 Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hyperion [1839], bk. IV, ch. 8 1 See Whittier Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Skeleton in Armor [1841], st. 20 It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Wreck of the Hesperus [1842],st. 1 But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Wreck of the Hesperus [1842],st. 12 Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Wreck of the Hesperus [1842],st. 22 Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith a mighty man is he With large and sinewy hands. And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Village Blacksmith [1842],st. 1 His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Village Blacksmith [1842],st. 2 Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Village Blacksmith [1842],st. 7 No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Endymion [1842], st. 8 Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Rainy Day [1842], st. 3 I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial ground God's Acre! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow God's Acre [1842], st. 1 Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maidenhood [1842], st. 3 A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Excelsior [1842], st. 1 Stars of the summer night! Far in yon azure deeps. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Spanish Student [1843], act I, sc. iii (serenade) I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Bridge [1845] The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Day Is Done [1845],st. 1 A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Day Is Done [1845],st. 3 Some simple and heartfelt lay. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Day Is Done [1845],st. 4 The bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Day Is Done [1845],st. 5 Read from some humbler poet. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Day Is Done [1845],st. 7 And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Day Is Done [1845],st. 11 The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this incessantly- "Forever-never! Never-forever!" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Old Clock on the Stairs [1845], st. 9 I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song [1845],st. 1 And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song [1845],st. 3 This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks 1 . . . Stand like Druids of old. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline [1847],l. 1 1 See Theocritus Alike were they free from Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline [1847],pt.I, sec.1 When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline [1847],pt.I, sec.1 Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline [1847],pt.I, sec.3 Talk not of wasted affection! affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment: That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline [1847],pt.II, sec. 1 Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Kavanagh [1849] Build me straight, O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship [1849],l. 1 And see! she stirs! She starts-she moves-she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship [1849],l. 349 Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship [1849],l. 378 Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee-are all with thee! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship [1849],l. 397 There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation [1849],st. 1 There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation [1849],st. 5 Nothing useless is, or low. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Builders [1849], st. 2 God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Singers [1849],st. 1 But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Singers [1849],st. 6 All your strength is in your union. All your danger is in discord; Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha [1855], pt.I By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha [1855], pt.III From the waterfall he named her, Minnehaha, Laughing Water. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha [1855], pt.IV As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha [1855], pt.X If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Driftwood [1857] If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish [1858], pt. III "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" 1 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish [1858], pt. III 1 See Shakespeare Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. 1 2 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Ladder of St. Augustine [1858],st. 1 1 See St. Augustine 2 See Tennyson The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Ladder of St. Augustine [1858],st. 10 The long mysterious Exodus of death. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Jewish Cemetery at Newport [1858], st. 1 A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow My Lost Youth [1858], refrain A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Santa Filomena [1858], st. 10 Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Children [1858], st. 9 Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Children's Hour [1860],st. 1 I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Children's Hour [1860],st. 2 Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Children's Hour [1860],st. 3 Listen, my children, and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn [1863-1874], pt.I,The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride,st. 1 One if by land, and two if by sea; 1 And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn [1863-1874], pt.I,The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride,st. 2 1 See Paul Revere The fate of a nation was riding that night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn [1863-1874], pt.I,The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride,st. 8 He seemed the incarnate "Well, I told you so!" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn [1863-1874], pt.I,The Poet's Tale: The Birds of Killingworth, st. 9 Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn [1863-1874], pt.III, The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth, IV Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp to deaden its vibrations. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Golden Legend [1872], pt.IV, The Cloisters The grave itself is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Golden Legend [1872], pt.V, A Covered Bridge at Lucerne Let him not boast who puts his armor on As he who puts it off, the battle done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Morituri Salutamus [1875],st. 9 Ye, against whose familiar names not yet The fatal asterisk of death is set. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Morituri Salutamus [1875],st. 11 The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Morituri Salutamus [1875],st. 21 Ah, nothing is too late, Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Morituri Salutamus [1875],st. 22 For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Morituri Salutamus [1875],st. 24 Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Poets Nothing that is can pause or stay; The moon will wax, the moon will wane, The mist and cloud will turn to rain, The rain to mist and cloud again, Tomorrow be today. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Keramos [1878] Three silences there are: the first of speech, The second of desire, the third of thought; This is the lore a Spanish monk, distraught With dreams and visions, was the first to teach. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Three Silences of Molinos In the long, sleepless watches of the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Cross of Snow [1879] The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Holidays Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending; Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Elegiac Verse, st. 14 There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There Was a Little Girl Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light; It is daybreak everywhere. 1 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Bells of San Blas [March 15, 1882], st. 11 1 See Horne John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892 No fetters in the Bay State-no slave upon our land! John Greenleaf Whittier Massachusetts to Virginia [1843], st. 24 What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie? John Greenleaf Whittier The Pumpkin [1844], st. 3 The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; 1 Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing. 2 3 John Greenleaf Whittier My Soul and I [1847], st. 34 1 See Longfellow 2 See Genesis 32:26 3 See Cotton The Night is mother of the Day, The Winter of the Spring, And ever upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling. John Greenleaf Whittier A Dream of Summer [1847], st. 4 So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore! The glory from his gray hairs gone Forevermore! John Greenleaf Whittier Ichabod [1850],st. 1 From those great eyes The soul has fled: When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead! John Greenleaf Whittier Ichabod [1850],st. 8 Search thine own heart. What paineth thee In others in thyself may be. John Greenleaf Whittier The Chapel of the Hermits [1853], st. 85 Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! John Greenleaf Whittier The Barefoot Boy [1856],st. 1 Health that mocks the doctor's rules, Knowledge never learned of schools. John Greenleaf Whittier The Barefoot Boy [1856],st. 2 The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk. John Greenleaf Whittier Lines Inscribed to Friends under Arrest for Treason Against the Slave Power [1856], st. 1 Nature speaks in symbols and in signs. John Greenleaf Whittier To Charles Sumner For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" 1 John Greenleaf Whittier Maud Muller [1856], st. 53 1 See Guiterman The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun. John Greenleaf Whittier My Psalm, st. 2 Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn. John Greenleaf Whittier Barbara Frietchie [1864],st. 1 The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland. John Greenleaf Whittier Barbara Frietchie [1864],st. 2 "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. John Greenleaf Whittier Barbara Frietchie [1864],st. 18 "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!" he said. John Greenleaf Whittier Barbara Frietchie [1864],st. 21 The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. John Greenleaf Whittier Snowbound [1866],l. 1 Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about. John Greenleaf Whittier Snowbound [1866],l. 155 The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings! John Greenleaf Whittier Snowbound [1866],l. 389 Angel of the backward look. John Greenleaf Whittier Snowbound [1866],l. 714 I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. John Greenleaf Whittier The Eternal Goodness [1867], st. 20 Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Reclothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives Thy service find, In deeper reverence, praise. John Greenleaf Whittier The Brewing of Soma [1872] God is and all is well. 1 John Greenleaf Whittier My Birthday, st. 2 1 See Browning He brings cool dew in his little bill, And lets it fall on the souls of sin: You can see the mark on his red breast still Of fires that scorch as he drops it in. John Greenleaf Whittier The Robin, st. 4 Salmon P ortland Chase 1808-1873 The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States. Salmon P ortland Chase Decision in Texas v. White, 7 Wallace 725 [1868] Alphonse Karr 1808-1890  The more things change, the more they remain the same. Alphonse Karr Les Gu[ecirc ]pes [Janvier 1849] Maurice de MacMahon, Comte Marie Edme Patrice 1808-1893 Here I am, and here I stay. Maurice de MacMahon, Comte Marie Edme Patrice At Sevastopol [September 1855] Gerard de Nerval Gerard Labrunie 1808-1855 Despair and suicide are the result of certain fatal situations for those who have no faith in immortality, its joys and sorrows. Gerard de Nerval Le R[ecirc ]ve et la Vie, II The jailer is another kind of captive-is the jailer envious of his prisoner's dreams? Gerard de Nerval Fragments de Faust I am the somber one, the unconsoled widower, The Prince of Aquitaine whose tower was destroyed. My only star is dead, and my star-studded lute Wears the black sun of Melancholy. Gerard de Nerval Les Chimeres [1854]. El Desdichado Caroline Sheridan Norton 1808-1877 A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers. Caroline Sheridan Norton Bingen on the Rhine, st. 1 George Washington Patten c. 1808-1882 If we must perish in the fight, Oh! let us die like men. George Washington Patten Oh! Let Us Die Like Men, st. 4 Samuel Francis Smith 1808-1895 My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring. Samuel Francis Smith America [1831],st. 1 Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light; Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King! Samuel Francis Smith America [1831],st. 4 Charles Robert Darwin 1809-1882 I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection. Charles Robert Darwin The Origin of Species [1859], ch.3 The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. 1 Charles Robert Darwin The Origin of Species [1859], ch.3 1 See Spencer  We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. Charles Robert Darwin The Origin of Species [1859], ch.3 It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. Charles Robert Darwin The Origin of Species [1859], ch.3 Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction . . . The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. Charles Robert Darwin The Origin of Species [1859], ch.3 From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one, and that . . . from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved. Charles Robert Darwin The Origin of Species [1859], ch.15 The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. Charles Robert Darwin The Descent of Man [1871], ch.4 The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages. Charles Robert Darwin The Descent of Man [1871], ch.5 Progress has been much more general than retrogression. Charles Robert Darwin The Descent of Man [1871], ch.5  The Simiadae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and Old World monkeys; and from the latter at a remote period, Man, the wonder and the glory of the universe, proceeded. Charles Robert Darwin The Descent of Man [1871], ch.6 A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits. Charles Robert Darwin The Descent of Man,ch. 21 For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs-as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions. Charles Robert Darwin The Descent of Man,ch. 21 Man with all his noble qualities . . . with his godlike intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system . . . still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Charles Robert Darwin The Descent of Man,Conclusion The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures. Charles Robert Darwin The Formation of Vegetable Mold Through the Action of Worms [1881], ch. 7 Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. Charles Robert Darwin Letter to E. Ray Lankester As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. Charles Robert Darwin From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin [1887], edited by Francis Darwin I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. Charles Robert Darwin From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin [1887], edited by Francis Darwin Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress. To those who fully admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of our world will not appear so dreadful. Charles Robert Darwin From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin [1887], edited by Francis Darwin Edward FitzGerald 1809-1883 Wake! For the Sun who scattered into flight The Stars before him from the Field of night, Drives Night along with them from Heaven and strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 1[first edition] Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 4 Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 5 Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring The Winter garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 7 [first edition] The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 8 Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday? Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 9 A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 12 Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum! Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 13 The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes-or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two-is gone. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 16 Think, in this battered Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 17 They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter-the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his sleep. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 18 I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head. 1 2 Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 19 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Tennyson Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears Today of past Regrets and future Fears: Tomorrow!-Why, Tomorrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Seven thousand Years. 1 Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 21 1 See Euripides For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 22 Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End! Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 24 Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door wherein I went. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 27 And this was all the Harvest that I reaped- "I came like Water, and like Wind I go." Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 28 There was the Door to which I found no Key; There was the Veil through which I might not see. Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee There was-and then no more of Thee and Me. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 32 "While you live, Drink!-for, once dead, you never shall return." Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 35 For I remember stopping by the way To watch a Potter thumping his wet Clay: And with its all-obliterated Tongue It murmured-"Gently, Brother, gently, pray!" Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 37 And fear not lest Existence closing your Account, and mine, should know the like no more; The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has poured Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour. 1 Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 46 1 See Tennyson 'Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 49 [first edition] Striking from the Calendar Unborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 57 The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 71 That inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 72 [first edition] Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 74 [first edition] One Flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 77 What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke A conscious Something to resent the yoke. 1 Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 78 1 See Poe And He that with his hand the Vessel made Will surely not in after Wrath destroy. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 85 After a momentary silence spake Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make; "They sneer at me for leaning all awry: What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?" Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 86 Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 87 Indeed the Idols I have loved so long Have done my credit in this World much wrong: Have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, And sold my Reputation for a Song. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 93 I wonder often what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 95 Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 96 Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this Sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits-and then Remold it nearer to the Heart's Desire! Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 99 And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass Among the Guests Star-scattered on the Grass, And in your joyous errand reach the spot Where I made One-turn down an empty Glass! Edward FitzGerald The RubaAiyaAt of Omar KhayyaAm,st. 101 The King in a carriage may ride, And the Beggar may crawl at his side; But in the general race, They are traveling all the same pace. Edward FitzGerald Chronomoros Mrs. Browning's death was rather a relief to me, I must say; no more Aurora Leighs, thank God! Edward FitzGerald Letter [July 15, 1861] 1 1 See E. B. Browning William Ewart Gladstone 1809-1898 Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas. William Ewart Gladstone Speech in the House of Commons [1858] You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. William Ewart Gladstone Speech on the Reform Bill [1866] The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world. William Ewart Gladstone Speech at Plumstead [1878] National injustice is the surest road to national downfall. William Ewart Gladstone Speech at Plumstead [1878] Out of the range of practical politics. William Ewart Gladstone Speech at Dalkeith [November 26, 1879] The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted. William Ewart Gladstone Speech at Leeds [October 7, 1881] All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. William Ewart Gladstone Speech at Liverpool [June 28, 1886]  I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs. William Ewart Gladstone Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution [July 20, 1887] Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. William Ewart Gladstone Speech at Hawarden [May 28, 1890] Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 1809-1852 It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol The Inspector-General [1836],epigraph Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs? Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol The Inspector-General [1836],epigraph The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol The Inspector-General [1836],actI, sc. i I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol The Inspector-General [1836],actI, sc. i The sergeant's widow told you a lie when she said I flogged her. I never flogged her. She flogged herself. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol The Inspector-General [1836],actIV, sc. xv What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves! Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol The Inspector-General [1836],actV, sc. viii And for a long time yet, led by some wondrous power, I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Dead Souls [1842], vol.I, ch. 7  Rus! Rus! I see you, from my lovely enchanted remoteness I see you: a country of dinginess, and bleakness and dispersal; no arrogant wonders of nature crowned by the arrogant wonders of art appear within you to delight or terrify the eyes. . . . So what is the incomprehensible secret force driving me towards you? Why do I constantly hear the echo of your mournful song as it is carried from sea to sea through your entire expanse? . . . And since you are without end yourself, is it not within you that a boundless thought will be born? Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Dead Souls [1842], vol.II, ch.11  Oh troika, winged troika, tell me who invented you? Surely, nowhere but among a nimble nation could you have been born: in a country which has taken itself in earnest and has evenly spread far and wide over half of the globe, so that once you start counting the milestones you may count on till a speckled haze dances before your eyes. . . . Rus, are you not similar in your headlong motion to one of those nimble troikas that none can overtake? The flying road turns into smoke under you, bridges thunder and pass, all falls back and is left behind! . . . And what does this awesome motion mean? What is the passing strange force contained in these passing strange steeds? Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? . . . Rus, whither are you speeding so? Answer me. No answer. The middle bell trills out in a dream its liquid soliloquy; the roaring air is torn to pieces and becomes wind; all things on earth fly by and other nations and states gaze askance as they step aside and give her the right of way. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Dead Souls [1842], vol.II, ch.concluding paragraphs In the course of the reading he [Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!" Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Four Letters Concerning Dead Souls [1843] I shall laugh my bitter laugh. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Epitaph on Gogol's tombstone Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. 1809-1894  Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar- The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Old Ironsides [1830], st. 1 And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Music Grinders, st. 10 When the last reader reads no more. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Last Reader One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation, evermore! Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Voyage of the Good Ship Union, st. 12 Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Homesick in Heaven, st. 5 There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. No Time Like the Old Time, st. 1 A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.1 Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.2 Man has his will-but woman has her way! Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.2 Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.2 I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.4 Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],[The Chambered Nautilus, st. 5] Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],[The Chambered Nautilus, st. 5] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.6  There is that glorious Epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the Historian, in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.6 Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man, if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.6 The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.6 The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.6 Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.6 Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day? Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.11[The Deacon's Masterpiece, st. 1] End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [1858],ch.11[The Deacon's Masterpiece, st. 12] He comes of the Brahmin caste of New England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Brahmin Caste of New England [1860] Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Poet at the Breakfast Table [1872], ch. 5 And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Last Leaf [1831], st. 8 Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865  If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. Abraham Lincoln Address at New Salem, Illinois [March 9, 1832] I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Abraham Lincoln Letter to the Editor, Sangamon Journal, New Salem, Illinois [June 13, 1836] If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide. Abraham Lincoln Address at the Young Men's Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois [January 27, 1838] There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. Abraham Lincoln Address at the Young Men's Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois [January 27, 1838] Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. Abraham Lincoln Address at the Young Men's Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois [January 27, 1838] No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Abraham Lincoln Speech at Peoria, Illinois [October 16, 1854] I am not a Know-Nothing . . . How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. 1 Abraham Lincoln Letter to Joshua F. Speed [August 24, 1855] 1 See Niemoeller The ballot is stronger than the bullet. Abraham Lincoln Speech at Bloomington, Illinois [May 19, 1856] "A house divided against itself cannot stand." 1 I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved-I do not expect the house to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South. Abraham Lincoln Speech at the Republican State Convention, Springfield, Illinois [June 16, 1858] 1 See Mark 3:25  Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out. Abraham Lincoln Second campaign speech against Douglas, Springfield, Illinois [July 17, 1858] As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democ-racy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy. 1 Abraham Lincoln Fragment [August 1, 1858?]. From Roy P. Basler, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln [1953], vol. II, p. 532 1 See Address to Indiana Regiment When . . . you have succeeded in dehumanizing the Negro; when you have put him down and made it impossible for him to be but as the beasts of the field; when you have extinguished his soul in this world and placed him where the ray of hope is blown out as in the darkness of the damned, are you quite sure that the demon you have roused will not turn and rend you? What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny. All of those may be turned against us without making us weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. 1 Abraham Lincoln Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois [September 11, 1858] 1 See Einstein That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles-right and wrong-throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle. Abraham Lincoln Reply, seventh and last joint debate, Alton, Illinois [October 15, 1858] This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. Abraham Lincoln Letter to H. L. Pierce and others [April 6, 1859] Public opinion in this country is everything. Abraham Lincoln Speech at Columbus, Ohio [September 16, 1859] It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! Abraham Lincoln Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee [September 30, 1859] What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? Abraham Lincoln Address at Cooper Union, New York [February 27, 1860] Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln Address at Cooper Union, New York [February 27, 1860] No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. Abraham Lincoln Farewell Address, Springfield, Illinois [February 11, 1861] If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage. Abraham Lincoln Address at Cleveland, Ohio [February 15, 1861] I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Abraham Lincoln Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia [February 22, 1861] It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1861] If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution-certainly would if such a right were a vital one. Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1861] This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1861] Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1861] While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1861] We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1861] I think the necessity of being ready increases. Look to it. Abraham Lincoln Letter (this is the whole message) to Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania [April 8, 1861] This is essentially a people's contest . . . It is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men-to lift artificial weights from all shoulders-to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all-to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life. Abraham Lincoln Message to Congress in Special Session [July 4, 1861] Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. 1 Abraham Lincoln First Annual Message to Congress [December 3, 1861] 1 See Webster It is called the Army of the Potomac but it is only McClellan's bodyguard . . . If McClellan is not using the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Abraham Lincoln Washington, D.C. [April 9, 1862] It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. Abraham Lincoln Address on colonization to a Negro deputation at Washington [August 14, 1862] My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. Abraham Lincoln Letter to Horace Greeley [August 22, 1862] I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. . . . I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free. Abraham Lincoln Letter to Horace Greeley [August 22, 1862] On the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. Abraham Lincoln Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation [September 22, 1862] [I feel] somewhat like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy said he was too big to cry, and far too badly hurt to laugh. Abraham Lincoln Reply as to how he felt about the New York elections. From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly [November 22, 1862] A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. Abraham Lincoln Second Annual Message to Congress [December 1, 1862] If there ever could be a proper time for mere catch arguments, that time surely is not now. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity. Abraham Lincoln Second Annual Message to Congress [December 1, 1862] The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free-honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just-a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless. Abraham Lincoln Second Annual Message to Congress [December 1, 1862] Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Abraham Lincoln Letter to Major General Joseph Hooker [January 26, 1863] The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Abraham Lincoln Letter to James C. Conkling [August 26, 1863] I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it. Abraham Lincoln Letter to James H. Hackett [November 2, 1863] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 1 2 3 4 5 Abraham Lincoln Address at Gettysburg [November 19, 1863] 1 See Wycliffe 2 See Webster 3 See Disraeli 4 See Garrison 5 See Parker The President last night had a dream. He was in a party of plain people and as it became known who he was they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking man." The President replied, "Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." Abraham Lincoln From Letters of John Hay and Extracts from His Diary, edited byC. L. Hay [December 23, 1863] I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Abraham Lincoln Letter to A. G. Hodges [April 4, 1864] The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty. And the American people just now are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not mean the same thing. With some, the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is by the respective parties called by two different and incompatible names, liberty and tyranny. The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act. . . . Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. Abraham Lincoln Address at the Sanitary Fair, Baltimore [April 18, 1864] I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or best man in America, but rather they have concluded that it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap. Abraham Lincoln Reply to the National Union League [June 9, 1864] Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. Abraham Lincoln Letter to Secretary Stanton, refusing to dismiss Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair [July 18, 1864] It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. Abraham Lincoln Response to a serenade [November 10, 1864] Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Abraham Lincoln Response to a serenade [November 10, 1864] I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. Abraham Lincoln Reply to the Missouri Committee of Seventy [1864]  Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Abraham Lincoln Letter to Mrs. Bixby [November 21, 1864] It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, 1 but let us judge not, that we be not judged. 2 Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address [March 4, 1865] 1 See Genesis 3:19 2 See Matthew 7:1 The Almighty has His own purposes. Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address [March 4, 1865] Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." 1 With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, 2 let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address [March 4, 1865] 1 See Psalms 19:9 2 See John Quincy Adams I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. 1 Abraham Lincoln Address to an Indiana Regiment [March 17, 1865] 1 See Fragment Important principles may and must be inflexible. Abraham Lincoln Last public address, Washington, D.C. [April 11, 1865] If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln To a caller at the White House. From Alexander K. McClure, Lincoln's Yarns and Stories [1904] If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. Abraham Lincoln Conversation at the White House.From Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln [1866] Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to his parents. Abraham Lincoln Conversation at the White House.Washington, D.C. [c. 1860] Benjamin Peirce 1809-1880 Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions. Benjamin Peirce Linear Associative Algebra [1870], first sentence Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 O, human love! thou spirit given, On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven! Edgar Allan Poe Tamerlane [1827], l. 177 All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream [1827], l. 10 The happiest day-the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown. Edgar Allan Poe The Happiest Day [1827], st. 1 From childhood's hour I have not been As others were-I have not seen As others saw. Edgar Allan Poe Alone [written 1829, published 1875],l. 1 And the cloud that took the form When the rest of Heaven was blue Of a demon in my view. Edgar Allan Poe Alone [written 1829, published 1875],l. 20 Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? Edgar Allan Poe Sonnet. To Science [1829], l. 12 It is with literature as with law or empire-an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. Edgar Allan Poe Poems [1831]. Preface, Letter to Mr. B-- Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore.On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Edgar Allan Poe To Helen [1831], st. 1, 2 If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody, While a bolder note than this might swell From my lyre within the sky. Edgar Allan Poe Israfel [1831], st. 8 Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city, lying alone Far down among the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. Edgar Allan Poe The City in the Sea [1831],st. 1 The viol, the violet, and the vine. Edgar Allan Poe The City in the Sea [1831],st. 2 While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down. 1 Edgar Allan Poe The City in the Sea [1831],st. 2 1 See Hart Crane And when, amid no earthly moans, Down, down that town shall settle hence, Hell, rising from a thousand thrones, Shall do it reverence. Edgar Allan Poe The City in the Sea [1831],st. 5 A dirge for the most lovely dead That ever died so young! Edgar Allan Poe Lenore [1831], st. 1 Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld! Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night! Edgar Allan Poe The Coliseum [1833], st. 1 Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine- A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine, All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, And all the flowers were mine. Edgar Allan Poe To One in Paradise [1834],st. 1 And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy gray eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams. Edgar Allan Poe To One in Paradise [1834],st. 4 During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher [1839] In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace- Radiant palace-reared its head. Edgar Allan Poe The Haunted Palace [1839],st. 1 While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door, A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh-but smile no more. Edgar Allan Poe The Haunted Palace [1839],st. 6 They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe Eleonora [1841] And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. Edgar Allan Poe The Conqueror Worm [1843],st. 3 While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm. Edgar Allan Poe The Conqueror Worm [1843],st. 5 There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe The Black Cat [1843] The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe The Premature Burial [1844] From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of Space-out of Time. Edgar Allan Poe Dreamland [1845], st. 1 With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not-they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven and Other Poems [1845], preface Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven [1845],st. 1 Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven [1845],st. 2 Sorrow for the lost Lenore- For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Nameless here for evermore. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven [1845],st. 2 The silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven [1845],st. 3 Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven [1845],st. 5 "Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." Edgar Allan Poe The Raven [1845],st. 8 Whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven [1845],st. 11 "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!-prophet still, if bird or devil!" Edgar Allan Poe The Raven [1845],st. 15 "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." Edgar Allan Poe The Raven [1845],st. 17 And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door. Edgar Allan Poe The Raven [1845],st. 18 And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted-nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe The Raven [1845],st. 18  The Imp of the Perverse. Edgar Allan Poe Title of story [1845] The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere- The leaves they were withering and sere: It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year. Edgar Allan Poe Ulalume [1847],st. 1 It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir. Edgar Allan Poe Ulalume [1847],st. 1 Here once, through an alley Titanic, Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul- Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul. Edgar Allan Poe Ulalume [1847],st. 2 Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her, And tempted her out of her gloom. Edgar Allan Poe Ulalume [1847],st. 8 Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it? 1 Edgar Allan Poe The Rationale of Verse [1848], III 1 See FitzGerald A Quixotic sense of the honorable-of the chivalrous. Edgar Allan Poe Letter to Mrs. Whitman [October 18, 1848] "Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied- "If you seek for Eldorado!" Edgar Allan Poe Eldorado [1849], st. 4 And the fever called "Living" Is conquered at last. Edgar Allan Poe For Annie [1849], st. 1 And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee [1849],st. 1 I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee- With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me. Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee [1849],st. 2 And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee [1849],st. 5 In her sepulcher there by the sea- In her tomb by the sounding sea. Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee [1849],st. 6 Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells. Edgar Allan Poe The Bells [1849], st. 1 I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase "a long poem" is simply a flat contradiction in terms. Edgar Allan Poe The Poetic Principle [1850] There neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified-more supremely noble than this very poem-this poem per se-this poem which is a poem and nothing more-this poem written solely for the poem's sake. Edgar Allan Poe The Poetic Principle [1850] I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth. Edgar Allan Poe The Poetic Principle [1850] Pierre Joseph Proudhon 1809-1865 Property is theft [La propriete c'est le vol]! Pierre Joseph Proudhon Qu'est-ce que la Propriete? [1840], ch. 1 Alfred , Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 O damned vacillating state! Alfred , Lord Tennyson Supposed Confessions [1830], last line Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Mariana 1 [1830],st. 1 1 See Shakespeare She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" Alfred , Lord Tennyson Mariana 1 [1830],refrain A still small voice 1 spake unto me, "Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?" Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Two Voices [1832],st. 1 1 See I Kings 19:12 This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Two Voices [1832],st. 9 Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind. 1 Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Two Voices [1832],st. 11 1 See FitzGerald I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Two Voices [1832],st. 69 Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Two Voices [1832],st. 127 No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Two Voices [1832],st. 132 In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Miller's Daughter [1832], st. 4 O mother Ida, many-fountained Ida, Dear mother Ida, hearken ere I die. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Oenone [1832],l. 22 Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Oenone [1832],l. 142 I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Palace of Art [1832], st. 1 The daughter of a hundred Earls, You are not one to be desired. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere [1832],st. 1 A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere [1832],st. 2 The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere [1832],st. 3 The gardener Adam 1 2 3 4 and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere [1832],st. 7 1 See Genesis 2:8 2 See Bacon 3 See Shakespeare 4 See Kipling 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere [1832],st. 7 You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New Year; Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The May Queen [1832], st. 1 In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters [1832],st. 1 Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters [1832],Choric Song, st. 1 There is no joy but calm! Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters [1832],st. 2 Ah, why Should life all labor be? Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters [1832],st. 4 Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters [1832],st. 4 Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters [1832],st. 4 Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters [1832],st. 8 Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore Than labor in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar; Oh rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters [1832],last lines Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. Alfred , Lord Tennyson A Dream of Fair Women [1832] A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair. Alfred , Lord Tennyson A Dream of Fair Women [1832]st. 22 Many-towered Camelot. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott [1832], pt.I,st. 1 Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott [1832], pt.I,st. 2 All in the blue unclouded weather. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott [1832], pt.III,st. 3 "Tirra lirra," by the river Sang Sir Lancelot. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott [1832], pt.III,st. 4 She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro' the room, She saw the water lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She looked down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked from side to side. "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott [1832], pt.III,st. 5 But Lancelot mused a little space; He said, "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott." Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott [1832], pt.IV, st. 6 The great brand Made lightnings in the splendor of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirled in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn, Seen where the moving isles of winter shock By night, with noises of the northern sea, So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Morte d'Arthur [1842],l. 133 Lo! the level lake And the long glories of the winter moon. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Morte d'Arthur [1842],l. 184 Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Gardener's Daughter [1842], l. 139 The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set gray life, and apathetic end. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Love and Duty [1842], l. 17 Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest we rest in ease. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Love Thou Thy Land [1842], st. 11 Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Through all the circle of the golden year? Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Golden Year [1842], l. 47 It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ulysses [1842],l. 1 I will drink Life to the lees. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ulysses [1842],l. 6 Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honored of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world. 1 Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ulysses [1842],l. 13 1 See Henry Adams How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use, As though to breathe were life! Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ulysses [1842],l. 22 And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ulysses [1842],l. 30 This is my son, mine own Telemachus. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ulysses [1842],l. 33 Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ulysses [1842],l. 51 The deep Moans round with many voices. 1 2 Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows, for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ulysses [1842],l. 55 1 See Revelation 14:2 2 See Eliot To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ulysses [1842],l. 70 Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn: Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle horn. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 1 In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 19 He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 49 The many-wintered crow that leads the clanging rookery home. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 68 Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was to love. 1 2 Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 72 1 See Burns 2 See Halleck This is the truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. 1 2 3 4 Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 75 1 See Pindar 2 See Boethius 3 See Dante 4 See Chaucer Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 79 With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 94 But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 105 For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 119 Till the war drum throbbed no longer and the battle flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 127 And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 130 Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 137 Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 141 Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, matched with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 151 I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 168 I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 178 Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 182 Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall [1842],l. 184 This proverb flashes through his head, "The many fail, the one succeeds." Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Day Dream [1842].The Arrival, st. 2 And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Day Dream [1842].The Departure,st. 1 O love, thy kiss would wake the dead! Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Day Dream [1842].The Departure,st. 3 And o'er the hills and far away 1 2 Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Through all the world she followed him. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Day Dream [1842].The Departure,st. 4 1 See Gay 2 See Nursery Rhymes And is there any moral shut Within the bosom of the rose? Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Day Dream [1842].Moral, st. 1 My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Sir Galahad [1842], st. 1 Or that eternal lack of pence, Which vexes public men. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue [1842], st. 6 Cophetua sware a royal oath; "This beggar maid shall be my queen!" 1 2 Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Beggar Maid [1842], st. 2 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Anonymous A little grain of conscience made him sour. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Vision of Sin [1842], sec. 5 Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.Oh well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! Oh well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay!And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But Oh for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Alfred , Lord Tennyson Break, Break, Break [1842],st. 1-3 But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Break, Break, Break [1842],st. 4 Sweet girl graduates 1 in their golden hair. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].Prologue,l. 141 1 See Huxley A rosebud set with little willful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].Prologue,l. 153 We fell out, my wife and I, Oh we fell out I know not why And kissed again with tears. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.II[song, As Through the Land, l. 4] And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.II[song, As Through the Land, l. 355] Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.III [song, Sweet and Low, st. 1] The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.IV[song, The Splendor Falls, st. 1] The horns of Elfland faintly blowing. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.IV[song, The Splendor Falls, st. 2] Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.IV[song, The Splendor Falls, st. 3] Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.IV[song, Tears, Idle Tears, st. 1] Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.IV[song, Tears, Idle Tears, st. 4] O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.IV[song, O Swallow, st. 1] Man is the hunter; woman is his game. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.V,l. 147 Man for the field and woman for the hearth: Man for the sword and for the needle she: Man with the head and woman with the heart: Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.V,l. 427 Home they brought her warrior dead. She nor swooned nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, "She must weep or she will die." Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.VI[song, Home They Brought Her Warrior, st. 1] The woman is so hard Upon the woman. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.VIl. 205 Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are sealed: I strove against the stream and all in vain: Let the great river take me to the main: No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield; Ask me no more. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.VII[song, Ask Me No More, st. 3] Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The firefly wakens: waken thou with me. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.VII[song, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, st. 1] Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.VII[song, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, st. 3] Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.VIIl. 203 Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].pt.VIIl. 308 Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Princess [1847].Conclusion, l. 54 Believing where we cannot prove. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].Prologue,st. 1 Our little systems have their day. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].Prologue,st. 5 Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].Prologue,st. 7 I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. 1 2 Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].1, st. 1 1 See St. Augustine 2 See Longfellow I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].5, st. 2 But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics numbing pain. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].5, st. 2 And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. 1 2 Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].18, st. 1 1 See Shakespeare 2 See FitzGerald I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. 1 Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].21, st. 6 1 See Goethe And Thought leaped out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].23, st. 4 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].27, st. 4 How fares it with the happy dead? Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].44, st. 1 Be near me when my light is low. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].50,st. 1 And Time, a maniac scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging flame. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].50,st. 2 Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side? Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].51, st. 1 Hold thou the good; define it well; For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].53, st. 4 Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].54,st. 1 But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. 1 Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].54,st. 5 1 See Pliny So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life. 1 Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].55,st. 2 1 See Wollstonecraft The great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].55,st. 4 Nature, red in tooth and claw. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].56, st. 4 O Sorrow, wilt Thou live with me No casual mistress, but a wife. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].59, st. 1 So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].73, st. 1 O last regret, regret can die! Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].78, st. 5 God's finger touched him, and he slept. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].85, st. 5 Fresh from brawling courts And dusty purlieus of the law. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].89, st. 3 There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].96, st. 3 He seems so near, and yet so far. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].97, st. 6 Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky! Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].106,st. 1 Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. 1 Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].106,st. 2 1 See Dryden Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].106,st. 7 There rolls the deep where grew the tree. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].123, st. 1 Love is and was my lord and king. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].126, st. 1 Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].Conclusion,st. 10 One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves. Alfred , Lord Tennyson In Memoriam [1850].Conclusion,st. 36 He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Eagle [1851] Bury the Great Duke With an empire's lamentation. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington [1852],st. 1 The last great Englishman is low. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington [1852],st. 3 Rich in saving common sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all men knew! Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington [1852],st. 4 O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fallen at length, that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington [1852],st. 4 Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington [1852],st. 8 Speak no more of his renown. Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington [1852],st. 9 And yet, my Lords, not well: there is a higher law. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Third of February, 1852,st. 2 We are not cotton-spinners all. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Third of February, 1852,st. 8 Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of death Rode the six hundred. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade [1854], 1 st. 1 1 See Bosquet "Forward, the Light Brigade!" Was there a man dismayed? Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade [1854], 1 st. 2 Someone had blundered. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade [1854], 1 st. 2 Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade [1854], 1 st. 2 Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade [1854], 1 st. 3 Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade [1854], 1 st. 3 I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Brook [1855], song,st. 1 For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Brook [1855], song,st. 6 Faultily faultless, 1 2 icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Maud [1855], pt.I, sec.ii 1 See Tennyson 2 See Browning And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be! Alfred , Lord Tennyson Maud [1855], pt.I, sec.iist. 6 Gorgonized me from head to foot, With a stony British stare. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Maud [1855], pt.I, sec.xiii, st. 2 Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Maud [1855], pt.I, sec.xxii,st. 1 For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Maud [1855], pt.I, sec.xxii,st. 2 All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Maud [1855], pt.I, sec.xxii,st. 3 Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Maud [1855], pt.I, sec.xxii,st. 9 There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion flower at the gate. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Maud [1855], pt.I, sec.xxii,st. 10 She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Maud [1855], pt.I, sec.xxii,st. 11 Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Maud [1855], pt.II, sec. iv, st. 3 The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapors weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Tithonus [1860],l. 1 Here at the quiet limit of the world. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Tithonus [1860],l. 7 Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, 1 2 And blackens every blot. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],dedication, l. 24 1 See Montaigne 2 See Shakespeare Man's word is God in man. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Coming of Arthur,l. 132 Large, divine, and comfortable words. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Coming of Arthur,l. 267 Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Coming of Arthur,l. 284 Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King- Else, wherefore born? Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Gareth and Lynette, l. 117 Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Marriage of Geraint,l. 352 For man is man and master of his fate. 1 2 3 4 5 Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Marriage of Geraint,l. 355 1 See Sallust 2 See Bacon 3 See Shakespeare 4 See Henley 5 See Nehru The useful trouble of the rain. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Geraint and Enid, l. 770 It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Merlin and Vivien,l. 386 Blind and naked Ignorance Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, On all things all day long. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Merlin and Vivien,l. 662 Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Lancelot and Elaine,l. 1 But, friend, to me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth. 1 2 Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Lancelot and Elaine,l. 131 1 See Tennyson 2 See Browning In me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Lancelot and Elaine,l. 447 The shackles of an old love straitened him, His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Lancelot and Elaine,l. 870 Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Lancelot and Elaine,l. 1000 He makes no friend who never made a foe. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Lancelot and Elaine,l. 1082 Figs out of thistles. 1 Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Last Tournament,l. 356 1 See Matthew 7:16 The greater man the greater courtesy. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Last Tournament,l. 628 The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Last Tournament,l. 652 For courtesy wins woman all as well As valor may. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Last Tournament,l. 702 For manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature and of noble mind. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Guinevere,l. 333 To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of golden deeds. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Guinevere,l. 472 No more subtle master under Heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Guinevere,l. 475 Let no man dream but that I love thee still. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Guinevere,l. 557 The days will grow to weeks, the weeks to months, The months will add themselves and make the years, The years will roll into the centuries, And mine will ever be a name of scorn. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Guinevere,l. 619 To where beyond these voices there is peace. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],Guinevere,l. 692 I found Him in the shining of the stars, I marked Him in the flowering of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Passing of Arthur,l. 9 For why is all around us here As if some lesser god had made the world, But had not force to shape it as he would? Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Passing of Arthur,l. 13 So all day long the noise of battle rolled Among the mountains by the winter sea. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Passing of Arthur,l. 170 Authority forgets a dying king. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Passing of Arthur,l. 289 And slowly answered Arthur from the barge: The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Passing of Arthur,l. 407 More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Passing of Arthur,l. 414 From the great deep to the great deep he goes. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King [1859-1885],The Passing of Arthur,l. 445 Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Enoch Arden [1864], l. 222 Insipid as the queen upon a card. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Aylmer's Field [1864], l. 28 The worst is yet to come. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Sea Dreams [1864], l. 301 He said likewise That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Grandmother [1864], st. 8 Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awa[auml ]y? Proputty, proputty, proputty-that's what I 'ears 'em sa[auml ]y. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Northern Farmer: New Style [1869],st. 1 Do[auml ]nt thou marry for munny, but go[auml ] wheer munny is! Alfred , Lord Tennyson Northern Farmer: New Style [1869],st. 5 Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Higher Pantheism [1869], st. 6 Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. 1 Alfred , Lord Tennyson Flower in the Crannied Wall [1869] 1 See Blount At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away; "Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!" Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Revenge [1878],st. 1 I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard, To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Revenge [1878],st. 2 Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil, For I never turned my back upon Don or devil yet. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Revenge [1878],st. 4 The little Revenge ran on sheer into the heart of the foe. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Revenge [1878],st. 5 All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word. Alfred , Lord Tennyson To Virgil [1882], st. 3 Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt. Alfred , Lord Tennyson The Ancient Sage [1885], l. 68 That man's the best Cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Hands All Round [1885], l. 3 I am Merlin Who follow the Gleam. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Merlin and the Gleam [1889], st. 1 Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, 1 But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar [1889],st. 1, 2 1 See Ennius Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar [1889],st. 3 I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar. Alfred , Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar [1889],st. 4 Robert Charles Winthrop 1809-1894  Our Country-whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less-still our Country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands. Robert Charles Winthrop Toast at Faneuil Hall [Fourth of July, 1845] A star for every State, and a State for every star. Robert Charles Winthrop Address on Boston Common [1862] Henry Alford 1810-1871 Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home; All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin. Henry Alford Come, Ye Thankful People, Come [1844] Ten thousand times ten thousand In sparkling raiment bright, The armies of the ransomed saints Throng up the steeps of light: 'Tis finished! all is finished, Their fight with death and sin: Fling open wide the golden gates, And let the victors in. Henry Alford Hymn [1867], st. 1 P hineas T aylor Barnum 1810-1891 There's a sucker born every minute. P hineas T aylor Barnum Attributed Pierre Jean Francois Joseph Bosquet 1810-1861  It is magnificent, but it is not war. Pierre Jean Francois Joseph Bosquet On the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava [October 25, 1854] William Henry Channing 1810-1884 To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. William Henry Channing My Symphony Sir Francis Hastings Doyle 1810-1888 Last night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore; A drunken private of the Buffs, Who never looked before. Today, beneath the foeman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race. Sir Francis Hastings Doyle The Private of the Buffs, st. 1 Ferdinand Freiligrath 1810-1876 Oh love, as long as you can love. 1 2 Ferdinand Freiligrath Der Liebe Dauer [1830] 1 See Anonymous Latin 2 See Parnell Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 I myself am more divine than any I see. Margaret Fuller Letter to Emerson [March 1, 1838] It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores. Margaret Fuller In the New York Tribune [1846] For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. Margaret Fuller Diary. From Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli [1884], ch. 18 Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning knife. Margaret Fuller Diary. From Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli [1884], ch. 18  I accept the universe. Margaret Fuller Attributed Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1810-1865 A man is so in the way in the house. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Cranford [1851-1853], ch.1 A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Cranford [1851-1853], ch.11 I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Cranford [1851-1853], ch.14 James Sloan Gibbons 1810-1892 We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more. James Sloan Gibbons Three Hundred Thousand More [1862], st. 1 Pope Leo XII Gioacchino Pecci 1810-1903 Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. Pope Leo XII Rerum Novarum [encyclical on the condition of labor, May 15, 1891] It is impossible to reduce human society to one level. Pope Leo XII Rerum Novarum [encyclical on the condition of labor, May 15, 1891] It is one thing to have a right to the possession of money, and another to have a right to use money as one pleases. Pope Leo XII Rerum Novarum [encyclical on the condition of labor, May 15, 1891] William Miller 1810-1872 Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town, Upstairs and downstairs, in his nichtgown, Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, "Are the weans in their bed? for it's now ten o'clock." William Miller Willie Winkie Alfred de Musset 1810-1857 I have come too late into a world too old. Alfred de Musset Rolla [1833]  Do Not Trifle with Love. Alfred de Musset Title of a comedy [1834] The most despairing songs are the loveliest of all, I know immortal ones composed only of tears. Alfred de Musset Poesies Nouvelles. La Nuit de Mai [1835] How glorious it is, but how painful it is also, to be exceptional in this world! Alfred de Musset La Merle Blanc [1842] Theodore Parker 1810-1860 Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. Theodore Parker A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion [1842] Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. Theodore Parker A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion [1842] Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself. Theodore Parker Essay, A Lesson for the Day All men desire to be immortal. Theodore Parker A Sermon on the Immortal Life [September 20, 1846]  A democracy-that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom. Theodore Parker The American Idea [May 29, 1850] Edmund Hamilton Sears 1810-1876 It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From Angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold: "Peace on the earth, good will to men From heav'n's all-gracious King." The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing. Edmund Hamilton Sears The Angel's Song [1850], st. 1 Martin Farquhar Tupper 1810-1889 Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil. Martin Farquhar Tupper Proverbial Philosophy [1838-1842].Of Truth in Things False Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Martin Farquhar Tupper Proverbial Philosophy [1838-1842].Of Discretion A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. Martin Farquhar Tupper Proverbial Philosophy [1838-1842].Of Reading Nature's own Nobleman, friendly and frank, Is a man with his heart in his hand! Martin Farquhar Tupper Nature's Nobleman [1844], st. 1 John Bright 1811-1889 Force is not a remedy. John Bright Speech at Birmingham [November 16, 1880] My opinion is that the Northern States will manage somehow to muddle through. John Bright Said during the American Civil War. From Justin McCarthy, Reminiscences [1899] Fanny Fern Sara Payson Parton 1811-1872 The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. 1 Fanny Fern Willis Parton 1 See Byron Theophile Gautier 1811-1872 Everything passes-Robust art Alone is eternal. The bust Survives the city. Theophile Gautier L'Art [1832] Horace Greeley 1811-1872 The best business you can go into you will find on your father's farm or in his workshop. If you have no family or friends to aid you, and no prospect opened to you there, turn your face to the great West, 1 and there build up a home and fortune. Horace Greeley From James Parton, Life of Horace Greeley [1855]. To Aspiring Young Men 1 See J. B. L. Soule The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. Horace Greeley The American Conflict [1864-1866] Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine. Horace Greeley Address on Agriculture, Houston, Texas [May 23, 1871] Wendell Phillips 1811-1884 Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. Wendell Phillips Speech [January 8, 1852] The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. Wendell Phillips Speech [April 12, 1852] What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. Wendell Phillips Speech [December 21, 1855] One on God's side is a majority. 1 Wendell Phillips Speech [November 1, 1859] 1 See Knox Every man meets his Waterloo at last. Wendell Phillips Speech [November 1, 1859] Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories. Wendell Phillips Speech [November 1, 1859] Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Wendell Phillips Idols [October 4, 1859] Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. Wendell Phillips Speech [November 7, 1860]  Revolutions never go backward. Wendell Phillips Speech [February 17, 1861] Aristocracy is always cruel. Wendell Phillips Address on Toussaint L'Ouverture [1861] Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896  Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer. Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin [1852], ch.8 I [Topsy] 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me. Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin [1852], ch.20 Charles Sumner 1811-1874 Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be. Charles Sumner Slavery and the Rebellion; speech at Cooper Institute [November 5, 1864] There is the National flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If in a foreign land, the flag is companionship, and country itself, with all its endearments. Charles Sumner Are We a Nation? [November 19, 1867] The phrase, "public office is a public trust," has of late become common property. 1 2 3 4 5 Charles Sumner Speech in the Senate [May 31, 1872] 1 See Matthew Henry 2 See Burke 3 See Clay 4 See Calhoun 5 See Cleveland William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863  This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes. William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair [1847-1848], vol.I, ch.4 Them's my sentiments. William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair [1847-1848], vol.I, ch.21 Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair [1847-1848], vol.I, ch.22 How to Live Well on Nothing a Year. William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair [1847-1848], vol.I, ch.36 (title) I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year. 1 William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair [1847-1848], vol.II, ch.1 1 See Huxley Ah! Vanitas vanitatum! 1 Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair [1847-1848], vol.II, ch.27 1 See Ecclesiastes 1:2 He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob. William Makepeace Thackeray The Book of Snobs [1848], ch. 2  Rake's Progress. William Makepeace Thackeray Pendennis [1848-1850], ch.19 (title) Yes, I am a fatal man, Madame Fribsbi. To inspire hopeless passion is my destiny. William Makepeace Thackeray Pendennis [1848-1850], ch.23 Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. William Makepeace Thackeray Pendennis [1848-1850], ch.28 Of the Corporation of the Goosequill-of the Press . . . of the fourth estate. 1 2 3 . . . There she is-the great engine-she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world-her courtiers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous. William Makepeace Thackeray Pendennis [1848-1850], ch.30 1 See Hazlitt 2 See Carlyle 3 See Macaulay 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry-every man of every nation has done that-'tis the living up to it that's difficult. William Makepeace Thackeray Henry Esmond [1852], bk. I, ch.6 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. William Makepeace Thackeray Henry Esmond [1852], bk. I, ch.7 The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? William Makepeace Thackeray The Newcomes [1853-1855], ch. 20 This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is- A sort of soup, or broth, or brew. William Makepeace Thackeray Ballads [1855]. The Ballad of Bouillabaisse, st. 2 A pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. William Makepeace Thackeray The Rose and the Ring [1855], ch. 2 The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. William Makepeace Thackeray The Virginians [1857-1859], ch.4 Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered. William Makepeace Thackeray The Virginians [1857-1859], ch.4 Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. William Makepeace Thackeray The Virginians [1857-1859], ch.61 To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained-who can say this is not greatness? William Makepeace Thackeray The Virginians [1857-1859], ch.92 Bravery never goes out of fashion. William Makepeace Thackeray The Four Georges [1860].George II It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England. William Makepeace Thackeray The Four Georges [1860].George III George, be a King! William Makepeace Thackeray The Four Georges [1860].Princess Augusta to her son George III Robert Browning 1812-1889 Sun-treader, life and light be thine forever! Robert Browning Pauline [1833] I go to prove my soul! I see my way as birds their trackless way. Robert Browning Paracelsus [1835], pt.I He guides me and the bird. In His good time! Robert Browning Paracelsus [1835], pt.I Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts! Robert Browning Paracelsus [1835], pt.III Every joy is gain And gain is gain, however small. Robert Browning Paracelsus [1835], pt.IV I give the fight up: let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. Robert Browning Paracelsus [1835], pt.V Sidney's self, the starry paladin. Robert Browning Sordello 1 [1840], pt.I 1 See Lombroso Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart. Robert Browning Sordello 1 [1840], pt.II Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose. Robert Browning Sordello 1 [1840], pt.VI Day! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last. Robert Browning Pippa Passes [1841],introduction The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven- All's right with the world. 1 Robert Browning Pippa Passes [1841],pt.I 1 See Whittier Speak to me-not of me! Robert Browning Pippa Passes [1841],pt.I Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas. Robert Browning Pippa Passes [1841],pt.II In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now. Robert Browning Pippa Passes [1841],pt.III All service ranks the same with God: With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we; there is no last nor first. Robert Browning Pippa Passes [1841],pt.IV You know, we French stormed Ratisbon. Robert Browning Incident of the French Camp [1842],st. 1 "You're wounded!" "Nay," the soldier's pride Touched to the quick, he said: "I'm killed, Sire!" And his chief beside, Smiling the boy fell dead. Robert Browning Incident of the French Camp [1842],st. 5 That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. Robert Browning My Last Duchess [1842],l. 1 She had A heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad. Robert Browning My Last Duchess [1842],l. 21 I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. Robert Browning My Last Duchess [1842],l. 45 Marching along, fifty-score strong, Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song. Robert Browning Cavalier Tunes [1842].Marching Along, st. 1 Boot, saddle, to horse, and away! Robert Browning Cavalier Tunes [1842].Boot and Saddle, refrain She never should have looked at me If she meant I should not love her! Robert Browning Cristina [1842], l. 1 The moth's kiss, first! Robert Browning In a Gondola [1842],l. 49 The bee's kiss, now! Robert Browning In a Gondola [1842],l. 56 O world, as God has made it! All is beauty. Robert Browning The Guardian Angel [1842], l. 33 Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed! -So, I was afraid! Robert Browning Instans Tyrannus [1845], st. 7 Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city. Robert Browning The Pied Piper of Hamelin [1845],st. 1 Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles. Robert Browning The Pied Piper of Hamelin [1845],st. 2 And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats. Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives- Followed the Piper for their lives. Robert Browning The Pied Piper of Hamelin [1845],st. 7 When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? Robert Browning The Flight of the Duchess [1845],st. 16 It's a long lane that knows no turnings. Robert Browning The Flight of the Duchess [1845],st. 17 Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat. Robert Browning The Lost Leader [1845],st. 1 We that had loved him so, followed him, honored him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learned his great language, caught his clear accents, Made him our pattern to live and to die! Robert Browning The Lost Leader [1845],st. 1 Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley, were with us-they watch from their graves! Robert Browning The Lost Leader [1845],st. 1 One more devils'-triumph and sorrow for angels, One more wrong to man, one more insult to God! Robert Browning The Lost Leader [1845],st. 2 Let him never come back to us! There would be doubt, hesitation and pain, Forced praise on our part-the glimmer of twilight, Never glad confident morning again! Robert Browning The Lost Leader [1845],st. 2 It was roses, roses all the way. Robert Browning The Patriot [1845], st. 1 I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three. Robert Browning How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix [1845], st. 1 And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Robert Browning How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix [1845], st. 1 The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low. Robert Browning Meeting at Night [1845],st. 1 Then a mile of warm, sea-scented beach. Robert Browning Meeting at Night [1845],st. 2 Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight was a path of gold for him, And the need of a world of men for me. Robert Browning Parting at Morning [1845] Oh, to be in England now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England-now! Robert Browning Home Thoughts, from Abroad [1845],l. 1 That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture! Robert Browning Home Thoughts, from Abroad [1845],l. 12 Nobly, nobly Cape St. Vincent to the northwest died away; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay. Robert Browning Home Thoughts, from the Sea [1845], l. 1 The Savior at his sermon on the mount, St. Praxed in a glory, and one Pan Ready to twitch the Nymph's last garment off. Robert Browning The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church [1845],l. 59 How I shall lie through centuries, And hear the blessed mutter of the mass, And see God made and eaten all day long, And feel the steady candle flame, and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense smoke! Robert Browning The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church [1845],l. 80 Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before, Love, -Only sleep! Robert Browning A Woman's Last Word [1855],st. 1 Where the apple reddens Never pry- Lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. Robert Browning A Woman's Last Word [1855],st. 5 Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! Robert Browning Evelyn Hope [1855],st. 1 You will wake, and remember, and understand. Robert Browning Evelyn Hope [1855],st. 7 Where the quiet-colored end of evening smiles. Robert Browning Love Among the Ruins [1855],st. 1 Oh heart! oh blood that freezes, blood that burns! Earth's returns For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin! Shut them in, With their triumphs and their glories and the rest! Love is best! Robert Browning Love Among the Ruins [1855],st. 7 'Tis a lifelong toil till our lump be leaven- 1 The better! What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth, we shall practice in heaven: Works done least rapidly, Art most cherishes. Robert Browning Old Pictures in Florence [1855], st. 17 1 See I Corinthians 5:6 Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees, (If our loves remain) In an English lane. Robert Browning De Gustibus [1855],st. 1 Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy." 1 Robert Browning De Gustibus [1855],st. 2 1 See Mary Tudor Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away! Robert Browning By the Fireside [1855],st. 39 If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far. Robert Browning By the Fireside [1855],st. 46 Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. Robert Browning Two in the Campagna [1855], st. 12 Escape me? Never- Beloved! While I am I, and you are you. Robert Browning Life in a Love [1855],st. 1 To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, And baffled, get up and begin again. Robert Browning Life in a Love [1855],st. 2 Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems, and new! Robert Browning Memorabilia [1855], st. 1 Who knows but the world may end tonight? Robert Browning The Last Ride Together [1855],st. 2 Sing, riding's a joy! For me I ride. Robert Browning The Last Ride Together [1855],st. 7 The instant made eternity- And heaven just prove that I and she Ride, ride together, forever ride? Robert Browning The Last Ride Together [1855],st. 10 He said, "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes! Man has Forever." Robert Browning A Grammarian's Funeral [1855],l. 81 He ventured neck or nothing-heaven's success Found, or earth's failure. Robert Browning A Grammarian's Funeral [1855],l. 109 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 hundred's soon hit; This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here-should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplexed Seeking shall find Him. Robert Browning A Grammarian's Funeral [1855],l. 113 Feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient-comes, and lo, is gone- While Northern thought is slow and durable. Robert Browning Luria [1855], act V A common grayness silvers everything. Robert Browning Andrea del Sarto [1855],l. 35 Days decrease, And autumn grows, autumn in everything. Robert Browning Andrea del Sarto [1855],l. 44 So free we seem, so fettered fast we are. Robert Browning Andrea del Sarto [1855],l. 51 Less is more. Robert Browning Andrea del Sarto [1855],l. 78 Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning Andrea del Sarto [1855],l. 97 I am grown peaceful as old age tonight. Robert Browning Andrea del Sarto [1855],l. 244 Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done. Robert Browning Bishop Blougram's Apology [1855],l. 17 The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's, Is-not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be-but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means. Robert Browning Bishop Blougram's Apology [1855],l. 87 Just when we are safest, there's a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower bell, someone's death, A chorus ending from Euripides. Robert Browning Bishop Blougram's Apology [1855],l. 183 One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'. Robert Browning Bishop Blougram's Apology [1855],l. 373 Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, The superstitious atheist, demirep That loves and saves her soul in new French books. Robert Browning Bishop Blougram's Apology [1855],l. 396 You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt. Robert Browning Bishop Blougram's Apology [1855],l. 601 When the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. Robert Browning Bishop Blougram's Apology [1855],l. 793 While you sat and played toccatas, stately at the clavichord. Robert Browning A Toccata of Galuppi's [1855],st. 6 What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? Robert Browning A Toccata of Galuppi's [1855],st. 14 Dear dead women, with such hair, too-what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old. Robert Browning A Toccata of Galuppi's [1855],st. 15 'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls. Robert Browning A Light Woman [1855], st. 12 Stake your counter as boldly every whit, Venture as warily, use the same skill, Do your best, whether winning or losing it, If you choose to play! Robert Browning The Statue and the Bust [1855],l. 238 The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. Robert Browning The Statue and the Bust [1855],l. 246 How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Robert Browning Saul [1855],st. 9 Death was past, life not come: so he waited. Robert Browning Saul [1855],st. 10 All's love, yet all's law. Robert Browning Saul [1855],st. 17 God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod. Robert Browning Saul [1855],st. 17 Do I find love so full in my nature, God's ultimate gift, That I doubt his own love can compete with it? Here, the parts shift? Robert Browning Saul [1855],st. 17 In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe. Robert Browning Saul [1855],st. 18 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do! Robert Browning Saul [1855],st. 18 Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand! Robert Browning Saul [1855],st. 18 The sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. Robert Browning Cleon [1855],l. 1 And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. Robert Browning Cleon [1855],l. 57 Why stay we on the earth except to grow? Robert Browning Cleon [1855],l. 114 Most progress is most failure. Robert Browning Cleon [1855],l. 271 So, the All-Great, were the All-loving too. Robert Browning An Epistle of Karshish [1855], l. 305 We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted-better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that. Robert Browning Fra Lippo Lippi [1855], l. 300 Rafael made a century of sonnets. Robert Browning One Word More [1855],2 Does he paint? he fain would write a poem- Does he write? he fain would paint a picture. Robert Browning One Word More [1855],8 Where my heart lies, let my brain lie also. Robert Browning One Word More [1855],14 Oh, their Rafael of the dear Madonnas, Oh, their Dante of the dread Inferno, Wrote one song-and in my brain I sing it, Drew one angel-borne, see, on my bosom! Robert Browning One Word More [1855],19 That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Robert Browning Abt Vogler [1864],st. 7 On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round. Robert Browning Abt Vogler [1864],st. 9 The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard. Robert Browning Abt Vogler [1864],st. 10 Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe. Robert Browning Abt Vogler [1864],st. 11 The C Major of this life. Robert Browning Abt Vogler [1864],st. 12 Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand. Robert Browning Rabbi Ben Ezra [1864],st. 1 Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast? Robert Browning Rabbi Ben Ezra [1864],st. 4 Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! Robert Browning Rabbi Ben Ezra [1864],st. 6 What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me. Robert Browning Rabbi Ben Ezra [1864],st. 7 Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage. Robert Browning Rabbi Ben Ezra [1864],st. 13 Look not thou down but up! Robert Browning Rabbi Ben Ezra [1864],st. 30 Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops. Robert Browning A Death in the Desert [1864],l. 134 To test man, the proofs shift. Robert Browning A Death in the Desert [1864],l. 420 Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are; Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. Robert Browning A Death in the Desert [1864],l. 586 Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos! 'Thinketh, He dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon. Robert Browning Caliban upon Setebos [1864],l. 24 Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop. Robert Browning Caliban upon Setebos [1864],l. 250 The best way to escape His ire Is, not to seem too happy. Robert Browning Caliban upon Setebos [1864],l. 256 How sad and bad and mad it was 1 - But then, how it was sweet! Robert Browning Confessions [1864], st. 9 1 See Swinburne Fear death?-to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face. Robert Browning Prospice [1864],l. 1 No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. Robert Browning Prospice [1864],l. 17 Hold me but safe again within the bond Of one immortal look. Robert Browning Eurydice to Orpheus [1864], l. 5 This could but have happened once- And we missed it, lost it forever. Robert Browning Youth and Art [1864], st. 17 All that I own is a print, An etching, a mezzotint. Robert Browning A Likeness [1864],st. 4 A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. Robert Browning A Likeness [1864],st. 6 We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them. Robert Browning Mr. Sludge, "The Medium" [1864],l. 1112 'Tis because stiffish cock-tail, taken in time, Is better for a bruise than arnica. Robert Browning Mr. Sludge, "The Medium" [1864],l. 1478 It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began best can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accursed. Robert Browning Apparent Failure [1864], st. 7 O Lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire. Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.I, l. 1391 That's all we may expect of man, this side The grave: his good is-knowing he is bad. Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.VI, Giuseppe Caponsacchi,l. 142 'Twas a thief said the last kind word to Christ: Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.VI, Giuseppe Caponsacchi,l. 869 All poetry is difficult to read, -The sense of it is, anyhow. Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.VII, Pompilia,l. 1144 No work begun shall ever pause for death! Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.VII, Pompilia,l. 1770 Let him wait God's instant men call years. Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.VII, Pompilia,l. 1824 Through such souls alone God stooping shows sufficient of His light For us i' the dark to rise by. And I rise. Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.VII, Pompilia,l. 1827 Faultless to a fault. 1 Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.IX, Juris Doctor JohannesBaptista Bottinius, l. 1170 1 See Tennyson The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness. Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.X, The Pope,l. 590 What I call God, And fools call Nature. Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.X, The Pope,l. 1073 Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.X, The Pope,l. 1185 White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice. Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.X, The Pope,l. 1236 Waived all reward, loved but for loving's sake, And what my heart taught me, I taught the world. Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.X, The Pope,l. 1706 You never know what life means till you die: Even throughout life, 'tis death that makes life live, Gives it whatever the significance. Robert Browning The Ring and the Book [1868-1869], bk.XI, Guido, l. 2375 Save the squadron, honor France, love thy wife the Belle Aurore! Robert Browning Herve Riel [1871], st. 11 A man in armor is his armor's slave. Robert Browning Herakles [1871] In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages. Robert Browning Herakles [1871] So absolutely good is truth, truth never hurts The teller. Robert Browning Fifine at the Fair [1872], st. 32 That far land we dream about, Where every man is his own architect. Robert Browning Red Cotton Nightcap Country [1873], II A secret's safe 'Twixt you, me, and the gatepost! Robert Browning The Inn Album [1875],II Ignorance is not innocence but sin. Robert Browning The Inn Album [1875],V Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again. Robert Browning At the "Mermaid" [1876],st. 10 I find earth not gray but rosy, Heaven not grim but fair of hue. Do I stoop? I pluck a posy. Do I stand and stare? 1 All's blue. Robert Browning At the "Mermaid" [1876],st. 12 1 See Davies Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live. Robert Browning La Saisiaz [1877]. Introduction, st. 1 Sky-what a scowl of cloud Till, near and far, Ray on ray split the shroud: Splendid, a star! Robert Browning The Two Poets of Croisic [1878]. Introduction, st. 2 As if true pride Were not also humble! Robert Browning Lines written in an album [1882] Wanting is-what? Summer redundant, Blueness abundant, -Where is the blot? Robert Browning Wanting Is-What? [1883] Out of the wreck I rise. Robert Browning Ixion [1883] Never the time and the place And the loved one all together! Robert Browning Never the Time and the Place [1883] Help me with knowledge-for Life's Old-Death's New! Robert Browning Epitaph on Levi Lincoln Thaxter, 1824-1884 But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty. Robert Browning Why I Am a Liberal [1885], l. 9 A minute's success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning Apollo and the Fates [1886], st. 42 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 fight better, Sleep to wake. Robert Browning Asolando [1889]. Epilogue, st. 3 Samuel Dickinson Burchard 1812-1891 We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. Samuel Dickinson Burchard Speaking for a deputation of clergymen calling upon James G. Blaine, the Republican presidential candidate, in New York [October 29, 1884] Charles Dickens John Huffam 1812-1870 A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing. Charles Dickens Sketches by Boz [1836-1837]. Tales, ch. 3 He had used the word [humbug] in its Pickwickian sense. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.1 "An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.2 "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon." Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.8 I wants to make your flesh creep. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.8 Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog! Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.15 Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman's. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.19 Mr. Weller's knowledge of London was extensive and peculiar. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.20 I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.20 Be wery careful o' vidders all your life. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.20 The wictim o' connubiality, as Blue Beard's domestic chaplain said, with a tear of pity, ven he buried him. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.20 Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.25 Eccentricities of genius. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.30 Keep yourself to yourself. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.32 Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on Boxin' Day. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.33 She'll wish there was more, and that's the great art o' letter-writin'. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.33 Never mind the character, stick to the alleybi. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.33 She knows wot's wot, she does. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.37  They don't mind it; it's a regular holiday to them-all porter and skittles. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.41 Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.43 Right as a trivet. Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch.50 Oliver Twist has asked for more! Charles Dickens Oliver Twist [1837-1838], ch.2 "The artful Dodger." Charles Dickens Oliver Twist [1837-1838], ch.8 "Hard," replied the Dodger. "As nails," added Charley Bates. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist [1837-1838], ch.9 There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist [1837-1838], ch.10 I'll eat my head. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist [1837-1838], ch.10 I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys, and beef-faced boys. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist [1837-1838], ch.10 There's light enough for wot I've got to do. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist [1837-1838], ch.47 "If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble . . . "the law is a ass, a idiot." Charles Dickens Oliver Twist [1837-1838], ch.51 He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two. Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.4 Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur. Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.5 There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.10 Oh! they're too beautiful to live, much too beautiful! Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.14 I pity his ignorance and despise him. Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.15 The infant phenomenon. Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.23 The unities, sir . . . are a completeness-a kind of universal dove-tailedness with regard to place and time. Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.24 The two countesses had no outlines at all, and the dowager's was a demd outline. Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.34 A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body! Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.34 Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.49 All is gas and gaiters. Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.49 My life is one demd horrid grind. Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.64 He has gone to the demnition bowwows. Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby [1838-1839], ch.64 What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop [1841], ch.2 She's the ornament of her sex. Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop [1841], ch.5 In love of home, the love of country has its rise. Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop [1841], ch.38 That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning. 1 2 Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop [1841], ch.40 1 See Byron 2 See Ade "Did you ever taste beer?" "I had a sip of it once," said the small servant. "Here's a state of things!" cried Mr. Swiveller. . . . "She never tasted it-it can't be tasted in a sip!" Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop [1841], ch.57 It was a maxim with Foxey-our revered father, gentlemen-"Always suspect everybody." Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop [1841], ch.66 Rather a tough customer in argyment. Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge [1841], ch.1 "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, " . . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated." Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge [1841], ch.22 Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly? Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge [1841], ch.70 Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.5 With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.8 "Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic." Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.9 Keep up appearances whatever you do. Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.11 "Do other men for they would do you." That's the true business precept. Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.11 Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation. Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.18 Leave the bottle on the chimleypiece, and don't ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged. Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.19 Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye [Sairey Gamp]. Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.25 "She's the sort of woman now," said Mould . . . "one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!" Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.25 He'd make a lovely corpse. Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.25 Gamp is my name, and Gamp my nater. Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.26 Our fellow-countryman is a model of a man, quite fresh from Natur's mold! Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.34 Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us! Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.40 I don't believe there's no sich a person! Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.49 The words she spoke of Mrs. Harris, lambs could not forgive . . . nor worms forget. Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit [1843-1844], ch.49 Oh, but he was a tightfisted hand at the grindstone. Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol [1843], stave1 "Bah," said Scrooge. "Humbug!" Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol [1843], stave1 I wear the chain I forged in life [Marley's Ghost]. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol [1843], stave1 "I am the Ghost of Christmas Past." "Long past?" inquired Scrooge . . . "No. Your past." Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol [1843], stave2 In came a fiddler-and tuned like fifty stomachaches. In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol [1843], stave2 I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol [1843], stave3 As good as gold [Tiny Tim]. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol [1843], stave3 "God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol [1843], stave3 "I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?" said Scrooge. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol [1843], stave4 I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol [1843], stave4 It was a turkey! He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird! He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol [1843], stave5 Oh let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations. Charles Dickens The Chimes [1844], second quarter He's tough, ma'am, tough, is J.B. Tough and devilish sly! Charles Dickens Dombey and Son [1848], ch.7  I want to know what it says. . . . The sea, Floy, what it is that it keeps on saying. Charles Dickens Dombey and Son [1848], ch.8 "Wal'r, my boy," replied the Captain, "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, "May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of." Charles Dickens Dombey and Son [1848], ch.15 Cows are my passion. Charles Dickens Dombey and Son [1848], ch.21 The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. Charles Dickens Dombey and Son [1848], ch.23 You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.3 I am a lone lorn creetur . . . and everythink goes contrairy with me. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.3 Barkis is willin'. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.5  Experientia does it-as Papa used to say. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.11 "In case anything turned up," which was his [Mr. Micawber's] favorite expression. 1 Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.11 1 See Disraeli I never will desert Mr. Micawber. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.12 Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.12 It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.14 Never . . . be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.15  I'm a very umble person. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.16  The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my head. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.17 It was as true . . . as turnips is. It was as true . . . as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.21 What a world of gammon and spinach it is, though, ain't it! Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.22 Nobody's enemy but his own. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.25 Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.28 Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race! Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.28 A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull all together. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.30 He's a-going out with the tide. 1 2 Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.30 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Frazer I ate umble pie with an appetite. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.39 Let sleeping dogs lie-who wants to rouse 'em? 1 Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.39 1 See Chaucer Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.43 It's only my child-wife. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.44 There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.45 A man must take the fat with the lean. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.51 Trifles make the sum of life. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.53 The seamen said it blew great guns. Charles Dickens David Copperfield [1849-1850], ch.55 He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly reasonable man. Charles Dickens Bleak House [1852-1858], ch.2 This is a London particular. . . . A fog, miss. Charles Dickens Bleak House [1852-1858], ch.3 Not to put too fine a point upon it. Charles Dickens Bleak House [1852-1858], ch.11 [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was not like anything in the world but a model of Deportment. Charles Dickens Bleak House [1852-1858], ch.14 What I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Charles Dickens Hard Times [1854], bk.I, ch. 1 There is a wisdom of the head, and . . . a wisdom of the heart. Charles Dickens Hard Times [1854], bk.III, ch. 1 I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence. Charles Dickens Little Dorrit [1857-1858], bk.I, ch.2 Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving-how not to do it. Charles Dickens Little Dorrit [1857-1858], bk.I, ch.10 Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism. Charles Dickens Little Dorrit [1857-1858], bk.II, ch.5 Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. Charles Dickens Little Dorrit [1857-1858], bk.II, ch.28 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities [1859], bk.I, ch.1 A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities [1859], bk.I, ch.3 It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities [1859], bk.III, ch. 15 In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. Charles Dickens Great Expectations [1860-1861], ch.9 Ever the best of friends! Charles Dickens Great Expectations [1860-1861], ch.18 My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property. Charles Dickens Great Expectations [1860-1861], ch.24 Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. Charles Dickens Great Expectations [1860-1861], ch.40 Money and goods are certainly the best of references. Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend [1864-1865], bk.I, ch.4 Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry [Mr. Boffin on Silas Wegg]. Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend [1864-1865], bk.I, ch.5 People now call him the Golden Dustman [Mr. Boffin]. Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend [1864-1865], bk.I, ch.11 The gay, the gay and festive scene. Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend [1864-1865], bk.I, ch.15 I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house. 1 Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend [1864-1865], bk.I, ch.55 1 See Ibsen I don't care whether I am a Minx or a Sphinx [Lavvy]. Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend [1864-1865], bk.II, ch. 8 That's the state to live and die in! . . . R-r-rich! Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend [1864-1865], bk.III, ch. 5 We must scrunch or be scrunched. Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend [1864-1865], bk.III, ch. 5 Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov 1812-1891  "And he was as intelligent as other people, his soul was pure and clear as crystal; he was noble and affectionate-and yet he did nothing!" "But why? What was the reason?" "The reason . . . what reason was there? Oblomovism!" Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov Oblomov [1859], pt. IV, ch. 12 Alexander Ivanovich Herzen 1812-1870 Communism is a Russian autocracy turned upside down. Alexander Ivanovich Herzen The Development of Revolutionary Ideas in Russia [1851] Russia's future will be a great danger for Europe and a great misfortune for Russia if there is no emancipation of the individual. One more century of present despotism will destroy all the good qualities of the Russian people. Alexander Ivanovich Herzen The Development of Revolutionary Ideas in Russia [1851] Edward Lear 1812-1888 There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said: "It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard." Edward Lear Book of Nonsense [1846]. Limerick How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! 1 Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough. Edward Lear Nonsense Songs [1871]. Preface,st. 1 1 See T. S. Eliot His body is perfectly spherical, He weareth a runcible hat. Edward Lear Nonsense Songs [1871]. Preface,st. 5 The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar, "O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are." Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat [1871],st. 1 Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl! How charmingly sweet you sing! O let us be married! too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?" They sailed away, for a year and a day, To the land where the Bong-tree grows And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood With a ring at the end of his nose. Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat [1871],st. 2 "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will." Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat [1871],st. 3 They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat [1871],st. 3 Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a sieve. Edward Lear The Jumblies [1871], st. 1 Calico Pie, The little Birds fly Down to the calico tree, Their wings were blue, And they sang "Tilly-loo!" Till away they flew- And they never came back to me! Edward Lear Calico Pie [1871],st. 1 Calico Jam, The little Fish swam, Over the syllabub sea. Edward Lear Calico Pie [1871],st. 2 Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akond of Swat? Edward Lear The Akond of Swat [1877], l. 1 On the top of the Crumpetty Tree The Quangle Wangle sat, But his face you could not see, On account of his Beaver Hat. Edward Lear The Quangle Wangle's Hat [1877], st. 1 On the coast of Coromandel Where the early pumpkins blow, In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-B[. Two old chairs, and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all his worldly goods. Edward Lear The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bo [1877],st. 1 There he heard a Lady talking, To some milk-white Hens of Dorking- 'Tis the Lady Jingly Jones! Edward Lear The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bo [1877],st. 2 "I would be your wife most gladly!" (Here she twirled her fingers madly), "But in England I've a mate!" Edward Lear The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bo [1877],st. 5 When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights. Edward Lear The Dong with the Luminous Nose [1877], st. 1 When storm-clouds brood on the towering heights Of the hills of the Chankly Bore. Edward Lear The Dong with the Luminous Nose [1877], st. 1 The Pobble who has no toes Had once as many as we; When they said, "Some day you may lose them all"- He replied, "Fish fiddle de-dee!" Edward Lear The Pobble Who Has No Toes [1877],st. 1 It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes. Edward Lear The Pobble Who Has No Toes [1877],st. 6 Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee! We think no Birds so happy as we! Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill! We think so then, and we thought so still. Edward Lear The Pelican Chorus [1877], chorus Samuel Smiles 1812-1904 The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Samuel Smiles Self-Help [1859] William Edmondstoune Aytoun 1813-1865 Nowhere beats the heart so kindly As beneath the tartan plaid! William Edmondstoune Aytoun Charles Edward at Versailles [1849], l. 219 The deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. William Edmondstoune Aytoun The Island of the Scots [1849], st. 12 Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the nation that sets it forth. Henry Ward Beecher The American Flag Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore! Henry Ward Beecher Star Papers [1855]. Subtleties of Book Buyers Now comes the mystery. Henry Ward Beecher Last words [March 8, 1887] Claude Bernard 1813-1878 Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. Claude Bernard Introduction a l'Etude de la Medecine Experimentale [1865] The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen. Claude Bernard Introduction a l'Etude de la Medecine Experimentale [1865] Science repulses the indefinite. Claude Bernard Introduction a l'Etude de la Medecine Experimentale [1865] Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science. Claude Bernard Lecons de Pathologie Experimentale [1872] The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them. Claude Bernard Lecons sur les Phenomenes de la Vie Communs aux Animaux et aux Vegetaux [1878-1879] All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment. Claude Bernard Lecons sur les Phenomenes de la Vie Communs aux Animaux et aux Vegetaux [1878-1879] True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance. Claude Bernard From Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, vol. IV [1928], p. 997 Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride. Claude Bernard From Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, vol. IV [1928], p. 997 If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation. Claude Bernard From Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, vol. IV [1928], p. 997 A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We. Claude Bernard From Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, vol. IV [1928], p. 997 Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard From Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, vol. IV [1928], p. 997 We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them. Claude Bernard From Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, vol. IV [1928], p. 997 The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion. Claude Bernard Pensees [1937] Georg Buchner 1813-1837 The Revolution is like Saturn-it eats its own children. Georg Buchner Danton's Death [1835] John William Burgon 1813-1888 A rose-red city half as old as time. 1 John William Burgon Petra [1845] 1 See Samuel Rogers Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard Life All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge. Soren Kierkegaard Concluding Unscientific Postscript The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen. Soren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling [1843]. Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration John Louis O'Sullivan 1813-1895 Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. John Louis O'Sullivan United States Magazine and Demo-cratic Review [July-August 1845] Richard Wagner 1813-1883 O thou, my gracious evening star. Richard Wagner Tannh[auml ]user [1845] To be German means to carry on a matter for its own sake. Richard Wagner Deutsche Kunst und Deutsche Politik [1867] Ride of the Valkyries. Richard Wagner Die Walkure [1876] The pure fool. Richard Wagner Parsifal [1882] Henry Stevenson Washburn 1813-1903 We shall meet, but we shall miss him, There will be one vacant chair. Henry Stevenson Washburn The Vacant Chair, st. 1 Thomas Osborne Davis 1814-1845 Come in the evening, or come in the morning, Come when you're looked for, or come without warning. Thomas Osborne Davis The Welcome, st. 1 Sheep without a Shepherd, When the snow shuts out the sky- Oh, why did you leave us, Owen? Why did you die? Thomas Osborne Davis Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill, st. 7 Frederick William Faber 1814-1863 Faith of our fathers! holy faith! We will be true to thee till death. Frederick William Faber A Pledge of Faithfulness [1849] Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov 1814-1841 A Hero of Our Time, gentlemen, is indeed a portrait, but not of a single individual; it is a portrait composed of all the vices of our generation in the fullness of their development. Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov A Hero of Our Time [1840]. Author's Introduction A solitary sail that rises White in the blue mist on the foam- What is it in far lands it prizes? What does it leave behind at home? Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov A Sail [1841],st. 1 Beneath, the azure current floweth, Above, the golden sunlight glows. Rebellious, the storms it wooeth, As if the storms could give repose. Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov A Sail [1841],st. 3 Charles Mackay 1814-1889 There's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming. Charles Mackay The Good Time Coming, st. 1 Edwin McMasters Stanton 1814-1869 Now he [Lincoln] belongs to the ages. Edwin McMasters Stanton On the death of Lincoln [April 15, 1865] Otto von Bismarck 1815-1898  The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions-that was the error of 1848 and 1849-but by iron and blood. Otto von Bismarck Speech to the Prussian Diet [September 30, 1862]  Politics is not an exact science. Otto von Bismarck Speech to the Herrenhaus [December 13, 1863] The glass house of German statecraft. Otto von Bismarck Concerning Austro-German power, to a commission of the Prussian Landtag [1864] Only a completely ready state can permit the luxury of a liberal government. Otto von Bismarck Speech [1866] Let us put Germany in the saddle, so to speak-it already knows how to ride. Otto von Bismarck Speech to the North German Reichstag[March 11, 1867] A conquering army on the border will not be halted by the power of eloquence. Otto von Bismarck Speech to the North German Reichstag[September 24, 1867] He who has his thumb on the purse has the power. Otto von Bismarck Speech to the North German Reichstag[May 21, 1869] The luxury of one's own opinion. Otto von Bismarck Speech to the Prussian Diet [December 17, 1873] The right people in the right jobs. Otto von Bismarck Speech to the North German Reichstag [1875] Politics ruins the character. Otto von Bismarck Reported by Bernhard Brigl in the Berlin T[auml ]gliche Rundschau [1881] We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. Otto von Bismarck Speech to the Reichstag [February 6, 1888] Richard Henry Dana 1815-1882 Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh-holystone the decks and scrape the cable. Richard Henry Dana Two Years Before the Mast [1840], ch.3  He seldom went up to town without coming down "three sheets in the wind." Richard Henry Dana Two Years Before the Mast [1840], ch.20 Everything was "shipshape and Bristol fashion." Richard Henry Dana Two Years Before the Mast [1840], ch.22 David Davis 1815-1886 The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. David Davis Ex Parte Milligan, 4 Wallace 2, 120-121 [1866] Daniel Decatur Emmett 1815-1904 I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Old times dar am not forgotten. Look away, look away, Look away, Dixie Land. Daniel Decatur Emmett Dixie [1859],st. 1 In Dixie's land, we'll took our stand, To lib an' die in Dixie! Daniel Decatur Emmett Dixie [1859],st. 3 John Babsone Lane Soule 1815-1891  Go west, young man. John Babsone Lane Soule Article in the Terre Haute (Indiana) Express [1851] Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York [July 19-20, 1848].Declaration of Sentiments Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise. Elizabeth Cady Stanton First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York [July 19-20, 1848].Resolution IX The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The Negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Speech before the New York Legislature [February 18, 1860]  Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Letter to Susan B. Anthony [June 14, 1860] Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning. . . . We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson [January 13, 1868]  Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other. . . . If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Letter to Lucretia Mott [April 1, 1872] Anthony Trollope 1815-1882 The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press. Anthony Trollope The Warden [1855], ch. 14 One of her instructors in fashion had given her to understand that curls were not the thing. "They'll always pass muster," Miss Dunstable had replied, "when they are done up with bank notes." Anthony Trollope Doctor Thorne [1858], ch.16 There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. Anthony Trollope Doctor Thorne [1858], ch.18 I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world. Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage [1861] She understood how much louder a cock can crow in its own farmyard than elsewhere. Anthony Trollope The Last Chronicle of Barset [1867], vol.I, ch.17 Always remember that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last. Anthony Trollope The Last Chronicle of Barset [1867], vol.I, ch.20 It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. 1 Anthony Trollope The Last Chronicle of Barset [1867], vol.II, ch.58 1 See John Adams It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it. Anthony Trollope The Last Chronicle of Barset [1867], vol.II, ch.61 Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless. Anthony Trollope The Last Chronicle of Barset [1867], vol.II, ch.67 She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it. Anthony Trollope Phineas Finn [1869], ch. 57 There are worse things than a lie . . . I have found . . . that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned. Anthony Trollope Doctor Wortle's School [1879], ch. 6 Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century. Anthony Trollope An Autobiography [1883], ch.6  A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules. Anthony Trollope An Autobiography [1883], ch.7 Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable. 1 Anthony Trollope An Autobiography [1883], ch.19 1 See Henry James Philip James Bailey 1816-1902 Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God. Philip James Bailey Festus [1839].Proem We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. Philip James Bailey Festus [1839].A Country Town Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from hell. Philip James Bailey Festus [1839].A Country Town America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land. Philip James Bailey Festus [1839].The Surface Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855 We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air. Charlotte Bronte Retrospection [1846], st. 1 The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed. Charlotte Bronte Evening Solace [1846], st. 1 Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre [1847],preface Reader, I married him. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre [1847],ch. 38 An abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England. Charlotte Bronte Shirley [1849], ch. 1 Unromantic as Monday morning. Charlotte Bronte Shirley [1849], ch. 1 Gustav Freytag 1816-1895  Madness of the Caesars. Gustav Freytag Die Verlorene Handschrift [1864] Ellen Sturgis Hooper 1816-1841 I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I woke-and found that life was duty. Ellen Sturgis Hooper Beauty and Duty ÿ Eugene Pottier 1816-1887 Arise, ye prisoners of starvation, Arise, ye wretched of the earth, For justice thunders condemnation- A better world's in birth. Eugene Pottier L'Internationale [1871] John Godfrey Saxe 1816-1887 In battle or business, whatever the game, In law or in love, it is ever the same; In the struggle for power, or the scramble for pelf, Let this be your motto-Rely on yourself! For, whether the prize be a ribbon or throne, The victor is he who can go it alone! John Godfrey Saxe The Game of Life, st. 7 "God bless the man who first invented sleep!" 1 So Sancho Panza said, and so say I. 2 John Godfrey Saxe Early Rising, st. 1 1 See Cervantes 2 See F. P. Adams Frederick Douglass c. 1817-1895  Every tone [of the songs of the slaves] was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass [1845], ch. 2 The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . . If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. 1 Frederick Douglass From John W. Blassingame, Frederick Douglass: The Clarion Voice [1976] 1 See Psalm 93:4 What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham. Frederick Douglass What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Speech at Rochester, New York [July 4, 1852] You profess to believe that "of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth"-and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another-yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own! Frederick Douglass What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Speech at Rochester, New York [July 4, 1852] The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed. Frederick Douglass Speech at the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society annual meeting, New York City [May 1853] The destiny of the colored American . . . is the destiny of America. 1 Frederick Douglass Speech at the Emancipation League, Boston [February 12, 1862] 1 See Du Bois The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve. 1 Frederick Douglass Speech at the Church of the Puritans, New York City [May 1863] 1 See Du Bois Despite of it all, the Negro remains . . . cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful. Frederick Douglass Speech on the twenty-first anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. [April 1883] In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line. Frederick Douglass Speech at the Convention of Colored Men, Louisville, Kentucky [September 24, 1883] No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. Frederick Douglass Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C. [October 22, 1883] The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Frederick Douglass Speech on the twenty-third anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. [April 1885] Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. [April 1886] James T homas Fields 1817-1881 But his little daughter whispered, As she took his icy hand, "Isn't God upon the ocean, Just the same as on the land?" 1 2 James T homas Fields The Captain's Daughter; or, The Ballad of the Tempest [1858], st. 5 1 See Sir Humphrey Gilbert 2 See Robert Burton Georg Herwegh 1817-1875 The poor human heart must break piecemeal. Georg Herwegh Strophen aus der Fremde [1840]. From Ruckert's Musenalmanach Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 I am a parcel of vain strivings tied By a chance bond together. Henry David Thoreau Sic Vita [1841], st. 1 We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].April 9, 1841 The Indian . . . stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].April 26, 1841  It is a great art to saunter. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].April 26, 1841 A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be in Uranus, or it may be in the shutter. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].July 10-12, 1841 For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].February 22, 1845-1847 And now, at half-past ten o'clock, I hear the cockerels crow in Hubbard's barns, and morning is already anticipated. It is the feathered, wakeful thought in us that anticipates the following day. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].July 11, 1851 Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. 1 2 3 4 5 Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].September 7, 1851 1 See Proverbs 3:25 2 See Montaigne 3 See Bacon 4 See Wellington 5 See Roosevelt The bluebird carries the sky on his back. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].April 3, 1852 The perception of beauty is a moral test. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].June 21, 1852 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].July 14, 1852 Fire is the most tolerable third party. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].January 2, 1853 Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].November 11, 1854 Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].January 5, 1856 The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth . . . these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].January 5, 1856 That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].March 11, 1856 This bird [the crow] sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge. . . . It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].March 23, 1856 The savage in man is never quite eradicated. Henry David Thoreau Journal [1906].September 26, 1859 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. Henry David Thoreau A Prayer [1842], st. 1 Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature-daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it-rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we? Henry David Thoreau The Maine Woods, Ktaadn [1848] I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience [1849] How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience [1849] When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience [1849] A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience [1849] I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience [1849] Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience [1849] Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison . . . the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience [1849] I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience [1849] My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the ocean's edge as I can go. Henry David Thoreau My Life Is Like a Stroll upon the Beach [1849], st. 1 The vessel, though her masts be firm, Beneath her copper bears a worm. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Monday [Though All the Fates Should Prove Unkind, st. 2] Far from New England's blustering shore, New England's worm her hulk shall bore, And sink her in the Indian seas, Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Monday [Though All the Fates Should Prove Unkind, st. 2] Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Wednesday It takes two to speak the truth-one to speak, and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Wednesday Even the death of friends will inspire us as much as their lives. . . . Their memories will be encrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our friends have no place in the graveyard. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Wednesday This world is but canvas to our imaginations. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Wednesday Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Wednesday Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Thursday The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Thursday A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Thursday Here while I lie beneath this walnut bough, What care I for the Greeks or for Troy town, If juster battles are enacted now Beneath the ants upon this hummock's crown? Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].ThursdayMy Books I'd Fain Cast Off, st. 3 As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Friday What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them? Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Friday It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Friday The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].Friday My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [1849].FridayMy Life Has Been the Poem I Would Have Writ The fate of the country . . . does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning. Henry David Thoreau Slavery in Massachusetts [1854] I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy I have traveled a good deal in Concord. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather, indicates, his fate. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow 1 unless he sweats easier than I do. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy 1 See Genesis 3:19 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy When a man dies he kicks the dust. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. 1 Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy 1 See Shakespeare There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],1, Economy A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],2, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],2, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For To be awake is to be alive. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],2, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],2, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],2, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],2, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],2, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],2, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they are written. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],3, Reading What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],3, Reading Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. . . . Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],3, Reading The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],3, Reading It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],3, Reading How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],3, Reading I love a broad margin to my life. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],4, Sounds Our horizon is never quite at our elbows. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],5, Solitude I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. 1 2 Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],5, Solitude 1 See Cicero 2 See Samuel Rogers I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],6, Visitors Ministers who spoke of God as if they enjoyed a monopoly of the subject. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],6, Visitors I was determined to know beans. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],7, The Beanfield Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],10, Baker Farm There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],11, Higher Laws  They [wood stumps] warmed me twice-once while I was splitting them, and again when they were on the fire. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],13, Housewarming Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],16, The Pond in Winter While men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],16, The Pond in Winter What is man but a mass of thawing clay? Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],17, Spring Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],17, Spring We need the tonic of wildness . . . We can never have enough of nature. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],17, Spring As if there were safety in stupidity alone. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],18, Conclusion If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],18, Conclusion If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],18, Conclusion Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],18, Conclusion It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],18, Conclusion Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau Walden [1854],18, Conclusion He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man. Henry David Thoreau A Plea for Captain John Brown [1859] I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Henry David Thoreau A Plea for Captain John Brown [1859] It was his peculiar doctrine that a man has a perfect right to interfere by force with the slaveholder, in order to rescue the slave. I agree with him. They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others. Henry David Thoreau A Plea for Captain John Brown [1859] I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me. Henry David Thoreau A Plea for Captain John Brown [1859] So we defend ourselves and our henroosts, and maintain slavery. Henry David Thoreau A Plea for Captain John Brown [1859] He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light. Henry David Thoreau A Plea for Captain John Brown [1859]  In wildness is the preservation of the world. Henry David Thoreau Walking [1862] Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. Henry David Thoreau Walking [1862] Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. Henry David Thoreau Life Without Principle [1863] I'm contented you should stay For ever and aye If you can take yourself away Any day. Henry David Thoreau I'm Contented You Should Stay [1943] What sought they thus afar They sought a faith's pure shrine.Seek! shall I seek! The Gods above should give, They have enough and we do poorly live. Henry David Thoreau What Sought They Thus Afar [1943], st. 1, 2 Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoi 1817-1875 His pen is breathing revenge. Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoi Vaska Shibanov [1855-1865] No one can encompass the unencompassable. Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoi Collected Works of Kosma Prutkov [1884] If thou hast a fountain, shut it up: let even a fountain have a rest. Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoi Collected Works of Kosma Prutkov [1884] Many men are like unto sausages: whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them. Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoi Collected Works of Kosma Prutkov [1884] If you want to be happy, be. Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoi Collected Works of Kosma Prutkov [1884] Alexander II 1818-1881 Better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait till it begins to abolish itself from below. Alexander II Speech in Moscow [March 30, 1856] Cecil Frances Alexander 1818-1895 All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. 1 Cecil Frances Alexander All Things Bright and Beautiful [1848], st. 1 1 See Coleridge There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all. Cecil Frances Alexander There Is a Green Hill [1848], st. 1 Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for his bed: Mary was that Mother mild, Jesus Christ her little Child. Cecil Frances Alexander Once in Royal David's City [1848], st. 1 Josh Billings Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885 A sekret ceases tew be a sekret if it iz once confided-it iz like a dollar bill, once broken, it iz never a dollar agin. Josh Billings Affurisms [1865]. From Josh Billings: His Sayings Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us. Josh Billings Affurisms [1865]. From Josh Billings: His Sayings Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blarsted consarn; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want tew boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed tew plant it. Josh Billings Affurisms [1865]. From Josh Billings: His Sayings Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. Josh Billings Affurisms [1865]. From Josh Billings: His Sayings Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it. Josh Billings Affurisms [1865]. From Josh Billings: His Sayings I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words. Josh Billings Affurisms [1865]. From Josh Billings: His Sayings As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings Affurisms [1865]. From Josh Billings: His Sayings Poverty iz the stepmother ov genius. Josh Billings Affurisms [1865]. From Josh Billings: His Sayings The wheel that squeaks the loudest Is the one that gets the grease. Josh Billings The Kicker  It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. Josh Billings Proverb [1874] Emily Bronte 1818-1848 Sleep not, dream not; this bright day Will not, cannot last for aye; Bliss like thine is bought by years Dark with torment and with tears. Emily Bronte Sleep Not [1846], st. 1 Cold in the earth-and fifteen wild Decembers From those brown hills have melted into spring. Emily Bronte Remembrance [1846],st. 3 Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again? Emily Bronte Remembrance [1846],st. 8 Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, With courage to endure. Emily Bronte The Old Stoic [1846], st. 3 No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. Emily Bronte Last Lines [1846],st. 1 There is not room for Death. Emily Bronte Last Lines [1846],st. 7 I am Heathcliff. Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights [1847],ch. 9 I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights [1847],last words William Ellery Channing 1818-1901 Habitant of castle gray, Creeping thing in sober way, Visible sage mechanician, Skillfulest arithmetician. William Ellery Channing The Spider I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me- If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea. William Ellery Channing A Poet's Hope The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain. William Ellery Channing Inscription for the Alcott house Eliza Cook 1818-1889 I love it, I love it; and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old armchair? Eliza Cook The Old Armchair Better build schoolrooms for "the boy" Than cells and gibbets for "the man." Eliza Cook A Song for the Ragged Schools, st. 12 George Duffield 1818-1888 Stand up!-stand up for Jesus! George Duffield Hymn William Maxwell Evarts 1818-1901  The pious ones of Plymouth, who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. William Maxwell Evarts From Henry Watterson in the Louisville Courier-Journal [July 4, 1913] Karl Marx 1818-1883 Religion . . . is the opium of the people. 1 Karl Marx Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right [1844], introduction 1 See Unamuno It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but on the contrary it is their social existence that determines their consciousness. Karl Marx Critique of Political Economy [1859], preface Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. If it be useless, the labor contained in it is useless, cannot be reckoned as labor, and cannot therefore create value. Karl Marx Capital [1867-1883], pt. II, ch.3 The intellectual desolation, artificially produced by converting immature human beings into mere machines. Karl Marx Capital [1867-1883], pt. II, ch.10 Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of nature, its own negation. Karl Marx Capital [1867-1883], pt. II, ch.15 When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder. Karl Marx Capital [1867-1883], pt. II, ch.21 From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx Critique of the Gotha Program [1875] Karl Marx 1818-1883 Friedrich Engels 1820-1895 A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Czar, Meternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies. Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto [1848],opening lines The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to each other, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto [1848],sec.1  The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie has, historically, played a most revolutionary role. Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto [1848],sec.1 The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto [1848],sec.1  Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the race of modern industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product. Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto [1848],sec.1 In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto [1848],sec.2 In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end. Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto [1848],sec.2 The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto [1848],sec.2  The communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be obtained only by forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite! Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto [1848],sec.4 John Mason Neale 1818-1866 Good King Wenceslas looked out On the feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even. John Mason Neale Good King Wenceslas, st. 1 Brief life is here our portion. John Mason Neale Hymn from the Latin of St. Bernard of Cluny [c. 1145], pt.II, Hic Breve Vivitur [translated 1851], st. 1 Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blest, Beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. John Mason Neale Hymn from the Latin of St. Bernard of Cluny [c. 1145], pt.III, Urbs Syon Aurea [translated 1858], st. 1 O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel. John Mason Neale Hymn from the Latin, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel [twelfth century], st. 1 [translated 1861] Francis Edward Smedley 1818-1864 You are looking as fresh as paint. Francis Edward Smedley Frank Fairlegh [1850], ch.41  All's fair in love and war. Francis Edward Smedley Frank Fairlegh [1850], ch.50 Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 1818-1883 A nihilist is a man who does not bow to any authorities, who does not take any principle on trust, no matter with what respect that principle is surrounded. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Fathers and Sons [1862], ch.5 That vague, crepuscular time, the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Fathers and Sons [1862], ch.7 I share no man's opinions; I have my own. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Fathers and Sons [1862], ch.13 The courage not to believe in anything. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Fathers and Sons [1862], ch.14 A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound. 1 Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Fathers and Sons [1862], ch.16 1 See Anonymous (Early) Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four." Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Prayer In days of doubt, in days of sad brooding on my country's fate, thou alone art my rod and my staff-mighty, true, free Russian speech! But for thee, how not to fall into despair, seeing all that happens at home? Yet who can think that such a tongue is not given to a great people? Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Senilia [1882] Arthur Hugh Clough 1819-1861 Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market. Arthur Hugh Clough The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich [1848], pt.IV A world where nothing is had for nothing. Arthur Hugh Clough The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich [1848], pt.VIII Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief; Or at least, faith unbelief. Arthur Hugh Clough Easter Day II [1849], l. 34 Where lies the land to which the ships would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where the land she travels from? Away, Far, far behind, is all that they can say. 1 Arthur Hugh Clough Where Lies the Land to Which the Ship Would Go? [1852], st. 1 1 See Wordsworth And almost everyone when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like Him. Arthur Hugh Clough Dipsychus [1862], pt. I, sc. v How pleasant it is to have money! Arthur Hugh Clough Dipsychus [1862], pt. I, sc. v Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labor and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. Arthur Hugh Clough Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth [1862],st. 1 For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent flooding in, the main. 1 In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. Arthur Hugh Clough Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth [1862],st. 3, 4 1 See Macaulay No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency. Arthur Hugh Clough The Latest Decalogue [1862] Honor thy parents; that is, all From whom advancement may befall. Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive Officiously to keep alive. Arthur Hugh Clough The Latest Decalogue [1862] Thou shalt not covet, but tradition Approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough The Latest Decalogue [1862] George Eliot Marian Evans Cross 1819-1880 'Tis God gives skill, But not without men's hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari's violins Without Antonio. George Eliot Stradivarius O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence. George Eliot O May I Join the Choir Invisible Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. George Eliot Janet's Repentance [1857], ch.6 Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. George Eliot Janet's Repentance [1857], ch.8 These fellow mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are. George Eliot Adam Bede [1859], ch.17 There's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. George Eliot Adam Bede [1859], ch.18 It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. George Eliot Adam Bede [1859], ch.18 It was a pity he couldna be hatched o'er again, an' hatched different. George Eliot Adam Bede [1859], ch.18 A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side. George Eliot Adam Bede [1859], ch.27 It's them that take advantage that get advantage i' this world. George Eliot Adam Bede [1859], ch.32 He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. George Eliot Adam Bede [1859], ch.33 Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. George Eliot Adam Bede [1859], ch.42 We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. George Eliot Adam Bede [1859], ch.42 I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made 'em to match the men. George Eliot Adam Bede [1859], ch.53 The law's made to take care o' raskills. George Eliot The Mill on the Floss [1860], bk.III, ch.4 There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no superadded life in the life of others. George Eliot The Mill on the Floss [1860], bk.III, ch.5 In natural science, I have understood, there is nothing petty to the mind that has a large vision of relations, and to which every single object suggests a vast sum of conditions. It is surely the same with the observation of human life. George Eliot The Mill on the Floss [1860], bk.IV, ch. 1 Not let them want bread, but only require them to eat it with bitter herbs. 1 George Eliot The Mill on the Floss [1860], bk.IV, ch. 1 1 See Exodus 12:8  I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. George Eliot The Mill on the Floss [1860], bk.V, ch. 4 The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. 1 George Eliot The Mill on the Floss [1860], bk.VI, ch. 3 1 See Carlyle Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot Silas Marner [1861], ch. 18 In our springtime every day has its hidden growth in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground. George Eliot Felix Holt, the Radical [1866], ch.18 One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. George Eliot Felix Holt, the Radical [1866], ch.28 Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error. George Eliot Middlemarch [1871-1872],ch.10 If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. George Eliot Middlemarch [1871-1872],ch.22 If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us. George Eliot Middlemarch [1871-1872],ch.55 There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. George Eliot Middlemarch [1871-1872],Finale Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. George Eliot Daniel Deronda [1876], bk.I, ch. 5 A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot Daniel Deronda [1876], bk.II, ch. 15 Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness. George Eliot Daniel Deronda [1876], bk.IV, ch. 31 A new Judea, poised between East and West-a covenant of reconciliation. George Eliot Daniel Deronda [1876], bk.VI, ch. 42 Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. George Eliot Impressions of Theophrastus Such [1879] Thomas Dunn English 1819-1902 Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown. Thomas Dunn English Ben Bolt [1843] Josiah Gilbert Holland 1819-1881 Heaven is not reached at a single bound. Josiah Gilbert Holland Gradatim [1872], st. 1 God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie. Josiah Gilbert Holland Wanted [1872], l. 1 Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; 1 2 He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword; His truth is marching on. Julia Ward Howe Battle Hymn of the Republic [1862],st. 1 1 See Isaiah 63:3 2 See Revelation 19:15 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. Julia Ward Howe Battle Hymn of the Republic [1862],st. 5 Charles Kingsley 1819-1875 Give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me . . . signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe. Charles Kingsley Yeast [1848], ch. 5 Oh Mary, go and call the cattle home . . . Across the sands of Dee. Charles Kingsley The Sands of Dee [1849],st. 1 The cruel crawling foam. 1 Charles Kingsley The Sands of Dee [1849],st. 4 1 See Ruskin For men must work, and women must weep, And there's little to earn and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning. Charles Kingsley The Three Fishers [1851],st. 1 And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep; And good-bye to the bar and it's moaning. Charles Kingsley The Three Fishers [1851],st. 3 In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws. Charles Kingsley On the Death of a Certain Journal [1852], st. 5 Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever One grand sweet song. Charles Kingsley A Farewell [1856], st. 3 Clear and cool, clear and cool, By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool. Charles Kingsley Water Babies [1863].Song I, st. 1 When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day. 1 2 Charles Kingsley Water Babies [1863].Song II,st. 1 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Borrow God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young! Charles Kingsley Water Babies [1863].Song II,st. 1 The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby. 1 2 3 4 Charles Kingsley Water Babies [1863].ch. 5 1 See Matthew 7:12 2 See Confucius 3 See Aristotle 4 See Chesterfield Science frees us in many ways . . . from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming. Charles Kingsley Sermon, The Meteor Shower [November 26, 1866] Tell us not that the world is governed by universal law; the news is not comfortable, but simply horrible, unless you can tell us . . . that there is a loving giver, and a just administrator of that law. Charles Kingsley Sermon, The Meteor Shower [November 26, 1866] To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue. Charles Kingsley Health and Education [1874]. The Science of Health James Russell Lowell 1819-1891 Blessed are the horny hands of toil! James Russell Lowell A Glance Behind the Curtain [1843] They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. James Russell Lowell Stanzas on Freedom [1843], st. 4 They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. James Russell Lowell Stanzas on Freedom [1843], st. 4 The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude. James Russell Lowell Columbus [1844] Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side. James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis [1844],st. 5 Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne- Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis [1844],st. 8 New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth. James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis [1844],st. 18 I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest; James Russell Lowell On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington [1845], st. 2 The birch, most shy and ladylike of trees. James Russell Lowell An Indian Summer Reverie [1846], st. 8 Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. 1 2 3 James Russell Lowell The Vision of Sir Launfal [1848], prelude topt. I,st. 2 1 See Vaughn 2 See Traherne 3 See Wordsworth For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking: 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking. James Russell Lowell The Vision of Sir Launfal [1848], prelude topt. I,st. 4 And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. James Russell Lowell The Vision of Sir Launfal [1848], prelude topt. I,st. 5 Not what we give, but what we share- For the gift without the giver is bare; 1 2 3 Who gives himself with his alms feeds three- Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. James Russell Lowell The Vision of Sir Launfal [1848], prelude topt. II, st. 8 1 See Emerson 2 See Whitman 3 See Gibran In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics [1848] For though he builds glorious temples, 'tis odd He leaves never a doorway to get in a god. James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics [1848] And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak. James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics [1848] There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge. 1 James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics [1848] 1 See Poe Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can't write, can surely review. 1 2 3 James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics [1848] 1 See Coleridge 2 See Disraeli 3 See Flaubert Ez fer war, I call it murder 1 2 3 - There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.Series I [1848], no.1, st. 5 1 See Seneca 2 See Young 3 See Porteus You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.Series I [1848], no.1, st. 5 This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. 1 James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.Series I [1848], no.2, st. 6 1 See Thomas Moore A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.Series I [1848], no.4, st. 2 I du believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal An' in the traces lead 'em. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.Series I [1848], no.6,st. 7 I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.Series I [1848], no.6,st. 9 It ain't by princerples nor men My preudunt course is steadied- I scent wich pays the best, an' then Go into it baldheaded. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.Series I [1848], no.6,st. 10 God makes sech nights, all white an' still, Fur'z you can look or listen, Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, All silence an' all glisten. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.Series II [1866]. The Courtin',st. 1 His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.Series II [1866]. The Courtin',st. 15 My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy-onless ye know. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.No.2 It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.No.2 Folks never understand the folks they hate. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.No.2 Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu. 1 2 3 4 5 James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.No.2 1 See Aristotle 2 See Vegetius 3 See Robert Burton 4 See Fenelon 5 See Washington Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.No.2 The surest plan to make a Man Is, think him so. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.No.2 Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose, An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.No.3 No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu, An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers.No.5 They came three thousand miles, and died, To keep the Past upon its throne; Unheard, beyond the ocean tide, Their English mother made her moan. James Russell Lowell Graves of Two English Soldiers on Concord Battleground [1849], st. 3 The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. James Russell Lowell The First Snowfall [1849], st. 1 There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. James Russell Lowell Fireside Travels [1864]. At Sea It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. James Russell Lowell Abraham Lincoln [1864] What men call treasure and the gods call dross. James Russell Lowell Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration [1865],4 They come transfigured back, Secure from change in their high-hearted ways, Beautiful evermore, and with the rays Of morn on their white Shields of Expectation! 1 James Russell Lowell Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration [1865],8 1 See  When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp. James Russell Lowell Aladdin [1868], st. 1 Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best. 1 James Russell Lowell For an Autograph [1868] 1 See Emerson Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. James Russell Lowell The Cathedral [1869], st. 9 The wisest man could ask no more of Fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; To count as naught in world, or church, or state; But inwardly in secret to be great. James Russell Lowell Sonnet, Jeffries Wyman [1874] For me Fate gave, whate'er she else denied, A nature sloping to the southern side. James Russell Lowell Epistle to George William Curtis [1874]. Postscript The maple puts her corals on in May. James Russell Lowell The Maple [1875] The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in. James Russell Lowell Garfield [September 24, 1881] There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell Democracy [October 6, 1884] In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. James Russell Lowell International Copyright [November 20, 1885] These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. James Russell Lowell In a Copy of Omar KhayyaAm [1888], st. 1 As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend. James Russell Lowell Sixty-eighth Birthday [1889] Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.I [1864-1890].A Few Bits of Roman Mosaic Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.I [1864-1890].Cambridge Thirty Years Ago What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us! James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.I [1864-1890].A Library of Old Authors It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. 1 2 There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.I [1864-1890].A Moosehead Journal 1 See Sheridan 2 See Bryce There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.II [1870-1890],New England Two Centuries Ago Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.II [1870-1890],New England Two Centuries Ago It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.II [1870-1890],New England Two Centuries Ago Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.II [1870-1890],Rousseau and the Sentimentalists Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.II [1870-1890],Rousseau and the Sentimentalists An umbrella is of no avail against a Scotch mist. James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.III [1870-1890],On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.III [1870-1890],Dryden A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. James Russell Lowell Literary Essays, vol.III [1870-1890],Shakespeare Once More Herman Melville 1819-1891 This great power of blackness in him [Hawthorne] derives its force from its appeals to that Calvinistic sense of innate depravity and original sin from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free. Herman Melville Hawthorne and His Mosses [1850] You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in. Herman Melville Hawthorne and His Mosses [1850] Genius all over the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. Herman Melville Hawthorne and His Mosses [1850] Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. Herman Melville White Jacket [1850], ch.7  Oh, give me again the rover's life-the joy, the thrill, the whirl! Let me feel thee again, old sea! let me leap into thy saddle once more. I am sick of these terra-firma toils and cares; sick of the dust and reek of towns. Let me hear the clatter of hailstones on icebergs, and not the dull tramp of these plodders, plodding their dull way from their cradles to their graves. Let me snuff thee up, sea breeze! and whinny in thy spray. Forbid it, sea gods! intercede for me with Neptune, O sweet Amphitrite, that no dull clod may fall on my coffin! Be mine the tomb that swallowed up Pharaoh and all his hosts; let me lie down with Drake where he sleeps in the sea. Herman Melville White Jacket [1850], ch.19 Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. Herman Melville White Jacket [1850], ch.23 In time of peril, like the needle to the lodestone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. Herman Melville White Jacket [1850], ch.27 Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilize civilization and christianize Christendom? 1 Herman Melville White Jacket [1850], ch.64 1 See Emerson Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.1 Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever . . . Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.1 But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low? Delight is to him-a far, far upward, and inward delight-who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.9 And eternal delight and deliciousness will be his, who coming to lay him down, can say with his final breath-O Father!-chiefly known to me by Thy rod-mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this is nothing; I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God? Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.9 With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.14 But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.17 In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.17 If, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.24 Thou great democratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly hammered leaves of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a warhorse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne! Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest thy selectest champions from the kingly commons! Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.26 This it is, that forever keeps God's true princes of the Empire from the world's hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.33 All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.41 For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.58 O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.70 So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.96 Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! . . . To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.104 Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.107 There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath; like those fabled undulations of the Ephesian sod over the buried Evangelist St. John. And meet it is, that over these sea pastures, wide-rolling watery prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.111 There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom), then skepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If. But once gone through, we trace the round again; and are infants, boys, and men, and Ifs eternally. Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.114 But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.132 Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.132 It is a mild, mild wind, and a mild-looking sky; and the air smells now as if it blew from a faraway meadow; they have been making hay somewhere under the slopes of the Andes, Starbuck, and the mowers are sleeping among the new-mown hay. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.132 An old, old sight, and yet somehow so young; aye, and not changed a wink since I first saw it, a boy, from the sandhills of Nantucket! The same!-the same!-the same to Noah as to me. There's a soft shower to leeward. Such lovely leewardings! They must lead somewhere-to something else than common land, more palmy than the palms. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.135 A sky-hawk that tauntingly had followed the main-truck downwards from its natural home among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there; this bird now chanced to intercept its broad fluttering wings between the hammer and the wood; and simultaneously feeling that ethereal thrill, the submerged savage beneath, in his death grasp, kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. Herman Melville Moby-Dick [1851], ch.135 What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event-the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather. Herman Melville Pierre [1852], bk.IV One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocent self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts. Herman Melville Pierre [1852], bk.IV A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities. Herman Melville Pierre [1852], bk.IV Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood. Herman Melville Pierre [1852], bk.XXV With shouts the torrents down the gorges go, And storms are formed behind the storm we feel: The hemlock shakes in the rafter, the oak in the driving keel. Herman Melville Battle-Pieces [1860],Misgivings, st. 2 The poor old Past, The Future's slave. Herman Melville Battle-Pieces [1860],The Conflict of Convictions, st. 6 At the height of their madness The night winds pause, Recollecting themselves; But no lull in these wars. Herman Melville Battle-Pieces [1860],The Armies of the Wilderness, pt. II, st. 5 What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred- Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed. Herman Melville Battle-Pieces [1860],On the Slain Collegians, st. 2 Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity-reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel-Art. Herman Melville Timoleon [1891].Art Indolence is heaven's ally here, And energy the child of hell: The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear, But brims the poisoned well. Herman Melville Timoleon [1891].Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the Twelfth Century, fragment 2 But me they'll lash in hammock, drop me deep. Fathoms down, fathoms down, how I'll dream fast asleep. I feel it stealing now. Sentry, are you there? Just ease these darbies at the wrist, And roll me over fair. I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist. Herman Melville Billy Budd, Foretopman [1924]. Billy in the Darbies John Ruskin 1819-1900 He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. John Ruskin Modern Painters, vol.I [1843], pt. I, ch.2 To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. John Ruskin Modern Painters, vol.I [1843], pt. I, ch.3 The foam is not cruel. 1 The state of mind which attributes to it these characteristics of a living creature is one in which the reason is unhinged by grief. All violent feelings . . . produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the "Pathetic Fallacy." John Ruskin Modern Painters, vol.III [1856], pt. IV, ch.12 1 See Kingsley To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion-all in one. John Ruskin Modern Painters, vol.III [1856], pt. IV, ch.16 The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. John Ruskin Modern Painters, vol.V, pt. IX, ch. 7 In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. John Ruskin Pre-Raphaelitism [1851] Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. John Ruskin The Stones of Venice [1851-1853], vol. I, ch.2 All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. John Ruskin The Stones of Venice [1851-1853], vol. I, ch.4 Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight. John Ruskin Lectures on Architecture and Painting [1853], I There is no wealth but life. John Ruskin Unto This Last [1862],sec. 77 Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. John Ruskin Unto This Last [1862],essay 2 That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. John Ruskin Unto This Last [1862],essay 4 Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labor required to produce it; price, the quantity of labor which its possessor will take in exchange for it. John Ruskin Munera Pulveris [1862], ch. 1 There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope. John Ruskin Letter to James Anthony Froude [February 1864] Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies [1865],preface All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies [1865],Of Kings' Treasuries, sec. 8 Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted. John Ruskin The Crown of Wild Olive [1866], lecture1 Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. John Ruskin The Crown of Wild Olive [1866], lecture1 Taste is the only morality. . . . Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are. 1 John Ruskin The Crown of Wild Olive [1866], lecture2 1 See Brillat-Savarin There's no music in a "rest," Katie, that I know of: but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life-melody. John Ruskin Ethics of the Dust [1866]. Lecture 4, The Crystal Orders Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality. John Ruskin Lectures on Art [1870]. III, The Relation of Art to Morals Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. John Ruskin The Eagle's Nest [1872], ch. 5 Architecture . . . the adaptation of form to resist force. John Ruskin Val d'Arno [1874], ch. 6 The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. John Ruskin Fors Clavigera [1876], letter 67 Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts-the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. John Ruskin St. Mark's Rest [1877], preface Max Schneckenburger 1819-1849 Dear Fatherland, no danger thine: Firm stands thy watch along the Rhine. Max Schneckenburger The Watch on the Rhine (Die Wacht am Rhein) [1840], chorus William Wetmore Story 1819-1895 Of every noble work the silent part is best, Of all expression that which cannot be expressed. William Wetmore Story The Unexpressed Victoria 1819-1901 I will be good. Victoria On first seeing a chart of the line of succession to the throne [March 11, 1830] Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. Victoria Letter to King Leopold of Belgium [April 4, 1848] We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. Victoria To A. J. Balfour [December 1899] We are not amused. Victoria Upon seeing an imitation of herself by the Honorable Alexander Grantham Yorke, groom-in-waiting to the Queen. From Notebooks of a Spinster Lady [January 2, 1900] William Ross Wallace 1819-1881 The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. William Ross Wallace The Hand That Rules the World, st. 1 Walt Whitman 1819-1892 The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. . . . Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Walt Whitman Preface to the first edition of Leaves of Grass [1855] The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Walt Whitman Preface to the first edition of Leaves of Grass [1855] Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Me Imperturbe O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Me Imperturbe I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].I Hear America Singing Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Well-begotten, and raised by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Starting from Paumanok,1 Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Starting from Paumanok,1 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Starting from Paumanok,3 I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American point of view. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Starting from Paumanok,6 I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Starting from Paumanok,7 I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Starting from Paumanok,7 And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Starting from Paumanok,12 Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Starting from Paumanok,12 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,1 I loafe and invite my soul. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,1 Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,3 A kelson of the creation is love. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,5 A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,6 Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,6 And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,6 Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her, it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,7 I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night. Press close bare-bosomed night-press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds-night of the large few stars! 1 Still nodding night-mad naked summer night. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,21 1 See Flecker Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,24 I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,24 I hear the violoncello ('tis the young man's heart's complaint). Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,26 I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,31 I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,32 I am the man, I suffered, I was there. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,33 Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. 1 2 3 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,40 1 See Emerson 2 See Lowell 3 See Gibran I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,48 In the faces of men and women I see God. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,48 Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,51 I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,52 I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of Myself,52 If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].I Sing the Body Electric, 8 A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].A Woman Waits for Me I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions, But really I am neither for nor against institutions. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].I Hear It Was Charged Against Me When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].When I Peruse the Conquered Fame Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of the Open Road, 1 Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of the Open Road, 1 The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of the Open Road, 1 A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song of the Broad-Axe, 4 Youth, large, lusty, loving-youth full of grace, force, fascination, Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination? Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Youth, Day, Old Age and Night Come my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? Pioneers! O Pioneers! Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Pioneers! O Pioneers!1 For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Pioneers! O Pioneers!2 Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Pioneers! O Pioneers!13 Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mockingbird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Whereto answering, the sea, Delaying not, hurrying not, Whispered me through the night, and very plainly before daybreak, Lisped to me the low and delicious word death. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Aboard at a ship's helm, A young steersman steering with care. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Aboard at a Ship's Helm But O the ship, the immortal ship! O ship aboard the ship! Ship of the body, ship of the soul, voyaging, voyaging, voyaging. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Aboard at a Ship's Helm Today a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song for All Seas, All Ships, 1 Of sea captains young or old, and the mates, and of all intrepid sailors . . . Picked sparingly without noise by thee old ocean, chosen by thee, Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse, embodying thee, Indomitable, untamed as thee. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Song for All Seas, All Ships, 1 Silent and amazed even when a little boy, I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements, As contending against some being or influence. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].A Child's Amaze Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun, 1 Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soiled world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Reconciliation When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed,1 O sane and sacred death. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed,7 Come lovely and soothing death, 1 Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed,14 1 See Shakespeare Praised be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love-but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed,14 O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].O Captain! My Captain!1 Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].O Captain! My Captain!3 This dust was once the man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand, Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, Was saved the Union of these States. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].This Dust Was Once the Man Underneath all, individuals, I swear nothing is good to me now that ignores individuals. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].By Blue Ontario's Shore, 15 The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual-namely to You. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].By Blue Ontario's Shore, 15 Liberty is to be subserved whatever occurs. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].To a Foiled European Revolutionaire What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior? Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Laws for Creations Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].To a Common Prostitute To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Miracles O we can wait no longer, We too take ship O soul, Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas, Fearless for unknown shores. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Passage to India,8 Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins! Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! Cut the hawsers-haul out-shake out every sail! Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough? Have we not groveled here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes? Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Passage to India,9 Darest thou now O soul, Walk out with me toward the unknown region, Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow? Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Darest Thou Now O Soul At the last, tenderly, From the walls of the powerful fortressed house, From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors, Let me be wafted. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].The Last Invocation Tenderly-be not impatient, (Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, Strong is your hold O love.) Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].The Last Invocation Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].Joy, Shipmate, Joy! Camerado, this is no book, Who touches this touches a man. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892].So Long! The world, the race, the soul-in space and time the universes, All bound as is befitting each-all surely going somewhere. Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass [1855-1892]."Going Somewhere" Political democracy, as it exists and practically works in America, with all its threatening evils, supplies a training school for making first-class men. It is life's gymnasium, not of good only, but of all. Walt Whitman Democratic Vistas [1871] It is native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals, or in any distinguished collection, with aplomb-and not culture, or any knowledge or intellect whatever. Walt Whitman Democratic Vistas [1871] I never see that man [Lincoln] without feeling that he is one to become personally attached to, for his combination of purest, heartiest tenderness, and native western form of manliness. Walt Whitman Specimen Days [1882].The Inauguration [March 4, 1865] He leaves for America's history and biography, so far, not only its most dramatic reminiscence-he leaves, in my opinion, the greatest, best, most characteristic, artistic, moral personality. Walt Whitman Specimen Days [1882].Death of President Lincoln [April 16, 1865] The real war will never get in the books. Walt Whitman Specimen Days [1882].The Real War After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on-have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear-what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman Specimen Days [1882].New Themes Entered Upon Hast Thou, pellucid, in Thy azure depths, medicine for case like mine? Walt Whitman Specimen Days [1882].The Sky [October 20, 1876] You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness-perhaps ignorance, credulity-helps your enjoyment of these things. Walt Whitman Specimen Days [1882].Birds [May 14, 1881] To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too. Walt Whitman Notes Left Over. Ventures on an Old Theme A Backward Glance o'er Traveled Roads. 1 Walt Whitman November Boughs [1888],title of preface 1 See Wharton Leaves of Grass . . . has mainly been . . . an attempt, from first to last, to put a Person, a human being (myself, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, in America) freely, fully and truly on record. Walt Whitman November Boughs [1888],title of preface No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or attempt at such performance, or as aiming mainly toward art or aestheticism. Walt Whitman November Boughs [1888],title of preface Concluding with two items for the imaginative genius of the West, when it worthily rises-First, what Herder taught to the young Goethe, that really great poetry is always (like the Homeric or Biblical canticles) the result of a national spirit, and not the privilege of a polished and select few; Second, that the strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung. Walt Whitman November Boughs [1888],title of preface No really great song can ever attain full purport till long after the death of its singer-till it has accrued and incorporated the many passions, many joys and sorrows, it has itself aroused. Walt Whitman November Boughs [1888],The Bible as Poetry There is no week nor day nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves-and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance-Tyranny may always enter-there is no charm, no bar against it-the only bar against it is a large resolute breed of men. Walt Whitman From C. J. Furness, Walt Whitman's Workshop [1928] Susan B rownell Anthony 1820-1906 The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South. Susan B rownell Anthony Speech on No Union with Slaveholders [1857] Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. Susan B rownell Anthony On the campaign for divorce law reform [1860] Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights. Susan B rownell Anthony Journal, June 1860 Make [your employers] understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women. 1 Susan B rownell Anthony The Revolution (woman suffrage newspaper),October 8, 1868 1 See Friedan Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. 1 Susan B rownell Anthony The Revolution (woman suffrage newspaper),March 18, 1869 1 See Friedan Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself. Susan B rownell Anthony Speech in San Francisco [July 1871] I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely . . . for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less. Susan B rownell Anthony Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton [autumn 1872] Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied? Susan B rownell Anthony Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote? Speech [1873] before her trial for voting Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life. Susan B rownell Anthony Speech on Social Purity [spring 1875] Failure is impossible. Susan B rownell Anthony At her eighty-sixth birthday celebration [February 15, 1906] Lucretia Peabody Hale 1820-1900 At last Elizabeth Eliza said, "They say that the lady from Philadelphia, who is staying in town, is very wise. Suppose I go and ask her what is best to be done." Lucretia Peabody Hale The Peterkin Papers [1880] Jean Ingelow 1820-1897 There's no dew left on the daisies and clover, There's no rain left in heaven: I've said my "seven times" over and over, Seven times one are seven. Jean Ingelow Songs of Seven. Seven Times One, st. 1 Theodore O'Hara 1820-1867 On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. Theodore O'Hara The Bivouac of the Dead [1847],st. 1 Sons of the dark and bloody ground. Theodore O'Hara The Bivouac of the Dead [1847],st. 9 George Frederick Root 1820-1895 Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! the boys are marching, Cheer up, comrades, they will come, And beneath the starry flag We shall breathe the air again Of the free land in our own beloved home. George Frederick Root Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! [1862] Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of Freedom. George Frederick Root The Battle Cry of Freedom [1863] Sir William Howard Russell 1820-1907  The Russians dashed on towards that thin red-line streak tipped with a line of steel. Sir William Howard Russell To The Times of London from the Crimea, describing the British infantry at Balaklava [October 25, 1854] William Tecumseh Sherman 1820-1891 You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. William Tecumseh Sherman Letter to James M. Calhoun, mayor of Atlanta, and others [September 12, 1864]  Hold the fort! I am coming! William Tecumseh Sherman Signal from Kenesaw Mountain to General John Murray Corse at Allatoona Pass [October 5, 1864] The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace. William Tecumseh Sherman Speech at St. Louis [July 20, 1865] War is at best barbarism. . . . Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. 1 William Tecumseh Sherman Attributed to a graduation address at Michigan Military Academy [June 19, 1879] 1 See Robert E. Lee  I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected. William Tecumseh Sherman Message to Republican National Convention [June 5, 1884] Herbert Spencer 1820-1903 Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. . . . It is a part of nature. Herbert Spencer Social Statics [1851], pt.I, ch. 2 Education has for its object the formation of character. Herbert Spencer Social Statics [1851], pt.II, ch. 17 The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," 1 are the decrees of a large, farseeing benevolence. Herbert Spencer Social Statics [1851], pt.III, ch. 25 1 See Shakespeare Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. Herbert Spencer Social Statics [1851], pt.IV, ch. 30 Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries or distinctions of race. Herbert Spencer Social Statics [1851], pt.IV, ch. 30 No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. Herbert Spencer Social Statics [1851], pt.IV, ch. 30 Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilized life. Herbert Spencer Essays on Education [1861].Education: What Knowledge Is of Most Worth? Every cause produces more than one effect. Herbert Spencer Essays on Education [1861].On Progress: Its Law and Cause The tyranny of Mrs. Grundy 1 is worse than any other tyranny we suffer under. Herbert Spencer Essays on Education [1861].On Manners and Fashion 1 See Thomas Morton Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. Herbert Spencer Essays on Education [1861].On Manners and Fashion Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts-as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare. Herbert Spencer Essays on Education [1861].On the Origin and Function of Music We too often forget that not only is there "a soul of goodness in things evil," 1 but very generally a soul of truth in things erroneous. Herbert Spencer First Principles [1861] 1 See Shakespeare The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. Herbert Spencer First Principles [1861] Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. Herbert Spencer First Principles [1861] We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. Herbert Spencer First Principles [1861] This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life." 1 Herbert Spencer Principles of Biology [1864-1867], pt. III, ch. 12 1 See Darwin The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature-a type nowhere at present existing. Herbert Spencer Essays [1891].The Americans The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer Essays [1891].State Tamperings with Money Banks Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. Herbert Spencer Definitions John Tyndall 1820-1893 Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion. John Tyndall Title of treatise [1863] Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. 1 John Tyndall Fragments of Science, vol. II,Vitality 1 See Heraclitus The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence. John Tyndall Fragments of Science, vol. II,Matter and Force The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact. John Tyndall Fragments of Science, vol. II,Scientific Materialism It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste. John Tyndall Fragments of Science, vol. II,Science and Man Charles Darwin, the Abraham of scientific men-a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch to the command of God. John Tyndall Fragments of Science, vol. II,Science and Man Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence. John Tyndall Fragments of Science, vol. II,Science and Man Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain. John Tyndall Fragments of Science, vol. II,Professor Virchow and Evolution Henri-Frederic Amiel 1821-1881 To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Henri-Frederic Amiel Journal Intime [1883] An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. Henri-Frederic Amiel Journal Intime [1883] Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life. Henri-Frederic Amiel Journal Intime [1883] Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. Henri-Frederic Amiel Journal Intime [1883] If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. Henri-Frederic Amiel Journal Intime [1883] Sir Henry Williams Baker 1821-1877 The King of love my shepherd is, Whose goodness faileth never; I nothing lack if I am his, And he is mine forever. Sir Henry Williams Baker Hymn [1868] Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867  Hypocrite lecteur-mon semblable-mon frere [Hypocrite reader-my double-my brother]! Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal [1861].Au Lecteur The poet is like the prince of the clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers, His giant wings prevent him from walking. Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal [1861].L'Albatros, st. 4 Perfumes, colors and sounds echo one another. Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal [1861].Correspondances Mother of memories, mistress of mistresses. Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal [1861].Le Balcon, st. 1 There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness and pleasure. Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal [1861].L'Invitation au Voyage, refrain I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal [1861].Spleen, l. 1 I am the wound and the knife! I am the blow and the cheek! I am the limbs and the wheel- The victim and the executioner! Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal [1861].L'Heautontimoroumenos Here is the charming evening, the criminal's friend; It comes like an accomplice, with stealthy tread. Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal [1861].Le Crepuscule du Soir What is that sad, dark island?-It is Cythera, They tell us, a country famous in song, Banal Eldorado of all the old bachelors. Look! after all, it is a poor land! Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal [1861].Un Voyage a Cythere O Death, old captain, it is time! raise the anchor! Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal [1861].Le Voyage, VIII What do I care that you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad! Charles Baudelaire Nouvelles Fleurs du Mal [1866-1868]. Madrigal Triste, st. 1 There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself. Charles Baudelaire Mon Coeur Mis a Nu [1887],XV There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan. Charles Baudelaire Mon Coeur Mis a Nu [1887],XIX  There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Charles Baudelaire Mon Coeur Mis a Nu [1887],XXII To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the one important thing. Charles Baudelaire Mon Coeur Mis a Nu [1887],LII Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin. Charles Baudelaire Mon Coeur Mis a Nu [1887],LIX  You must shock the bourgeois. Charles Baudelaire Attributed Sir Richard Francis Burton 1821-1890 Why meet we on the bridge of Time to 'change one greeting and to part? Sir Richard Francis Burton The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yazdi,I, 11 Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. Sir Richard Francis Burton The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yazdi,VI, 18 Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. Sir Richard Francis Burton The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yazdi,VIII, 37 Crowfoot 1821-1890  What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Crowfoot Last words [1890] Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski 1821-1881 Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski Notes from the Underground [1864], ch.2 Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski Notes from the Underground [1864], ch.9 Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel! Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski Crime and Punishment [1866], book I, ch. 2 If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.II, ch. 6 I want to tell you now about the insects to whom God gave "sensual lust." . . . I am that insect, brother, and it is said of me especially. All we Karamazovs are such insects, and, angel as you are, that insect lives in you too, and will stir a tempest in your blood. Tempests, because sensual lust is a tempest-worse than a tempest! Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. 1 Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.III, ch. 3 1 See Einstein What to the mind is shameful is beauty and nothing else to the heart. Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know that secret? The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.III, ch. 3 I want to travel in Europe . . . I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.V, ch.3 If the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.V, ch.4 Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love of humanity I don't want it. . . . I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong. Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket . . . It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.V, ch.4  Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature . . . and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.V, ch.4 So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.V, ch.5 We have corrected Thy work and have founded it upon miracle, mystery and authority. And men rejoiced that they were again led like sheep, and that the terrible gift that brought them such suffering, was, at last, lifted from their hearts. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.V, ch.5 "How will you escape it? By what will you escape it? That's impossible with your ideas." "In the Karamazov way, again." ""Everything is lawful,' you mean?" Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.V, ch.5 Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.VI, ch. 3 The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.VIII, ch. 3 Who doesn't desire his father's death? Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.XII, ch.5 Our fatal troika dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction, and in all Russia for long past men have stretched out imploring hands and called a halt to its furious reckless course. And if other nations stand aside from that troika that may be not from respect, as the poet would fain believe, but simply from horror. And well it is that they stand aside, but maybe they will cease one day to do so and will form a firm wall confronting the hurrying apparition and will check the frenzied rush of our lawlessness, for the sake of their own safety, enlightenment and civilization. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.XII, ch.9 They have their Hamlets, but we still have our Karamazovs! Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.XII, ch.9 But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.XII, ch.10 For a moment the lie becomes truth. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski The Brothers Karamazov [1879-1880], bk.Epilogue, ch. 2  We have all come out of Gogol's Overcoat. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski Attributed Mary Baker Eddy 1821-1910 Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious. 1 2 3 Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures [1875],p. 16 1 See Suti and Hor 2 See O'Neill 3 See John Paul I Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause. Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures [1875],p. 313 Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures [1875],p. 468 Sickness, sin and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government. Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures [1875],p. 472 How would you define Christian Science? As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony. Mary Baker Eddy Rudimental Divine Science [1891], p. 1 Gustave Flaubert 1821-1880 One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form. Gustave Flaubert Letter to Madame Louise Colet[August 12, 1846]  What a horrible invention, the bourgeois, don't you think? Gustave Flaubert Letter to Madame Louise Colet[September 22, 1846] One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. 1 2 3 Gustave Flaubert Letter to Madame Louise Colet[October 22, 1846] 1 See Coleridge 2 See Disraeli 3 See Lowell There was an air of indifference about them [the male guests], a calm produced by the gratification of every passion . . . that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one's vanity-the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary [1857], pt.I, ch. 8 It never occurred to her that if the drainpipes of a house are clogged, the rain may collect in pools on the roof; and she suspected no danger until suddenly she discovered a crack in the wall. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary [1857], pt.II, ch.5  Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary [1857], pt.II, ch.12 She [Madame Bovary] had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success-a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary [1857], pt.II, ch.12  We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary [1857], pt.III, ch.6 There isn't a bourgeois alive who in the ferment of his youth, if only for a day or for a minute, hasn't thought himself capable of boundless passions and noble exploits. The sorriest little woman-chaser has dreamed of Oriental queens; in a corner of every notary's heart lie the moldy remains of a poet. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary [1857], pt.III, ch.6 Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc-wreaking. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary [1857], pt.III, ch.8 Anyone's death always releases something like an aura of stupefaction, so difficult is it to grasp this irruption of nothingness and to believe that it has actually taken place. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary [1857], pt.III, ch.9 Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. Gustave Flaubert Letter to George Sand [May 10, 1867] I call a bourgeois anyone whose thinking is vulgar. Gustave Flaubert Quoted by Maupassant What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it. Gustave Flaubert Letter to Maupassant [October 26, 1880] Nathan Bedford Forrest 1821-1877 Get there first with the most men. Nathan Bedford Forrest Reported by General Basil Duke and General Richard Taylor Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz 1821-1894  Nature as a whole possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished . . . therefore, the quantity of force in Nature is just as eternal and unalterable as the quantity of matter. . . . I have named [this] general law "The Principle of the Conservation of Force." Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz [Uuml ]ber die Erhaltung der Kraft [1847] Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces. Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Academic discourse, Heidelberg [1862] Nikolai Nekrasov 1821-1877 You do not have to be a poet, but you are obliged to be a citizen. Nikolai Nekrasov Poet and Citizen Wretched and abundant, Oppressed and powerful, Weak and mighty, Mother Russia! Nikolai Nekrasov Who Is Happy in Russia? [1873-1876] William H enry Vanderbilt 1821-1885 The public be damned. William H enry Vanderbilt Reply to a newspaper reporter [October 2, 1882] Rudolf Virchow 1821-1902  I formulate the doctrine of pathological generation . . . in simple terms: omnis cellula a cellula. Rudolf Virchow Cellular Pathology [1858]. Disease, Life and Man George John Whyte-Melville 1821-1878 In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends. George John Whyte-Melville Riding Recollections [1878] Matthew Arnold 1822-1888 Who prop, thou askst, in these bad days, my mind? Matthew Arnold To a Friend [1849],l. 1 Be his My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild: Who saw life steadily and saw it whole. Matthew Arnold To a Friend [1849],l. 8 Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. Matthew Arnold Shakespeare [1849], l. 1 Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful: The seeds of godlike power are in us still: Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will. Matthew Arnold Written in Emerson's Essays [1849] Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great winds shorewards blow, Now the salt tides seawards flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Matthew Arnold The Forsaken Merman [1849],st. 1 Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep. Matthew Arnold The Forsaken Merman [1849],st. 4 Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world forever and aye. Matthew Arnold The Forsaken Merman [1849],st. 4 Singing, "Here came a mortal, But faithless was she. And alone dwell forever The kings of the sea." Matthew Arnold The Forsaken Merman [1849],st. 8 Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul. Matthew Arnold Resignation [1849],l. 197 The world in which we live and move Outlasts aversion, outlasts love: Outlasts each effort, interest, hope, Remorse, grief, joy. Matthew Arnold Resignation [1849],l. 215 Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate. Matthew Arnold Resignation [1849],l. 248 We cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. Matthew Arnold Morality [1852], st. 1 Calm Soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and can not mar. Matthew Arnold Lines Written in Kensington Gardens [1852], st. 10 Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease. Matthew Arnold Memorial Verses, April 1850 [1852],st. 1 Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou ailest here, and here! Matthew Arnold Memorial Verses, April 1850 [1852],st. 3 This iron time Of doubt, disputes, distractions, fears. Matthew Arnold Memorial Verses, April 1850 [1852],st. 4 Hither and thither spins The windborne, mirroring soul; A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole. Matthew Arnold Empedocles on Etna [1852], actI, sc. ii,l. 82 Be neither saint- nor sophist-led, but be a man! Matthew Arnold Empedocles on Etna [1852], actI, sc. ii,l. 136 Thou hast no right to bliss. Matthew Arnold Empedocles on Etna [1852], actI, sc. ii,l. 160 We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; 1 And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through. Matthew Arnold Empedocles on Etna [1852], actI, sc. ii,l. 237 1 See Book of Common Prayer Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play; Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. Matthew Arnold Empedocles on Etna [1852], actI, sc. ii,l. 257 So, loath to suffer mute, We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear. Matthew Arnold Empedocles on Etna [1852], actI, sc. ii,l. 277 Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes? Matthew Arnold Empedocles on Etna [1852], actII,l. 397 The day in its hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm. Matthew Arnold Empedocles on Etna [1852], actII,l. 465 Yes, in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. Matthew Arnold To Marguerite. Continued [1852],l. 1 The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea. Matthew Arnold To Marguerite. Continued [1852],l. 24 But often in the world's most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life. Matthew Arnold The Buried Life [1852],l. 45 And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well-but 'tis not true! Matthew Arnold The Buried Life [1852],l. 64 What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise? Matthew Arnold Stanzas in Memory of the Author of "Obermann" [1852],st. 18 Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. Matthew Arnold Stanzas in Memory of the Author of "Obermann" [1852],st. 24 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 which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also. Matthew Arnold Preface to Poems [1853] Go, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill. Matthew Arnold The Scholar Gypsy [1853],st. 1 Crossing the stripling Thames at Bablock-hithe, Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet, As the slow punt swings round. Matthew Arnold The Scholar Gypsy [1853],st. 8 Thou waitest for the spark from heaven: and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly willed . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too? Matthew Arnold The Scholar Gypsy [1853],st. 18 And amongst us one, Who most has suffered, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne. Matthew Arnold The Scholar Gypsy [1853],st. 19 Oh, born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, 1 2 With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife. Matthew Arnold The Scholar Gypsy [1853],st. 21 1 See Cowley 2 See Pope Still nursing the unconquerable hope, Still clutching the inviolable shade. Matthew Arnold The Scholar Gypsy [1853],st. 22 Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! Matthew Arnold Requiescat [1853],st. 1 The vasty hall of death. Matthew Arnold Requiescat [1853],st. 4 Hark! ah, the nightingale- The tawny-throated! Matthew Arnold Philomela [1853],st. 1 Eternal passion! Eternal pain! Matthew Arnold Philomela [1853],st. 3 Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold Sohrab and Rustum, l. 656 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. Matthew Arnold Preface to Poems [1854] For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimmed its fire, Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Matthew Arnold Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse [1855],st. 12 Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. 1 Matthew Arnold Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse [1855],st. 15 1 See T. S. Eliot And we forget because we must And not because we will. Matthew Arnold Absence [1857], st. 3 Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm; Endless extinction of unhappy hates. Matthew Arnold Merope [1858],l. 100 With women the heart argues, not the mind. Matthew Arnold Merope [1858],l. 341 The translator of Homer should above all be penetrated by a sense of four qualities of his author: that he is eminently rapid; that he is eminently plain and direct, both in the evolution of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words; that he is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas; and, finally, that he is eminently noble. Matthew Arnold On Translating Homer [1861] Of these two literatures [French and German], as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort; the endeavor, in all branches of knowledge-theology, philosophy, history, art, science-to see the object as in itself it really is. Matthew Arnold On Translating Homer [1861] The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. Matthew Arnold On Translating Homer [1861] Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man, taken by himself. Matthew Arnold Democracy [1861] It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think. Matthew Arnold Democracy [1861] For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. Matthew Arnold The Function of Criticism at the Present Time [1864] The critical power . . . tends to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself . . . to make the best ideas prevail. Matthew Arnold The Function of Criticism at the Present Time [1864] There is the world of ideas and the world of practice; the French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed. Matthew Arnold The Function of Criticism at the Present Time [1864] Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought. Matthew Arnold The Function of Criticism at the Present Time [1864] The notion of the free play of the mind upon all subjects being a pleasure in itself, being an object of desire, being an essential provider of elements without which a nation's spirit, whatever compensations it may have for them, must, in the long run, die of inanition, hardly enters into an Englishman's thoughts. Matthew Arnold The Function of Criticism at the Present Time [1864] I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. Matthew Arnold The Function of Criticism at the Present Time [1864] Whispering from her towers [Oxford] the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! Matthew Arnold Essays in Criticism,first series [1865], preface Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. Matthew Arnold Essays in Criticism,Heinrich Heine Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light. 1 Matthew Arnold Essays in Criticism,Heinrich Heine 1 See Schopenhauer  On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. Matthew Arnold Essays in Criticism,Literary Influence of Academies [1864] The great apostle of the Philistines, Lord Macaulay. Matthew Arnold Essays in Criticism,Joubert Are ye too changed, ye hills? See, 'tis no foot of unfamiliar men Tonight from Oxford up your pathway strays! Here came I often, often, in old days- Thyrsis and I; we still had Thyrsis then. Matthew Arnold Thyrsis [1866],st. 1 That sweet city with her dreaming spires. Matthew Arnold Thyrsis [1866],st. 2 He went; his piping took a troubled sound Of storms that rage outside our happy ground; He could not wait their passing; he is dead. Matthew Arnold Thyrsis [1866],st. 5 The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I. Matthew Arnold Thyrsis [1866],st. 6 Yes, thou art gone! and round me too the night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. Matthew Arnold Thyrsis [1866],st. 14 Hear it, O Thyrsis, still our tree is there!- Ah, vain! These English fields, this upland dim, These brambles pale with mist engarlanded, That lone, sky-pointing tree, are not for him; To a boon southern country he is fled, And now in happier air, Wandering with the great Mother's train divine . . . Within a folding of the Apennine. Matthew Arnold Thyrsis [1866],st. 18 Why faintest thou? I wandered till I died. Roam on! The light we sought is shining still, Dost thou ask proof? Our tree yet crowns the hill, Our Scholar travels yet the loved hillside. Matthew Arnold Thyrsis [1866],st. 24 The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast, the light Gleams, and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Matthew Arnold Dover Beach [1867],st. 1 Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Matthew Arnold Dover Beach [1867],st. 1 Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean. Matthew Arnold Dover Beach [1867],st. 2 The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. Matthew Arnold Dover Beach [1867],st. 3, 4 It is-last stage of all- When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves, To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. Matthew Arnold Growing Old [1867], st. 7 Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Matthew Arnold The Last Word [1867],st. 1 Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. 1 Matthew Arnold The Last Word [1867],st. 2 1 See Burton Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall. Matthew Arnold The Last Word [1867],st. 4 Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat. Matthew Arnold Poor Matthias [1867] Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of withered leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent; hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play! Matthew Arnold Rugby Chapel [1867],st. 1 O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! Matthew Arnold Rugby Chapel [1867],st. 4 Most men eddy about Here and there, eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander. Matthew Arnold Rugby Chapel [1867],st. 6 Therefore to thee it was given Many to save with thyself; And, at the end of thy day, O faithful shepherd, to come, Bringing thy sheep in thy hand. 1 Matthew Arnold Rugby Chapel [1867],st. 9 1 See Psalm 95:7 Style . . . is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it. Matthew Arnold On the Study of Celtic Literature [1867], sec. 6 The Celts certainly have it [style] in a wonderful measure. Matthew Arnold On the Study of Celtic Literature [1867], sec. 6 The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly. Matthew Arnold Schools and Universities on the Continent [1868] The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world. Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy [1869],preface Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy [1869],preface I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflection, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture. Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy [1869],Introduction Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy [1869],Sweetness and Light Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration. Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy [1869],Sweetness and Light Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy [1869],Sweetness and Light He who works for sweetness and light 1 united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy [1869],Sweetness and Light 1 See Swift The men of culture are the true apostles of equality. Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy [1869],Sweetness and Light Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves. Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy [1869],Barbarians, Philistines, Populace The governing idea of Hellenism is spirit of consciousness, that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy [1869],Hebraism and Hellenism Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel-below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed. Matthew Arnold St. Paul and Protestantism [1870] Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. Matthew Arnold Literature and Dogma [1873], ch. 1 The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold God and the Bible [1875] Choose equality. Matthew Arnold Mixed Essays [1879]. Equality We have the religion of inequality. Matthew Arnold Mixed Essays [1879]. Equality Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class. Matthew Arnold Mixed Essays [1879]. Equality For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry. Matthew Arnold Introduction to Ward, English Poets [1880] Eutrapelia. "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians . . . lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners. Matthew Arnold Irish Essays [1882].A Speech at Eton English civilization-the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society-that is what interests me. Matthew Arnold Irish Essays [1882].Ecce, Convertimur ad Gentes That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. Matthew Arnold A Word About America [1882] The American Philistine was a livelier sort of Philistine than ours. Matthew Arnold A Word More About America [1885] What really dissatisfies in American civilization is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty. Matthew Arnold Civilization in the United States [1888] The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. Matthew Arnold Essays in Criticism, second series [1888].The Study of Poetry Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium. Matthew Arnold Essays in Criticism, second series [1888].Byron A beautiful and ineffectual angel [Shelley], beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Matthew Arnold Essays in Criticism, second series [1888].Byron Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius 1822-1888 Heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body. Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius The Second Law of Thermodynamics [1850]. From Die Mechanische W[auml ]rmetheorie [1865-1867; On the Mechanical Theory of Heat, 1879] Ulysses S impson Grant 1822-1885 The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on. 1 Ulysses S impson Grant On the art of war 1 See Halsey No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works. Ulysses S impson Grant To General S. B. Buckner, Fort Donelson [February 16, 1862] I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer. Ulysses S impson Grant Dispatch to Washington, before Spottsylvania Court House [May 11, 1864] Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also. Ulysses S impson Grant Dispatch to General Henry W. Halleck from City Point, Virginia [August 1, 1864] The war is over-the rebels are our countrymen again. Ulysses S impson Grant Upon stopping his men from cheering after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House [April 9, 1865] Let us have peace. Ulysses S impson Grant Accepting nomination for the presidency [May 29, 1868] I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. Ulysses S impson Grant Inaugural Address [March 4, 1869] Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty. Ulysses S impson Grant Indorsement of a letter relating to the Whiskey Ring [July 29, 1875] Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the State forever separate. Ulysses S impson Grant Speech at Des Moines, Iowa [1875] Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor. Ulysses S impson Grant Speech at Midland International Arbitration Union, Birmingham, England [1877] They [the Pilgrim Fathers] fell upon an ungenial climate, where there were nine months of winter and three months of cold weather, and that called out the best energies of the men, and of the women too, to get a mere subsistence out of the soil, with such a climate. In their efforts to do that they cultivated industry and frugality at the same time-which is the real foundation of the greatness of the Pilgrims. Ulysses S impson Grant Speech at New England Society Dinner [December 22, 1880] Edward Everett Hale 1822-1909 I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. Edward Everett Hale For the Lend-a-Hand Society Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother. Edward Everett Hale The Man Without a Country [1863] He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands. Edward Everett Hale The Man Without a Country [1863]Epitaph of Philip Nolan To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. Edward Everett Hale Ten Times One Is Ten [1870] Rutherford B irchard Hayes 1822-1893 He serves his party best who serves the country best. Rutherford B irchard Hayes Inaugural Address [March 5, 1877] Thomas Hughes 1822-1896 Life isn't all beer and skittles; 1 but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's Schooldays [1857], pt.I, ch. 2 1 See Dickens He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's Schooldays [1857], pt.II, ch. 2 William Porcher Miles 1822-1899 "Vote early and vote often," the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities. William Porcher Miles Speech in the House of Representatives [March 31, 1858] Frederick Law Olmsted 1822-1903 Calvert Vaux 1824-1895 The Park [Central Park, New York City] throughout is a single work of art, and as such subject to the primary law of every work of art, namely, that it shall be framed upon a single, noble motive, to which the design of all its parts, in some more or less subtle way, shall be confluent and helpful. Calvert Vaux Report submitted with "Greensward" Plan, awarded first prize by the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park [April 28, 1858] It is one great purpose of the Park to supply to the hundreds of thousands of tired workers, who have no opportunity to spend their summers in the country, a specimen of God's handiwork that shall be to them, inexpensively, what a month or two in the White Mountains or the Adirondacks is, at great cost, to those in easier circumstances. Calvert Vaux Report submitted with "Greensward" Plan, awarded first prize by the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park [April 28, 1858] Louis Pasteur 1822-1895  No, a thousand times no; there does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit to the tree which bears it. Louis Pasteur Pourquoi la France n'a pas trouve des hommes superieurs au moment du peril. From Revue Scientifique [1871] In the fields of observation, chance favors only the mind that is prepared. Louis Pasteur Quoted by Rene Vallery-Radot in The Life of Pasteur [1927] Thomas Buchanan Read 1822-1872 The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away. Thomas Buchanan Read Sheridan's Ride [1865], st. 1 Red Cloud 1822-1909  We were told that they [federal troops] wished merely to pass through our country . . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council fire are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe upon the Little Piney. His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be plowed for corn? Dakotas, I am for war. Red Cloud Speech at council at Fort Laramie, Wyoming [1866] Heinrich Schliemann 1822-1890 I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon. Heinrich Schliemann Telegram to the king of Greece, upon excavating the fifth and last grave at Mycenae [August 1876] Theodore de Banville 1823-1891 We'll to the woods no more, The laurels all are cut. Theodore de Banville Nous n'Irons Plus aux Bois Julia A. Fletcher Carney 1823-1908 Little drops of water Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land. Julia A. Fletcher Carney Little Things [1845],st. 1 Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Help to make earth happy Like the heaven above. Julia A. Fletcher Carney Little Things [1845],st. 4 William Johnson Cory 1823-1892 They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy Nightingales, awake, For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. William Johnson Cory Heraclitus. Translated from Callimachus 1 1 See Callimachus Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1823-1911 When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Preface to Emily Dickinson's Poems, first series [1890] Benjamin Harvey Hill 1823-1882 He [Lee] was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor without reproach, a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar without his ambition, a Frederick without his tyranny, a Napoleon without his selfishness, and a Washington without his reward. Benjamin Harvey Hill Tribute to Robert E. Lee; from Thomas Nelson Page, Robert E. Lee [1911] William Walsham How 1823-1897 For all the saints, who from their labors rest. William Walsham How Hymn [1864], st. 1 John Kells Ingram 1823-1907 Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame? John Kells Ingram The Memory of the Dead, st. 1 Leopold Kronecker 1823-1891 God made integers, all else is the work of man. Leopold Kronecker Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker Vereinigung, bk. 2 George Martin Lane 1823-1897 The waiter roars it through the hall: "We don't give bread with one fish ball!" George Martin Lane Lay of the Lone Fish Ball [1855], st. 10 Francis Parkman 1823-1893 The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt. Francis Parkman Pioneers of France in the New World [1865], introduction A boundless vision grows upon us; an untamed continent; vast wastes of forest verdure; mountains silent in primeval sleep; river, lake, and glimmering pool; wilderness oceans mingling with the sky. Such was the domain which France conquered for civilization. Plumed helmets gleamed in the shade of its forests, priestly vestments in its dens and fastnesses of ancient barbarism. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close breath of the cloister, here spent the noon and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild, parental sway, and stood serene before the direst shapes of death. Men of courtly nurture, heirs to the polish of a far-reaching ancestry, here, with their dauntless hardihood, put to shame the boldest sons of toil. Francis Parkman Pioneers of France in the New World [1865], introduction Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. 1 He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes. Francis Parkman Pioneers of France in the New World [1865], introduction 1 See Tolstoi If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruit is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar. Francis Parkman Autobiography [1868] The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here or shall she not? Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe [1884],introduction Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings, and it was never full. Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe [1884],ch. 1 The [French] Revolution began at the top-in the world of fashion, birth, and intellect-and propagated itself downwards. Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe [1884],ch. 1 France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed: England reversed the system, and succeeded. Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe [1884],ch. 1 Coventry Patmore 1823-1896 A Woman is a foreign land, Of which, though there he settle young, A man will ne'er quite understand The customs, politics, and tongue. Coventry Patmore The Angel in the House [1854-1856], bk. I, canto 9. Prelude 2, Woman It was not like your great and gracious ways! Do you, that have naught other to lament, Never, my Love, repent Of how, that July afternoon, You went, With sudden, unintelligible phrase, And frightened eye, Upon your journey of so many days Without a single kiss, or a good-bye? Coventry Patmore The Unknown Eros [1877], bk. I, 8, The Departure, l. 1 Edward Pollock 1823-1858 The one who goes is happier Than those he leaves behind. Edward Pollock The Parting Hour William Brighty Rands Matthew Browne 1823-1882 Never do today what you can Put off till tomorrow. William Brighty Rands Lilliput Levee Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world, With the wonderful waters round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully dressed. William Brighty Rands The Child's World, st. 1 Ernest Joseph Renan 1823-1892 The whole of history is incomprehensible without him [Jesus]. Ernest Joseph Renan La Vie de Jesus [1863], introduction O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul. Ernest Joseph Renan Priere d'un Sceptique Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. Ernest Joseph Renan Les Ap[ocirc ]tres [1866] An immense river of oblivion is sweeping us away into a nameless abyss. Ernest Joseph Renan Souvenirs d'Enfance et de Jeunesse [1883] Immortality is to labor at an eternal task. Ernest Joseph Renan L'Avenir de la Science [1890],preface Nothing great is achieved without chimeras. Ernest Joseph Renan L'Avenir de la Science [1890],ch. 19 John Sherman 1823-1900  I have come home to look after my fences. John Sherman Speech to his neighbors, Mansfield, Ohio Harriet Tubman c. 1823-1913   When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. Harriet Tubman To her biographer Sarah H. Bradford [c. 1868] I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to . . . death or liberty." Harriet Tubman To her biographer Sarah H. Bradford [c. 1868] 'Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, "I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me," and he always did. Harriet Tubman To her biographer Sarah H. Bradford [c. 1868] William Marcy Tweed Boss Tweed 1823-1878 As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it? William Marcy Tweed Statement by the "Boss" of Tammany Hall on the ballot in New York City [November 1871] William Allingham 1824-1889 Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men. William Allingham The Fairies, st. 1 Four ducks on a pond, A grass bank beyond, A blue sky of spring, White clouds on the wing; What a little thing To remember for years- To remember with tears! William Allingham Four Ducks on a Pond Bernard Elliott Bee 1824-1861 There is Jackson, standing like a stone wall! Bernard Elliott Bee Of General T. J. Jackson at the battle of Bull Run [July 21, 1861] Phoebe Cary 1824-1871 And though hard be the task, "Keep a stiff upper lip." Phoebe Cary Keep a Stiff Upper Lip One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today Than I ever have been before. Phoebe Cary Nearer Home, st. 1 William Wilkie Collins 1824-1889 "I haven't much time to be fond of anything," says Sergeant Cuff. "But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times . . . the roses get it." William Wilkie Collins The Moonstone [1868]. First Period, ch. 12 Alexandre Dumasthe Younger 1824-1895  Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money. Alexandre Dumasthe Younger La Question d'Argent [1857], act II, sc. vii Thomas Jonathan Jackson Stonewall Jackson 1824-1863 My duty is to obey orders. Thomas Jonathan Jackson A favorite aphorism Let us cross over the river, and rest under the trees. Thomas Jonathan Jackson Last words [May 10, 1863] William Thomson, Lord Kelvin 1824-1907 When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Popular Lectures and Addresses [1891-1894] Gustav Robert Kirchhoff 1824-1887  The highest object at which the natural sciences are constrained to aim, but which they will never reach, is the determination of the forces which are present in nature, and of the state of matter at any given moment-in one word, the reduction of all the phenomena of nature to mechanics. Gustav Robert Kirchhoff [Uuml ]ber das Ziel der Naturwissenschaften [1865] George Macdonald 1824-1905 Said the Wind to the Moon, "I will blow you out!" George Macdonald The Wind and the Moon, st. 1 Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde: Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God; As I wad do, were I Lord God, And ye were Martin Elginbrodde. George Macdonald David Elginbrod [1863], bk. I, ch. 13 There is no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone-which is not, in some form or degree, in every heart. George Macdonald Unspoken Sermons, second series [1885] You will be dead so long as you refuse to die. George Macdonald What's Mine's Mine [1886], ch. 31 The world and my being, its life and mine, were one. The microcosm and macrocosm were at length atoned, at length in harmony. I lived in everything; everything entered and lived in me. George Macdonald Lilith [1895], ch. 45 William Allen Butler 1825-1902 This same Miss McFlimsey of Madison Square, The last time we met was in utter despair, Because she had nothing whatever to wear! William Allen Butler Nothing to Wear [1857], st. 3 T homas H enry Huxley 1825-1895 I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission. T homas H enry Huxley On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences [1854] To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. T homas H enry Huxley On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences [1854] Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules. T homas H enry Huxley Darwiniana. The Origin of Species [1860] The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. T homas H enry Huxley Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature [1863] Let us have "sweet girl graduates" 1 by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within. T homas H enry Huxley Emancipation-Black and White [1865] 1 See Tennyson The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties, blind faith the one unpardonable sin. T homas H enry Huxley On the Advisableness of ImprovingNatural Knowledge [1866] For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them. T homas H enry Huxley A Liberal Education [1868] The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. T homas H enry Huxley A Liberal Education [1868] M. Comte's philosophy in practice might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity. T homas H enry Huxley On the Physical Basis of Life [1868] Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces but men and their ways, and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with these laws. T homas H enry Huxley Science and Education [1868], ch. 4 The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. T homas H enry Huxley Science and Education [1868], ch. 4 If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. T homas H enry Huxley On Descartes' Discourse on Method [1870]. Method and Results There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. T homas H enry Huxley On Medical Education [1870] That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. T homas H enry Huxley Universities, Actual and Ideal [1874] Veracity is the heart of morality. T homas H enry Huxley Universities, Actual and Ideal [1874] Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year 1 has its application to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross. T homas H enry Huxley Joseph Priestley [1874] 1 See Thackeray Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. T homas H enry Huxley Animal Automatism [1874] Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. T homas H enry Huxley On University Education [1876] Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; 1 2 it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. T homas H enry Huxley Technical Education [1877] 1 See William James 2 See Maugham The great end of life is not knowledge but action. T homas H enry Huxley Technical Education [1877] If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? T homas H enry Huxley On Elemental Instruction in Physiology [1877] Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. T homas H enry Huxley The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species [1880] It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. T homas H enry Huxley The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species [1880] Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process. T homas H enry Huxley Evolution and Ethics [1893] I asserted-and I repeat-that a man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man-a man of restless and versatile intellect-who, not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice. T homas H enry Huxley Reply to Wilberforce's question. From Leonard Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley [1900], vol. I George Edward Pickett 1825-1875 Up, men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from Old Virginia. George Edward Pickett Command at the beginning of his division's charge at Gettysburg [July 3, 1863] Adelaide Anne Procter 1825-1864 Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, And my fingers wandered idly Over the noisy keys. Adelaide Anne Procter A Lost Chord,st. 1 But I struck one chord of music Like the sound of a great Amen. Adelaide Anne Procter A Lost Chord,st. 2 Bayard Taylor 1825-1878 From the desert I come to thee On a stallion shod with fire, And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Bayard Taylor Bedouin Song,st. 1 Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold. Bayard Taylor Bedouin Song,refrain They sang of love, and not of fame; Forgot was Britain's glory; Each heart recalled a different name, But all sang "Annie Laurie." Bayard Taylor The Song of the Camp, st. 5 William Whiting 1825-1878 Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm doth bind the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep, O, hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea! William Whiting The Hymn of the U.S. Navy [1860]. Eternal Father, Strong to Save, st. 1 ÿ Charles Hamilton Aide 1826-1906 I sit beside my lonely fire And pray for wisdom yet: For calmness to remember Or courage to forget. Charles Hamilton Aide Remember or Forget Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden 1826-1907 Unity makes strength, and, since we must be strong, we must also be one. Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden On German unity under Prussian hegemony, Versailles [January 18, 1871] Walter Bagehot 1826-1877 One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Walter Bagehot Physics and Politics [1869], ch. 5  An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. Walter Bagehot Physics and Politics [1869], ch. 5 The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that on the whole it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm. Walter Bagehot Physics and Politics [1869], ch. 5 To a great experience one thing is essential-an experiencing nature. Walter Bagehot Literary Studies [1879].Shakespeare The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum. Walter Bagehot Literary Studies [1879].Shakespeare A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature-a good bit, of course, but a bit only-in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence. Walter Bagehot Literary Studies [1879].Wordsworth, Tennyson and Browning A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. Walter Bagehot Biographical Studies [1907].Sir Robert Peel You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. . . . Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. Walter Bagehot Biographical Studies [1907].Sir Robert Peel It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot Biographical Studies [1907].Sir George Cornewall Lewis [Of Guizot] A Puritan born in France by mistake. Walter Bagehot Biographical Studies [1907].Guizot Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1826-1887 Douglas, Douglas, tender and true! Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Douglas, Tender and True, refrain Oh, my son's my son till he gets him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all her life. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Young and Old John Ellerton 1826-1893 Now the laborer's task is o'er; Now the battle day is past; Now upon the farther shore Lands the voyager at last. John Ellerton Hymn [1870],st. 1 Father, in thy gracious keeping Leave we now thy servant sleeping. John Ellerton Hymn [1870],refrain The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended, The darkness falls at thy behest; To thee our morning hymns ascended, Thy praise shall sanctify our rest. John Ellerton Hymn [1870],st. 1 So be it, Lord; thy throne shall never, Like earth's proud empires, pass away: Thy kingdom stands, and grows forever, Till all thy creatures own thy sway. John Ellerton Hymn [1870],st. 5 Stephen Collins Foster 1826-1864 O, Susanna! O, don't you cry for me, I've come from Alabama, with my banjo on my knee. Stephen Collins Foster O, Susanna [1848], chorus Gwine to run all night! Gwine to run all day! I'll bet my money on de bobtail nag- Somebody bet on de bay. Stephen Collins Foster Camptown Races [1850], chorus Way down upon the Swanee River, Far, far away, There's where my heart is turning ever; There's where the old folks stay. Stephen Collins Foster The Old Folks at Home [1851],st. 1 All the world is sad and dreary Everywhere I roam, Oh! darkies, how my heart grows weary, Far from the old folks at home. Stephen Collins Foster The Old Folks at Home [1851],chorus Weep no more, my lady, Oh! weep no more today! We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home, For the old Kentucky home far away. Stephen Collins Foster My Old Kentucky Home [1853], chorus I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair, Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air. Stephen Collins Foster Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair [1854], st. 1 I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low; I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe." Stephen Collins Foster Old Black Joe [1860], st. 3 Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee. Stephen Collins Foster Beautiful Dreamer [1864], st. 1 G eorge W illiam Hunt c. 1829-1904 We don't want to fight, but, by jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too. G eorge W illiam Hunt Song [1878] George B rinton McClellan 1826-1885 All quiet along the Potomac. George B rinton McClellan Frequent report from his Union headquarters [1861] Edward Stuyvesant Bragg 1827-1912  They love him most for the enemies he has made. Edward Stuyvesant Bragg Speech seconding the presidential nomination of Grover Cleveland [July 9, 1884] Franklin J ackson Dickman 1827-1908 Glittering generalities. Franklin J ackson Dickman Letter reviewing a speech by Rufus Choate, Providence Journal [December 14, 1849] 1 1 See Choate Charles Eliot Norton 1827-1908 A knowledge of Greek thought and life, and of the arts in which the Greeks expressed their thought and sentiment, is essential to high culture. A man may know everything else, but without this knowledge he remains ignorant of the best intellectual and moral achievements of his own race. Charles Eliot Norton Letter to F. A. Tupper [1885] Whatever your occupation may be and however crowded your hours with affairs, do not fail to secure at least a few minutes every day for refreshment of your inner life with a bit of poetry. 1 Charles Eliot Norton Used by a Boston newspaper as a heading for a column of reprinted poems 1 See Goethe The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyran-nous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent. Charles Eliot Norton True Patriotism [1898] The old America, the America of our hopes and our dreams, has come to an end, and a new America is entering on the false course which has been tried so often and which has often led to calamity. This war will in the long run result in far more evil to the United States than to Spain. We shall nominally win, but at the cost of what infinite loss! Charles Eliot Norton Letter to Edward Lee-Childe [1898] Lew Lewis Wallace 1827-1905 A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune. Lew Lewis Wallace Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ [1880], bk.V, ch. 7 Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love. Lew Lewis Wallace Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ [1880], bk.VI, ch. 2 Anna Bartlett Warner 1827-1915 Jesus loves me-this I know, For the Bible tells me so. Anna Bartlett Warner The Love of Jesus [1858] Septimus Winner Alice Hawthorne 1827-1902 Listen to the mockingbird, listen to the mockingbird, Still singing where the weeping willows wave. Septimus Winner Listen to the Mockingbird [1855] Henrik Ibsen 1828-1906 All or nothing. Henrik Ibsen Brand [1866] Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. Henrik Ibsen Pillars of Society [1877], actIII The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society. Henrik Ibsen Pillars of Society [1877], actIV There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House [1879], 1 actI 1 See Dickens Our house has never been anything but a playroom. I have been your doll wife, just as at home I was Daddy's doll child. And the children in turn have been my dolls. I thought it was fun when you came and played with me, just as they thought it was fun when I went and played with them. That's been our marriage, Torvald. Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House [1879], 1 actIII If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer. Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House [1879], 1 actIII I have another duty equally sacred . . . My duty to myself. Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House [1879], 1 actIII Helmer: First and foremost, you are a wife and mother. Nora: That I don't believe any more. I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as much as you are. Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House [1879], 1 actIII To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness? Henrik Ibsen Ghosts [1881], actI I am half inclined to think we are all ghosts, Mr. Manders. It is not only what we have inherited from our fathers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not actually alive in us; but there they are dormant, all the same, and we can never be rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper and read it, I fancy I see ghosts creeping between the lines. There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us. Henrik Ibsen Ghosts [1881], actII Mother, give me the sun. Henrik Ibsen Ghosts [1881], actIII I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future. Henrik Ibsen Letter to Georg Brandes [January 3, 1882] A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People [1882], actI The minority is always right. Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People [1882], actIV You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People [1882], actV The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. 1 Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People [1882], actV 1 See Montaigne Always do that, wild ducks do. Go plunging right to the bottom . . . as deep as they can get . . . hold on with their beaks to the weeds and stuff-and all the other mess you find down there. Then they never come up again. Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck [1884], actII Take the life-lie away from the average man and straightaway you take away his happiness. Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck [1884], actV Our common lust for life. Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler [1890], actII Oh courage . . . oh yes! If only one had that . . . Then life might be livable, in spite of everything. Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler [1890], actII Back he'll come . . . With vine leaves in his hair. Flushed and confident. Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler [1890], actII Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical. Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler [1890], actIV The younger generation will come knocking at my door. Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder [1892], act I George Meredith 1828-1909 I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. George Meredith The Ordeal of Richard Feverel [1859], ch.1 Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. George Meredith The Ordeal of Richard Feverel [1859], ch.12 The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts. George Meredith The Ordeal of Richard Feverel [1859], ch.19 Kissing don't last; cookery do! George Meredith The Ordeal of Richard Feverel [1859], ch.28 Speech is the small change of Silence. George Meredith The Ordeal of Richard Feverel [1859], ch.34 See ye not, courtesy Is the true alchemy, Turning to gold all it touches and tries? George Meredith The Song of Courtesy [1859], IV Two of a trade, lass, never agree. 1 2 George Meredith Juggling Jerry [1859], IX 1 See Hesiod 2 See Gay Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we pay for it full worth; We have it only when we are half earth. George Meredith Modern Love [1862],4 And if I drink oblivion of a day, So shorten I the stature of my soul. George Meredith Modern Love [1862],12 What are we first? First, animals; and next Intelligences at a leap; on whom Pale lies the distant shadow of the tomb. George Meredith Modern Love [1862],30 In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. George Meredith Modern Love [1862],43 More brain, O Lord, more brain! Or we shall mar Utterly this fair garden we might win. George Meredith Modern Love [1862],48 Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! George Meredith Modern Love [1862],50 Into the breast that gives the rose Shall I with shuddering fall! George Meredith The Spirit of Earth in Autumn [1862] st. 1 [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dullness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness yet to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher. George Meredith The Egoist [1879].Prelude Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. George Meredith The Egoist [1879].ch.7 In . . . the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. George Meredith The Egoist [1879].ch.14 For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instills, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which over flows To lift us with him as he goes. George Meredith The Lark Ascending [1881],l. 65 The song seraphically free Of taint of personality. George Meredith The Lark Ascending [1881],l. 95 On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend. George Meredith Lucifer in Starlight [1883] Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. 1 George Meredith Lucifer in Starlight [1883] 1 See T. S. Eliot Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. George Meredith The Woods of Westermain [1883], st. 1 She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won! George Meredith Love in the Valley [1883],st. 2 Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled. George Meredith Love in the Valley [1883],st. 5 Civil limitation daunts His utterance never; the nymphs blush, not he. George Meredith An Orson of the Muse (Walt Whitman) [1883] A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. George Meredith Diana of the Crossways [1885], ch.1 What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature. George Meredith Diana of the Crossways [1885], ch.1 The well of true wit is truth itself. George Meredith Diana of the Crossways [1885], ch.1 Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too. George Meredith Diana of the Crossways [1885], ch.2 How divine is utterance! . . . As we to the brutes, poets are to us. George Meredith Diana of the Crossways [1885], ch.16 With patient inattention hear him prate. George Meredith Bellerophon [1887], st. 4 Full lasting is the song, though he, The singer, passes. George Meredith The Thrush in February [1888], st. 17 Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course. George Meredith Hard Weather [1888], l. 71 Cannon his name, Cannon his voice, he came. George Meredith Napoleon [1898], I Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882 The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven. Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blessed Damozel [1850],st. 1 And the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames. Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blessed Damozel [1850],st. 7 One thing then learned remains to me- The woodspurge has a cup of three. Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Woodspurge [1870], st. 4 Tell me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely Roman? Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman. Where is Echo, beheld of no man Only heard on river and mere- She whose beauty was more than human? . . . But where are the snows of yesteryear? Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Ballad of Dead Ladies (After Francois Villon) [1870], st. 1 A sonnet is a moment's monument- Memorial from the soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sonnets from the House of Life [1870-1881]. 1 Proem 1 See Buchanan Beauty like hers is genius. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sonnets from the House of Life [1870-1881]. 1 no. 18, Genius in Beauty And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond- Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sonnets from the House of Life [1870-1881]. 1 no. 73, The Choice-III My name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sonnets from the House of Life [1870-1881]. 1 no. 97, A Superscription When vain desire at last, and vain regret Go hand in hand to death, and all is vain, What shall assuage the unforgotten pain And teach the unforgetful to forget? Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sonnets from the House of Life [1870-1881]. 1 no. 101, The One Hope  The Stealthy School of Criticism. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letter to the Athenaeum [1871] I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell; I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sudden Light [1881], st. 1 Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi 1828-1910  The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried toportray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi Sevastopol in May 1855 [1855] "What's this? am I falling? my legs are giving way under me," he thought, and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle of the French soldiers with the artilleryman was ending, and eager to know whether the red-haired artilleryman was killed or not, whether the cannons had been taken or saved. But he saw nothing of all that. Above him there was nothing but the sky-the lofty sky, not clear, but still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds creeping quietly over it. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi War and Peace [1865-1869], bk.III, ch. 16 Three days afterwards the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrey went to the steps of the tomb to take his last farewell of her. Even in the coffin the face was the same, though the eyes were closed. "Ah, what have you done to me?" it still seemed to say. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi War and Peace [1865-1869], bk.IV, ch. 9 In historical events great men-so called-are but the labels that serve to give a name to an event, and like labels, they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi War and Peace [1865-1869], bk.IX, ch. 1 The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi War and Peace [1865-1869], bk.X, ch. 16 He [Platon Karataev] did not understand, and could not grasp the significance of words taken apart from the sentence. Every word and every action of his was the expression of a force uncomprehended by him, which was his life. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi War and Peace [1865-1869], bk.XII, ch. 13 For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi War and Peace [1865-1869], bk.XIV, ch. 18 Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi War and Peace [1865-1869], bk.XV, ch. 1 The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words-that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible. 1 Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi War and Peace [1865-1869], bk.epilogue, pt. II, ch. 1 1 See Francis Parkman Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi Anna Karenina [1875-1877], pt. I, ch. 1 Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi The Death of Ivan Ilych [1886] Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continuous despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learned from Kiezewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius-man in the abstract-was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi The Death of Ivan Ilych [1886] Six feet of land was all that he needed. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi How Much Land Does a Man Need? [1886]  The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi Help for the Starving, pt. III [January 1892] Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi What Is Art? [1898], ch. 8 Roscoe Conkling 1829-1888 He [President Grant] will hew to the line of right, let the chips fall where they may. 1 Roscoe Conkling Speech [June 5, 1880] 1 See Anonymous Geronimo c. 1829-1909  It [Arizona] is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct. Geronimo To President Grant from the reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, after surrender [1877] Carl Schurz 1829-1906 Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. 1 Carl Schurz Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston [April 18, 1859] 1 See Emerson I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor. Carl Schurz Letter to Theodore Petrasch [October 12, 1864] Our country, right or wrong. 1 2 3 When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. Carl Schurz Address, Anti-Imperialistic Conference, Chicago [October 17, 1899] 1 See Charles Churchill 2 See John Quincy Adams 3 See Decatur Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov 1829-1905 All psychical acts without exception, if they are not complicated by elements of emotion . . . develop by way of reflex. Hence, all conscious movements resulting from these acts and usually described as voluntary, are reflex movements in the strict sense of the term. Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov Reflexes of the Brain [1863], ch. 2 The initial cause of any action always lies in external sensory stimulation, because without this thought is inconceivable. Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov Reflexes of the Brain [1863], ch. 2 Charles Dudley Warner 1829-1900  To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life-this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. Charles Dudley Warner My Summer in a Garden [1870].Preliminary No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. Charles Dudley Warner My Summer in a Garden [1870].Preliminary What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. Charles Dudley Warner My Summer in a Garden [1870].Third Week The toad, without which no garden would be complete. Charles Dudley Warner My Summer in a Garden [1870].Thirteenth Week Politics makes strange bedfellows. Charles Dudley Warner My Summer in a Garden [1870].Fifteenth Week What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! Charles Dudley Warner My Summer in a Garden [1870].Fifteenth Week Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments. Charles Dudley Warner My Summer in a Garden [1870].Sixteenth Week The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. Charles Dudley Warner My Summer in a Garden [1870].Sixteenth Week  Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Charles Dudley Warner Editorial, Hartford Courant [August 24, 1897] Charlotte Alington Barnard Claribel 1830-1869 I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago. Charlotte Alington Barnard I Cannot Sing the Old Songs Thomas Edward Brown 1830-1897 A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! Thomas Edward Brown My Garden Not God! in Gardens! when the eve is cool? Nay, but I have a sign: 'Tis very sure God walks in mine. Thomas Edward Brown My Garden Porfirio Diaz 1830-1915 Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States. Porfirio Diaz Attributed Emily Dickinson 1830-1886  I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod. Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!Angels-twice descending Reimbursed my store- Burglar! Banker!-Father! I am poor once more! Emily Dickinson No. 49 [c. 1858] Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life! Emily Dickinson No. 108 [c. 1859] Our share of night to bear- Our share of morning- Our blank in bliss to fill Our blank in scorning-Here a star, and there a star, Some lose their way! Here a mist, and there a mist, Afterwards-Day! Emily Dickinson No. 113 [c. 1859] For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. Emily Dickinson No. 125 [c. 1859], st. 1 To fight aloud, is very brave- But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe- Emily Dickinson No. 126 [c. 1859], st. 1 Who counts the wampum of the night To see that none is due? Emily Dickinson No. 128 [c. 1859], st. 3 These are the days when Birds come back- A very few-a Bird or two- To take a backward look.These are the days when skies resume The old-old sophistries of June- A blue and gold mistake. Emily Dickinson No. 130 [c. 1859],st. 1, 2 Oh Sacrament of summer days, Oh Last Communion in the Haze- Permit a child to join.Thy sacred emblems to partake- Thy consecrated bread to take And thine immortal wine! Emily Dickinson No. 130 [c. 1859],st. 5, 6 Just lost when I was saved! Just felt the world go by! Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide! Emily Dickinson No. 160 [c. 1860], st. 1 The thought beneath so slight a film- Is more distinctly seen- As laces just reveal the surge- Or Mists-the Apennine- Emily Dickinson No. 210 [c. 1860] I taste a liquor never brewed, From Tankards scooped in Pearl- Emily Dickinson No. 214 [c. 1860],st. 1 Inebriate of Air-am I- And Debauchee of Dew- Reeling-through endless summer days- From inns of Molten Blue- Emily Dickinson No. 214 [c. 1860],st. 2 Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats- And Saints-to windows run- To see the little Tippler Leaning against the-Sun- Emily Dickinson No. 214 [c. 1860],st. 4 Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple Leaping like Leopards to the Sky . . . And the Juggler of Day is gone. Emily Dickinson No. 228 [c. 1861] "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tune without the words- And never stops-at all- Emily Dickinson No. 254 [c. 1861], st. 1 There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes- Emily Dickinson No. 258 [c. 1861], st. 1 I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you-Nobody-too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise-you know!How dreary-to be-Somebody! How public-like a Frog- To tell one's name-the livelong June- To an admiring Bog! Emily Dickinson No. 288 [c. 1861] I tasted-careless-then- I did not know the Wine Came once a World-Did you? Oh, had you told me so- This Thirst would blister-easier-now- Emily Dickinson No. 296 [c. 1861], st. 3 The Soul selects her own Society- Then-shuts the Door- To her divine Majority- Present no more- Emily Dickinson No. 303 [c. 1862], st. 1 I'll tell you how the Sun rose- A Ribbon at a time- Emily Dickinson No. 318 [1862] Some keep the Sabbath going to Church- I keep it, staying at Home- With a bobolink for a Chorister- And an Orchard, for a Dome- Emily Dickinson No. 324 [1862],st. 1 So instead of getting to Heaven, at last- I'm going, all along. Emily Dickinson No. 324 [1862],st. 3 After great pain, a formal feeling comes. Emily Dickinson No. 341 [c. 1862], st. 1 Of Course-I prayed- And did God Care? He cared as much as on the Air A Bird-had stamped her foot- And cried "Give Me"- Emily Dickinson No. 376 [c. 1862] No Rack can torture me- My Soul-at Liberty- Behind this mortal Bone There knits a bolder One- Emily Dickinson No. 384 [c. 1862],st. 1 Except Thyself may be Thine Enemy- Captivity is Consciousness- So's Liberty. Emily Dickinson No. 384 [c. 1862],st. 4 Good Morning-Midnight- I'm coming Home- Day-got tired of Me- How could I-of Him? Emily Dickinson No. 425 [c. 1862], st. 1 Much Madness is divinest Sense- To a discerning Eye- Much Sense-the starkest Madness- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail- Assent-and you are sane- Demur-you're straightway dangerous- And handled with a Chain. Emily Dickinson No. 435 [c. 1862] This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me- The simple News that Nature told- With tender Majesty. Emily Dickinson No. 441 [c. 1862], st. 1 I died for Beauty-but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room- Emily Dickinson No. 449 [c. 1862],st. 1 And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night- We talked between the Rooms- Until the Moss had reached our lips- And covered up-our names- Emily Dickinson No. 449 [c. 1862],st. 3 It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down- Emily Dickinson No. 510 [c. 1862],st. 1 It was not Frost, for on my Flesh I felt Siroccos-crawl- Emily Dickinson No. 510 [c. 1862],st. 2 I reckon-when I count at all- First-Poets-Then the Sun- Then Summer-Then the Heaven of God- And then-the List is done-But, looking back-the First so seems To Comprehend the Whole- The Others look a needless Show- So I write-Poets-All- Emily Dickinson No. 569 [c. 1862], st. 1, 2 I like to see it lap the Miles- And lick the Valleys up- Emily Dickinson No. 585 [c. 1862],st. 1 And neigh like Boanerges- Then punctual as a Star Stop-docile and omnipotent At its own stable door- Emily Dickinson No. 585 [c. 1862],st. 4 I asked no other thing- No other-was denied- I offered Being-for it- The Mighty Merchant sneered-Brazil? He twirled a Button- Without a glance my way- "But-Madam-is there nothing else- That We can show-Today?" Emily Dickinson No. 621 [c. 1862] The Brain-is wider than the Sky- For-put them side by side- The one the other will contain With ease-and You-beside. Emily Dickinson No. 632 [1862], st. 1 I cannot live with You- It would be Life- And Life is over there- Behind the Shelf. Emily Dickinson No. 640 [c. 1862],st. 1 And that White Sustenance- Despair- Emily Dickinson No. 640 [c. 1862],st. 12 Pain-has an Element of Blank- It cannot recollect When it begun-or if there were A time when it was not- Emily Dickinson No. 650 [c. 1862], st. 1 The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend- Or the most agonizing Spy- An Enemy-could send- Emily Dickinson No. 683 [c. 1862], st. 1 Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me- The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. Emily Dickinson No. 712 [c. 1863], st. 1 Alter! When the Hills do- Falter! When the Sun Question if His Glory Be the Perfect One-Surfeit! When the Daffodil Doth of the Dew- Even as Herself-Sir- I will-of You- Emily Dickinson No. 729 [c. 1863] God gave a Loaf to every Bird- But just a Crumb-to Me- Emily Dickinson No. 791 [c. 1863], st. 1 This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies And Lads and Girls- 1 Was laughter and ability and Sighing, And Frocks and Curls. Emily Dickinson No. 813 [c. 1864], st. 1 1 See Shakespeare Adventure most unto itself The Soul condemned to be- Attended by a single Hound Its own identity. Emily Dickinson No. 822 [c. 1864], st. 4 Dying! To be afraid of thee One must to thine Artillery Have left exposed a Friend- Than thine old Arrow is a Shot Delivered straighter to the Heart The leaving Love behind. Emily Dickinson No. 831 [c. 1864], st. 1 The Poets light but Lamps- Themselves-go out- The Wicks they stimulate- If vital LightInhere as do the Suns- Each Age a Lens Disseminating their Circumference- Emily Dickinson No. 883 [c. 1864] Love-is anterior to Life- Posterior-to Death- Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth. Emily Dickinson No. 917 [c. 1864] If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching Or cool one PainOr help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain. Emily Dickinson No. 919 [c. 1864] A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides- Emily Dickinson No. 986 [c. 1865],st. 1 But never met this Fellow Attended or alone Without a tighter breathing And Zero at the Bone- Emily Dickinson No. 986 [c. 1865],last stanza The Dying, is a trifle, past But living, this include The dying multifold-without The Respite to be dead. Emily Dickinson No. 1013 [c. 1865] 'Twas my one Glory- Let it be Remembered I was owned of Thee- Emily Dickinson No. 1028 [c. 1865] I never saw a Moor- I never saw the Sea- Yet know I how the Heather looks And what a Billow be.I never spoke with God Nor visited in Heaven- Yet certain am I of the spot As if the Checks were given- Emily Dickinson No. 1052 [c. 1865] Experiment to me Is every one I meet If it contain a Kernel? The Figure of a NutPresents upon a Tree Equally plausibly, But Meat within, is requisite To Squirrels, and to Me. Emily Dickinson No. 1073 [c. 1865] Nature, like Us is sometimes caught Without her Diadem. Emily Dickinson No. 1075 [c. 1866], st. 2 The Sweeping up the Heart, And putting Love away We shall not want to use again Until Eternity. Emily Dickinson No. 1078 [c. 1866], st. 2 We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise And then, if we are true to plan Our statures touch the skies. 1 Emily Dickinson No. 1176 [c. 1870], st. 1 1 See William James A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. Emily Dickinson No. 1212 [c. 1872] There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry- This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll- How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human Soul! Emily Dickinson No. 1263 [c. 1873] I thought that nature was enough Till Human nature came But that the other did absorb As Parallax a Flame- Emily Dickinson No. 1286 [c. 1873], st. 1 Until the Desert knows That Water grows His Sands suffice But let him once suspect That Caspian Fact Sahara dies. Emily Dickinson No. 1291 [c. 1873], st. 1 Not with a Club, the Heart is broken Nor with a Stone- A Whip so small you could not see it I've known To lash the Magic Creature Till it fell. Emily Dickinson No. 1304 [c. 1874], st. 1 That short-potential stir That each can make but once- That Bustle so illustrious 'Tis almost Consequence-Is the eclat of Death. Oh, thou unknown Renown That not a Beggar would accept Had he the power to spurn- Emily Dickinson No. 1307 [c. 1874] A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. Emily Dickinson No. 1333 [c. 1875] Love's stricken "why" Is all that love can speak- Built of but just a syllable The hugest hearts that break. Emily Dickinson No. 1368 [c. 1876] Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles- Buccaneers of Buzz. Emily Dickinson No. 1405 [c. 1877], st. 1 A Route of Evanescence With a revolving Wheel- A Resonance of Emerald- A Rush of Cochineal- And every Blossom on the Bush Adjusts its tumbled Head- The mail from Tunis, probably, An easy Morning's ride. Emily Dickinson No. 1463 [c. 1879] The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee- A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy. Emily Dickinson No. 1627 [c. 1884], version II A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork Without a Revery- And so encountering a Fly This January Day Jamaicas of Remembrance stir That send me reeling in. Emily Dickinson No. 1628 [c. 1884] Beauty crowds me till I die Beauty mercy have on me But if I expire today Let it be in sight of thee- Emily Dickinson No. 1654 [n.d.] Eden is that old-fashioned House We dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away. Emily Dickinson No. 1657 [n.d.], st. 1 I took one Draught of Life- I'll tell you what I paid- Precisely an existence- The market price, they said.They weighed me, Dust by Dust- They balanced Film with Film, Then handed me my Being's worth- A single Dram of Heaven! Emily Dickinson No. 1725 [n.d.] My life closed twice before its close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to meSo huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. Emily Dickinson No. 1732 [n.d.] That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet. Emily Dickinson No. 1741 [n.d.], st. 1 The only secret people keep Is Immortality. Emily Dickinson No. 1748 [n.d.] To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson No. 1755 [n.d.] Elysium is as far as to The very nearest Room If in that Room a Friend await Felicity or Doom-What Fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door- Emily Dickinson No. 1760 [n.d.] That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love; It is enough, the freight should be Proportioned to the groove. Emily Dickinson No. 1765 [n.d.] If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? 1 2 Emily Dickinson From Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson [1924] 1 See Housman 2 See Graves Little Cousins-Called back. Emily. Emily Dickinson Last message to cousins. From William Luce, The Belle of Amherst [1976],preface Phosphorescence. Now, there's a word to lift your hat to. . . . To find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry. Emily Dickinson Last message to cousins. From William Luce, The Belle of Amherst [1976],act I Alexander Muir 1830-1906 And joined in love together, The Thistle, Shamrock, Rose entwine The Maple Leaf forever! Alexander Muir The Maple Leaf Forever [1867] Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830-1894 Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. Christina Georgina Rossetti Up-Hill [1861], st. 1 My heart is like a singing bird. Christina Georgina Rossetti A Birthday [1861],st. 1 The birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. Christina Georgina Rossetti A Birthday [1861],st. 2 When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember And if thou wilt, forget. Christina Georgina Rossetti Song [1862], st. 1 Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land. Christina Georgina Rossetti Remember [1862], l. 1 Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad. 1 Christina Georgina Rossetti Remember [1862], l. 13 1 See Landon For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather. Christina Georgina Rossetti Goblin Market [1862], last lines In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. Christina Georgina Rossetti Mid-Winter Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time. Christina Georgina Rossetti Song [1862] Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. Christina Georgina Rossetti Who Has Seen the Wind? [1872], st. 2 Sleeping at last, the trouble and turmoil over, Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past, Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover, Sleeping at last. Christina Georgina Rossetti Sleeping at Last [1893], st. 1 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne- Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury 1830-1903 If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne- Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury Letter to Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India [June 15, 1877] Alexander Smith 1830-1867 It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word. Alexander Smith Dreamthorp [1863].On the Writing of Essays Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. Alexander Smith Dreamthorp [1863].Of Death and the Fear of Dying George Graham Vest 1830-1904  The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. . . . When all other friends desert, he remains. George Graham Vest Speech in the Senate [1884] Shoin Yoshida 1830-1859  To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men. Shoin Yoshida Yoshida Shoin Zenshu, vol.II The mind of the superior man is like Heaven. When it is resentful or angry, it thunders forth its indignation. But once having loosed its feelings, it is like a sunny day with a clear sky: within the heart there remains not the trace of a cloud. Such is the beauty of true manliness. Shoin Yoshida Yoshida Shoin Zenshu, vol.III Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon [to save the country], and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes. Shoin Yoshida Yoshida Shoin Zenshu, vol.V James A bram Garfield 1831-1881 Fellow citizens! God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives! James A bram Garfield Speech on the assassination of Lincoln, New York [April 15, 1865] For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for the security of the future I would do everything. James A bram Garfield Speech on the assassination of Lincoln, New York [April 15, 1865]  I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him. James A bram Garfield Address to Williams College Alumni, New York [December 28, 1871] Helen Hunt Jackson 1831-1885 O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather. Helen Hunt Jackson October's Bright Blue Weather, st. 1 Oh, write of me, not "Died in bitter pains," But "Emigrated to another star!" Helen Hunt Jackson Emigravit Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton Owen Meredith 1831-1891 We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton Lucile [1860], pt. I, canto 2, st. 19 Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton Last Words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879 All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. James Clerk Maxwell On Faraday's Lines of Force [1856] For the sake of persons of . . . different types, scientific truth should be presented in different forms, and should be regarded as equally scientific, whether it appears in the robust form and the vivid coloring of a physical illustration, or in the tenuity and paleness of a symbolic expression. James Clerk Maxwell Address to the Mathematics and Physics Section, British Association for the Advancement of Science [1870] When at last this little instrument appeared, consisting, as it does, of parts every one of which is familiar to us, and capable of being put together by an amateur, the disappointment arising from its humble appearance was only partially relieved on finding that it was really able to talk. James Clerk Maxwell The Telephone [1878] Philip Henry Sheridan 1831-1888  The only good Indians I ever saw were dead. Philip Henry Sheridan Remark at Fort Cobb, Indian Territory [January 1869] Sitting Bull c. 1831-1890  What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? . . . . What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my people and my country? Sitting Bull Statement Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents. Louisa May Alcott Little Women [1868], ch. 1 Resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake a living out of her. Louisa May Alcott From Ednah D. Cheney, Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals [1889], ch.5 Above man's aims his nature rose. The wisdom of a just content Made one small spot a continent, And tuned to poetry Life's prose. Louisa May Alcott From Ednah D. Cheney, Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals [1889], ch.7 [Thoreau's Flute, st. 2] My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. Louisa May Alcott From Ednah D. Cheney, Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals [1889], ch.10 Elizabeth Akers Allen 1832-1911 Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight! Elizabeth Akers Allen Rock Me to Sleep [1860], st. 1 Sir Edwin Arnold 1832-1904 Nor ever once ashamed So we be named Pressmen; Slaves of the Lamp; Servants of Light. Sir Edwin Arnold The Tenth Muse, st. 18 Wilhelm Busch 1832-1908 Becoming a father is easy enough, But being one can be rough. Wilhelm Busch Julchen [1877] Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 1832-1898 All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide, For both our oars with little skill By little arms are plied While little hands make vain pretense Our wanderings to guide. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],introduction, st. 1 "What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.1 Do cats eat bats? . . . Do bats eat cats? Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.1 Curiouser and curiouser! Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.2 How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! 1 How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws! Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.2 1 See Isaac Watts "I'll be judge, I'll be jury," said cunning old Fury; "I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death." Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.3 Oh my fur and whiskers! Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.4 "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see." "I don't see," said the Caterpillar. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.5 "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head- Do you think, at your age, it is right?" 1 Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.5You are old, Father William,[st. 1] 1 See Southey "In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.5You are old, Father William,[st. 6] "I have answered three questions, and that is enough," Said his father. "Don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!" Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.5You are old, Father William,[st. 8] Those serpents! There's no pleasing them! Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.5You are old, Father William,[st. 8] "If everybody minded their own business," said the Duchess in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does." Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.5You are old, Father William,[st. 8] "Talking of axes," said the Duchess, "chop off her head!" Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.5You are old, Father William,[st. 8] Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.5You are old, Father William,[st. 8] "If it had grown up," she said to herself, "it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think." Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.5You are old, Father William,[st. 8] "All right," said the [Cheshire] Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.5You are old, Father William,[st. 8] "Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least-at least I mean what I say-that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that "I see what I eat' is the same thing as "I eat what I see'!" Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.7 "It was the best butter," the March Hare meekly replied. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.7 Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a teatray in the sky. 1 Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.7 1 See Ann and Jane Taylor "Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I can't take more." "You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing." Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.7 They drew all manner of things-everything that begins with an M . . . such as mousetraps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness-you know you say things are "much of a muchness." Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.7 The Queen turned crimson with fury, and after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming, "Off with her head! 1 2 Off with-" Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.8 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Cibber "Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.9 Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. 1 Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.9 1 See Chesterfield "We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily. "Really you are very dull!" Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.9 "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision." Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.9  Advance twice, set to partners . . . change lobsters, and retire in same order. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.10 "Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail." Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.10The Lobster-Quadrille,[st. 1] Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.10The Lobster-Quadrille,[st. 1] The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.10The Lobster-Quadrille,[st. 3] 'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair." 1 Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.10['Tis the Voice of the Lobster] 1 See Isaac Watts Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.10[Turtle Soup] Sentence first-verdict afterwards. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.12 Begin at the beginning . . . and go on till you come to the end: then stop. Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.12 You're nothing but a pack of cards! Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865],ch.12 Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],introduction, st. 1 "The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it." Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.1 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.1Jabberwocky,[st. 1, 2] And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back."And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.1Jabberwocky,[st. 4-6] Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.2 "Now! Now!" cried the Queen. "Faster! Faster!" Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.2 "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.2 Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing-turn out your toes when you walk-and remember who you are! Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.2 "If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know. Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!" Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.4 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.4 The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.4The Walrus and the Carpenter,[st. 1] The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand: They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand: "If this were only cleared away," They said, "it would be grand!""If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose," the Walrus said, "That they could get it clear?" "I doubt it," said the Carpenter, And shed a bitter tear. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.4The Walrus and the Carpenter,[st. 4, 5] "O Oysters, come and walk with us!" The Walrus did beseech. "A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach." Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.4The Walrus and the Carpenter,[st. 6] And thick and fast they came at last, And more, and more, and more- All hopping through the frothy waves, And scrambling to the shore. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.4The Walrus and the Carpenter,[st. 9] "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes-and ships-and sealing wax- Of cabbages-and kings- And why the sea is boiling hot- And whether pigs have wings." Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.4The Walrus and the Carpenter,[st. 11] "But wait a bit," the Oysters cried, "Before we have our chat; For some of us are out of breath, And all of us are fat!" Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.4The Walrus and the Carpenter,[st. 12] The Carpenter said nothing but "The butter's spread too thick!" Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.4The Walrus and the Carpenter,[st. 16] "I weep for you," the Walrus said: "I deeply sympathize." With sobs and tears he sorted out Those of the largest size, Holding his pocket-handkerchief Before his streaming eyes. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.4The Walrus and the Carpenter,[st. 17] But answer came there none- And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.4The Walrus and the Carpenter,[st. 18] Twopence a week, and jam every other day. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.5 "The rule is, jam tomorrow, and jam yesterday-but never jam today." "It must come sometimes to "jam today,'" Alice objected. "No, it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: today isn't any other day, you know." Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.5 "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.5 Consider anything, only don't cry! Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.5 "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.5 They gave it me-for an unbirthday present. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.6 "But "glory' doesn't mean "a nice knockdown argument,'" Alice objected. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-that's all." Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.6 It's as large as life and twice as natural. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.7 His answer trickled through my head, Like water through a sieve. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.8 What's the French for fiddle-de-dee? Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.9 It isn't etiquette to cut anyone you've been introduced to. Remove the joint! Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass [1872],ch.9 He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!" To "What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!" But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!" Lewis Carroll The Hunting of the Snark [1876].Fit I, st. 9 "What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply, "They are merely conventional signs!" Lewis Carroll The Hunting of the Snark [1876].Fit II,st. 3 It frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea, And dines on the following day. Lewis Carroll The Hunting of the Snark [1876].Fit II,st. 17 There was silence supreme! Not a shriek, not a scream, Scarcely even a howl or a groan, As the man they called "Ho!" told his story of woe In an antediluvian tone. Lewis Carroll The Hunting of the Snark [1876].Fit III,st. 3 It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul. Lewis Carroll The Hunting of the Snark [1876].Fit III,st. 11 They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap. Lewis Carroll The Hunting of the Snark [1876].Fit V, st. 1 For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. Lewis Carroll The Hunting of the Snark [1876].Fit VIII, st. 9 He thought he saw an Elephant, That practiced on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. "At length I realize," he said, "The bitterness of Life!" Lewis Carroll Sylvie and Bruno [1889], ch.5 He thought he saw a Buffalo Upon the chimneypiece: He looked again, and found it was His sister's husband's niece. Lewis Carroll Sylvie and Bruno [1889], ch.6 He thought he saw an Albatross That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was A penny postage stamp. "You'd best be getting home," he said, "The nights are very damp." Lewis Carroll Sylvie and Bruno [1889], ch.12 William Croswell Doane 1832-1913 Ancient of Days, who sittest throned in glory, To thee all knees are bent, all voices pray. William Croswell Doane Hymn [1886], st. 1 Juan Montalvo 1832-1889 Old age is an island surrounded by death. Juan Montalvo On Beauty There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. Juan Montalvo Chapters Forgotten by Cervantes [1895]. Epilogue H enry C lay Work 1832-1884 Father, dear father, come home with me now, The clock in the belfry strikes one; You said you were coming right home from the shop As soon as your day's work was done. H enry C lay Work Come Home, Father [1864], st. 1 Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song. H enry C lay Work Marching Through Georgia [1865],st. 1 "Hurrah! hurrah! we bring the Jubilee! Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!" So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, While we were marching through Georgia. H enry C lay Work Marching Through Georgia [1865],chorus Wilhelm Max Wundt 1832-1920  We take issue . . . with every treatment of psychology that is based on simple self-observation or on philosophical presuppositions. Wilhelm Max Wundt Grundzuge der Physiologischen Psychologie (Principles of Physiological Psychology) [1874] Isaac Hill Bromley 1833-1898 Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare! . . . Punch, brothers! Punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare! Isaac Hill Bromley Punch, Brother, Punch [1875] Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-1870 A little season of love and laughter, Of light and life, and pleasure and pain, And a horror of outer darkness after, And dust returneth to dust again. Adam Lindsay Gordon The Swimmer John Marshall Harlan 1833-1911 In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. John Marshall Harlan Dissenting opinion, Plessy v. Ferguson 163 U.S. 537, 559 [1896] John James Ingalls 1833-1900 Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he cannot pass. John James Ingalls Eulogy on Benjamin Hill given in the Senate [January 23, 1882] The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. Government is force. John James Ingalls Article in the New York World [1890] Robert Green Ingersoll 1833-1899 Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen forehead of every traitor to his country and every maligner of his fair reputation. Robert Green Ingersoll Speech nominating Blaine for President, National Republican Convention [June 15, 1876] I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain. Robert Green Ingersoll Liberty The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. Robert Green Ingersoll Liberty Every cradle asks us, "Whence?" and every coffin, "Whither?" The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed. Robert Green Ingersoll Address at a child's grave We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead. Robert Green Ingersoll Address at a child's grave Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. 1 2 Robert Green Ingersoll Address to the McKinley League, New York [October 29, 1896] 1 See Bion 2 See Robert Burton An honest God is the noblest work of man. Robert Green Ingersoll The Gods [1876] In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments-there are consequences. Robert Green Ingersoll Some Reasons Why [1896] Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now, The place to be happy is here, The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll Creed Petroleum V. Nasby David Ross Locke 1833-1888 The contract 'twixt Hannah, God and me, Was not for one or twenty years, but for eternity. Petroleum V. Nasby Hannah Jane [1871], st. 29 John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton 1834-1902 There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error. John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton Letter to Mary Gladstone [April 24, 1881] Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 1 2 John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton [April 5, 1887] 1 See Pitt 2 See Shelley Advice to Persons About to Write History-Don't. 1 John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton [April 5, 1887]postscript 1 See Punch Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton The History of Freedom and Other Essays [1907], ch.1 It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State-ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios-burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man . . . and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control. John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton The History of Freedom and Other Essays [1907], ch.2 The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton The History of Freedom and Other Essays [1907], ch.3 Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton The History of Freedom and Other Essays [1907], ch.4 Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories. John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton The History of Freedom and Other Essays [1907], ch.8 George Arnold 1834-1865 Life for the living, and rest for the dead! George Arnold The Jolly Old Pedagogue, st. 2 Sabine Baring-Gould 1834-1924 Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war, With the Cross of Jesus Going on before! Sabine Baring-Gould Onward, Christian Soldiers [1864], st. 1 Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh; Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. Sabine Baring-Gould Now the Day Is Over [1865], st. 1 Through the night of doubt and sorrow Onward goes the pilgrim band, Singing songs of expectation, Marching to the promised land. Sabine Baring-Gould Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow [1867], st. 1 Charles Farrar Browne Artemus Ward 1834-1867 I now bid you a welcome adoo. Charles Farrar Browne Artemus Ward, His Book [1862] My pollertics, like my religion, being of an exceedin' accommodatin' character. Charles Farrar Browne Artemus Ward, His Book [1862]The Crisis N.B. This is rote sarcastikul. Charles Farrar Browne Artemus Ward, His Book [1862]A Visit to Brigham Young The female woman is one of the greatest institooshuns of which this land can boste. Charles Farrar Browne Artemus Ward, His Book [1862]Woman's Rights  I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also. Charles Farrar Browne Fourth of July Oration The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop over. G. Washington never slopt over. Charles Farrar Browne Fourth of July Oration  I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am. Charles Farrar Browne Artemus Ward, His Travels [1865].Lecture Did you ever have the measels, and if so, how many? Charles Farrar Browne Artemus Ward, His Travels [1865].The Census  The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his. Charles Farrar Browne London Punch Letters, no. 5 [1866] Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness? Charles Farrar Browne Moses, the Sassy He [Brigham Young] is dreadfully married. He's the most married man I ever saw in my life. Charles Farrar Browne Moses, the Sassy Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. Charles Farrar Browne Natural History The sun has a right to "set" where it wants to, and so, I may add, has a hen. Charles Farrar Browne A Mormon Romance, ch. 4 They cherish his mem'ry, and them as sell picturs of his birthplace, etc., make it prof'tible cherishin' it. Charles Farrar Browne At the Tomb of Shakespeare George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier 1834-1896 The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle! George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier Peter Ibbetson [1891] Songs without words are best. George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier Peter Ibbetson [1891] A little work, a little play, To keep us going-and so, good day!A little warmth, a little light, Of love's bestowing-and so, good night!A little fun, to match the sorrow Of each day's growing-and so, good morrow!A little trust that when we die We reap our sowing! and so-good-bye! George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier Trilby [1894], pt. VIII Charles William Eliot 1834-1926 In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition of social progress. Charles William Eliot Inaugural address as president of Harvard [1869] Enter to grow in wisdom. Depart to serve better thy country and mankind. Charles William Eliot Inscriptions on the 1890 Gate to Harvard Yard To the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry: The white officers, taking life and honor in their hands, cast in their lot with men of a despised race unproved in war, and risked death as inciters of servile insurrection if taken prisoners, besides encountering all the common perils of camp march and battle. The black rank and file volunteered when disaster clouded the Union cause, served without pay for eighteen months till given that of white troops, faced threatened enslavement if captured, were brave in action, patient under heavy and dangerous labors, and cheerful amid hardships and privations. Together they gave to the nation and the world undying proof that Americans of African descent possess the pride, courage, and devotion of the patriot soldier. One hundred and eighty thousand such Americans enlisted under the Union flag in 1863-1865. Charles William Eliot Inscription on the Robert Gould Shaw Monument, Boston Common [1897] 1 2 3 1 See William James 2 See Paul Laurence Dunbar 3 See Robert Lowell Carrier of news and knowledge, instrument of trade and commerce, promoter of mutual acquaintance among men and nations and hence of peace and goodwill. Carrier of love and sympathy, messenger of friendship, consoler of the lonely, servant of the scattered family, enlarger of the public life. Charles William Eliot Inscriptions for the East and West Pavilions, Post Office, Washington, D.C. Yukichi Fukuzawa 1834-1901  The final purpose of all my work was to create in Japan a civilized nation as well equipped in both the arts of war and peace as those of the Western world. Yukichi Fukuzawa Autobiography [1898] As long as I remain in private life, I can watch and laugh. But joining the government would draw me into the practice of those ridiculous pretensions which I cannot allow myself to do. Yukichi Fukuzawa Autobiography [1898] Ernst Heinrich Haeckel 1834-1919  Ontogenesis, or the development of the individual, is a short and quick recapitulation of phylogenesis, or the development of the tribe to which it belongs, determined by the laws of inheritance and adaptation. Ernst Heinrich Haeckel The History of Creation [1868] The general theory of evolution . . . assumes that in nature there is a great, unital, continuous and everlasting process of development, and that all natural phenomena without exception, from the motion of the celestial bodies and the fall of the rolling stone up to the growth of the plant and the consciousness of man, are subject to the same great law of causation-that they are ultimately to be reduced to atomic mechanics. Ernst Heinrich Haeckel Freie Wissenschaft und Freie Lehre [1878] Walter Kittredge 1834-1905 We're tenting tonight on the old campground, Give us a song to cheer Our weary hearts, a song of home And friends we love so dear. Walter Kittredge Tenting on the Old Campground [1864], st. 1 William Morris 1834-1896 Well, if this is poetry, it is very easy to write. William Morris Remark [1854]. From J. W. Mackail, Life of William Morris [1899] I went half mad with beauty on that day. William Morris The Defense of Guinevere [1858], l. 109 Had she come all the way for this, To part at last without a kiss? Yea, had she borne the dirt and rain That her own eyes might see him slain Beside the haystack in the floods? William Morris The Haystack in the Floods [1858], l. 1 I know a little garden close, Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy morn to dewy night. William Morris The Life and Death of Jason [1867]. A Garden by the Sea, st. 1 The idle singer of an empty day. William Morris The Earthly Paradise [1868-1870]. An Apology,st. 1 Dreamer of dreams, 1 born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? 2 3 William Morris The Earthly Paradise [1868-1870]. An Apology,st. 4 1 See O'Shaughnessy 2 See Ecclesiastes 1:15 3 See Isaiah 40:4 Love is enough, though the world be awaning. William Morris Love Is Enough [1872] If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris The Beauty of Life [1880] What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick brain workers nor heart-sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all-the realization at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth. William Morris Written for "Justice" [1884] Wonderful days a-coming, when all shall be better than well. William Morris The Day Is Coming [1884],l. 2 Then more than one in a thousand in the days that are yet to come, Shall have some hope of the morrow, some joy of the ancient home. William Morris The Day Is Coming [1884],l. 5 Come, shoulder to shoulder ere earth grows older! The Cause spreads over land and sea! Now the world shaketh, and fear awaketh, And joy at last for thee and me. William Morris The Voice of Toil [1884], l. 37 The reward of labor is life. William Morris News from Nowhere [1891], ch. 15 Frank Richard Stockton 1834-1902 Which came out of the opened door-the lady or the tiger? Frank Richard Stockton The Lady or the Tiger? [1884] The board money is in the ginger jar and our conscience is clear. Frank Richard Stockton The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine [1886] James Thomson 1834-1882 Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. James Thomson Art [1865], st. 3, l. 19 The City is of Night; perchance of Death, But certainly of Night. James Thomson The City of Dreadful Night [1874].st. 1, l. 1 That positive eternity of pain, Instead of this insufferable inane. James Thomson The City of Dreadful Night [1874].st. 6, l. 23 What never has been, yet may have its when; The thing which has been, never is again. James Thomson The City of Dreadful Night [1874].st. 18, l. 77 James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903 Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. James McNeill Whistler Whistler v. Ruskin [1878] The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many. James McNeill Whistler The Gentle Art of Making Enemies [1890],dedication To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. James McNeill Whistler The Gentle Art of Making Enemies [1890],Propositions, 2  Industry in art is a necessity-not a virtue-and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work. James McNeill Whistler The Gentle Art of Making Enemies [1890],Propositions, 2 The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter-perfect in its bud as in its bloom-with no reason to explain its presence-no mission to fulfill-a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist-a puzzle to the botanist-an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man. James McNeill Whistler The Gentle Art of Making Enemies [1890],Propositions, 2 Art should be independent of all claptrap-should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye and ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it. James McNeill Whistler The Gentle Art of Making Enemies [1890],Propositions, 2 It is for the artist . . . in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features. James McNeill Whistler The Gentle Art of Making Enemies [1890],Propositions, 2  One cannot continually disappoint a Continent. James McNeill Whistler The Gentle Art of Making Enemies [1890],Propositions, 2 I am not arguing with you-I am telling you. James McNeill Whistler The Gentle Art of Making Enemies [1890],Propositions, 2 Wilde: I wish I'd said that. Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will. James McNeill Whistler From L. C. Ingleby, Oscar Wilde [1907] "I only know of two painters in the world," said a newly introduced feminine enthusiast to Whistler, "yourself and Velasquez." "Why," answered Whistler in dulcet tones, "why drag in Velasquez?" James McNeill Whistler From D. C. Seitz, Whistler Stories [1913] Thomas Brigham Bishop 1835-1905 John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave, His soul is marching on. Thomas Brigham Bishop John Brown's Body, st. 1 Shoo, fly! don't bodder me! I belong to Company G, I feel like a morning star. Thomas Brigham Bishop Shoo, Fly. Refrain Phillips Brooks 1835-1893 O little town of Bethlehem! How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight. Phillips Brooks O Little Town of Bethlehem [1867], st. 1 Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. Phillips Brooks Literature and Life Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Phillips Brooks Sermons.Going Up to Jerusalem Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small. Phillips Brooks Sermons.Purpose and Use of Comfort Samuel Butler 1835-1902 The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Samuel Butler The Fair Haven [1873]. Memoir, ch. 3 A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler Life and Habit [1877], ch. 8 Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth. O God! O Montreal! Samuel Butler A Psalm of Montreal [1884],st. 1 The Discobolus is put here because he is vulgar- He has neither vest nor pants with which to cover his limbs. Samuel Butler A Psalm of Montreal [1884],st. 5 It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other. Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh [1903], ch.5 Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. 1 Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh [1903], ch.5 1 See Carlyle It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mold our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh [1903], ch.5 Youth is like spring, an overpraised season. Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh [1903], ch.6 Taking numbers into account, I should think more mental suffering had been undergone in the streets leading from St. George's, Hanover Square, than in the condemned cells of Newgate. Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh [1903], ch.13 Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh [1903], ch.14 One great reason why clergymen's households are generally unhappy is because the clergyman is so much at home and close about the house. Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh [1903], ch.24 The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh [1903], ch.34 The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh [1903], ch.39  An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh [1903], ch.72 A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage-but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh [1903], ch.75 Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].Life All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].Life Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].Music, Pictures, and Books The phrase "unconscious humor" is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].Homo Unius Libri Ideas and opinions, like living organisms, have a normal rate of growth which cannot be either checked or forced beyond a certain point. The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].The Art of Propagating Opinion Genius . . . has been defined as a supreme capacity for taking trouble. 1 2 3 . . . It might be more fitly described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds and keeping them therein so long as the genius remains. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].Genius 1 See Buffon 2 See Carlyle 3 See Hopkins I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].Enfant Terrible: Myself An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].Higgledy-Piggledy: An Apology for the Devil God is Love-I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is! Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].God Is Love To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].Life and Love The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].Titles and Subjects The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].Sequel to "Alps and Sanctuaries" I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. Samuel Butler Notebooks [1912].Truth and Convenience: Falsehood Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919 The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. Andrew Carnegie Wealth. From the North American Review [June 1889] While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race. Andrew Carnegie Wealth. From the North American Review [June 1889] Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. Andrew Carnegie Wealth. From the North American Review [June 1889] Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. Andrew Carnegie Wealth. From the North American Review [June 1889] Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. Andrew Carnegie Wealth. From the North American Review [June 1889] Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The law of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire will be but a trustee of the poor; entrusted for a season with a great part of the increased wealth of the community, but administering it for the community far better than it could or would have done for itself. 1 2 3 Andrew Carnegie Wealth. From the North American Review [June 1889] 1 See Maimonides 2 See Spinoza 3 See Johnson The man who dies . . . rich dies disgraced. Andrew Carnegie Wealth. From the North American Review [June 1889] Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring "Peace on earth, among men Good Will." Andrew Carnegie Wealth. From the North American Review [June 1889]  Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves. Andrew Carnegie Attributed Richard Garnett 1835-1906 When Silence speaks for Love she has much to say. Richard Garnett De Flagello Myrteo [1905],99 Ascend above the restrictions and conventions of the world, but not so high as to lose sight of them. Richard Garnett De Flagello Myrteo [1905],333 Harriet Prescott Spofford 1835-1921 The awful phantom of the hungry poor. Harriet Prescott Spofford A Winter's Night Celia Laighton Thaxter 1835-1894 Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered driftwood, bleached and dry. Celia Laighton Thaxter The Sandpiper, st. 1 Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910  I'll resk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county. Mark Twain The Celebrated Jumping Frog [1865] I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog. Mark Twain The Celebrated Jumping Frog [1865] Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Mark Twain The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation [1867] Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience-4000 critics. Mark Twain Letter to Pamela Clemens Moffet [November 9, 1869] They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad [1869], ch.19 I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-for luncheon-for dinner-for tea-for supper-for between meals. Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad [1869], ch.27 Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo! Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad [1869], ch.27 Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke. Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad [1869], ch.27 There's millions in it! Mark Twain The Gilded Age [1873] Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. Mark Twain A Mysterious Visit [1875] This poor little one-horse town. Mark Twain The Undertaker's Chat [1875] Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [1876], ch.2 Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do . . . Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [1876], ch.2 The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod-and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect 1 2 down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving. Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [1876], ch.5 1 See Romans 8:29-0 2 See Romans 8:33 There was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only "hooking," while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing-and there was a command against that in the Bible. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [1876], ch.13 To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [1876], ch.22 She makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder . . . The widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell-everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it. Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [1876], ch.35 A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. Mark Twain Letter to Annie Webster [September 1, 1876] There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration-and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours. 1 Mark Twain New England Weather. Speech to the New England Society [December 22, 1876] 1 See Warner Probable nor'east to sou'west winds, varying to the southard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place; probable areas of rain, snow, hail, and drought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakes with thunder and lightning. Mark Twain New England Weather. Speech to the New England Society [December 22, 1876] One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it. Mark Twain New England Weather. Speech to the New England Society [December 22, 1876] We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. Mark Twain Answering a toast, "To the babies," at a banquet in honor of General U. S. Grant [November 14, 1879] Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are. Mark Twain Answering a toast, "To the babies," at a banquet in honor of General U. S. Grant [November 14, 1879]  It is the longest river in the world-four thousand three hundred miles. . . . It is also the crookedest river in the world, since in one part of its journey it uses up one thousand three hundred miles to cover the same ground that the crow would fly over in six hundred and seventy-five. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.1 The world and the books are so accustomed to use, and over-use, the word "new" in connection with our country, that we early get and permanently retain the impression that there is nothing old about it. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.1 Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.3 When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.3 The Child of Calamity. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.3 I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.6 Your true pilot cares nothing about anything on earth but the river, and his pride in his occupation surpasses the pride of kings. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.7 By the Shadow of Death, but he's a lightning pilot! Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.7  A limb of Satan. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.8 I'll learn him or kill him. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.8 Give an Irishman lager for a month, and he's a dead man. An Irishman is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.23 All the modern inconveniences. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.43 The educated Southerner has no use for an r, except at the beginning of a word. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.44 In the South the war is what a.d. is elsewhere; they date from it. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.45 War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.45 Sir Walter [Scott] had so large a hand in making Southern character as it existed before the war that he is in great measure responsible for the war. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.46 It was without a compeer among swindles. It was perfect, it was rounded, symmetrical, complete, colossal. Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi [1883], ch.52 Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. {ce}By Order of the Author. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].Notice You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].ch.1 Jim was most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].ch.2 We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed-only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].ch.12 It most froze me to hear such talk. . . . Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children-children that belonged to a man I didn't even know, a man that hadn't ever done me no harm. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].ch.16 Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting but tough. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].ch.17 There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summertime because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].ch.18 We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].ch.18 A monstrous big river. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].ch.19 Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town? 1 Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].ch.26 1 See Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].ch.31 I was a-trembling because I'd got to decide forever betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied for a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, "All right, then, I'll go to hell." Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884].ch.31 An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar. Mark Twain The Private History of a Campaign That Failed [1885] He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty. Mark Twain Henry Ward Beecher's Farm [1885] He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it. Mark Twain Letter to William Dean Howells [February 27, 1885] Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth. Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court [1889], ch. 22 Weather is a literary speciality, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it. Mark Twain The American Claimant [1892], foreword Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.1 Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.2 Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.3 Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.5 Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.6 One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.7 The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.8 Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.9 All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"-a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.10 When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. 1 Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.10 1 See Jefferson Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.12 Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.15 Put all your eggs in the one basket and-watch that basket. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.15 If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.16 Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.19 It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, ch.19 Be good and you will be lonesome. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].Caption for author's photograph on shipboard, frontispiece of first edition When in doubt tell the truth. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.2 Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.7 It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.8 Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.10 We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again-and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.11 We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.14 It is easier to stay out than get out. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.18 Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.19 It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.20 "Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.25 Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.27 Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. 1 Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.28 1 See Huckleberry Finn There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. 1 Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.I, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch.36 1 See Wilde There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend." Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.II, ch.5 Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.II, ch.6 It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.II, ch.9 Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.II, ch.12 In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.II, ch.29 Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. Mark Twain Following the Equator [1897].vol.II, ch.30 Warm summer sun, shine kindly here; Warm southern wind, blow softly here; Green sod above, lie light, lie light- Good-night, dear heart, good-night, good-night. Mark Twain Epitaph for his daughter [1896] The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain Cable from London to the Associated Press [1897] A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. 1 Mark Twain More Tramps Abroad [1897] 1 See Sydney Smith In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents? Mark Twain What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us [1899] The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples-that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at. Mark Twain My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It [1900] The blessings-of-civilization trust, wisely and cautiously administered, is a daisy. There is more money in it, more territory, more sovereignty, and other kinds of emolument, than there is in any other game that is played. But Christendom . . . has been so eager to get every stake that appeared on the green cloth, that the people who sit in darkness 1 2 have noticed it . . . and have become suspicious of the blessings of civilization. Mark Twain To the Person Sitting in Darkness [1901] 1 See Psalm 107:10 2 See Matthew 4:16  Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. Mark Twain To the Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn [February 16, 1901] A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. Mark Twain Essay on William Dean Howells [1906] It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval. Mark Twain What Is Man? [1906], ch. 6 The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. Mark Twain What Is Man? [1906], ch. 6 Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden. Mark Twain The Gorky Incident [1906] Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. Mark Twain The Gorky Incident [1906] Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. Mark Twain Letter to an Unidentified Person [1908] As out of place as a Presbyterian in Hell. Mark Twain From Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain [1912] Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man-the biography of the man himself cannot be written. Mark Twain Autobiography [1924], vol.I, p. 2 Of all the creatures that were made he [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one-the solitary one-that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices-the most hateful. . . . He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. . . . Also-in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind. Mark Twain Autobiography [1924], vol.II,p. 7 The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades. Mark Twain Autobiography [1924], vol.II,p. 69 You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is. Mark Twain Europe and Elsewhere [1925]. Corn Pone Opinions Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. Mark Twain Europe and Elsewhere [1925]. Corn Pone Opinions Familiarity breeds contempt-and children. 1 Mark Twain Notebooks [1935] 1 See Aesop Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain Notebooks [1935] Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all-the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. Mark Twain Notebooks [1935]Memorandum written on his deathbed I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. Mark Twain From Bernard De Voto, Mark Twain in Eruption [1940] Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of a thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market. Mark Twain Letters from the Earth [1962]. The Damned Human Race Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain Inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame. The calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. Mark Twain Attributed Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836-1907 Somewhere-in desolate windswept space- In Twilight land-in No-man's land- Two hurrying Shapes met face to face, And bade each other stand."And who are you?" cried one agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light. "I know not," said the second Shape, "I only died last night!" Thomas Bailey Aldrich Identity [1877] We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves. Thomas Bailey Aldrich Before the Rain, st. 3 My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings. Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memory Isabella Mary Beeton 1836-1865 A place for everything and everything in its place. Isabella Mary Beeton The Book of Household Management [1861] Clear as you go. Isabella Mary Beeton The Book of Household Management [1861] Edward Ernest Bowen 1836-1901 Forty years on, when afar and asunder Parted are those who are singing today. Edward Ernest Bowen Forty Years On [1872] Joseph Chamberlain 1836-1914 The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. Joseph Chamberlain Speech, Birmingham [May 12, 1904] Sir William Schwenck Gilbert 1836-1911  Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The "Bab" Ballads [1866-1871]. The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell," st. 3 As innocent as a new-laid egg. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Engaged [1877], act I I'm called Little Buttercup-dear little Buttercup, Though I could never tell why. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore [1878], actI I am the Captain of the Pinafore; And a right good captain too! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore [1878], actI And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What, never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore [1878], actI I never use a big, big D. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore [1878], actI And so do his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins, Whom he reckons up by dozens, And his aunts! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore [1878], actI When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore [1878], actI Stick close to your desks and never go to sea, And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore [1878], actI Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream. 1 2 Sir William Schwenck Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore [1878], actII 1 See Phaedrus 2 See Longfellow He is an Englishman! For he himself has said it, 1 And it's greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore [1878], actII 1 See Anonymous Latin For he might have been a Roosian, A French or Turk or Proosian, Or perhaps Itali-an. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations, He remains an Englishman. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore [1878], actII It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Pirates of Penzance [1879], actI I am the very model of a modern Major-General. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Pirates of Penzance [1879], actI I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Pirates of Penzance [1879], actI When the foeman bares his steel, Tarantara, tarantara! We uncomfortable feel, Tarantara. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Pirates of Penzance [1879], actII When constabulary duty's to be done, The policeman's lot is not a happy one. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Pirates of Penzance [1879], actII Come, friends, who plow the sea, Truce to navigation, Take another station; Let's vary piracee With a little burglaree. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Pirates of Penzance [1879], actII Twenty love-sick maidens we, Love-sick all against our will. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Patience [1881], actI You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind, The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind. And everyone will say, As you walk your mystic way, "If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me, Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!" Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Patience [1881], actI If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand. And everyone will say, As you walk your flowery way, "If he's content with a vegetable love, which would certainly not suit me, Why, what a most particularly pure young man this pure young man must be!" Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Patience [1881], actI Prithee, pretty maiden, will you marry me? (Hey, but I'm hopeful, willow, willow, waly!) Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Patience [1881], actI While this magnetic, Peripatetic Lover, he lived to learn, By no endeavor, Can magnet ever Attract a silver churn! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Patience [1881], actII Sing "Hey to you-good day to you"- Sing "Bah to you-ha! ha! to you"- Sing "Booh to you-pooh, pooh to you." Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Patience [1881], actII Francesca di Rimini, miminy, piminy, Je-ne-sais-quoi young man! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Patience [1881], actII A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Patience [1881], actII I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actI None shall part us from each other, One in life and death are we: All in all to one another- I to thee and thou to me! Thou the tree and I the flower- Thou the idol; I the throng- Thou the day and I the hour- Thou the singer; I the song! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actI Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actI The Law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the Law. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actI Pretty young wards in Chancery. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actI A pleasant occupation for A rather susceptible Chancellor! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actI For I'm not so old, and not so plain, And I'm quite prepared to marry again. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actI Hearts just as pure and fair May beat in Belgrave Square As in the lowly air Of Seven Dials. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actI Here's a pretty kettle of fish! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actII When I went to the Bar as a very young man (Said I to myself, said I). Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actII I am an intellectual chap, And think of things that would astonish you. I often think it's comical How nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal, That's born into the world alive, Is either a little Liberal, Or else a little Conservative! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actII The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actII Oh, Captain Shaw! Type of true love kept under! Could thy Brigade With cold cascade Quench my great love, I wonder! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actII When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in, without impropriety. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actII For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich- Which is something between a large bathing machine and a very small second class carriage. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actII Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win 1 2 - Blood is thick, but water's thin- In for a penny, in for a pound- It's Love that makes the world go round! 3 Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Iolanthe [1882], actII 1 See Chaucer 2 See Heywood 3 See Anonymous: French I love my fellow creatures-I do all the good I can- Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! And I can't think why! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Princess Ida [1884], act I A wandering minstrel I- A thing of shreds and patches, 1 Of ballads, songs and snatches, And dreamy lullaby! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actI 1 See Shakespeare I can't help it. I was born sneering. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actI As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list-I've got a little list. Of society offenders who might well be underground, And who never would be missed-who never would be missed. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actI The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own. 1 2 3 Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actI 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Overbury 3 See Canning Three little maids from school are we, Pert as a schoolgirl well can be, Filled to the brim with girlish glee. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actI Ah, pray make no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake, The moon and I! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actI Here's a pretty state of things! Here's a pretty how-de-do. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actI My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To make the punishment fit the crime. 1 Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actII 1 See Cicero A source of innocent merriment! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actII On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue And elliptical billiard balls. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actII I drew my snickersnee! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actII The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la, Have nothing to do with the case. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actII On a tree by a river a little tomtit Sang "Willow, titwillow, titwillow!" And I said to him, "Dicky-bird, why do you sit Singing "Willow, titwillow, titwillow!' "Is it weakness of intellect, birdie?" I cried, "Or a rather tough worm in your little inside?" With a shake of his poor little head he replied, "Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow!" Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actII There's a fascination frantic In a ruin that's romantic; Do you think you are sufficiently decayed? Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Mikado [1885], actII He uses language that would make your hair curl. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Ruddigore [1887], actI For you are such a smart little craft- Such a neat little, sweet little craft, Such a bright little, tight little, Slight little, light little Trim little, prim little craft! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Ruddigore [1887], actII When the footpads quail at the night bird's wail, and black dogs bay the moon, Then is the specters' holiday-then is the ghosts' high noon! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Ruddigore [1887], actII I have a song to sing O! Sing me your song. O! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Yeomen of the Guard [1888], act I It's a song of a merryman, moping mum, Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum, Who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb, As he sighed for the love of a lady. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Yeomen of the Guard [1888], act I Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Yeomen of the Guard [1888], act I Is life a thorn? Then count it not a whit! Man is well done with it. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Yeomen of the Guard [1888], act I He led his regiment from behind- He found it less exciting. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Gondoliers [1889], act I That celebrated, Cultivated, Underrated nobleman, The Duke of Plaza Toro! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Gondoliers [1889], act I No soldier in that gallant band Hid half as well as he did. He lay concealed throughout the war, And this preserved his gore, O! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Gondoliers [1889], act I Of that there is no manner of doubt- No probable, possible shadow of doubt- No possible doubt whatever. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Gondoliers [1889], act I Life's a pudding full of plums; Care's a canker that benumbs, Wherefore waste our elocution On impossible solution? Life's a pleasant institution, Let us take it as it comes! Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Gondoliers [1889], act I Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Gondoliers [1889], act I The gratifying feeling that our duty has been done. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Gondoliers [1889], act I Take a pair of sparkling eyes. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Gondoliers [1889], act I When everyone is somebodee, Then no one's anybody. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert The Gondoliers [1889], act I The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries. And every joke that's possible has long ago been made. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert His Excellency: The Played-Out Humorist [1894] Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert His Excellency: The Played-Out Humorist [1894] Bret Harte Francis Brett Harte 1836-1902 Tell the boys I've got the Luck with me now. Bret Harte The Luck of Roaring Camp [1868] Beneath this tree lies the body of john oakhurst, who struck a streak of bad luck on the 23rd of November, 1850, and handed in his checks on the 7th of December, 1850. Bret Harte The Outcasts of Poker Flat [1869] I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James; I am not up to small deceit, or any sinful games. Bret Harte The Society upon the Stanislaus,st. 1 And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. Bret Harte The Society upon the Stanislaus,st. 7 Oh, yer's yer good old whiskey, Drink it down. Bret Harte Two Men of Sandy Bar [1876], act IV Give me a man that is capable of a devotion to anything, rather than a cold, calculating average of all the virtues! Bret Harte Two Men of Sandy Bar [1876], act IV Jane Ellice Hopkins 1836-1904 Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. 1 2 3 Jane Ellice Hopkins Work Amongst Working Men [1870] 1 See Buffon 2 See Carlyle 3 See Butler Cesare Lombroso 1836-1909  Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, "God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows." Cesare Lombroso The Man of Genius [1891], pt.I, ch. 2 The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. Cesare Lombroso The Man of Genius [1891], pt.II, ch. 2 "Lawsuit mania" . . . a continual craving to go to law against others, while considering themselves the injured party. Cesare Lombroso The Man of Genius [1891], pt.III, ch. 3 John Burroughs 1837-1921 Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me. 1 2 John Burroughs Waiting [1876] st. 1 1 See Emerson 2 See Disraeli I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather. John Burroughs Is It Going to Rain? [1877] Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. John Burroughs Literary Fame One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them. . . . It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests. John Burroughs Signs and Seasons [1886] It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. John Burroughs The Light of Day [1900]. The Modern Skeptic Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it. John Burroughs The Spell of the Past [1904] Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. John Burroughs Time and Change [1912]. The Gospel of Nature Life is a struggle, but not a warfare. John Burroughs The Summit of the Years [1913] I see on an immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that we are made strong by what we overcome; that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good; that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly; that power waits upon him who earns it; that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber. John Burroughs Accepting the Universe [1922] Grover Cleveland 1837-1908 Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. Grover Cleveland Letter accepting the nomination for governor of New York [October 1882]  Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. Grover Cleveland Inaugural Address [March 4, 1885] After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. Grover Cleveland Message [March 1, 1886] When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free government. Grover Cleveland Second Annual Message [December 1886] It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory. 1 Grover Cleveland Third Annual Message [December 6, 1887] 1 See Disraeli The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people. Grover Cleveland Inaugural Address [March 4, 1893] I have tried so hard to do the right. Grover Cleveland Last words George Dewey 1837-1917 You may fire when you are ready, Gridley. George Dewey To the captain of Admiral Dewey's flagship at the battle of Manila Bay [May 1, 1898] William Dean Howells 1837-1920 We live, but a world has passed away With the years that perished to make us men. William Dean Howells The Mulberries [1871] Lord, for the erring thought Not into evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. William Dean Howells A Thanksgiving And before you know me gone Eternity and I are one. William Dean Howells Time He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. William Dean Howells Pordenone, IV See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion; See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious. William Dean Howells Pordenone, IV The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment. William Dean Howells Their Wedding Journey [1872] The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. William Dean Howells Letter to Charles Eliot Norton[April 6, 1903] I am not sorry for having wrought in common, crude material so much; that is the right American stuff; and perhaps hereafter, when my din is done, if anyone is curious to know what that noise was, it will be found to have proceeded from a small insect which was scraping about on the surface of our life and trying to get into its meaning for the sake of the other insects larger or smaller. That is, such has been my unconscious work; consciously, I was always, as I still am, trying to fashion a piece of literature out of the life next at hand. William Dean Howells Letter to Charles Eliot Norton[April 26, 1903] Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature. William Dean Howells My Mark Twain [1910] Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. William Dean Howells Attributed Horace Porter 1837-1921 A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. Horace Porter A slogan of the Cleveland-Blaine campaign [1884] Innes Randolph 1837-1887 Oh, I'm a good old rebel, that's what I am. Innes Randolph A Good Old Rebel [c. 1870],st. 1 I won't be reconstructed, and I don't give a damn. Innes Randolph A Good Old Rebel [c. 1870],st. 4 Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837-1909 When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil, and all the pain. Algernon Charles Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon [1865],chorus,st. 1 For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins. Algernon Charles Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon [1865],chorus,st. 4 Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance fallen from heaven, And madness risen from hell; Strength without hands to smite; Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And life, the shadow of death. Algernon Charles Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon [1865],chorus, st. 1 For words divide and rend; But silence is most noble till the end. Algernon Charles Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon [1865],chorus, st. 1 Change in a trice The lilies and languors of virtue For the raptures and roses of vice. Algernon Charles Swinburne Dolores [1866],st. 9 O splendid and sterile Dolores, Our Lady of Pain. Algernon Charles Swinburne Dolores [1866],st. 9 Ah beautiful passionate body That never has ached with a heart! Algernon Charles Swinburne Dolores [1866],st. 11 The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight. Algernon Charles Swinburne Dolores [1866],st. 14 For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit there of dust. Algernon Charles Swinburne Dolores [1866],st. 20 What ailed us, O gods, to desert you For creeds that refuse and restrain? Come down and redeem us from virtue, Our Lady of Pain. Algernon Charles Swinburne Dolores [1866],st. 35 Lo, this is she that was the world's delight. Algernon Charles Swinburne Laus Veneris [1866],st. 3 Ah, yet would God this flesh of mine might be Where air might wash and long leaves cover me; Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers, Or where the wind's feet shine along the sea. Algernon Charles Swinburne Laus Veneris [1866],st. 14 O sad kissed mouth, how sorrowful it is! Algernon Charles Swinburne Laus Veneris [1866],st. 79 To have known love, how bitter a thing it is. Algernon Charles Swinburne Laus Veneris [1866],st. 103 There will no man do for your sake, I think, What I would have done for the least word said. I had wrung life dry for your lips to drink, Broken it up for your daily bread. Algernon Charles Swinburne The Triumph of Time [1866],st. 12 At the door of life, by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death. Algernon Charles Swinburne The Triumph of Time [1866],st. 20 I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. Algernon Charles Swinburne The Triumph of Time [1866],st. 33 I shall never be friends again with roses; I shall loathe sweet tunes. Algernon Charles Swinburne The Triumph of Time [1866],st. 45 Marvelous mercies and infinite love. Algernon Charles Swinburne Les Noyades [1866], st. 1 I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end. Algernon Charles Swinburne Hymn to Proserpine [1866] Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; 1 the world has grown gray from thy breath; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death. Laurel is green for a season, and love is sweet for a day; But love grows bitter with treason, and laurel outlives not May. Sleep, shall we sleep after all? for the world is not sweet in the end; For the old faiths loosen and fall, the new years ruin and rend. Algernon Charles Swinburne Hymn to Proserpine [1866] 1 See Julian I shall die as my fathers died, and sleep as they sleep; even so. For the glass of the years is brittle wherein we gaze for a span. Algernon Charles Swinburne Hymn to Proserpine [1866] For there is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep. Algernon Charles Swinburne Hymn to Proserpine [1866] If you loved me ever so little, I could bear the bonds that gall, I could dream the bonds were brittle; You do not love me at all. Algernon Charles Swinburne Satia Te Sanguine [1866], st. 1 While he lives let a man be glad, For none hath joy of his death. Algernon Charles Swinburne A Lamentation [1866]. I, st. 4 If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather. Algernon Charles Swinburne A Match [1866],st. 1 If you were April's lady, And I were lord in May. Algernon Charles Swinburne A Match [1866],st. 5 If you were queen of pleasure, And I were king of pain, We'd hunt down love together, Pluck out his flying feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein. Algernon Charles Swinburne A Match [1866],st. 6 For in the time we know not of Did fate begin Weaving the web of days that wove Your doom, Faustine. Algernon Charles Swinburne Faustine [1866], st. 24 Take hand and part with laughter; Touch lips and part with tears; Once more and no more after, Whatever comes with years. Algernon Charles Swinburne Rococo [1866], st. 1 Forget that I remember, And dream that I forget. Algernon Charles Swinburne Rococo [1866], st. 1st. 2 The burden of long living. Thou shalt fear Waking, and sleeping mourn upon thy bed; And say at night "Would God the day were here," And say at dawn "Would God the day were dead." 1 Algernon Charles Swinburne A Ballad of Burdens [1866],st. 4 1 See Deuteronomy 28:67 For life is sweet, but after life is death. This is the end of every man's desire. Algernon Charles Swinburne A Ballad of Burdens [1866],L'Envoy Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams of dreams. Algernon Charles Swinburne The Garden of Proserpine [1866],st. 1 I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep; Of what may come hereafter For men that sow and reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep. Algernon Charles Swinburne The Garden of Proserpine [1866],st. 2 We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure. Algernon Charles Swinburne The Garden of Proserpine [1866],st. 10 From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Algernon Charles Swinburne The Garden of Proserpine [1866],st. 11 Ah that such sweet things should be fleet, Such fleet things sweet! Algernon Charles Swinburne Felise [1866], st. 22 I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget. Algernon Charles Swinburne An Interlude [1866],st. 11 And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name. Algernon Charles Swinburne An Interlude [1866],st. 14 I am that which began; Out of me the years roll; Out of me God and man; I am equal and whole; God changes, and man, and the form of them bodily; I am the soul. Algernon Charles Swinburne Hertha [1871],st. 1 Before ever land was, Before ever the sea, Or soft hair of the grass, Or fair limbs of the tree, Or the flesh-colored fruit of my branches, I was, and thy soul was in me. Algernon Charles Swinburne Hertha [1871],st. 2 A creed is a rod, And a crown is of night; But this thing is God, To be man with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and to live out thy life as the light. Algernon Charles Swinburne Hertha [1871],st. 15 In the gray beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ears of the world, was it God? was it man? Algernon Charles Swinburne Hymn of Man [1871] Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things. Algernon Charles Swinburne Hymn of Man [1871]  A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts. Algernon Charles Swinburne Under the Microscope [1872] Poor splendid wings so frayed and soiled and torn! Algernon Charles Swinburne A Ballad of Francois Villon [1878],st. 3 Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name. 1 Algernon Charles Swinburne A Ballad of Francois Villon [1878],refrain 1 See Browning In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea. Algernon Charles Swinburne A Forsaken Garden [1878], st. 1 Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive. Algernon Charles Swinburne Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire [1878], st. 17 Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. Algernon Charles Swinburne The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell [1880],st. 7 God, whom we see not, is: and God, who is not, we see: Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle, we take it, is dee. Algernon Charles Swinburne The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell [1880],st. 12 Henry Brooks Adams 1838-1918 Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.4 Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.6 All experience is an arch, to build upon. 1 Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.6 1 See Tennyson Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.6 Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.7 Friends are born, not made. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.7 A friend in power is a friend lost. 1 Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.7 1 See below The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.10 Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.11 Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.12 These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.12 Intimates are predestined. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.13 Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.13 At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.13  Sumner's mind had reached the calm of water which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contained nothing but itself. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.13 The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.17 A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.20 One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.20 What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.21 He had often noticed that six months' oblivion amounts to newspaper death, and that resurrection is rare. Nothing is easier, if a man wants it, than rest, profound as the grave. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.22 Morality is a private and costly luxury. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.22 Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.22 Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.25 Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.28 Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them. 1 Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.28 1 See above Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.28 We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.29 Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.30 No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.31 Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone-but never hustled. Henry Brooks Adams The Education of Henry Adams [1907], ch.35 Philip Paul Bliss 1838-1876 Hold the fort, for I am coming! Philip Paul Bliss Gospel Songs [1874]. Hold the Fort, refrain John Wilkes Booth 1838-1865  Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged! John Wilkes Booth After shooting President Lincoln [April 14, 1865] James Bryce 1838-1922 Law will never be strong or respected unless it has the sentiment of the people behind it. If the people of a state make bad laws, they will suffer for it. They will be the first to suffer. Suffering, and nothing else, will implant that sentiment of responsibility which is the first step to reform. James Bryce The American Commonwealth [1888], vol. I, p. 352 To most people nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking. 1 2 James Bryce Studies in History and Jurisprudence [1901]. Obedience 1 See R. B. Sheridan 2 See J. R. Lowell  The greatest liberty that man has taken with Nature. James Bryce South America [1912] George Cooper 1838-1927 Sweet Genevieve, The days may come, the days may go, But still the hands of memory weave The blissful dreams of long ago. George Cooper Sweet Genevieve [c. 1877] John Milton Hay 1838-1905 I'll hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last galoot's ashore. John Milton Hay Pike County Ballads [1871].Jim Bludso,st. 5 And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard On a man that died for men. John Milton Hay Pike County Ballads [1871].Jim Bludso,st. 7 And I think that saving a little child, And fotching him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around The Throne. John Milton Hay Pike County Ballads [1871].Little Breeches, last stanza Who would succeed in the world should be wise in the use of his pronouns. Utter the You twenty times, where you once utter the I. John Milton Hay Distichs, no.13 True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table: Luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home. John Milton Hay Distichs, no.15 The open door. John Milton Hay To the Cabinet regarding completion of negotiations for the "open door" in China [January 2, 1900] George Washington Johnson 1838-1917 Let us sing of the days that are gone, Maggie, When you and I were young. George Washington Johnson When You and I Were Young, Maggie [1866], refrain William Edward Hartpole Lecky 1838-1903 Offspring of an idle hour, Whence has come thy lasting power? William Edward Hartpole Lecky On an old song And while the great and wise decay, And all their trophies pass away, Some sudden thought, some careless rhyme, Still floats above the wrecks of Time. William Edward Hartpole Lecky On an old song George Leybourne d. 1884 He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, This daring young man on the flying trapeze; His figure is handsome, all girls he can please, And my love he purloined her away! George Leybourne The Man on the Flying Trapeze [1860] Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani 1838-1917 Farewell to thee, farewell to thee . . . Until we meet again. Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani Aloha Oe (Farewell to Thee) [1878] Ernst Mach 1838-1916 Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. Ernst Mach The Economical Nature of Physical Inquiry [1882] Science throws her treasures, not like a capricious fairy into the lap of a favored few, but into the laps of all humanity, with a lavish extravagance that no legend ever dreamed of. Ernst Mach The Economical Nature of Physical Inquiry [1882] Intelligible as it is . . . that the efforts of thinkers have always been bent upon the "reduction of all physical processes to the motions of atoms," it must yet be affirmed that this is a chimerical ideal. This ideal has often played an effective part in popular lectures, but in the workshop of the serious inquirer it has discharged scarcely the least function. Ernst Mach On the Principle of the Conservationof Energy [1894] [If we suppose that physical events can be reduced to spatial motions of material particles] we impose on the creations of thought the limitations of the visible and tangible. Ernst Mach On the Principle of the Conservationof Energy [1894] ÿ John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn 1838-1923 Evolution is not a force but a process; not a cause but a law. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn On Compromise [1874] Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Rousseau [1876] You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Rousseau [1876] It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Rousseau [1876] You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Rousseau [1876] A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Emerson [1884] The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Address on Aphorisms [1887] Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Life of Gladstone [1903] No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Critical Miscellanies [1908]. Robespierre There are some books which cannot be adequately reviewed for twenty or thirty years after they come out. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Recollections [1917], vol.I, bk. 2, ch. 8 The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Recollections [1917], vol.II, bk.4, ch. 2 In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Recollections [1917], vol.II, bk.5, ch.3 Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Recollections [1917], vol.II, bk.5, ch.4 Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb. John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn Recollections [1917], vol.II, bk.5, ch.4 John Muir 1838-1914  "The water in music the oar forsakes." The air in music the wing forsakes. All things move in music and write it. The mouse, liz-ard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars. John Muir Letter to Jeanne C. Carr, Yosemite [1874] In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. 1 John Muir Alaska Fragment [1890] 1 See Thoreau On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. . . . Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, 1 for it never fights. All is divine harmony. John Muir A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf [1916] 1 See I Corinthians 15:55 The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir John of the Mountains [1938] The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains-mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops. John Muir John of the Mountains [1938] Most people are on the world, not in it-have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. John Muir John of the Mountains [1938]  How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountaintop it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make-leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone-we all dwell in a house of one room-the world with the firmament for its roof-and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. John Muir John of the Mountains [1938] Margaret Elizabeth Sangster 1838-1912 Never yet was a springtime When the buds forgot to blow. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Awakening Philippe Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam 1838-1889  Living? We'll leave that to the servants. Philippe Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Axel [1890]  I have thought too much to stoop to action! Philippe Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Axel [1890] Paul Cezanne 1839-1906 Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, all in perspective. Paul Cezanne From Emile Bernard, Paul Cezanne [1925] Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate . . . give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time. Paul Cezanne From Joachim Gasquet, Paul Cezanne [1926] The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed [in a painting], will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne From Joachim Gasquet, Paul Cezanne [1926] Francis Pharcellus Church 1839-1906 No Santa Claus! Thank God, he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. Francis Pharcellus Church Is There a Santa Claus? [1897] Henry George 1839-1897 So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. Henry George Progress and Poverty [1879]. Introductory: The Problem John Chipman Gray 1839-1915  Dirt is only matter out of place; and what is a blot on the escutcheon of the Common Law may be a jewel in the crown of the Social Republic. John Chipman Gray Restraints on the Alienation of Property, second edition [1895], preface Walter Pater 1839-1894 Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced. Walter Pater The Renaissance [1873].Mirandola Hers is the head upon which all "the ends of the world are come," and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed? Walter Pater The Renaissance [1873].Leonardo da Vinci [Mona Lisa] She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants: and as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands. Walter Pater The Renaissance [1873].Leonardo da Vinci [Mona Lisa] Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. Walter Pater The Renaissance [1873].Conclusion To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Walter Pater The Renaissance [1873].Conclusion What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. Walter Pater The Renaissance [1873].Conclusion Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. Walter Pater The Renaissance [1873].Conclusion A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value. Walter Pater Marius the Epicurean [1885], ch.6 To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people. Walter Pater Marius the Epicurean [1885], ch.6 We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine work which is so large a part of life. Walter Pater Marius the Epicurean [1885], ch.25 It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. Walter Pater Appreciation [1889]. Postscript Charles Sanders Peirce 1839-1914 Do not block the way of inquiry. Charles Sanders Peirce Collected Papers [1931-1958], vol.I, par.135 The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea. Charles Sanders Peirce Collected Papers [1931-1958], vol.I, par.216 Effort supposes resistance. Charles Sanders Peirce Collected Papers [1931-1958], vol.I, par.320 Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question. Charles Sanders Peirce Collected Papers [1931-1958], vol.V, par.211 Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts. Charles Sanders Peirce Collected Papers [1931-1958], vol.V, par.265 All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. Charles Sanders Peirce Collected Papers [1931-1958], vol.VI, par.191 Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere. Charles Sanders Peirce Collected Papers [1931-1958], vol.VI, par.286 Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way. 1 2 Charles Sanders Peirce Collected Papers [1931-1958], vol.VII, par. 547 1 See Freud 2 See Bergson Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. Charles Sanders Peirce A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God [Hibbert Journal VII:90] It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher. Charles Sanders Peirce Review of the Nineteenth Century [1900] James Ryder Randall 1839-1908 Hark to an exiled son's appeal, Maryland, my Maryland! My Mother State to thee I kneel. James Ryder Randall Maryland, My Maryland [1861], st. 2 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840-1922 Ay, this is the famed rock, which Hercules And Goth and Moor bequeathed us. At this door England stands sentry. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Gibraltar Henry Burton 1840-1930 Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. Henry Burton Pass It On, st. 1 Timothy J. Campbell 1840-1904  What's the Constitution between friends? Timothy J. Campbell Attributed [c. 1885] Henry Austin Dobson 1840-1921 Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. Henry Austin Dobson The Paradox of Time [1875], st. 1 I intended an ode, And it turned to a sonnet. It began a la mode, I intended an ode; But Rose crossed the road In her latest new bonnet; I intended an ode; And it turned to a sonnet. Henry Austin Dobson Rose Leaves [1874]. Urceus Exit All passes. Art alone Enduring stays to us; The bust outlasts the throne- The coin, Tiberius. 1 Henry Austin Dobson Ars Victrix [1876], st. 8 1 See Theophile Gautier The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white it stays forever, Their red it never dies: But Phyllida, my Phyllida! Her color comes and goes; It trembles to a lily- It wavers to a rose. Henry Austin Dobson The Ladies of St. James's [1883], st. 4 Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. Thomas Hardy Hap [1866] When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness. Thomas Hardy When I Set Out for Lyonnesse [1870], st. 1 Good, but not religious-good. Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree [1872], ch. 2 The kingly brilliance of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red. To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement. Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd [1874], ch. 2 Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. Thomas Hardy The Hand of Ethelberta [1876] A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Thomas Hardy The Hand of Ethelberta [1876] In fact, precisely at this transitional point of its nightly roll into darkness the great and particular glory of the Egdon waste began, and nobody could be said to understand the heath who had not been there at such a time. It could best be felt when it could not clearly be seen. Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native [1878], ch. 1 The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native [1878], ch. 1 The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim. Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, or in an hour. The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained. Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native [1878], ch. 1 The hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of Time and Chance, except, perhaps, fair play. Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge [1886], ch.1 And all her shining keys will be took from her, and her cupboards opened, and little things 'a didn't wish seen, anybody will see; and her wishes and ways will be as nothing! Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge [1886], ch.18 Who is such a reprobate as I [Michael Henchard]! And yet it seems that even I be in Somebody's hand! Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge [1886], ch.41 The ingenious machinery contrived by the gods for reducing human possibilities of amelioration to a minimum. Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge [1886], ch.44 That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or be made to grieve on account of me. And that I be not buried in consecrated ground. And that no sexton be asked to toll the bell. And that nobody is wished to see my dead body. And that no murners walk behind me at my funeral. And that no flours be planted on my grave. And that no man remember me. Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge [1886], ch.45 [Henchard's will] She [Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae] did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge [1886], ch.Last sentence That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units. Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles [1891], ch.13 That shabby corner of God's allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid. Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles [1891], ch.14 The chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent power. Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles [1891], ch.18 The debatable land between predilection and love. Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles [1891], ch.20 Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles [1891], ch.43 "Justice" was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess. Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles [1891], ch.59 But nobody did come, because nobody does. Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure [1895], pt.I, ch.4 The fundamental error of their matrimonial union; that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling. Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure [1895], pt.I, ch.11 But sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience. Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure [1895], pt.IV, ch. 5 Done because we are too menny. Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure [1895], pt.VI, ch.2 Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure [1895], pt.VI, ch.3 William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plow, Robert's kin, and John's and Ned's, And the Squire, and Lady Susan, lie in Mellstock churchyard now! Thomas Hardy Friends Beyond [1898], st. 1 I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was specter-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush [1900],st. 1 An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume. Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush [1900],st. 3 So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware. Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush [1900],st. 4 Here by the baring bough Raking up leaves, Often I ponder how Springtime deceives- I, an old woman now, Raking up leaves. Thomas Hardy Autumn in King's Hintock Park [1901], st. 1 Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown. Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed [1902], st. 5 The Earth, sayest thou? The Human race? By Me created? Sad its lot? Nay; I have no remembrance of such place- Such world I fashioned not. Thomas Hardy God-Forgotten [1902], st. 2 What of the Immanent Will and its designs? It works unconsciously as heretofore, External artistries in circumstance. Thomas Hardy The Dynasts [1904-1908], pt.I,forescene A local cult called Christianity. Thomas Hardy The Dynasts [1904-1908], pt.I,Spirit of the Years, sc. vi Ere systemed suns were globed and lit The slaughters of the race were writ. Thomas Hardy The Dynasts [1904-1908], pt.II, sc. v,semichorus My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. Thomas Hardy The Dynasts [1904-1908], pt.II, sc. v,Spirit Sinister A star looks down at me, And says: "Here I and you Stand, each in our degree: What do you mean to do?" Thomas Hardy Waiting Both, st. 1 We two kept house, the Past and I, The Past and I; I tended while it hovered nigh, Leaving me never alone. Thomas Hardy The Ghost of the Past, st. 1 I seem but a dead man held on end To sink down soon. . . . O you could not know That such swift fleeing No soul foreseeing- Not even I-would undo me so! Thomas Hardy The Going [1912], st. 6 Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair. Thomas Hardy The Voice [1912], st 1 What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn cocks say Night is growing gray, Leaving all that here can win us? Thomas Hardy Men Who March Away [1914], st. 1 That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We thought it was the Judgment Day. Thomas Hardy Channel Firing [1914], st. 1 Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk.Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch grass: Yet this will go onward the same Though dynasties pass.Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by; War's annals will cloud into night Ere their story die. Thomas Hardy In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" [1915] When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbors say, "He was a man who used to notice such things"? Thomas Hardy Afterwards, st. 1 Ah, no; the years O! Down their chiseled names the raindrop plows. Thomas Hardy During Wind and Rain, st. 4 This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I. Thomas Hardy Weathers [1922], st. 2 And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I. Thomas Hardy Weathers [1922], st. 2 Chief Joseph c. 1840-1904  Our chiefs are killed. . . . The old men are all dead. . . . The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are, perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I can find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph To the Nez Perce tribe after surrender to General Nelson A. Miles [battle of Bear Paw Mountains, Montana, September 30-October 5, 1877] Alfred Thayer Mahan 1840-1914  The world has never seen a more impressive demonstration of the influence of sea power upon its history. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world. Alfred Thayer Mahan The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812 [1892], vol. II, p. 118 Whether they will or no, Americans must begin to look outward. Alfred Thayer Mahan The Interest of America in Sea Power [1897] Rossiter Worthington Raymond 1840-1918 Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. Rossiter Worthington Raymond A Commendatory Prayer William Graham Sumner 1840-1910 The Forgotten Man 1 . . . delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school . . . but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay. . . . Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all? William Graham Sumner Speech, The Forgotten Man [1883] 1 See Franklin D. Roosevelt John Addington Symonds 1840-1893 These things shall be-a loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes. John Addington Symonds The Days That Are to Be They shall be gentle, brave and strong To spill no drop of blood, but dare All that may plant man's lordship firm On earth and fire and sea and air. John Addington Symonds The Days That Are to Be John Wilson Christopher North d. 1889  Oh for a book and a shady nook, either in door or out. John Wilson Poem for a catalogue of secondhand books Elizabeth Wordsworth 1840-1932 If all the good people were clever, And all clever people were good, The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. Elizabeth Wordsworth The Clever and the Good [1890] Emile Zola 1840-1902 I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation. Emile Zola Mes Haines (My Hates) [1866] A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. Emile Zola Mes Haines (My Hates) [1866] My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society. Emile Zola Mes Haines (My Hates) [1866] Truth is on the march and nothing can stop it. Emile Zola Article in Le Figaro [November 25, 1897] J'accuse. Emile Zola Title of letter to the president of the Republique, L'Aurore [January 13, 1898] Robert Buchanan 1841-1901 The Fleshly School of Poetry. Robert Buchanan Title of article [1871] Georges Clemenceau 1841-1929 The good Lord had only ten. Georges Clemenceau In reference to Wilson's Fourteen Points America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. Georges Clemenceau Attributed There is nothing harder for the human spirit to bear than being cold-shouldered. Georges Clemenceau Quoted by Charles de Gaulle, Le Fil de l'Epee [1932], ch. 2 Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. 1841-1935 The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Common Law [1881] The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Common Law [1881] I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Memorial Day Address [1884] Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Memorial Day Address [1884] The Law, wherein, as in a magic mirror, we see reflected not only our own lives, but the lives of all men that have been! When I think on this majestic theme, my eyes dazzle. 1 Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. To the Suffolk Bar Association [1885] 1 See John Webster I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Profession of the Law [1886] Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought-the subtle rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Profession of the Law [1886] The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Path of the Law [1897] Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Path of the Law [1897] The remoter and more general aspects of the law are those which give it universal interest. It is through them that you not only become a great master in your calling, but connect your subject with the universe and catch an echo of the infinite, a glimpse of its unfathomable process, a hint of the universal law. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Path of the Law [1897] The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Speech at Bar Association Dinner, Boston [1900] Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it. 1 2 Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Speech at Bar Association Dinner, Boston [1900] 1 See William James 2 See Santayana A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. John Marshall [1901] Taxes are what we pay for civilized society. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Compania de Tabacos v. Collector, 275 U.S. 87, 100 [1904] Great cases like hard cases make bad law. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197, 400 [1904] The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45,75 [1905] General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45,78 The great act of faith is when man decides that he is not God. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Letter to William James [1907] Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Class of '61. From Speeches [1913] I learned in the regiment and in the class the conclusion, at least, of what I think the best service that we can do for our country and for ourselves: To see so far as one may, and to feel the great forces that are behind every detail . . . to hammer out as compact and solid a piece of work as one can, to try to make it first rate, and to leave it unadvertised. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. The Class of '61. From Speeches [1913] The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Law and the Court [1913] Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious-to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Law and the Court [1913] I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several states. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Law and the Court [1913] The attacks upon the Court are merely an expression of the unrest that seems to wonder vaguely whether law and order pay. When the ignorant are taught to doubt, they do not know what they safely may believe. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Law and the Court [1913] I do not think we need trouble ourselves with the thought that my view depends upon differences of degree. The whole law does so as soon as it is civilized. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. LeRoy Fibre Co. v. C., M. [amp ] St. P. Ry., 232 U.S. 340, 354 [1914] I recognize without hesitation that judges do and must legislate, but they can do so only interstitially; they are confined from molar to molecular motions. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen, 244 U.S. 205,221 [1917] The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen, 244 U.S. 205,222 Certitude is not the test of certainty. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Natural Law [1918] The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. . . . The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 [1919] When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. 1 That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616, 630 [1919] 1 See Milton I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Letter to Sir Frederick Pollock [1920] Have faith and pursue the unknown end. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Letter to John C. H. Wu [1924] Upon this point a page of history is worth a volume of logic. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. New York Trust Co. v. Eisner, 256 U.S. 345, 349 [1921] It is said that this manifesto is more than a theory, that it was an incitement. Every idea is an incitement. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652, 673 [1925] We learn how to behave as lawyers, soldiers, merchants, or whatnot by being them. Life, not the parson, teaches conduct. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Letter to Sir Frederick Pollock [1926] Three generations of imbeciles are enough. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, 207 [1927] But if we are to yield to fashionable conventions, it seems to me that theaters are as much devoted to public use as anything well can be. We have not that respect for art that is one of the glories of France. But to many the superfluous is the necessary, 1 and it seems to me that Government does not go beyond its sphere in attempting to make life livable for them. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Tyson [amp ] Bro. v. Banton, 273 U.S. 418, 447 [1927] 1 See Voltaire The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits. 1 Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Panhandle Oil Co. v. Knox, 277 U.S. 223 [1928] 1 See John Marshall For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part. . . . If the existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business [wiretapping], it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to succeed. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 470 [1928] If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought-not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. United States v. Schwimmer, 279 U.S. 644, 653 [1928] The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done." But just as one says that, the answer comes: "The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains." The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be, while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Radio address on his ninetieth birthday [March 8, 1931] Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Reply to a reporter's question on his ninetieth birthday [March 8, 1931]  Oh, to be seventy again! Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. At ninety, upon seeing a beautiful young woman. Attributed Life seems to me like a Japanese picture which our imagination does not allow to end with the margin. We aim at the infinite and when our arrow falls to earth it is in flames. Oliver Wendell HolmesJr. Message to the Federal Bar Association [February 29, 1932] W illiam H enry Hudson 1841-1922 I . . . thanked the Author of my being for the gift of that wild forest, those green mansions where I had found so great a happiness! W illiam H enry Hudson Green Mansions [1904], ch. 5 In this wild solitary girl [Rima] I had at length discovered the mysterious warbler that so often followed me in the wood. W illiam H enry Hudson Green Mansions [1904], ch. 5 You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. W illiam H enry Hudson Afoot in England [1909], ch. 6 Joaquin Miller Cincinnatus Hiner or Heine Miller c. 1841-1913 I only know that creeds to me Are but new names for mystery, That good is good from east to east, And more I do not know nor need To know, to love my neighbor well. Joaquin Miller The Tale of the Tall Alcalde In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, 1 In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not. Joaquin Miller Byron 1 See Shakespeare Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. Joaquin Miller Columbus,st. 1 He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!" Joaquin Miller Columbus,st. 5 Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919 I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. Pierre Auguste Renoir From Ambroise Vollard, Renoir [1919] In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known. Pierre Auguste Renoir From Jean Renoir, Renoir My Father [1958] Minot Judson Savage 1841-1918 A man's truest monument must be a man. Minot Judson Savage The Song of a Man, st. 8 Clement William Scott 1841-1904 Oh, promise me that some day you and I Will take our love together to some sky Where we can be alone and faith renew, And find the hollows where those flowers grew. Clement William Scott Oh, Promise Me [1888] Edward Rowland Sill 1841-1887 At the punch bowl's brink Let the thirsty think What they say in Japan: "First the man takes a drink, Then the drink takes a drink, Then the drink takes the man!" 1 2 3 Edward Rowland Sill An Adage from the Orient 1 See Herbert 2 See Addison 3 See Hugo But Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool! Edward Rowland Sill The Fool's Prayer The ill-timed truth we might have kept- Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we had not sense to say- Who knows how grandly it had rung? Edward Rowland Sill The Fool's Prayer Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904 Doctor Livingstone, I presume? Sir Henry Morton Stanley On meeting David Livingstone in Ujiji, Central Africa [November 10, 1871] Ironquill Eugene Fitch Ware 1841-1911 Human hopes and human creeds Have their root in human needs. Ironquill The Rhymes of Ironquill, preface O Dewey 1 was the morning Upon the first of May, And Dewey was the Admiral Down in Manila Bay; And Dewey were the Regent's eyes, "Them" orbs of royal blue! And Dewey feel discouraged? I Dew not think we Dew. Ironquill In the Topeka (Kansas) Daily Capital [May 3, 1898] 1 See Dewey No evil deed live oN. Ironquill The Palindrome Ambrose Bierce 1842 - c. 1914  Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone: A thousand critics shouting: "He's unknown!" Ambrose Bierce Couplet Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge. Ambrose Bierce In the Midst of Life [1891]. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] Achievement, n. the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] Advice, n. the smallest current coin. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] Bore, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] Cynic, n. a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] Edible, adj. good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. 1 Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] 1 See Wallace Stevens Habit, n. a shackle for the free. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] Labor, n. one of the processes by which A acquires property for B. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] Lawsuit, n. a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] Marriage, n. a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] Prejudice, n. a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] Saint, n. a dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary [1906] Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. Ambrose Bierce Epigrams You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day. Ambrose Bierce Epigrams Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. Ambrose Bierce Epigrams Charles Edward Carryl 1842-1920 A capital ship for an ocean trip Was the Walloping Window Blind- No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind. The man at the wheel was taught to feel Contempt for the wildest blow. And it often appeared, when the weather had cleared, That he'd been in his bunk below. Charles Edward Carryl Davy and the Goblin: A Nautical Ballad [1886], st. 1 Sir James Dewar 1842-1923 Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. Sir James Dewar Attributed William James 1842-1910 I have often thought that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!" William James The Letters of William James [1920].To his wife, Alice Gibbons James, 1878 Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James The Letters of William James [1920].To Carl Stumpf, January 1, 1886 The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition-it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind-yet what miles away in the point of preciousness! William James The Letters of William James [1920].To Henry Rutgers Marshall, February 7, 1899 Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. 1 William James The Letters of William James [1920].To W. Lutoslawski, May 6, 1906 1 See Emily Dickinson The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. That-with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success-is our national disease. William James The Letters of William James [1920].To H. G. Wells, September 11, 1906 The concrete man has but one interest-to be right. That to him is the art of all arts, and all means are fair which help him to it. William James The Sentiment of Rationality [1882] All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. William James The Dilemma of Determinism [1884] Habit is . . . the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.4 There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.4 Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, 1 2 so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.4 1 See Huxley 2 See Maugham The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.4 We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar . . . Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.4 Consciousness . . . does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. . . . A "river" or a "stream" are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.9 As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.9 As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.9 The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that . . . it is always interested more in one part of its object [thought] than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.9 An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.9 In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank account. All these things give him the same emotions. If they wax and prosper, he feels triumphant; if they dwindle and die away, he feels cast down. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.10 So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.10 Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of "Hello! thingumbob again!" ever flitted through its mind. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.12 Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.15 Genius . . . means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.19 The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.21 The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.22 The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful, as the case may be. Without the bodily states following on the perception, the latter would be purely cognitive in form, pale, colorless, destitute of emotional warmth. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.25 A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.25 A thing is important if anyone think it important. William James The Principles of Psychology [1890], ch.28, note In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly. William James The Will to Believe [1897].Is Life Worth Living? Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come. William James The Will to Believe [1897].Is Life Worth Living? It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. William James The Will to Believe [1897].Is Life Worth Living? This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view. 1 2 William James The Will to Believe [1897].Is Life Worth Living? 1 See Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 2 See Santayana If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight. William James The Will to Believe [1897].Is Life Worth Living? Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. William James The Will to Believe [1897].Is Life Worth Living? Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities-his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary. William James The Will to Believe [1897].Reflex Action and Theism All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience. William James The Will to Believe [1897].The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see. William James The Will to Believe [1897].The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter. William James The Will to Believe [1897].The Importance of Individuals Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world. William James From Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James [1935], vol. II [1899], ch. 91, conclusion Tell him to live by yes and no-yes to everything good, no to everything bad. William James From Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James [1935], vol. II [1899], ch. 91, conclusion Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude. William James The Varieties of Religious Experience [1902]. Lecture2 Religion . . . is a man's total reaction upon life. William James The Varieties of Religious Experience [1902]. Lecture2 We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life. William James The Varieties of Religious Experience [1902]. Lecture3 There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. William James The Varieties of Religious Experience [1902]. Lecture14 and 15 The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. William James The Varieties of Religious Experience [1902]. Lecture20 The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos. William James Pragmatism [1907]. Lecture1 No particular results then, so far, but only an attitude of orientation, is what the pragmatic method means. The attitude of looking away from first things, principles, "categories," supposed necessities; and of looking toward last things, fruits, consequences, facts. William James Pragmatism [1907]. Lecture2 I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences. William James Pragmatism [1907]. Lecture3 Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it. William James Pragmatism [1907]. Lecture5 Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation. William James Pragmatism [1907]. Lecture6 Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational. William James A Pluralistic Universe [1909]. Lecture 8 What we really need the poet's and orator's help to keep alive in us is not . . . the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, Negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage, as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared. 1 2 3 William James Memories and Studies [1911].Robert Gould Shaw: Oration upon the Unveiling of the Shaw Monument [May 31, 1897] 1 See C. W. Eliot 2 See Paul Laurence Dunbar 3 See Robert Lowell The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes; they always dwell within their borders. And from these internal enemies civilization is always in need of being saved. The nation blessed above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks. William James Memories and Studies [1911].Robert Gould Shaw: Oration upon the Unveiling of the Shaw Monument [May 31, 1897] Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark. William James Memories and Studies [1911].Robert Gould Shaw: Oration upon the Unveiling of the Shaw Monument [May 31, 1897] So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation. William James Memories and Studies [1911].The Moral Equivalent of War Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. William James Memories and Studies [1911].The Social Value of the College-Bred Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. William James Memories and Studies [1911].The Social Value of the College-Bred The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. . . . It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides. William James Essays in Radical Empiricism [1912], ch. 12, Absolutism and Empiricism The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. William James Collected Essays and Reviews [1920],ch. 11, Clifford's "Lectures and Essays" [1879] I wished, by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her to become one. William James Collected Essays and Reviews [1920],A Plea for Psychology as a Natural Science [1892] John Alexander Joyce 1842-1915 I shall love you in December With the love I gave in May! John Alexander Joyce Question and Answer, st. 8 Prince Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1842-1921 Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle . . . mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle. Prince Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin Mutual Aid [1902] Sidney Lanier 1842-1881 Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea! Sidney Lanier The Marshes of Glynn [1877],l. 65 As the marsh hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God: I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh hen flies In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies: By so many roots as the marsh grass sends in the sod I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness of God: Oh, like to the greatness of God is the greatness within The range of the marshes, the liberal marshes of Glynn. Sidney Lanier The Marshes of Glynn [1877],l. 71 Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall. Sidney Lanier Song of the Chattahoochee [1877], st. 1 Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. Sidney Lanier A Ballad of Trees and the Master [1877],st. 1 'Twas on a tree they slew Him-last When out of the woods He came. Sidney Lanier A Ballad of Trees and the Master [1877],st. 2 Stephane Mallarme 1842-1898  The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books. Stephane Mallarme Poesies.Brise Marine  Such as into himself at last Eternity has changed him. Stephane Mallarme Poesies.Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe  A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance. Stephane Mallarme Poesies.Title of poem  To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little: to suggest it, that is the ideal. Stephane Mallarme Reponse a une Enqu[ecirc ]te sur l'Evolution Litteraire [1891]  You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. Stephane Mallarme From Paul Valery, Degas, Danse, Dessin Alfred Marshall 1842-1924  Thus progress itself increases the urgency of the warning that in the economic world, Natura non facit saltum. Progress must be slow. Alfred Marshall Principles of Economics [1890] We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production. Alfred Marshall Principles of Economics [1890] Hugh Antoine D'Arcy 1843-1925 "Say, boys! if you give me just another whiskey I'll be glad, And I'll draw right here a picture of the face that drove me mad. Give me that piece of chalk with which you mark the baseball score, You shall see the lovely Madeleine upon the bar-room floor." Hugh Antoine D'Arcy The Face upon the Floor [1887] Henry James 1843-1916  The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. . . . To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. Henry James Letter to Charles Eliot Norton [January 16, 1871] It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. Henry James Letter [1872] quoted in Percy Lubbock, Letters of Henry James [1920], vol. I, Biographical note It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. Henry James Hawthorne [1879], ch.1 Whatever question there may be of his [Thoreau's] talent, there can be none, I think, of his genius. It was a slim and crooked one, but it was eminently personal. He was unperfect, unfinished, inartistic; he was worse than provincial-he was parochial. Henry James Hawthorne [1879], ch.4 Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats-all human life is there. Henry James The Madonna of the Future [1879] The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his-attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park. Henry James The Portrait of a Lady [1881] You were ground in the very mill of the conventional! Henry James The Portrait of a Lady [1881] The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. Henry James The Art of Fiction [1888] The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. 1 Henry James The Art of Fiction [1888] 1 See Trollope The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant-no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes. Henry James The Art of Fiction [1888] The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience. . . . If experience consists of impressions, it may be said that impressions are experience. . . . Therefore, if I should certainly say to a novice, "Write from experience and experience only," I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, "Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost." Henry James The Art of Fiction [1888] We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donnee: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. . . . If we pretend to respect the artist at all, we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a con-siderable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions. Henry James The Art of Fiction [1888] There are few things more exciting to me . . . than a psychological reason. Henry James The Art of Fiction [1888] The practice of "reviewing" . . . in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism. Henry James Criticism [1893] The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions. . . . In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother. . . . Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument. Henry James Criticism [1893] However incumbent it may be on most of us to do our duty, there is, in spite of a thousand narrow dogmatisms, nothing in the world that anyone is under the least obligation to like-not even (one braces one's self to risk the declaration) a particular kind of writing. Henry James Flaubert [1893] We work in the dark-we do what we can-we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. Henry James The Middle Years [1893] The time-honored bread sauce of the happy ending. Henry James Theatricals: Second Series [1895] Vereker's secret . . . the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet. Henry James The Figure in the Carpet [1896] I caught him, yes, I held him-it may be imagined with what passion; but at the end of a minute I began to feel what it truly was that I held. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped. Henry James The Turn of the Screw [1898], ending Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? . . . What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that. . . . The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. . . . Live! Henry James The Ambassadors [1903], bk. V, ch. 2 Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so. Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].Roderick Hudson There is, I think, no more nutritive or suggestive truth . . . than that of the perfect dependence of the "moral" sense of a work of art on the amount of felt life concerned in producing it. The question comes back thus, obviously, to the kind and the degree of the artist's prime sensibility, which is the soil out of which his subject springs. Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].The Portrait of a Lady To see deep difficulty braved is at any time, for the really addicted artist, to feel almost even as a pang the beautiful incentive, and to feel it verily in such sort as to wish the danger intensified. The difficulty most worth tackling can only be for him, in these conditions, the greatest the case permits of. Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].The Portrait of a Lady Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone. Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].The Spoils of Poynton The fatal futility of Fact. Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].The Spoils of Poynton No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale, of the things that help with the things that hurt, so dangling before us forever that bright hard medal, of so strange an alloy, one face of which is somebody's right and ease and the other somebody's pain and wrong. Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].What Maisie Knew The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality. Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].What Maisie Knew To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own. Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].What Maisie Knew The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take. Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].The Aspern Papers The ever importunate murmur, "Dramatize it, dramatize it!" Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].The Altar of the Dead In art economy is always beauty. Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].The Altar of the Dead The terrible fluidity of self-revelation. Henry James Prefaces [1907-1909].The Ambassadors The anomalous fact is that the theater, so called, can flourish in barbarism, but that any drama worth speaking of can develop but in the air of civilization. Henry James Letter to C. E. Wheeler [April 9, 1911] I'm glad you like adverbs-I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. Henry James Letter to Miss M. Betham Edwards [January 5, 1912] We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art . . . what we are talking about-and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. Henry James Letter to Hugh Walpole [August 21, 1913] I still, in presence of life . . . have reactions-as many as possible. . . . It's, I suppose, because I am that queer monster, the artist, an obstinate finality, an inexhaustible sensibility. Hence the reactions-appearances, memories, many things, go on playing upon it with consequences that I note and "enjoy" (grim word!) noting. It all takes doing-and I do. I believe I shall do yet again-it is still an act of life. Henry James Letter to Henry Adams [March 21, 1914] The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life. Henry James The New Novel [1914] It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. Henry James Letter to H. G. Wells [July 10, 1915] The full, the monstrous demonstration that Tennyson was not Tennysonian. Henry James The Middle Years (autobiography) [1917], ch. 6 Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance [1934], ch. 10 To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived-to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that-this doubtless is the right way to live. Henry James Notebooks [1948] Robert Bridges 1844-1930 For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature. Robert Bridges The Growth of Love [1876]. Sonnet 8 Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West, That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding, Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest? Robert Bridges Shorter Poems, bk.II [1879],no. 2 (A Passer-By), st. 1 I have loved flowers that fade, Within whose magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents. Robert Bridges Shorter Poems, bk.II [1879],no. 13, st. 1 So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. Robert Bridges Shorter Poems, bk.V [1893], no. 5, st. 1 My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night. Robert Bridges New Poems [1899], no. 9 Man, in the unsearchable darkness, knoweth one thing That as he is, so was he made. Robert Bridges The Testament of Beauty [1929] Robert Jones Burdette 1844-1914 There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday. . . . And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow. Robert Jones Burdette The Golden Day Anatole France Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault 1844-1924 I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue. Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard [1881].The Log,December 24, 1849 All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious. Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard [1881].The Log,December 24, 1849 Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard [1881].The Log,November 30, 1859 To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard [1881].pt. II, ch.2 He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard [1881].pt. II, ch.4 Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable. Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard [1881].pt. II, ch.4 Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard [1881].pt. II, ch.4 People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard [1881].pt. II, ch.4 The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard [1881].pt. II, ch.4 The good critic is one who tells of his mind's adventures among masterpieces. Anatole France La Vie Litteraire [1888],preface We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. Anatole France La Vie Litteraire [1888],Journal des Goncourt Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign. 1 Anatole France Le Jardin d'Epicure [1894] 1 See Einstein The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France Le Lys Rouge [1894], ch. 7 We have medicines to make women speak; we have none to make them keep silence. Anatole France The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife [1912], act II, sc. iv A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid. Anatole France La Revolte des Anges [1914], ch. 8 Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889  And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea. Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems [1918]. No. 20, Heaven-Haven, st. 2 Elected Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorled ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 24, The Habit of Perfection, st. 1 Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World's strand, sway of the sea; Lord of living and dead; Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh, And after it almost unmade, what with dread, Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh? Over again I feel thy finger and find thee. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 28, The Wreck of the Deutschland, st. 1 The world is charged with the grandeur of God. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 31, God's Grandeur, l. 1 Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 32, The Starlight Night, l. 1 I caught this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 36, The Windhover,l. 1 The achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 36, The Windhover,l. 8 Brute beauty and valor and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 36, The Windhover,l. 9 Glory be to God for dappled things. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 37, Pied Beauty,l. 1 All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 37, Pied Beauty,l. 7 Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-wavier Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies? Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 38, Hurrahing in Harvest, st. 1 Felix Randal the farrier, O is he dead then? My duty all ended, Who have watched his mold of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome, Pining, pining. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 53, Felix Randal,st. 1 When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers, Didst fettle for the great gray drayhorse his bright and battering sandal! Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 53, Felix Randal,st. 4 Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 55, Spring and Fall,l. 1 Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 55, Spring and Fall,l. 12 As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 57, l. 1 How to keep-is there any any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keep Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty . . . from vanishing away? Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 59, The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo, l. 1 I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 60, The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe,l. 34 World-mothering air, air wild, Wound with thee, in thee isled, Fold home, fast fold thy child. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 60, The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe,l. 124 Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist-slack they may be-these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 64, Carrion Comfort,l. 1 That night, that year Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 64, Carrion Comfort,l. 13 No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 65,l. 1 O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 65,l. 9 I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 69,l. 1 I am gall, I am heartburn. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 69,l. 9 I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond. Gerard Manley Hopkins No. 72, That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection, last lines No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness. I hope in time to have a more balanced and Miltonic style. But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music, and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive, and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer. This vice I cannot have escaped. Gerard Manley Hopkins Letter to Robert Bridges[February 15, 1879] The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not . . . an obsolete one. Gerard Manley Hopkins Letter to Robert Bridges[August 14, 1879] Andrew Lang 1844-1912 You can cover a great deal of country in books. Andrew Lang To the Gentle Reader, st. 5 Why, why are rhymes so rare to love? Andrew Lang Ballade of Difficult Rhymes The surge and thunder of the Odyssey. Andrew Lang Sonnet, The Odyssey Behind all creeds the Spirit that is One. Andrew Lang Herodotus in Egypt [1888] James Hilary Mulligan 1844-1916 The moonlight is the softest, in Kentucky, Summer days come oftest, in Kentucky, Friendship is the strongest, Love's fires glow the longest, Yet a wrong is always wrongest, In Kentucky. James Hilary Mulligan In Kentucky, st. 1 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844-1900 Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Human, All Too Human [1878],7 One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Human, All Too Human [1878],59 One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Human, All Too Human [1878],74 Every tradition grows ever more venerable-the more remote is its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Human, All Too Human [1878],96  When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!" Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra [1883-1891],prologue, ch.2 Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra [1883-1891],prologue, ch.3 I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra [1883-1891],prologue, ch.7 This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra [1883-1891],pt.II, ch.23 Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra [1883-1891],pt.II, ch.29 We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra [1883-1891],pt.IV, ch.68 If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads! Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra [1883-1891],pt.IV, ch.73 It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil [1885-1886],I, 18 No one is such a liar as the indignant man. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil [1885-1886],II, 26 It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil [1885-1886],IV,72 In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man. 1 2 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil [1885-1886],IV,139 1 See Aristophanes 2 See Congreve Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil [1885-1886],IV,146  The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil [1885-1886],IV,157 Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil [1885-1886],IV,217 Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil [1885-1886],IV,227 Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil [1885-1886],IV,245 One does not know-cannot know-the best that is in one. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil [1885-1886],IV,240 The melancholia of everything completed! Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil [1885-1886],IX, 277 The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Genealogy of Morals [1887], essay1, aphorism9 At the core of all these aristocratic races the beast of prey is not to be mistaken, the magnificent blond beast, avidly rampant for spoil and victory. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Genealogy of Morals [1887], essay1, aphorism11 The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Genealogy of Morals [1887], essay2, aphorism 15 The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Genealogy of Morals [1887], essay3, aphorism14 A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Genealogy of Morals [1887], essay3, aphorism16 Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Twilight of the Idols [1888]. Things the Germans Lack,2 What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Twilight of the Idols [1888]. Things the Germans Lack,2 If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Twilight of the Idols [1888]. Things the Germans Lack,12 Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Twilight of the Idols [1888]. Things the Germans Lack,38 It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book-what everyone else does not say in a whole book. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Twilight of the Idols [1888]. Things the Germans Lack,51 Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Antichrist [1888], aphorism23 God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Antichrist [1888], aphorism48 Life always gets harder toward the summit-the cold increases, responsibility increases. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Antichrist [1888], aphorism57 I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty-I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Antichrist [1888], aphorism62 My doctrine is: Live that thou mayest desire to live again-that is thy duty-for in any case thou wilt live again! Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Eternal Recurrence,27 Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Eternal Recurrence,30 Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Ecce Homo [1888] I believe only in French culture, and regard everything else in Europe which calls itself "culture" as a misunderstanding. I do not even take the German kind into consideration. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Ecce Homo [1888] Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Ecce Homo [1888] As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Ecce Homo [1888] Simply by being compelled to keep constantly on his guard, a man may grow so weak as to be unable any longer to defend himself. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Ecce Homo [1888] My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Ecce Homo [1888] No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Ecce Homo [1888]  The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths-they haven't any. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Ecce Homo [1888]  All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Ecce Homo [1888] One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Ecce Homo [1888]  The Will to Power. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Title of book [1888] John Boyle O'Reilly 1844-1890 They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore. John Boyle O'Reilly The Flying Dutchman Doubt is brother-devil to Despair. John Boyle O'Reilly Prometheus The red rose whispers of passion And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove. John Boyle O'Reilly A White Rose, st. 1 This truth keep in sight-every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road. John Boyle O'Reilly A White Rose, st. 1 The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ. 1 2 John Boyle O'Reilly In Bohemia, st. 5 1 See Southey 2 See Hood Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy 1844-1881 We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, 1 Wandering by lone sea breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world forever, it seems. Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy Ode, st. 1 1 See William Morris William Archibald Spooner 1844-1930  Kinquering Congs their titles take. William Archibald Spooner Announcing the hymn in college chapel You have deliberately tasted two worms and you can leave Oxford by the next town drain. William Archibald Spooner Dismissing a student. Attributed Paul Verlaine 1844-1896 The long sobs Of the violins Of autumn Pierce my heart With monotonous languor. Paul Verlaine Poemes Saturniens [1866]. Chanson d'Automne There is weeping in my heart Like the rain falling on the city. Paul Verlaine Romances sans Paroles [1874],III Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you. Paul Verlaine Romances sans Paroles [1874],Green What have you done, you there Weeping without cease, Tell me, yes you, what have you done With all your youth? Paul Verlaine Sagesse [1881], III, st. 6 Music above all, and for this Choose the irregular. Paul Verlaine Jadis et Naguere [1884]. L'Art Poetique Take eloquence and wring its neck! Paul Verlaine Jadis et Naguere [1884]. L'Art Poetique And all else is literature. Paul Verlaine Jadis et Naguere [1884]. L'Art Poetique John B. Bogart 1845-1921  When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. John B. Bogart From Frank M. O'Brien, The Story of The (New York) Sun [1918] William McKendree Will Carleton 1845-1912 Worm or beetle-drought or tempest-on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. William McKendree Will Carleton The Tramp's Story Draw up the papers, lawyer, and make 'em good and stout, For things at home are crossways, and Betsey and I are out. William McKendree Will Carleton Betsey and I Are Out,st. 1 And so we've agreed together that we can't never agree. William McKendree Will Carleton Betsey and I Are Out,st. 3 To appreciate heaven well 'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell. William McKendree Will Carleton Gone with a Handsomer Man, st. 20 Over the hill to the poorhouse I'm trudgin' my weary way. William McKendree Will Carleton Over the Hill to the Poorhouse, st. 1 William Kingdon Clifford 1845-1879 Remember, then, that it [science] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself. William Kingdon Clifford Aims and Instruments of Scientific Thought [1872] Daniel Webster Hoyt 1845-1936 Why should good words ne'er be said Of a friend till he is dead? Daniel Webster Hoyt A Sermon in Rhyme [1878], st. 1 George F rost Kennan 1845-1924 Heroism, the Caucasian mountaineers say, is endurance for one moment more. George F rost Kennan Letter to Henry Munroe Rogers [July 25, 1921] Charles William Stubbs 1845-1912 To sit alone with my conscience Will be judgment enough for me. 1 2 Charles William Stubbs Conscience and Future Judgment [1876] 1 See Polybius 2 See Stevenson John Banister Tabb 1845-1909 Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the clouds a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again. John Banister Tabb Evolution Punch Advice to persons about to marry.-"Don't." 1 Punch Vol. VIII, p. 1 [1845] 1 See Acton You pays your money and you takes your choice. Punch Vol. X, p. 16 [1846] What is Matter?-Never mind. What is Mind?-No matter. Punch Vol. XXIX, p. 19 [1855] It ain't the 'unting as 'urts 'un, it's the 'ammer, 'ammer, 'ammer along the 'ard 'igh road. Punch Vol. XXX, p. 218 [1856] There was an old owl lived in an oak, The more he heard, the less he spoke; The less he spoke, the more he heard, O, if men were all like that wise bird! Punch Vol. LXVIII, p. 155 [1875] It's worse than wicked, my dear, it's vulgar. Punch Almanac [1876] Don't look at me, sir, with-ah-in that tone of voice. Punch Vol. XCVII, p. 38 [1884] I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr. Jones. Oh no, my Lord, I assure you! Parts of it are excellent! Punch Vol. CIX, p. 222 [1895] Charles Dupee Blake 1846-1903 Rock-a-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all. Charles Dupee Blake Attributed Leon Bloy 1846-1917 Suffering is an auxiliary of creation. Leon Bloy Pages de Leon Bloy, Choisies par Raissa Maritain [1951] When you ask God to send you trials, you may be sure your prayer will be granted. Leon Bloy Pages de Leon Bloy, Choisies par Raissa Maritain [1951]Pensees Detachees Daniel Hudson Burnham 1846-1912 Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel Hudson Burnham Attributed Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke 1846-1925 "Well, here's to good honest fighting blood!" Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke The Fighting Race, st. 4 Charles Prestwick Scott 1846-1932 The primary office of a newspaper is the gathering of news . . . comment is free, but facts are sacred. Charles Prestwick Scott In the Manchester Guardian [May 6, 1926] Edward Noyes Westcott 1846-1898 The' ain't nothin' truer in the Bible 'n that sayin' thet them that has gits. Edward Noyes Westcott David Harum [1898], ch. 35 Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922  Mr. Watson, come here, I want you. Alexander Graham Bell To his assistant [March 10, 1876] Thomas A lva Edison 1847-1931 There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas A lva Edison Life [1932], ch. 24 Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas A lva Edison Life [1932], ch. 24 John Locke 1847-1889 O Ireland, isn't it grand you look- Like a bride in her rich adornin'? And with all the pent-up love of my heart I bid you the top o' the mornin'! John Locke The Exile's Return (Th' an'am an Dhia: My Soul to God), st. 1 Alice Meynell 1847-1922 She walks-the lady of my delight- A shepherdess of sheep. Alice Meynell The Shepherdess, st. 1 Julia A. Moore 1847-1920  Leave off the agony, leave off style, Unless you've got money by you all the while. Julia A. Moore Leave Off the Agony in Style Milton Nobles 1847-1924 The villain still pursued her. Milton Nobles The Phoenix [1875], act I, sc. iii George Robert Sims 1847-1922 It was Christmas Day in the workhouse. George Robert Sims Christmas Day in the Workhouse, st. 1 Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour 1848-1930 Biography should be written by an acute enemy. Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour Quoted by S. K. Ratcliffe in the London Observer [January 30, 1927] John Vance Cheney 1848-1922 Who drives the horses of the sun Shall lord it but a day. John Vance Cheney The Happiest Heart, st. 1 John Churton Collins 1848-1908 Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. John Churton Collins From Logan Pearsall Smith, A Treasury of English Aphorisms [1928] Mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior. John Churton Collins From Logan Pearsall Smith, A Treasury of English Aphorisms [1928] Sir Francis Darwin 1848-1925 But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. 1 2 Sir Francis Darwin First Galton Lecture before the Eugenics Society [1914] 1 See Zinsser 2 See Fleming Ludwig Max Goldberger 1848-1913 America, the land of unlimited possibilities. Ludwig Max Goldberger Land of Unlimited Possibilities: Observations on Economic Life in the United States of America [1903] Joel Chandler Harris 1848-1908 Hit look lak sparrer-grass, hit feel lak sparrer-grass, hit tas'e lak sparrer-grass, en I bless ef 'taint sparrer-grass. Joel Chandler Harris Nights with Uncle Remus [1883], ch. 27 Tar-baby ain't sayin' nuthin', en Brer Fox, he lay low. Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus and His Friends [1892] Ez soshubble ez a baskit er kittens. Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus and His Friends [1892] Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox. Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus and His Friends [1892] You do de pullin', Sis Cow, en I'll do de gruntin'. Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus and His Friends [1892] W'en ole man Rabbit say "scoot," dey scooted, en w'en old Miss Rabbit say "scat," dey scatted. Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus and His Friends [1892] Lazy fokes' stummucks don't git tired. Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus: Plantation Proverbs Jaybird don't rob his own nes'. Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus: Plantation Proverbs Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose fum de jug. Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus: Plantation Proverbs Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum. Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus: Plantation Proverbs Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke? Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus: Plantation Proverbs Watch out w'en youer gittin' all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck. Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus: Plantation Proverbs Hop light, ladies, Oh, Miss Loo! Oh, swing dat yaller gal! Do, boys, do! Joel Chandler Harris Plantation Play Song Joris Karl Huysmans 1848-1907 The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdygurdies make it their own. Joris Karl Huysmans [Agrave] Rebours (Against the Grain) [1884], ch. 9 Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness. Joris Karl Huysmans Les Foules de Lourdes [1906] Richard Jefferies 1848-1887 It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life. Richard Jefferies The Story of My Heart [1883] Vilfredo Pareto 1848-1923 Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. Vilfredo Pareto Comment on Kepler Eben Eugene Rexford 1848-1916 Darling, I am growing old, Silver threads among the gold Shine upon my brow today; Life is fading fast away. Eben Eugene Rexford Silver Threads Among the Gold [1873], st. 1 Frederic Edward Weatherly 1848-1929 Always the same, Darby, my own, Always the same to your old wife Joan. Frederic Edward Weatherly Darby and Joan, refrain Bernhard von Bulow 1849-1929 A place in the sun. Bernhard von Bulow A Promise for Germany. Speech before the Reichstag [December 6, 1897] The king in Prussia-forward; Prussia in Germany-forward; Germany in the world-forward! Bernhard von Bulow A Promise for Germany. Speech before the Reichstag [December 6, 1897] Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill 1849-1895 The old gang [members of the Conservative government]. Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill Speech in the House of Commons [March 7, 1878] Sir Edmund William Gosse 1849-1928  My father's theory . . . was defined by a hasty press as being this-that God hid the fossils in the rocks in order to tempt geologists into infidelity. Sir Edmund William Gosse Father and Son [1907], ch. 5 The Victorians . . . carried admiration to the highest pitch. . . . They turned it from a virtue into a religion, and called it Hero Worship. Sir Edmund William Gosse The Agony of the Victorian Age [1918] William Ernest Henley 1849-1903 Bland as a Jesuit, sober as a hymn. William Ernest Henley In Hospital [1888]. No.16, House Surgeon Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck, Most vain, most generous, sternly critical, Buffoon and poet, lover and sensualist: A deal of Ariel, just a streak of Puck, Much Antony, of Hamlet most of all, And something of the Shorter-Catechist. William Ernest Henley In Hospital [1888]. No.25, Apparition (Robert Louis Stevenson) 1 1 See R. L. Stevenson As dust that drives, as straws that blow, Into the night go one and all. William Ernest Henley Ballade of Dead Actors [1888] Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud; Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. William Ernest Henley Echoes [1888]. No.4, In Memoriam R. T. Hamilton Bruce ("Invictus"),st. 1, 2 I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. 1 2 3 4 5 William Ernest Henley Echoes [1888]. No.4, In Memoriam R. T. Hamilton Bruce ("Invictus"),st. 4 1 See Sallust 2 See Bacon 3 See Shakespeare 4 See Tennyson 5 See Nehru Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep. William Ernest Henley Echoes [1888]. No.35, In Memoriam Margaritae Sororis, st. 2 Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon And you were a Christian Slave. William Ernest Henley Echoes [1888]. No.37, To W. A., st. 1 What have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own? William Ernest Henley For England's Sake. Pro Rege Nostro [1892], st. 1 Sarah Orne Jewett 1849-1909 A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventures come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world and has something to give in return. Sarah Orne Jewett Country Byways. River Driftwood Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading. Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896], ch.5 The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to man. Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896], ch.5 Wrecked on the lee shore of age. Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896], ch.7 We were standing where there was a fine view of the harbor and its long stretches of shore all covered by the great army of the pointed firs, darkly cloaked and standing as if they waited to embark. As we looked far seaward among the outer islands, the trees seemed to march seaward still, going steadily over the heights and down to the water's edge. Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896], ch.7 Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading. Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896], ch.10 Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896], ch.12 In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness. Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896], ch.15 'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes. Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896], ch.16 The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back. Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896], ch.19 So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end. Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896], ch.19 The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper-whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. Sarah Orne Jewett Letter to Willa Cather. Quoted in preface to The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories [1925] Emma Lazarus 1849-1887 Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. Emma Lazarus The New Colossus: Inscription for the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor Sir William Osler 1849-1919 The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. Sir William Osler Montreal Medical Journal [1902] The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. Sir William Osler Montreal Medical Journal [1902] The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. Sir William Osler Science and Immortality [1904], ch.2 The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. Sir William Osler Science and Immortality [1904], ch.14  We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life. Sir William Osler From Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler [1925], vol.I, ch.14 Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever. Sir William Osler From Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler [1925], vol.I, ch.14  The master word [work] . . . is the open sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold. Sir William Osler From Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler [1925], vol.I, ch.22 Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. Sir William Osler From Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler [1925], vol.I, ch.22  Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature-subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. Sir William Osler From Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler [1925], vol.I, ch.24[The Fixed Period]  My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. Sir William Osler From Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler [1925], vol.I, ch.24[The Fixed Period] I have three personal ideals. One, to do the day's work well and not to bother about tomorrow. . . . The second ideal has been to act the Golden Rule, as far as in me lay, toward my professional brethren and toward the patients committed to my care. And the third has been to cultivate such a measure of equanimity as would enable me to bear success with humility, the affection of my friends without pride, and to be ready when the day of sorrow and grief came to meet it with the courage befitting a man. Sir William Osler From Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler [1925], vol.I, ch.24[Farewell Dinner, May 2, 1905] Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith-the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible. Sir William Osler From Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler [1925], vol.II, ch. 30 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov 1849-1936 The naturalist must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world? Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Scientific Study of So-Called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals [1906] Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Scientific Study of So-Called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals [1906] Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia [1936] Learn, compare, collect the facts! Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia [1936] James Whitcomb Riley 1849-1916 O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. James Whitcomb Riley The Beetle, st. 7 The ripest peach is highest on the tree. James Whitcomb Riley The Ripest Peach, st. 1 There! little girl; don't cry! James Whitcomb Riley A Life Lesson, st. 3 That old sweetheart of mine. James Whitcomb Riley An Old Sweetheart of Mine, st. 12 An' all us other children, when the supper things is done, We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun A-list'nin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about, An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you Ef you don't watch out! James Whitcomb Riley Little Orphant Annie [1883], st. 1 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine. James Whitcomb Riley Knee-Deep in June [1883], st. 1 Oh! the old swimmin' hole! When I last saw the place, The scenes was all changed, like the change in my face. James Whitcomb Riley The Old Swimmin' Hole [1883], st. 5 O, it sets my heart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. James Whitcomb Riley When the Frost Is on the Punkin [1883], st. 3 Edward Bellamy 1850-1898  We hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation. Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 [1888],ch.6 Buying and selling is essentially antisocial. Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 [1888],ch.9 The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. 1 2 3 Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 [1888],ch.9 1 See Dyer 2 See Shelley 3 See Hoffenstein Love of money 1 2 . . . was the general impulse to effort in your day. Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 [1888],ch.9 1 See I Timothy 6:10 2 See Keynes Badly off as the men . . . were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives. Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 [1888],ch.11 An American credit card . . . is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be. Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 [1888],ch.13 Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture . . . have simply made us all members of one class. Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 [1888],ch.14 If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. 1 Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 [1888],ch.18 1 See Juvenal Your system was liable to periodical convulsions . . . business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation. Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 [1888],ch.22 On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes. 1 Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 [1888],Author's postscript 1 See Hugo Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 [1888],Author's postscript Augustine Birrell 1850-1933 Libraries are not made; they grow. Augustine Birrell Obiter Dicta.Book Buying That great dust heap called "history." Augustine Birrell Obiter Dicta.Carlyle Hermann Ebbinghaus 1850-1909  From the most ancient subject we shall produce the newest science. Hermann Ebbinghaus Inscription on the title page of [Uuml ]ber das Gedachtnis (Memory) [1885] Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. Hermann Ebbinghaus Abriss der Psychologie (Summary of Psychology) [1908], opening sentence ÿ Eugene Field 1850-1895 I feel a sort of yearnin' 'nd a chokin' in my throat When I think of Red Hoss Mountain 'nd of Casey's tabble dote! Eugene Field Casey's Table d'H[ocirc ]te, st. 1 He could whip his weight in wildcats. Eugene Field Modjesky as Cameel, st. 10 The best of all physicians Is apple pie and cheese! Eugene Field Apple Pie and Cheese, st. 5 It always was the biggest fish I caught that got away. Eugene Field Our Biggest Fish, st. 2 When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!" Eugene Field The Bottle and the Bird, st. 1 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 1 one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe- Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew. Eugene Field Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, st. 1 1 See Braley The little toy dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and staunch he stands; And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And his musket molds in his hands; Time was when the little toy dog was new, And the soldier was passing fair; And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue Kissed them and put them there. Eugene Field Little Boy Blue, st. 1 The gingham dog went "Bow-wow-wow!" And the calico cat replied "Mee-ow!" The air was littered, an hour or so, With bits of gingham and calico. Eugene Field The Duel, st. 2 Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill! Eugene Field Jest 'Fore Christmas, st. 1 'Most all the time, the whole year round, there ain't no flies on me, But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be! Eugene Field Jest 'Fore Christmas, st. 1 Fred Gilbert 1850-1903 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo. Fred Gilbert Title of song [1892] Samuel Gompers 1850-1924 To protect the workers in their inalienable rights to a higher and better life; to protect them, not only as equals before the law, but also in their health, their homes, their firesides, their liberties as men, as workers, and as citizens; to overcome and conquer prejudices and antagonism; to secure to them the right to life, and the opportunity to maintain that life; the right to be full sharers in the abundance which is the result of their brain and brawn, and the civilization of which they are the founders and the mainstay. . . . The attainment of these is the glorious mission of the trade unions. Samuel Gompers Speech [1898] Henry Cabot Lodge 1850-1924 Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty. But let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans. . . . If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description. Henry Cabot Lodge The Day We Celebrate (Forefathers' Day). Address, New England Society of Brooklyn [December 21, 1888] It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the man whose people have been here many generations. Henry Cabot Lodge Address [1915] He was a great patriot, a great man; above all, a great American. His country was the ruling, mastering passion of his life from the beginning even unto the end. Henry Cabot Lodge Theodore Roosevelt. Address Before Congress [February 9, 1919] Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893  A man who looks a part has the soul of that part. Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant Mont-Oriol [1887] Conversation . . . is the art of never appearing a bore, of knowing how to say everything interestingly, to entertain with no matter what, to be charming with nothing at all. Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant Sur l'Eau (On the Water) [1888]  History, that excitable and lying old lady. Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant Sur l'Eau (On the Water) [1888] Laura E lizabeth Richards 1850-1943 Be you clown or be you king, Still your singing is the thing. Laura E lizabeth Richards Tirra Lirra [1930], dedication, l. 7 Every little wave had its nightcap on. Laura E lizabeth Richards Song for Hal, refrain Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant- No! No! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Laura E lizabeth Richards Eletelephony, l. 1 Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. Robert Louis Stevenson An Inland Voyage [1878]. Noyon Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. Robert Louis Stevenson An Inland Voyage [1878]. Noyon For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson Travels with a Donkey [1878] Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],I, ch.1 Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more bypath meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],I, ch.1 Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catchwords. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],I, ch.1 The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],I, ch.4, Truth of Intercourse Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],II,Crabbed Age and Youth It is better to be a fool than to be dead. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],II,Crabbed Age and Youth Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],II,Crabbed Age and Youth Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],II,Aes Triplex Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],III, An Apology for Idlers Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],III, An Apology for Idlers There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],III, An Apology for Idlers To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque [1881],VI, El Dorado To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson Familiar Studies of Men and Books [1882] I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. Robert Louis Stevenson New Arabian Nights [1882]. The Suicide Club Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island [1883], ch.1 Doctors is all swabs. Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island [1883], ch.3 "What is the Black Spot, Captain?" "That's a summons, mate." Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island [1883], ch.3 Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight! Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island [1883], ch.10 Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly. Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island [1883], ch.15 In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candlelight. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. Robert Louis Stevenson A Child's Garden of Verses [1885].Bed in Summer, st. 1 A child should always say what's true And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table; At least as far as he is able. Robert Louis Stevenson A Child's Garden of Verses [1885].Whole Duty of Children Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by. Late in the night when the fires are out, Why does he gallop and gallop about? Robert Louis Stevenson A Child's Garden of Verses [1885].Windy Nights, st. 1 I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed. Robert Louis Stevenson A Child's Garden of Verses [1885].My Shadow, st. 1 The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple tart. Robert Louis Stevenson A Child's Garden of Verses [1885].The Cow, st. 1 The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson A Child's Garden of Verses [1885].Happy Thought Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson Title of novel [1886] Am I no a bonny fighter? Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped [1886], ch. 10 (Alan Breck) Of all my verse, like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not mine. That title from a better man I stole: Ah, how much better, had I stol'n the whole! Robert Louis Stevenson Underwoods [1887],title page poem Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl. 1 Robert Louis Stevenson Underwoods [1887],bk.I, In English.To a Gardener 1 See Sydney Smith Dear Andrew, with the brindled hair. Robert Louis Stevenson Underwoods [1887],bk.I, In English.To Andrew Lang Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Robert Louis Stevenson Underwoods [1887],Requiem My body which my dungeon is, And yet my parks and palaces. Robert Louis Stevenson Underwoods [1887],My Body Which My Dungeon Is There's just ae thing I cannae bear, An' that's my conscience. 1 2 Robert Louis Stevenson Underwoods [1887],II, In Scots. My Conscience 1 See Polybius 2 See Stubbs I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann. Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and Portraits [1887].A College Magazine A Penny Plain and Twopence Colored. Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and Portraits [1887].Essay About Skelt's Juvenile Drama Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heaven above And the road below me. Robert Louis Stevenson Songs of Travel.The Vagabond, st. 4 The untented Kosmos my abode, I pass, a willful stranger; My mistress still the open road And the bright eyes of danger. Robert Louis Stevenson Songs of Travel.Youth and Love I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of birdsong at morning and starshine at night. Robert Louis Stevenson Songs of Travel.Romance, st. 1 God, if this were enough, That I see things bare to the buff. Robert Louis Stevenson Songs of Travel.If This Were Faith Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them. Robert Louis Stevenson Songs of Travel.no.14 In the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens Quiet eyes. Robert Louis Stevenson Songs of Travel.no.15 Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble dew, Steel-true and blade-straight The great artificer Made my mate. Robert Louis Stevenson Songs of Travel.no.25, To My Wife, st. 1 Be it granted me to behold you again in dying, Hills of home! Robert Louis Stevenson Songs of Travel.no.45, To S. R. Crockett Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is-nor yet so good a Christian. Robert Louis Stevenson The Master of Ballantrae [1889]. Mr. Mackellar's Journey Nothing like a little judicious levity. Robert Louis Stevenson The Wrong Box [1889], ch.7  Do you know what the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina? It's a long time between drinks, observed that powerful thinker. Robert Louis Stevenson The Wrong Box [1889], ch.8 So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson Across the Plains [1892]. Lay Morals If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. Robert Louis Stevenson Across the Plains [1892]. Lay Morals Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much:-surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed. Robert Louis Stevenson Across the Plains [1892]. Lay Morals Ice and iron cannot be welded. Robert Louis Stevenson Weir of Hermiston [1896] Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Robert Louis Stevenson Prayer Youth is wholly experimental. Robert Louis Stevenson Letter to a Young Gentleman Rose Hartwick Thorpe 1850-1939 She breathed the husky whisper- "Curfew must not ring tonight." Rose Hartwick Thorpe Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight [1882],st. 2 Out she swung-far out; the city seemed a speck of light below, There 'twixt heaven and earth suspended as the bell swung to and fro. Rose Hartwick Thorpe Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight [1882],st. 7 Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919 One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. 'Tis the set of sails and not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Winds of Fate No! the two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean. Ella Wheeler Wilcox To Lift or to Lean Love is a mood-no more-to man, And love to woman is life or death. 1 Ella Wheeler Wilcox Blind, st. 1 1 See Byron Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Solitude, st. 1 So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, When just the art of being kind Is all this sad world needs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox The World's Need No question is ever settled Until it is settled right. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Settle the Question Right Ferdinand Foch 1851-1929  My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, situation excellent, I am attacking. Ferdinand Foch At the second battle of the Marne [1918]. From B. H. Liddell Hart, Reputations Ten Years After [1928] Edward Smith Ufford 1851-1929 Throw out the lifeline, throw out the lifeline, Someone is sinking today. Edward Smith Ufford Throw Out the Lifeline [1884], refrain Francis William Bourdillon 1852-1921 The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. Francis William Bourdillon Among the Flowers [1878]. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Charles Joseph Paul Bourget 1852-1935  Ideas are to literature what light is to painting. Charles Joseph Paul Bourget La Physiologie de l'Amour Moderne [1890]  We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived. Charles Joseph Paul Bourget Le Demon de Midi [1914], conclusion Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham 1852-1936 Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward . . . the odium of success is hard enough to bear, without the added ignominy of popular applause. 1 Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham Success [1902] 1 See Lowry God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses. Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham Letter to Theodore Roosevelt [1917] Flying Hawk 1852-1931  The tepee is much better to live in: always clean, warm in winter, cool in summer; easy to move . . . Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water. Flying Hawk Statement in old age Edwin Markham 1852-1940 Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Edwin Markham The Man with the Hoe [1899],st. 1 O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, Is this the handiwork you give to God? Edwin Markham The Man with the Hoe [1899],st. 3 A man to match the mountains and the sea. Edwin Markham Lincoln, The Man of the People [1901],st. 1 The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The smack and tang of elemental things. 1 Edwin Markham Lincoln, The Man of the People [1901],st. 2 1 See Beston He went down As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. Edwin Markham Lincoln, The Man of the People [1901],st. 4 He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. Edwin Markham Outwitted George Moore 1852-1933 After all there is but one race-humanity. George Moore The Bending of the Bough [1900], actIII The difficulty in life is the choice. George Moore The Bending of the Bough [1900], actIV The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. George Moore The Bending of the Bough [1900], actIV A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore The Brook Kerith [1916], ch. 11 Henry Van Dyke 1852-1933 Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I. Henry Van Dyke The Toiling of Felix [1900], pt. I, prelude So it's home again, and home again, America for me. My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be. Henry Van Dyke America for Me [1909], st. 2 Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: 1 2 Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. Henry Van Dyke Reliance, st. 1 1 See Ecclesiastes 9:11 2 See John Davidson The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride: The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside. Henry Van Dyke For the Friends at Hurstmont. The Door Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. Henry Van Dyke The Prison and the Angel The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. Henry Van Dyke Fisherman's Luck [1899], ch. 5 Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937 What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. Edgar Watson Howe Country Town Sayings [1911] There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing-but we all do and call it Hope. Edgar Watson Howe Country Town Sayings [1911] Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] 1853-1895  Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat . . . between the law of love and the law of hate. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Letter [1881] Love is . . . born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation! Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Amor [1881] Oh, what company good poets are! 1 Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Longfellow [1882] 1 See John Adams A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] On Oscar Wilde [1882] To beautify life is to give it an object. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] On Oscar Wilde [1882] Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Ad[uacute]ltera (Adulterous Thoughts) [1883] Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] On "El Poema de NiaAgara" of Perez Bonalde [1883] A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] A Glance at the North American's Soul Today [1886] Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Henry Ward Beecher [1887] A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Dedication of the Statue of Liberty [1887] Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Woman Suffrage [1887] Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Letter [1890] Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Vivir en Si (To Live in Oneself) [1891] Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Poesia [1891] Mankind is composed of two sorts of men-those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Letter to a Cuban farmer [1893] Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Mi Raza (My Race) [1893] I wish to leave the world By its natural door; In my tomb of green leaves They are to carry me to die. Do not put me in the dark To die like a traitor; I am good, and like a good thing I will die with my face to the sun. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] A Morir (To Die) [1894] This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] A Morir (To Die) [1894] Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Manifesto of Montecristi [1895] The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Our America [1891] I have lived in the monster [the United States] and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David. Jose Julian Marti [y Perez] Letter to Manuel Mercado [1895] Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902 I desire to encourage and foster an appreciation of the advantages which will result from the union of the English-speaking peoples throughout the world, and to encourage in the students from the United States of America an attachment to the country from which they have sprung without I hope withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth. Cecil John Rhodes His will, establishing the Rhodes Scholarships Educational relations make the strongest tie. Cecil John Rhodes His will, establishing the Rhodes Scholarships So little done-so much to do. 1 Cecil John Rhodes Last words 1 See Tennyson James A. Bland 1854-1911 Carry me back to old Virginny, There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow; There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime, There's where this old darky's heart am longed to go. James A. Bland Carry Me Back to Old Virginny [1875], st. 1 Sir James George Frazer 1854-1941 Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance . . . to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man. . . . The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent. 1 2 Sir James George Frazer The Golden Bough [1922], ch.3 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Dickens The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard. 1 Sir James George Frazer The Golden Bough [1922], ch.3 1 See Bentley By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. Sir James George Frazer The Golden Bough [1922], ch.4 It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back. Sir James George Frazer The Golden Bough [1922], ch.18 The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. Sir James George Frazer The Golden Bough [1922], ch.18 The world cannot live at the level of its great men. Sir James George Frazer The Golden Bough [1922], ch.37 Thomas Riley Marshall 1854-1925  What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar. Thomas Riley Marshall Remark to John Crockett, chief clerk of the Senate Jules Henri Poincare 1854-1912 To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. Jules Henri Poincare Quoted by Bertrand Russell in preface to Science and Method [1913] (La Science et l'Hypothese, 1903) Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. Jules Henri Poincare Quoted by Bertrand Russell in preface to Science and Method [1913] (La Science et l'Hypothese, 1903) Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results. Jules Henri Poincare Quoted by Bertrand Russell in preface to Science and Method [1913] (La Science et l'Hypothese, 1903)ch. 1 The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the past centuries. Jules Henri Poincare Valeur de la Science [1904] Arthur Rimbaud 1854-1891 I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal. Arthur Rimbaud Ma Boheme. Fantaisie My tavern was the Big Bear. My stars in the sky rustled softly. Arthur Rimbaud Ma Boheme. Fantaisie My sad heart foams at the stern. Arthur Rimbaud Le Coeur Vole Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves. Arthur Rimbaud Le Bateau Ivre [1871] Sweeter than apples to children The green water spurted through my wooden hull. Arthur Rimbaud Le Bateau Ivre [1871] I have bathed in the Poem Of the Sea . . . Devouring the green azures. Arthur Rimbaud Le Bateau Ivre [1871] I have seen the sunset, stained with mystic horrors, Illumine the rolling waves with long purple forms, Like actors in ancient plays. Arthur Rimbaud Le Bateau Ivre [1871] I long for Europe of the ancient parapets. Arthur Rimbaud Le Bateau Ivre [1871] I have seen starry archipelagoes! and islands Whose raving skies are opened to the voyager: Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep, in exile, A million golden birds, O future Vigor? Arthur Rimbaud Le Bateau Ivre [1871] Black A, white E, red I, green U, blue O: vowels, Someday I shall recount your latent births. Arthur Rimbaud Voyelles [1871] It is found again. What? Eternity. It is the sea Gone with the sun. Arthur Rimbaud L'Eternite [1872] O seasons, O ch[acirc ]teaux, What soul is without flaws? Arthur Rimbaud Bonheur, refrain One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap.-And I found her bitter.-And I cursed her. Arthur Rimbaud Une Saison en Enfer [1873] I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul. Arthur Rimbaud Une Saison en Enfer [1873] Baptism enslaved me. Arthur Rimbaud Une Saison en Enfer [1873]Nuit de l'Enfer I am the master of fantasy. Arthur Rimbaud Une Saison en Enfer [1873]Nuit de l'Enfer Old poetics played a large part in my alchemy of the word. Arthur Rimbaud Une Saison en Enfer [1873]Delires I! I who fashioned myself a sorcerer or an angel, who dispensed with all morality, I have come back to the earth. Arthur Rimbaud Une Saison en Enfer [1873]Adieu One must be absolutely modern. Arthur Rimbaud Une Saison en Enfer [1873]Adieu I have embraced the summer dawn. Arthur Rimbaud Illuminations [1874]. Aube  It rains softly on the town. Arthur Rimbaud From a lost poem  I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses. Arthur Rimbaud Lettre a Paul Demeny [May 15, 1871] Willard Duncan Vandiver 1854-1932 I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me. Willard Duncan Vandiver Speech at a naval banquet in Philadelphia [1899] Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde 1854-1900 Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Requiescat, st. 1 And down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Harlot's House Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey 1 of romance- And must I lose a soul's inheritance? Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Helas [1881], l. 12 1 See I Samuel 14:27 A poet can survive everything but a misprint. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Children of the Poets Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Critic as Artist [1891], pt.I It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Critic as Artist [1891], pt.II As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Critic as Artist [1891], pt.II There is no sin except stupidity. 1 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Critic as Artist [1891], pt.II 1 See Marlowe There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891],preface All art is quite useless. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891],preface There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891],ch.1 Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. 1 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891],ch.1 1 See Mark Twain A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. 1 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891],ch.1 1 See Conrad The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. 1 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891],ch.2 1 See Balzac  He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891],ch.2 The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891],ch.2 Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891],ch.5 Conscience makes egotists of us all. 1 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891],ch.8 1 See Shakespeare When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. 1 Women try their luck; men risk theirs. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891],ch.15 1 See Samuel Johnson Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Personal Impressions of America (Leadville) [1883] Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan [1892], actI I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan [1892], actI We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan [1892], actIII In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. 1 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan [1892], actIII 1 See Shaw What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan [1892], actIII Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan [1892], actIII  I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan [1892], actIV  Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris. Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to? Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde A Woman of No Importance [1893], actI The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde A Woman of No Importance [1893], actI Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde A Woman of No Importance [1893], actI I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde A Woman of No Importance [1893], actIII Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest [1895], actI I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest [1895], actI Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest [1895], actI To lose one parent . . . may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest [1895], actI Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest [1895], actI I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest [1895], actII Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. 1 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Soul of Man Under Socialism [1895] 1 See Lincoln The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. 1 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Soul of Man Under Socialism [1895] 1 See Havelock Ellis Charity creates a multitude of sins. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Soul of Man Under Socialism [1895] Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Soul of Man Under Socialism [1895] Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Soul of Man Under Socialism [1895] The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate on it. 1 2 3 4 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Soul of Man Under Socialism [1895] 1 See Heraclitus 2 See Racan 3 See Swift 4 See Shelley Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Aphorisms I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol [1898], pt.I,st. 3 When a voice behind me whispered low, "That fellow's got to swing." Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol [1898], pt.I,st. 4 Yet each man kills the thing he loves, 1 By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol [1898], pt.I,st. 7 1 See Shakespeare It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air! Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol [1898], pt.II,st. 9 Something was dead in each of us, And what was dead was Hope. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol [1898], pt.II,st. 31 And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol [1898], pt.II,st. 37 I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol [1898], pt.V,st. 1 The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air: It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol [1898], pt.V,st. 5 How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in? Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol [1898], pt.V,st. 14 Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde De Profundis [1905] William Cowper Brann 1855-1898  Boston runs to brains as well as to beans and brown bread. But she is cursed with an army of cranks whom nothing short of a straitjacket or a swamp elm club will ever control. William Cowper Brann From The Iconoclast. Beans and Blood Henry Cuyler Bunner 1855-1896 Off with your hat as the flag goes by! Henry Cuyler Bunner Airs from Arcady [1888]. The Old Flag, st. 1 Eugene V ictor Debs 1855-1926 While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. Eugene V ictor Debs On labor and freedom The savings of many in the hands of one. Eugene V ictor Debs On wealth Margaret Wolfe Hungerford 1855-1897 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 1 Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Molly Bawn [1878] 1 See Hume Walter Hines Page 1855-1918 There is one thing better than good government, and that is government in which all the people have a part. Walter Hines Page Life and Letters [1922-1925], vol. III, p. 31 Sir Arthur Wing Pinero 1855-1934 From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero The Second Mrs. Tanqueray [1893], act I Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner Ralph Iron 1855-1920 The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance. Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner The Story of an African Farm [1884], ch.1 There never was a man who said one word for woman but he said two for man and three for the whole human race. Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner The Story of an African Farm [1884], ch.4 William Sharp Fiona Macleod 1855-1905 My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. William Sharp The Lonely Hunter, st. 6 Joseph Tabrar fl. 1892 I've got a little cat, And I'm very fond of that, But I'd rather have a bowwow, wow. Joseph Tabrar Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bowwow [1892] L yman Frank Baum 1856-1919 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 1 L yman Frank Baum Title of book [1900] 1 See Harburg The Yellow Brick Road [the road to Oz]. L yman Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [1900] The Wicked Witch of the West. L yman Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [1900] Francis Bellamy 1856-1931 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Francis Bellamy The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag [1892] Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg 1856-1921 Just for a word-"neutrality," a word which in wartime has so often been disregarded, just for a scrap of paper-Great Britain is going to make war. Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg To Sir Edward Goschen [August 4, 1914] Louis D embitz Brandeis 1856-1941 Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. 1 2 Louis D embitz Brandeis Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357,375 [1927] 1 See Simonides 2 See Thucydides Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Louis D embitz Brandeis Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357,376 They [the makers of the Constitution] conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone-the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. Louis D embitz Brandeis Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438,478 [1928] The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. Louis D embitz Brandeis Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438,479 Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Louis D embitz Brandeis Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438,485 If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold. Louis D embitz Brandeis New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, 285 U.S. 262, 311 [1932] Stare decisis is usually the wise policy, because in most matters it is more important that the applicable rule of law be settled than that it be settled right. . . . But in cases involving the Federal Constitution, where correction through legislative action is practically impossible, this Court has often overruled its earlier decisions. The Court bows to the lessons of experience and the force of better reasoning, recognizing that the process of trial and error, so fruitful in the physical sciences, is appropriate also in the judicial function. Louis D embitz Brandeis Burnet v. Coronado Oil and Gas Co., 285 U.S. 393, 406 [1932] There is in most Americans some spark of idealism, which can be fanned into a flame. It takes sometimes a divining rod to find what it is; but when found, and that means often, when disclosed to the owners, the results are often extraordinary. Louis D embitz Brandeis The Words of Justice Brandeis [1953] Sigmund Freud 1856-1939 Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Sigmund Freud Origins of Psychoanalysis. Letter to Fliess [October 15, 1897] No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed. Sigmund Freud Complete Psychological Works.Dora [1905] Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. Sigmund Freud Complete Psychological Works.Totem and Taboo [1912-1913] At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father. Sigmund Freud Complete Psychological Works.Totem and Taboo [1912-1913] The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race. 1 Sigmund Freud Leonardo da Vinci [1916] 1 See Haeckel When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so. Sigmund Freud The Problem of Anxiety [1925] The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. 1 2 Sigmund Freud On his seventieth birthday [1926]; fromLionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination 1 See Peirce 2 See Bergson The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little. Sigmund Freud Future of an Illusion [1928] Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home. Sigmund Freud New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis [1932] One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go. Sigmund Freud New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis [1932]The Anatomy of the Mental Personality (Lecture 31) The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three. . . . The three tyrants are the external world, the superego and the id. Sigmund Freud New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis [1932]The Anatomy of the Mental Personality (Lecture 31) Where id was, there shall ego be. Sigmund Freud New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis [1932]The Anatomy of the Mental Personality (Lecture 31) Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. Sigmund Freud New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis [1932]Anxiety and Instinctual Life (Lecture 32) If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness amid the changing vicissitudes of life, and it guides their thoughts and motions by means of precepts which are backed by the whole force of its authority. Sigmund Freud New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis [1932]A Philosophy of Life (Lecture 35) Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. Sigmund Freud New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis [1932]A Philosophy of Life (Lecture 35) Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. Sigmund Freud New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis [1932]A Philosophy of Life (Lecture 35) The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do. Sigmund Freud Moses and Monotheism [1938] Man found that he was faced with the acceptance of "spiritual" forces, that is to say such forces as cannot be apprehended by the senses, particularly not by sight, and yet having undoubted, even extremely strong, effects. If we may trust to language, it was the movement of the air that provided the image of spirituality, since the spirit borrows its name from the breath of wind (animus, spiritus, Hebrew: ruach = smoke). The idea of the soul was thus born as the spiritual principle in the individual. . . . Now the realm of spirits had opened for man, and he was ready to endow everything in nature with the soul he had discovered in himself. Sigmund Freud Moses and Monotheism [1938] A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success. 1 Sigmund Freud From Ernest Jones, Life and Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. I [1953], ch. 1 1 See Emerson The great question . . . which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?" Sigmund Freud Quoted in Charles Rolo, Psychiatry in American Life [1963] Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud Attributed Edmond Haraucourt 1856-1941 To leave is to die a little; To die to what we love. We leave behind a bit of ourselves Wherever we have been. Edmond Haraucourt Choix de Poesies [1891]. Rondel de l'Adieu Elbert Hubbard 1856-1915  It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing-"carry a message to Garcia." Elbert Hubbard A Message to Garcia [March 1899] So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. Elbert Hubbard Contemplations [1902] Robert E dwin Peary 1856-1920 The Eskimo, Ootah, had his own explanation. Said he: "The devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we should never have come back so easily." Robert E dwin Peary The North Pole [1910] Henri Philippe Petain 1856-1951  They shall not pass. Henri Philippe Petain Attributed. Verdun [February 26, 1916] George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. George Bernard Shaw Answers to Nine Questions It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New. 1 George Bernard Shaw The Philanderer [1893], actII 1 See Anonymous The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. 1 George Bernard Shaw The Philanderer [1893], actII 1 See Cervantes The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. George Bernard Shaw The Philanderer [1893], actIV People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession [1893], actII There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession [1893], actIII A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On. George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession [1893], actIV We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw Candida [1898], actI I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer. George Bernard Shaw Candida [1898], actIII We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. George Bernard Shaw You Never Can Tell [1898], actI The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life. George Bernard Shaw You Never Can Tell [1898], actII There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. George Bernard Shaw Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant [1898], vol. II, preface You're not a man, you're a machine. George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man [1898], act III The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. George Bernard Shaw The Devil's Disciple [1901], act II This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],epistle dedicatory A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],actI The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],actI Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],actII Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],actIII An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],actIII There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. 1 George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],actIV 1 See Wilde The golden rule is that there is no golden rule. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],Maxims for Revolutionists He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],Maxims for Revolutionists Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],Maxims for Revolutionists If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],Maxims for Revolutionists Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],Maxims for Revolutionists Lack of money is the root of all evil. 1 George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman [1903],Maxims for Revolutionists 1 See I Timothy 6:10 The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara [1907],preface I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes. 1 George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara [1907],act II 1 See Conrad Blood and fire! George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara [1907],act II Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. George Bernard Shaw Getting Married [1908], preface When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. George Bernard Shaw Getting Married [1908], preface The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. George Bernard Shaw Getting Married [1908], preface You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. George Bernard Shaw Getting Married [1908], preface Religion is a great force-the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours. George Bernard Shaw Getting Married [1908], preface I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day. George Bernard Shaw Misalliance [1910], episode I If parents would only realize how they bore their children! George Bernard Shaw Misalliance [1910], episode I Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion [1912], actII I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle-class morality. George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion [1912], actV Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion [1912], actV All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw Annajanska [1919] You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah [1921],pt. I, act I The nauseous sham goodfellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use. George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah [1921],pt. II Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah [1921],pt. V Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah [1921],pt. V The worst cliques are those which consist of one man. George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah [1921],pt. V Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw The Rejected Statement, pt. I The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians. George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan [1923], sc. iv One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart [1929], act I I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. George Bernard Shaw Remarks on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize [1930] An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country. George Bernard Shaw Speech at New York [April 11, 1933] You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you. George Bernard Shaw Speech at New York [April 11, 1933] Louis Henri Sullivan 1856-1924 Form ever follows function. Louis Henri Sullivan The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered. From Lippincott's Magazine [March 1896] Sir Joseph John Thomson 1856-1940 From the point of view of the physicist, a theory of matter is a policy rather than a creed; its object is to connect or coordinate apparently diverse phenomena, and above all to suggest, stimulate and direct experiment. Sir Joseph John Thomson The Corpuscular Theory of Matter [1907] Booker T aliaferro Washington 1856-1915 In all things that are purely social we [black and white] can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. Booker T aliaferro Washington Speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta [September 18, 1895] No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T aliaferro Washington Up from Slavery [1901] You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T aliaferro Washington Attributed Woodrow Wilson 1856-1924 The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name. . . . We must be impartial in thought as well as in action. Woodrow Wilson Message to the Senate [August 19, 1914] You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world. Woodrow Wilson Address to the Associated Press [April 20, 1915] There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. Woodrow Wilson Address to Foreign-Born Citizens [May 10, 1915] [The Civil War] created in this country what had never existed before-a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union. Woodrow Wilson Memorial Day Address [1915] The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. It represents the experiences made by men and women, the experiences of those who do and live under that flag. Woodrow Wilson Address [June 14, 1915] We have stood apart, studiously neutral. Woodrow Wilson Message to Congress [December 7, 1915] America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. Woodrow Wilson Speech at Des Moines [February 1, 1916] There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace. Woodrow Wilson Address to the Senate [January 22, 1917] It must be a peace without victory. . . . Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last. Woodrow Wilson Address to the Senate [January 22, 1917] A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible. Woodrow Wilson Statement made in reference to certain members of the Senate [March 4, 1917] Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best. Woodrow Wilson Address to Congress, asking for a declaration of war [April 2, 1917] The world must be made safe for democracy. 1 Woodrow Wilson Address to Congress, asking for a declaration of war [April 2, 1917] 1 See James Harvey Robinson It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts-for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other. 1 Woodrow Wilson Address to Congress, asking for a declaration of war [April 2, 1917] 1 See Luther 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at. 2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas. . . . 5. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims. Woodrow Wilson Address to Congress (The Fourteen Points) [January 8, 1918] 1 1 See Clemenceau 14. A general association of nations must be formed . . . for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. Woodrow Wilson Address to Congress (The Fourteen Points) [January 8, 1918] 1 Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. Woodrow Wilson Address at Sioux Falls [September 8, 1919] The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. Woodrow Wilson From Bernard Baruch, American Industry at War: A Report of the War Industries Board [March 1921] Edward F rancis Albee 1857-1930  Never give a sucker an even break. Edward F rancis Albee Remark Joseph Conrad 1857-1924 A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. Joseph Conrad The Nigger of the Narcissus [1898],preface But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives: to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain. Joseph Conrad The Nigger of the Narcissus [1898],preface The ship, a fragment detached from the earth, went on lonely and swift like a small planet. Joseph Conrad The Nigger of the Narcissus [1898],ch.2 Goodbye, brothers! You were a good crowd. As good a crowd as ever fisted with wild cries the beating canvas of a heavy foresail; or tossing aloft, invisible in the night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale. Joseph Conrad The Nigger of the Narcissus [1898],ch.5 I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. Joseph Conrad Lord Jim [1900],author's note There is a weird power in a spoken word. . . . And a word carries far-very far-deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. Joseph Conrad Lord Jim [1900],ch.15 That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer. Joseph Conrad Lord Jim [1900],ch.16 You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. 1 Joseph Conrad Lord Jim [1900],ch.34 1 See Wilde Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. Joseph Conrad Lord Jim [1900],ch.41 Only a moment; a moment of strength, of romance, of glamour-of youth! . . . A flick of sunshine upon a strange shore, the time to remember, the time for a sigh, and-goodbye!-Night-Goodbye . . . ! Joseph Conrad Youth [1902] She strode like a grenadier, was strong and upright like an obelisk, had a beautiful face, a candid brow, pure eyes, and not a thought of her own in her head. Joseph Conrad Tales of Unrest [1902]. The Return Running all over the sea trying to get behind the weather. Joseph Conrad Typhoon [1902], ch. 2 The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery. Joseph Conrad Typhoon [1902], ch. 2 We live, as we dream-alone. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness [1902],I I don't like work-no man does-but I like what is in work-the chance to find yourself. Your own reality-for yourself, not for others-what no other man can ever know. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness [1902],I The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness [1902],II No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. 1 Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness [1902],II 1 See G. B. Shaw  Exterminate all the brutes! Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness [1902],II The horror! The horror! Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness [1902],II  Mistah Kurtz-he dead. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness [1902],II The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation. Joseph Conrad Nostromo [1904], ch. 6 Efficiency of a practically flawless kind may be reached naturally in the struggle for bread. But there is something beyond-a higher point, a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride beyond mere skill; almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art-which is art. Joseph Conrad The Mirror of the Sea [1906]. The Fine Art A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. Joseph Conrad Under Western Eyes [1911],pt.I Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly. Joseph Conrad Under Western Eyes [1911],pt.Ich. 3 The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad Under Western Eyes [1911],pt.II, ch. 4 All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Joseph Conrad A Personal Record [1912],preface Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Joseph Conrad A Personal Record [1912],ch. 1 In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom. Joseph Conrad The Arrow of Gold [1919], author's note Historian of fine consciences. Joseph Conrad Notes on Life and Letters [1921]. Henry James, An Appreciation Emile Coue 1857-1926  Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better. Emile Coue Formula of his faith cures, inscribed in his sanitarium, Nancy, France Clarence Seward Darrow 1857-1938 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means. Clarence Seward Darrow Scopes trial, Dayton, Tennessee [July 13, 1925] I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. Clarence Seward Darrow Speech at Toronto [1930] There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court. Clarence Seward Darrow Interview at Chicago [April 1936] John Davidson 1857-1909 In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift; The battle to the strong. 1 2 John Davidson War Song,st. 1 1 See Ecclesiastes 9:11 2 See Van Dyke And blood in torrents pour In vain-always in vain, For war breeds war again. John Davidson War Song,st. 7 Benjamin Franklin KingJr. 1857-1894 Nowhere to go but out, Nowhere to come but back. Benjamin Franklin KingJr. The Pessimist, st. 4 Karl Pearson 1857-1936 Modern science, as training the mind to an exact and impartial analysis of facts, is an education specially fitted to promote sound citizenship. Karl Pearson The Grammar of Science [1892] Edgar Smith 1857-1938 You may tempt the upper classes With your villainous demitasses, But Heaven will protect the working girl. Edgar Smith Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl Frank Lebby Stanton 1857-1927 Jest a-wearyin' fer you- All the time a-feelin' blue. Frank Lebby Stanton Wearyin' for You, st. 1 Sweetes' li'l' feller- Everybody knows; Dunno what ter call 'im, But he's mighty lak' a rose! Frank Lebby Stanton Mighty Lak' a Rose, st. 1 Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929 Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class [1899], ch.4 With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class [1899], ch.5 The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is not commonly present, consciously, in our canons of taste, but it is none the less present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful, and guiding our discrimination with respect to what may legitimately be approved as beautiful and what may not. Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class [1899], ch.6 Franz Boas 1858-1942 The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake . . . can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake. Franz Boas Race and Democratic Society [1945],introduction The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment. 1 Franz Boas Race and Democratic Society [1945],ch.2 1 See Benedict No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. Franz Boas Race and Democratic Society [1945],ch.7 James Davis Owen Hall 1853-1907 O tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you? James Davis Floradora [1900], act II Sam Walter Foss 1858-1911 And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf. Sam Walter Foss The Calf-Path, st. 6 A rodless Walton of the brooks, A bloodless sportsman, I. 1 Sam Walter Foss The Bloodless Sportsman 1 See Emerson The woods are made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong. Sam Walter Foss The Bloodless Sportsman Let me live in my house by the side of the road And be a friend of man. Sam Walter Foss The House by the Side of the Road, 1 st. 5 1 See Homer H enry W atson Fowler 1858-1933 F rancis G eorge Fowler 1870-1918 Prefer geniality to grammar. F rancis G eorge Fowler The King's English [1906], ch. 2 hackneyed phrases. . . . The purpose with which these phrases are introduced is for the most part that of giving a fillip to a passage that might be humdrum without them . . . but their true use when they come into the writer's mind is as danger signals; he should take warning that when they suggest themselves it is because what he is writing is bad stuff, or it would not need such help; let him see to the substance of his cake instead of decorating with sugarplums. F rancis G eorge Fowler A Dictionary of Modern English Usage [1926] quotation. . . . A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a chord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. F rancis G eorge Fowler A Dictionary of Modern English Usage [1926]  that, relative pronoun . . . The two kinds of relative clause, to one of which that and to the other of which which is appropriate, are the defining and the nondefining; and if writers would agree to regard that as the defining relative pronoun, and which as the nondefining, there would be much gain both in lucidity and in ease. Some there are who follow this principle now, but it would be idle to pretend that it is the practice either of the most or of the best writers. F rancis G eorge Fowler A Dictionary of Modern English Usage [1926] Remy de Gourmont 1858-1915 Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. Remy de Gourmont Decadence Man is a successful animal, that's all. Remy de Gourmont Promenades Philosophiques Ruggiero Leoncavallo 1858-1919  The comedy is finished. Ruggiero Leoncavallo I Pagliacci (The Clowns) [1892], last words John Trotwood Moore 1858-1929  Only the gamefish swims upstream. John Trotwood Moore The Unafraid Adolph S imon Ochs 1858-1935 All the news that's fit to print. Adolph S imon Ochs Motto of the New York Times Ohiyesa Charles Alexander Eastman 1858-1939  [The Indian] sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's. Ohiyesa The Soul of the Indian [1911] Nearness to nature . . . keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt, and in touch with the unseen powers. Ohiyesa The Soul of the Indian [1911] Max Planck 1858-1947 We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. Max Planck The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics [1931] Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with. Max Planck Where Is Science Going? [1932] An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning. Max Planck The Philosophy of Physics [1936] Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919 I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, 1 2 but the doctrine of the strenuous life. Theodore Roosevelt Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago [April 10, 1899] 1 See Virgil 2 See Milton Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago [April 10, 1899] Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one. Theodore Roosevelt Letter to Cecil Spring-Rice [March 12, 1900] I am as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit. Theodore Roosevelt Letter to Mark Hanna [June 27, 1900] No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. Theodore Roosevelt The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses [1900].The Strenuous Life If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. Theodore Roosevelt The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses [1900].The Strenuous Life In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. Theodore Roosevelt The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses [1900].The American Boy There is a homely adage which runs, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. Theodore Roosevelt Speech at Minnesota State Fair [September 2, 1901] The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight. Theodore Roosevelt Speech at New York [November 11, 1902] A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have. Theodore Roosevelt Speech at Springfield, Illinois [July 4, 1903] No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor. Theodore Roosevelt Third Annual Message [December 7, 1903] In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power. Theodore Roosevelt Annual Message to Congress: Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine [December 6, 1904] Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. 1 Theodore Roosevelt Address on the laying of the cornerstone of the House Office Building, Washington [April 14, 1906] 1 See John Bunyan Malefactors of great wealth. Theodore Roosevelt Speech at Provincetown, Massachusetts [August 20, 1907] Nature-faker. Theodore Roosevelt Everybody's Magazine [September 1907] To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. Theodore Roosevelt Message to Congress [December 3, 1907] The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens. Theodore Roosevelt The New Nationalism [1910] Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. Theodore Roosevelt Speech at Osawatomie [August 31, 1910] We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. Theodore Roosevelt Speech at Progressive Party Convention, Chicago [June 17, 1912] The lunatic fringe in all reform movements. Theodore Roosevelt Autobiography [1913] We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal. Theodore Roosevelt Autobiography [1913] We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with "the money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers. Theodore Roosevelt Letter to Sir Edward Grey [November 15, 1913] There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. Theodore Roosevelt Speech before the Knights of Columbus, New York [October 12, 1915] Put out the light. Theodore Roosevelt Last words [January 6, 1919] Langdon Smith 1858-1908 When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, In the Paleozoic time. Langdon Smith Evolution [1895], st. 1 Sir William Watson 1858-1935 April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears. Sir William Watson Song Katharine Lee Bates 1859-1929 O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! Katharine Lee Bates America the Beautiful [1893], st. 1 Henri Bergson 1859-1941 Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words. Henri Bergson Essai sur les Donnees Immediates de la Conscience [1899; Time and Free Will, 1910] We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist. Henri Bergson Essai sur les Donnees Immediates de la Conscience [1899; Time and Free Will, 1910] The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. 1 2 Henri Bergson Le R[ecirc ]ve (The Dream) [1901] 1 See Peirce 2 See Freud The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. Henri Bergson L'Evolution Creatrice (Creative Evolution) [1907], ch.1 Intelligence . . . is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. Henri Bergson L'Evolution Creatrice (Creative Evolution) [1907], ch.2 L'elan vital [the vital spirit]. Henri Bergson L'Evolution Creatrice (Creative Evolution) [1907], ch.2 Harold Edwin Boulton 1859-1935 Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing; Onward, the sailors cry: Carry the lad that's born to be king Over the sea to Skye. Harold Edwin Boulton Skye Boat Song, st. 1 Carrie Chapman Lane Catt 1859-1947 No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. Carrie Chapman Lane Catt Speech, Why We Ask for the Submission of an Amendment, at Senate hearing on woman's suffrage [February 13, 1900] When a just cause reaches its flood tide . . . whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power. 1 Carrie Chapman Lane Catt Speech at Stockholm, Is Woman Suffrage Progressing? [1911] 1 See Hugo Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet [1887] When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four [1890], ch. 6 The Baker Street irregulars. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four [1890], ch. 6 The Speckled Band. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [1891].Title of story It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [1891].Title of story To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [1891].A Scandal in Bohemia " . . . the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime." "The dog did nothing in the nighttime." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [1894].Silver Blaze You know my methods, Watson. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [1894].The Crooked Man "Excellent!" I [Watson] cried. "Elementary," said he [Holmes]. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [1894].The Crooked Man They were the footprints of a gigantic hound! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles [1902], ch. 2 Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot. 1 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock Holmes [1904].The Adventure of the Abbey Grange 1 See Shakespeare The fair sex is your department. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock Holmes [1904].The Second Stain It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Through the Magic Door [1908] Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Valley of Fear [1914] The bow was made in England: Of true wood, of yew wood, The wood of English bows. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Song of the Bow, st. 1 Havelock Ellis 1859-1939 To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. Havelock Ellis Introduction to Huysmans, [Agrave] Rebours (Against the Grain) [1884] The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women. Havelock Ellis Impressions and Comments The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life. Havelock Ellis The New Spirit Every artist writes his own autobiography. Havelock Ellis The New Spirit If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. Havelock Ellis The Task of Social Hygiene, ch.1 There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself. Havelock Ellis The Task of Social Hygiene, ch.10 The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. . . . A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. Havelock Ellis Little Essays of Love and Virtue [1922], ch.1 One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take. Havelock Ellis Little Essays of Love and Virtue [1922], ch.1 The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product. Havelock Ellis Little Essays of Love and Virtue [1922], ch.3 All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. Havelock Ellis Little Essays of Love and Virtue [1922], ch.7 The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. 1 Havelock Ellis Little Essays of Love and Virtue [1922], ch.7 1 See Oscar Wilde The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Havelock Ellis The Dance of Life [1923], ch.2 Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. Havelock Ellis The Dance of Life [1923], ch.2 The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis The Dance of Life [1923], ch.3 Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Havelock Ellis The Dance of Life [1923], ch.3 In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. Havelock Ellis The Dance of Life [1923], ch.3 The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. Havelock Ellis The Dance of Life [1923], ch.3 A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. Havelock Ellis The Dance of Life [1923], ch.5 The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness. Havelock Ellis The Dance of Life [1923], ch.5 What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. Havelock Ellis The Dance of Life [1923], ch.6 The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Havelock Ellis The Dance of Life [1923], ch.7 Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis. Havelock Ellis Impressions and Comments, series 3 Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932 As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek. Kenneth Grahame The Golden Age [1895].The Finding of the Princess Monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. Kenneth Grahame The Golden Age [1895]."Lusisti Satis" There is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats . . . or with boats. . . . In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows [1908], ch.1 "Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today-in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped-always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!" Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows [1908], ch.2 A lfred E dward Housman 1859-1936  Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.2,st. 1 Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.2,st. 2, 3 Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.4 (Reveille), st. 6 Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.12, st. 4 When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.13,st. 1 When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, "The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs aplenty And sold for endless rue." And I am two-and-twenty, And Oh, 'tis true, 'tis true. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.13,st. 2 His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.14 Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well I did behave.And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.18, st. 1, 2 And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 4 The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.21, st. 7 The lads that will die in their glory and never be old. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.23, st. 4 And fire and ice within me fight Beneath the suffocating night. 1 2 A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.30, st. 4 1 See Dante 2 See Frost There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.31, st. 4 Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge, Gold that I never see. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.39, st. 3 Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.40, st. 1, 2 Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.48, st. 1 Far in a western brookland That bred me long ago The poplars stand and tremble By pools I used to know. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.52,st. 1 There, by the starlit fences, The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.52,st. 4 With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.54,st. 1 By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.54,st. 2 Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack, And leave your friends and go. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.60 In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.60 Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. 1 2 Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.62,st. 2 1 See Milton 2 See Pope Mithridates, he died old. A lfred E dward Housman A Shropshire Lad [1896], no.62,st. 4 Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May. A lfred E dward Housman Last Poems [1922], no.9,st. 1 The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. A lfred E dward Housman Last Poems [1922], no.9,st. 7 But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts. A lfred E dward Housman Last Poems [1922], no.10, st. 2 The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me. A lfred E dward Housman Last Poems [1922], no.12 And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made. A lfred E dward Housman Last Poems [1922], no.12 He stood, and heard the steeple Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town. A lfred E dward Housman Last Poems [1922], no.15 (Eight O'Clock),st. 1 Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck. A lfred E dward Housman Last Poems [1922], no.15 (Eight O'Clock),st. 2 Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: 1 2 Happy bridegroom, seek your bride. A lfred E dward Housman Last Poems [1922], no.24 (Epithalamium), st. 3 1 See Sappho 2 See Meleager These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. A lfred E dward Housman Last Poems [1922], no.37 (Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries), st. 1 What God abandoned, these defended. A lfred E dward Housman Last Poems [1922], no.37, st. 2 Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways. A lfred E dward Housman Last Poems [1922], no.40, st. 1 They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine, but man's. A lfred E dward Housman More Poems [1936],foreword Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. A lfred E dward Housman More Poems [1936],no.6, st. 1 The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone. 1 A lfred E dward Housman More Poems [1936],no.11, st.1 1 See Sappho Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young. A lfred E dward Housman More Poems [1936],no.36 We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more. A lfred E dward Housman More Poems [1936],no.47 (For My Funeral), st. 3 Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. A lfred E dward Housman More Poems [1936],no.48 (Alta Quies), st. 1 Oh they're taking him to prison for the color of his hair. A lfred E dward Housman Additional Poems [1937], no. 18, st. 1 Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. A lfred E dward Housman The Name and Nature of Poetry Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. . . . The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach. 1 2 A lfred E dward Housman The Name and Nature of Poetry 1 See Dickinson 2 See Graves Jerome K lapka Jerome 1859-1927  Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. Jerome K lapka Jerome Three Men in a Boat [1889], ch. 3 It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K lapka Jerome Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow [1889]. On Being Idle "Nothing, so it seems to me," said the stranger, "is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. . . . The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of-of things longer." Jerome K lapka Jerome The Passing of the Third Floor Back [1908] William James Lampton 1859-1917 Same old slippers, Same old rice, Same old glimpse of Paradise. William James Lampton June Weddings, st. 10 Where the corn is full of kernels And the colonels full of corn. William James Lampton Kentucky Charles E. Stanton 1859-1933  Lafayette, we are here. Charles E. Stanton Address at the tomb of Lafayette, Picpus Cemetery, Paris [July 4, 1917] James K enneth Stephen 1859-1892 When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards ride no more. James K enneth Stephen Lapsus Calami.To R. K. Of sentences that stir my bile, Of phrases I detest, There's one beyond all others vile: "He did it for the best." James K enneth Stephen Lapsus Calami.The Malefactor's Plea, st. 1 Francis Thompson 1859-1907 The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose. Francis Thompson Daisy [1893],st. 10 Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own. Francis Thompson Daisy [1893],st. 15 Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven. Francis Thompson To My Godchild The innocent moon, which nothing does but shine, Moves all the laboring surges of the world. Francis Thompson Sister Songs, pt. II I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven [1893],l. 1 But with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat-and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet- "All things betray thee, who betrayest Me." Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven [1893],l. 10 Across the margent of the world I fled, And troubled the gold gateways of the stars. Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven [1893],l. 25 I said to dawn, Be sudden; to eve, Be soon. Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven [1893],l. 30 My days have crackled and gone up in smoke. Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven [1893],l. 122 All which I took from thee I did but take, Not for thy harms, But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms. Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven [1893],l. 171 O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O world unknowable, we know thee. Francis Thompson The Kingdom of God ("In No Strange Land") [1913],st. 1 The drift of pinions, would we hearken, Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors. Francis Thompson The Kingdom of God ("In No Strange Land") [1913],st. 3 The angels keep their ancient places; Turn but a stone, and start a wing! 'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces, That miss the many-splendored thing. Francis Thompson The Kingdom of God ("In No Strange Land") [1913],st. 4 Upon thy so sore loss Shall shine the traffic of Jacob's ladder Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross. Francis Thompson The Kingdom of God ("In No Strange Land") [1913],st. 5 Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven So ready is Heaven to stoop to him. Francis Thompson Grace of the Way, st. 6 Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its soul. Francis Thompson Shelley. In The Dublin Review [July 1908] Sidney Webb, Lord Passfield 1859-1947 Beatrice Webb 1858-1943 The inevitability of gradualness. Beatrice Webb Labor on the Threshold [1923] Jane Addams 1860-1935 Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. Jane Addams Twenty Years at Hull House [1910] The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it. Jane Addams Twenty Years at Hull House [1910] Sir James M atthew Barrie 1860-1937 Them that has china plates themsels is the maist careful no to break the china plates of others. Sir James M atthew Barrie The Little Minister [1891], ch. 26 We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. Sir James M atthew Barrie Margaret Ogilvy [1896], ch. 8 Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? Sir James M atthew Barrie The Little White Bird [1902], ch. 4 His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. Sir James M atthew Barrie The Admirable Crichton [1903], act I Do you believe in fairies? . . . If you believe, clap your hands! Sir James M atthew Barrie Peter Pan [1904], act IV  It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it [charm], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none. Sir James M atthew Barrie What Every Woman Knows [1908], actI The tragedy of a man who has found himself out. Sir James M atthew Barrie What Every Woman Knows [1908], actIV One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. Sir James M atthew Barrie The Twelve-Pound Look [1910] Peter and Wendy. Sir James M atthew Barrie Title of novel [1911] John Collins Bossidy 1860-1928 And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God. John Collins Bossidy Toast, Holy Cross Alumni Dinner [1910] William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925 The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error. William Jennings Bryan Speech at the National Democratic Convention, Chicago [1896]  You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. William Jennings Bryan Speech at the National Democratic Convention, Chicago [1896] Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1860-1904 I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything through my infidelity. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Letter to A. S. Suvorin [September 11, 1888] I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Letter to Alexei Pleshcheev [October 4, 1888] My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom imaginable, freedom from violence and lies, no matter what form the latter two take. Such is the program I would adhere to if I were a major artist. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Letter to Alexei Pleshcheev [October 4, 1888] An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist-that's what I keep repeating and insisting upon. Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. An artist observes, selects, guesses and synthesizes. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Letter to A. S. Suvorin [October 27, 1888] I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Seagull [1896], act II People should be beautiful in every way-in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Uncle Vanya [1897], actI We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Uncle Vanya [1897], actIV To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow! Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Three Sisters [1901], act II All Russia is our orchard. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Cherry Orchard [1904], act II Charles Townsend Copeland 1860-1952  If I had not been there I should have been very much bored. Charles Townsend Copeland Comment on a tea party. From Walter Lippmann, William Bolitho: A Memoir Harry M icajah Daugherty 1860-1941  In a smoke-filled room in some hotel. Harry M icajah Daugherty Attributed Hamlin Garland 1860-1940 A Son of the Middle Border. Hamlin Garland Title of autobiographical narrative [1917] Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860-1935 There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Woman and Economics [1898], ch. 8 Women are growing honester, braver, stronger, more healthful and skillful and able and free, more human in all ways. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Woman and Economics [1898], ch. 8 Cried all, "Before such things can come, You idiotic child, You must alter human nature!" And they all sat back and smiled. Charlotte Perkins Gilman In This Our World [1899].Similar Cases "I do not want to be a fly! I want to be a worm!" Charlotte Perkins Gilman In This Our World [1899].A Conservative, st. 6 I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view. Charlotte Perkins Gilman In This Our World [1899].An Obstacle, st. 1 The people people have for friends Your common sense appall, But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Queer People William Ralph Inge 1860-1954 A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. William Ralph Inge From Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, edited byMarchant , no. 108 James Ball Naylor 1860-1945 King David and King Solomon Led merry, merry lives, With many, many lady friends And many, many wives; But when old age crept over them- With many, many qualms, King Solomon wrote the Proverbs And King David wrote the Psalms. James Ball Naylor Ancient Authors Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson 1860-1948 Numerical precision is the very soul of science. Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson On Growth and Form [1917], ch.1 The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty. Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson On Growth and Form [1917], ch.10 The perfection of mathematical beauty is such . . . that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent. Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson On Growth and Form [1917], ch.10 Owen Wister 1860-1938 When you call me that, smile! Owen Wister The Virginian [1902], ch. 2 ÿ William Bliss Carman 1861-1929 No fidget and no reformer, just A calm observer of ought and must. William Bliss Carman The Joys of the Road, st. 22 The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. William Bliss Carman A Vagabond Song,st. 2 There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir. William Bliss Carman A Vagabond Song,st. 3 I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His footprint in the sod. William Bliss Carman Vestigia, st. 1 Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem 1861-1916 It is impossible to follow the march of one of the great theories of physics, to see it unroll majestically its regular deductions starting from initial hypotheses, to see its consequences represent a multitude of experimental laws, down to the smallest detail, without being charmed by the beauty of such a construction, without feeling keenly that such a creation of the human mind is truly a work of art. Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory (La Theorie Physique: Son Objet, Sa Structure) [1906], pt. I, ch. 2 Louise Imogen Guiney 1861-1920 He has done with roofs and men, Open, Time, and let him pass. Louise Imogen Guiney Ballad of Kenelm A short life in the saddle, Lord! Not long life by the fire. Louise Imogen Guiney The Knight Errant, st. 2 John Luther Long 1861-1927  To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor. John Luther Long Madame Butterfly [1897] Albert Bigelow Paine 1861-1937  The Great White Way. Albert Bigelow Paine Title of novel [1901] Sir Walter Raleigh 1861-1922 I wish I loved the human race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought, What jolly fun! Sir Walter Raleigh Wishes of an Elderly Man; wished at a garden party [June 1914] Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 When one knows thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut. Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many. Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali [1913] At my dying hour, and over my long life, A clock strikes somewhere at the city's edge. Rabindranath Tagore Poem [1941] Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947 The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. Alfred North Whitehead An Introduction to Mathematics [1911], ch.1 Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Alfred North Whitehead An Introduction to Mathematics [1911], ch.5 All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in irreducible and stubborn facts; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. Alfred North Whitehead Science and the Modern World [1925], ch.1 The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. Alfred North Whitehead Science and the Modern World [1925], ch.2 The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. Alfred North Whitehead Science and the Modern World [1925], ch.6 Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind and within the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest. Alfred North Whitehead Science and the Modern World [1925], ch.12 The religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience. Alfred North Whitehead Science and the Modern World [1925], ch.12 Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. Alfred North Whitehead Process and Reality [1929], pt.I, ch. 1, sec. 3 The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead Process and Reality [1929], pt.II, ch. 1, sec. 1 The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. Alfred North Whitehead Adventures of Ideas [1933], ch.18 A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. Alfred North Whitehead Adventures of Ideas [1933], ch.19 The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia. Alfred North Whitehead Adventures of Ideas [1933], ch.20 There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],prologue The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.12, April 28, 1938 Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.17, December 15, 1939 Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.21, June 28, 1941 A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.22,August 17, 1941 What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.22,August 30, 1941 The ideas of Freud 1 were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.28, June 3, 1943 1 See Freud Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.29, June 10, 1943 A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.29, June 10, 1943 With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.29, June 10, 1943 Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.29, June 10, 1943 No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.32, January 13, 1944 The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.36, January 19, 1945 Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead [1953],ch.43, November 11, 1947 A rthur C hristopher Benson 1862-1925 Land of hope and glory, mother of the free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet. A rthur C hristopher Benson Land of Hope and Glory [1902], chorus Albert Jeremiah Beveridge 1862-1927 This party comes from the grass roots. It has grown from the soil of the people's hard necessities. Albert Jeremiah Beveridge Address at the Bull Moose Convention, Chicago [August 5, 1912] James W. Blake 1862-1935 East Side, West Side, all around the town, The tots sang "Ring-a-rosie," "London Bridge is falling down"; Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rorke, Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York. James W. Blake The Sidewalks of New York [1894] Carrie Jacobs Bond 1862-1946 Well, this is the end of a perfect day, Near the end of a journey, too. Carrie Jacobs Bond A Perfect Day, st. 2 For memory has painted this perfect day With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a friend we've made. Carrie Jacobs Bond A Perfect Day, st. 2 Nicholas Murray Butler 1862-1947 An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. Nicholas Murray Butler Commencement address, Columbia University John Jay Chapman 1862-1933 The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you. John Jay Chapman Letter[March 26, 1898] The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost. John Jay Chapman Letter[1909] People who love soft words and hate iniquity forget this, that reform consists in taking a bone away from a dog. Philosophy will not do this. John Jay Chapman Saying Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson 1862-1932 Dissatisfaction with the world in which we live and determination to realize one that shall be better, are the prevailing characteristics of the modern spirit. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson The Greek View of Life [1898], ch. 5 The United States of America-the greatest potential force, material, moral, and spiritual, in the world. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson The Choice Before Us [1917], ch.1 Government is everywhere to a great extent controlled by powerful minorities, with an interest distinct from that of the mass of the people. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson The Choice Before Us [1917], ch.4 Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon 1862-1933 The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon Comment [August 3, 1914], standing at the windows of his room in the Foreign Office, London, as the lamplighters were turning on the lights in St. James Park O. Henry William Sydney Porter 1862-1910 Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's. O. Henry The Trimmed Lamp [1907]. The Country of Elusion It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are. O. Henry The Gentle Grafter [1908].The Octopus Marooned Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash pasting on wallpaper. O. Henry The Gentle Grafter [1908].The Ethics of Pig  Bagdad-on-the-Subway. O. Henry Roads of Destiny [1909].The Discounters of Money History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. O. Henry Roads of Destiny [1909].Next to Reading Matter You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town. O. Henry Roads of Destiny [1909].The Fourth in Salvador She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). O. Henry Strictly Business [1910].A Ramble in Aphasia  East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. O. Henry Strictly Business [1910].A Municipal Report Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts; gas leaks 20 parts; dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle. O. Henry Strictly Business [1910].A Municipal Report  It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. O. Henry Whirligigs [1910]. A Little Local Color A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. O. Henry Rolling Stones [1913]. A Ruler of Men Take it from me-he's got the goods. O. Henry The Unprofitable Servant  Turn up the lights-I don't want to go home in the dark. O. Henry Last words [June 5, 1910] Charles Evans Hughes 1862-1948 We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution. Charles Evans Hughes Speech at Elmira, New York [May 3, 1907] How amazing it is that, in the midst of controversies on every conceivable subject, one should expect unanimity of opinion upon difficult legal questions! In the highest ranges of thought, in theology, philosophy and science, we find differences of view on the part of the most distinguished experts-theologians, philosophers and scientists. The history of scholarship is a record of disagreements. And when we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty. Charles Evans Hughes Speech to the American Law Institute [May 7, 1936] The greater the importance of safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve inviolate the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion, to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes, if desired, may be obtained by peaceful means. Therein lies the security of the Republic, the very foundation of constitutional government. Charles Evans Hughes DeJonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 365 [1937] Maurice Maeterlinck 1862-1949 It is always a mistake not to close one's eyes, whether to forgive or to look better into oneself. Maurice Maeterlinck Pelleas et Melisande [1892] There are no dead. Maurice Maeterlinck The Blue Bird [1909], act IV, sc. ii Sir Henry Newbolt 1862-1938 To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes; To count the life of battle good And dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood That binds the brave of all the earth. Sir Henry Newbolt The Island Race. Clifton Chapel,st. 2 Qui procul hinc, the legend's writ, The frontier grave is far away- Qui ante diem periit: Sed miles, sed pro patria. Sir Henry Newbolt The Island Race. Clifton Chapel,st. 4 Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore, Strike et when your powder's runnin' low; If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven, An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago. Sir Henry Newbolt Drake's Drum,st. 2 Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come. (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?) Sir Henry Newbolt Drake's Drum,st. 3 Now the sunset breezes shiver, And she's fading down the river, But in England's song forever She's the Fighting Temeraire. Sir Henry Newbolt The Fighting Temeraire, st. 6 Play up! play up! and play the game! 1 Sir Henry Newbolt Vitai Lampada 1 See Rice Keep the Nelson touch. Sir Henry Newbolt Minora Sidera Robert Cameron Rogers 1862-1912 The hours I spent with thee, dear heart, Are as a string of pearls to me; I count them over, every one apart, My rosary, my rosary. Robert Cameron Rogers My Rosary Edith Newbold Jones Wharton 1862-1937  There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton Vesalius in Zante Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton Xingu [1916] In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton The Age of Innocence [1920], ch.31 It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behavior of those who gave rise to them. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton The Age of Innocence [1920], ch.33 The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton The Age of Innocence [1920], ch.34 There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton A Backward Glance [1934]. 1 A First Word 1 See Whitman In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton A Backward Glance [1934]. 1 A First Word I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton A Backward Glance [1934]. 1 ch.3 To [Henry] James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an invisible passage over which one knew that silver-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices, were stealing to explode a huge laugh at one's feet. 1 Edith Newbold Jones Wharton A Backward Glance [1934]. 1 ch.8 1 See Henry James Black Elk 1863-1950   Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished. Black Elk Black Elk Speaks, Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, as told through John G. Neihardt [1961] Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop. Black Elk Black Elk Speaks, Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, as told through John G. Neihardt [1961] C onstantine P eter Cavafy 1863-1933 But Argos can do without the sons of Atreus. Ancient houses are not eternal. C onstantine P eter Cavafy When the Watchman Saw the Light [1900] We won't be deceived by titles such as Indispensable and Unique and Great. Someone else indispensable and unique and great can always be found at a moment's notice. 1 C onstantine P eter Cavafy When the Watchman Saw the Light [1900] 1 See F. D. Roosevelt He who longs to strengthen his spirit must go beyond obedience and respect. He will continue to honor some laws but he will mostly violate both law and custom. C onstantine P eter Cavafy Strengthening the Spirit [1903] Pleasure will have much to teach him. He will not be afraid of the destructive act; one half of the house must be pulled down. This way he will grow virtuously into knowledge. C onstantine P eter Cavafy Strengthening the Spirit [1903] What are we all waiting for gathered together like this on the public square? The Barbarians are coming today. C onstantine P eter Cavafy Waiting for the Barbarians [1904],l. 1 Why are our two consuls and our praetors all got up in their embroidered scarlet robes? Why are they covered with bracelets and rings? . . . The Barbarians are coming today. And such things impress the Barbarians. C onstantine P eter Cavafy Waiting for the Barbarians [1904],l. 16 Why are the streets and the squares all emptying so quickly? Why is everybody going home looking so blue? Because night has fallen and the Barbarians have not come. And some people have just come back from the frontiers who say there are no more Barbarians. And now, without the Barbarians, what is to become of us? After all, they would have been a kind of solution. C onstantine P eter Cavafy Waiting for the Barbarians [1904],l. 28 You'll not find another place, you'll not find another sea. This city is going to follow you. C onstantine P eter Cavafy The City [1910], l. 9 Do not uselessly lament your luck that is giving way, your work that has failed, your life's plans that have all ended in despair. Like a man long prepared, like a man of courage, bid her farewell, the Alexandria that leaves you. C onstantine P eter Cavafy The God Abandons Antony [1911], l. 4 Setting out on the voyage to Ithaca you must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences. C onstantine P eter Cavafy Ithaca [1911], l. 11 Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices. C onstantine P eter Cavafy Body, Remember [1918] And then he was the best of all things, Greek- no quality more precious has mankind: what lies beyond only the gods may find. C onstantine P eter Cavafy Epitaph of Antiochos King of Kommagene [1923], l. 15 I created you while I was happy, while I was sad, with so many incidents, so many details.And, for me, the whole of you has been transformed into feeling. C onstantine P eter Cavafy In the Same Space [1929] Whatever job they give me, I'll try to be useful to the country. That's what I intend. C onstantine P eter Cavafy To Have Taken the Trouble [1930],l. 18 One of the three will want me anyway. And my conscience is quiet about my not caring which one I choose: the three of them are equally bad for Syria. C onstantine P eter Cavafy To Have Taken the Trouble [1930],l. 28 The almighty gods ought to have taken the trouble to create a fourth, a decent man. I would gladly have gone along with him. C onstantine P eter Cavafy To Have Taken the Trouble [1930],l. 34 And from that wonderful expedition of all the Greeks The victorious, the renowned, The illustrious, the famous, As no expedition has ever been, The incomparable, we have risen A great new Hellenic world. C onstantine P eter Cavafy 200 b.c. [1931] William Randolph Hearst 1863-1951 You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war. William Randolph Hearst Cable to artist Frederic Remington in Cuba [March 1898] Hugo Munsterberg 1863-1916 The results of experimental psychology will have to be introduced systematically into the study of the fitness of the personality from the lowest to the highest technical activity and from the simplest sensory function to the most complex mental achievement. Hugo Munsterberg Psychology and Industrial Efficiency [1913] Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1863-1944 Literature is not an abstract science, to which exact definitions can be applied. It is an art, the success of which depends on personal persuasiveness, on the author's skill to give as on ours to receive. Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge University [1913] James Harvey Robinson 1863-1936 Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. James Harvey Robinson The Human Comedy [1937], ch. 9 With supreme irony, the war to "make the world safe for democracy" 1 ended by leaving democracy more unsafe in the world than at any time since the collapse of the revolutions of 1848. James Harvey Robinson The Human Comedy [1937], ch. 9 1 See Woodrow Wilson George Santayana 1863-1952 O World, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art. George Santayana O World, Thou Choosest Not [1894] The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact. George Santayana The Sense of Beauty [1896], pt.III, Form Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said. George Santayana The Sense of Beauty [1896], pt.IV, Expression Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good. George Santayana The Sense of Beauty [1896], pt.IV, Expression Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind. George Santayana The Life of Reason [1905-1906], vol.I, Reason in Common Sense Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana The Life of Reason [1905-1906], vol.I, Reason in Common Sense That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. 1 2 George Santayana The Life of Reason [1905-1906], vol.I, Reason in Common Sense 1 See Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 2 See William James Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana The Life of Reason [1905-1906], vol.I, Reason in Common Sense Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 1 2 George Santayana The Life of Reason [1905-1906], vol.I, Reason in Common Sense 1 See Euripides 2 See Thucydides The highest form of vanity is love of fame. George Santayana The Life of Reason [1905-1906], vol.II, Reason in Society The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is a queen, infinitely fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice. George Santayana The Life of Reason [1905-1906], vol.II, Reason in Society When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind . . . They were merely writing an eloquent epitaph for their country. George Santayana The Life of Reason [1905-1906], vol.V, Reason in Science Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome. George Santayana The Ethics of Spinoza [1910], introduction Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. George Santayana The Ethics of Spinoza [1910], introduction Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. George Santayana The Ethics of Spinoza [1910], introduction The Bible is literature, not dogma. George Santayana The Ethics of Spinoza [1910], introduction American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism. George Santayana Character and Opinion in the United States [1920] All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg. George Santayana Character and Opinion in the United States [1920] England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors. George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies [1922].The British Character The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies [1922].Dickens There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies [1922].War Shrines I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies [1922].The Irony of Liberalism My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies [1922].On My Friendly Critics The living have never shown me how to live. George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies [1922].On My Friendly Critics Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are. George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies [1922].On My Friendly Critics The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana Dialogues in Limbo [1926], ch.3 Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. George Santayana Dialogues in Limbo [1926], ch.4 There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable. George Santayana The Genteel Tradition at Bay [1931] They [the wise spirits of antiquity in the first circle of Dante's Inferno] are condemned, Dante tells us, to no other penalty than to live in desire without hope, a fate appropriate to noble souls with a clear vision of life. George Santayana Obiter Scripta [1936] Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev Stanislavski 1863-1938 Our type of creativeness is the conception and birth of a new being-the person in the part. It is a natural act similar to the birth of a human being. Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev Stanislavski An Actor Prepares [1936], ch. 16 In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born. Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev Stanislavski An Actor Prepares [1936], ch. 16 Ernest L awrence Thayer 1863-1940 There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place, There was pride in Casey's bearing, and a smile on Casey's face, And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat. Ernest L awrence Thayer Casey at the Bat [1888],st. 6 Oh! somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing and somewhere children shout, But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out. Ernest L awrence Thayer Casey at the Bat [1888],st. 13 Sir Roger Casement 1864-1916 Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labors . . . then surely it is braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men. Sir Roger Casement Statement from prison [June 29, 1916] Joseph Hayden fl. 1896 There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight. Joseph Hayden A Hot Time in the Old Town [1896] Richard Hovey 1864-1900 For it's always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear. Richard Hovey A Stein Song [1898], st. 1 O, Eleazer Wheelock was a very pious man; He went into the wilderness to teach the Indian. . . . Eleazer was the faculty, and the whole curriculum Was five hundred gallons of New England rum. Richard Hovey Eleazer Wheelock, st. 1 Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe 1864-1960 Now, thieving Time, take what you must- Quickness to hear, to move, to see; When dust is drawing near to dust Such diminutions needs must be. Yet leave, O leave exempt from plunder My curiosity, my wonder! Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe Thieving Time [1951] Robert Loveman 1864-1923 It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils. Robert Loveman April Rain [1901],st. 1 It is not raining rain to me, It's raining violets. Robert Loveman April Rain [1901],st. 4 Andrew Barton Banjo Paterson 1864-1941 Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibar tree, And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil, "You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me." Andrew Barton Banjo Paterson Waltzing Matilda Jules Renard 1864-1910 To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine. Jules Renard Journal There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last. Jules Renard Journal I am not sincere even when I am saying that I am not sincere. Jules Renard Journal We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. Jules Renard Journal Miguel de Unamuno 1864-1936 The man of flesh and blood; the one who is born, suffers and dies-above all, who dies; the man who eats and drinks and plays and sleeps and thinks and wills; the man who is seen and is heard; the brother, the real brother. Miguel de Unamuno The Tragic Sense of Life [1913],ch.1 Consciousness is a disease. Miguel de Unamuno The Tragic Sense of Life [1913],ch.1 Pantheism is said . . . to be merely atheism in disguise. Miguel de Unamuno The Tragic Sense of Life [1913],ch.5 Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. Miguel de Unamuno The Tragic Sense of Life [1913],ch.5 True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant. Miguel de Unamuno The Tragic Sense of Life [1913],ch.5 To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist. Miguel de Unamuno The Tragic Sense of Life [1913],ch.8 Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs. 1 2 Miguel de Unamuno The Tragic Sense of Life [1913],ch.9 1 See Tertullian 2 See Suares To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. Miguel de Unamuno The Tragic Sense of Life [1913],ch.9 The intellectual world is divided into two classes-dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other. Miguel de Unamuno The Tragic Sense of Life [1913],ch.11 Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost. Miguel de Unamuno The Tragic Sense of Life [1913],Conclusion The devil is an angel too. Miguel de Unamuno Two Mothers There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school. Miguel de Unamuno Two Mothers And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity. Miguel de Unamuno San Manuel Bueno, prologue I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to." Miguel de Unamuno San Manuel Bueno, prologue Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky. Miguel de Unamuno San Manuel Bueno, prologue One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. 1 Opium . . . opium . . . opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream. Miguel de Unamuno San Manuel Bueno, prologue 1 See Marx Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. Miguel de Unamuno Mist [1914] Isolation is the worst possible counselor. Miguel de Unamuno Civilization Is Civilism Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself. Miguel de Unamuno Civilization Is Civilism It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Miguel de Unamuno To a Young Writer These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. Miguel de Unamuno Fanatical Skepticism Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. Miguel de Unamuno The Agony of Christianity We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. Miguel de Unamuno Essays and Soliloquies Israel Zangwill 1864-1926 Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan-spoiled. Israel Zangwill Children of the Ghetto [1892] America is God's crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! 1 Israel Zangwill The Melting Pot [1908], act I 1 See Crevecoeur Mrs. Patrick Campbell Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell 1865-1940 My dear, I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. Mrs. Patrick Campbell Attributed Edith Louisa Cavell 1865-1915 I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Louisa Cavell Last words [October 12, 1915], before her execution by the Germans H erbert A lbert L aurens Fisher 1865-1940  All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently confirmed. H erbert A lbert L aurens Fisher Political Prophecies [1918] It is easier for eight or nine elderly men to feel their way towards unanimity if they are not compelled to conduct their converging maneuvers under the microscopes and telescopes of the press, but are permitted to shuffle about a little in slippers. H erbert A lbert L aurens Fisher An International Experiment [1921] Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. H erbert A lbert L aurens Fisher A History of Europe [1934], ch.1 Politics is the art of human happiness. H erbert A lbert L aurens Fisher A History of Europe [1934], ch.31 George V 1865-1936 How is the Empire? George V Last words [January 21, 1936] Frederic William Goudy 1865-1947 I am the voice of today, the herald of tomorrow. . . . I am the leaden army that conquers the world-I am type. Frederic William Goudy The Type Speaks Laurence Hope Adela Florence Cory Nicolson 1865-1904 To have-to hold-and-in time-let go! Laurence Hope Indian Love Lyrics.The Teak Forest Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar. Laurence Hope Indian Love Lyrics.Kashmiri Song, st. 1 Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine. Rudyard Kipling Departmental Ditties [1886].Prelude, st. 1 Little Tin Gods on Wheels. Rudyard Kipling Departmental Ditties [1886].Public Waste, st. 4 The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. Rudyard Kipling Departmental Ditties [1886].Pagett, M.P., prelude And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. Rudyard Kipling Departmental Ditties [1886].The Betrothed, st. 25 It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. Rudyard Kipling Plain Tales from the Hills [1888].Lispeth Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears. Rudyard Kipling Plain Tales from the Hills [1888].False Dawn Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem-for purely religious purposes, of course-to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate. Rudyard Kipling Plain Tales from the Hills [1888].Watches of the Night  Everyone is more or less mad on one point. Rudyard Kipling Plain Tales from the Hills [1888].On the Strength of a Likeness The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool! Rudyard Kipling Plain Tales from the Hills [1888].Three and-an Extra Lalah is a member of the most ancient profession in the world. Rudyard Kipling In Black and White [1888]. On the City Wall Steady the Buffs. Rudyard Kipling Soldiers Three [1888] Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling Soldiers Three [1888]The Winners (L' Envoi: What Is the Moral?), st. 1 More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. Rudyard Kipling The Phantom 'Rickshaw [1888] Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth! Rudyard Kipling The Ballad of East and West [1889] For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high. Rudyard Kipling The Courting of Dinah Shadd [1890] Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid. Rudyard Kipling The Light That Failed [1890-1891] If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine. Rudyard Kipling Mother o' Mine [1891] And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East." Rudyard Kipling The Naulahka [1892], ch. 5 When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it-lie down for an eon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew. Rudyard Kipling When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted [1892], st. 1 Ever the wide world over, lass, Ever the trail held true, Over the world and under the world, And back at the last to you. Rudyard Kipling The Gipsy Trail [1892], st. 2 They rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Dedication, st. 5 "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade. "To turn you out, to turn you out," the Color-Sergeant said. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Danny Deever, st. 1 They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away, An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Danny Deever, st. 1 We aren't no thin red 'eroes. 1 Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Tommy,st. 4 1 See Sir W. H. Russell For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Tommy,st. 5 So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Fuzzy-Wuzzy, st. 1 Though I've belted you an' flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din! Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Gunga Din, st. 5 "Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead? Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].The Widow at Windsor, st. 1 By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm trees, and the temple bells they say: "Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!" Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Mandalay,st. 1 On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay! Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Mandalay,st. 1 Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Mandalay,st. 6 The Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?" Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].The Conundrum of the Workshops,st. 1 But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: "It's clever, but is it Art?" Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].The Conundrum of the Workshops,st. 6 To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Gentlemen Rankers,st. 1 We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Baa! Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Gentlemen Rankers,refrain We have done with Hope and Honor, we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young! Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Gentlemen Rankers,st. 4 And what should they know of England who only England knows? Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].The English Flag, st. 1 And the naked soul of Tomlinson grew white as a rain-washed bone. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Tomlinson,l. 10 The sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].Tomlinson,l. 60 There's a legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colors or crest. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].The Lost Legion, st. 1 To go and find out and be damned (Dear boys!). Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].The Lost Legion, st. 1 There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].In the Neolithic Age, st. 5 There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, Or the way of a man with a maid; 1 But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the sea In the heel of the Northeast Trade. Rudyard Kipling Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893].The Long Trail, st. 5 1 See Proverbs 30:19  He wrapped himself in quotations-as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors. Rudyard Kipling Many Inventions [1893]. The Finest Story in the World When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought 'e might require, 'E went an' took-the same as me! Rudyard Kipling When 'Omer Smote 'Is Bloomin' Lyre [1894], st. 1 Back to the Army again, sergeant, Back to the Army again. Out o' the cold an' the rain. Rudyard Kipling Back to the Army Again [1894], refrain We be of one blood, ye and I. Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book [1894].Kaa's Hunting Brother, thy tail hangs down behind. Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book [1894].Road Song of the Bandar-Log, refrain Now this is the Law of the Jungle-as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. Rudyard Kipling The Second Jungle Book [1895]. The Law of the Jungle,st. 1 When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail, Lie down till the leaders have spoken-it may be fair words shall prevail. Rudyard Kipling The Second Jungle Book [1895]. The Law of the Jungle,st. 6 Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they; But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is-Obey! Rudyard Kipling The Second Jungle Book [1895]. The Law of the Jungle,st. 19 They change their skies above them, But not their hearts that roam. 1 Rudyard Kipling The Nativeborn [1895], st. 2 1 See Horace The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, an' 'e gives 'er all she needs, But, oh, the little cargo boats that sail the wet seas roun', They're just the same as you an' me a-plyin' up and down! Rudyard Kipling The Liner She's a Lady [1895], st. 1 I've taken my fun where I've found it. Rudyard Kipling The Ladies [1895],st. 1 An' I learned about women from 'er. Rudyard Kipling The Ladies [1895],refrain For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins! Rudyard Kipling The Ladies [1895],st. 8 Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead. Rudyard Kipling The Song of the Dead [1896], II, st. 1 'E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse-soldier an' sailor too. Rudyard Kipling Soldier an' Sailor Too [1896], st. 2 A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair- (Even as you and I!) Rudyard Kipling The Vampire [1897], st. 1 Daughter am I in my mother's house; But mistress in my own. Rudyard Kipling Our Lady of the Snows [1898], st. 1 God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine- Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget-lest we forget! Rudyard Kipling Recessional [1899],st. 1 The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart. Rudyard Kipling Recessional [1899],st. 2 Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Rudyard Kipling Recessional [1899],st. 3 Lesser breeds without the Law. Rudyard Kipling Recessional [1899],st. 4 For frantic boast and foolish word- Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord! Rudyard Kipling Recessional [1899],st. 5 Take up the White Man's burden, Send forth the best ye breed- Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need. Rudyard Kipling The White Man's Burden [1899], st. 1 Little Friend of All the World. Rudyard Kipling Kim [1901], ch. 1 The flanneled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals. Rudyard Kipling The Islanders [1902], l. 31 When the ship goes wop (with a wiggle between) And the steward falls into the soup tureen . . . Why, then you will know (if you haven't guessed) You're "Fifty north and forty west!" Rudyard Kipling The Just-So Stories [1902].How the Whale Got Its Throat We get the hump- Cameelious hump- The hump that is black and blue! Rudyard Kipling The Just-So Stories [1902].How the Camel Got His Hump I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling The Just-So Stories [1902].The Elephant's Child The great gray-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees. Rudyard Kipling The Just-So Stories [1902].The Elephant's Child Rolling down to Rio. Rudyard Kipling The Just-So Stories [1902].The Beginning of the Armadilloes, st. 4 The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him. Rudyard Kipling The Just-So Stories [1902].The Cat That Walked By Himself He went through the wet wild woods, waving his wild tail, and walking by his wild lone. But he never told anybody. Rudyard Kipling The Just-So Stories [1902].The Cat That Walked By Himself Who hath desired the sea?-the sight of salt water unbounded. Rudyard Kipling The Sea and the Hills [1903], st. 1 So and no otherwise-hillmen desire their hills! Rudyard Kipling The Sea and the Hills [1903], st. 1 Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges- Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go! Rudyard Kipling The Explorer [1903], st. 2 Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up and down again! There's no discharge in the war! 1 Rudyard Kipling Boots [1903], st. 1 1 See Ecclesiastes 8:8 'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street. Rudyard Kipling Traffics and Discoveries [1904]. Mrs. Bathurst Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than oak, and ash, and thorn. 1 Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill [1906]. A Tree Song, st. 1 1 See Anonymous: Ballads Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work. Rudyard Kipling A Doctor's Work. [October 1908] Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. Rudyard Kipling The Power of the Dog [1909] Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for all who lie beneath. Rudyard Kipling Rewards and Fairies [1910]. 1 A Charm, st. 1 1 See Corbet If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same. Rudyard Kipling Rewards and Fairies [1910]. 1 If,st. 2 If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch. Rudyard Kipling Rewards and Fairies [1910]. 1 If,st. 4 Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son! Rudyard Kipling Rewards and Fairies [1910]. 1 If,st. 4 One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother. 1 Rudyard Kipling Rewards and Fairies [1910]. 1 The Thousandth Man,st. 1 1 See Ecclesiastes 7:28 But the Thousandth Man will stand by your side To the gallows foot-and after! Rudyard Kipling Rewards and Fairies [1910]. 1 The Thousandth Man,st. 4 The female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling The Female of the Species [1911], st. 1 Oh, Adam was a gardener, 1 2 3 and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees. Rudyard Kipling The Glory of the Garden, st. 8 1 See Bacon 2 See Shakespeare 3 See Tennyson For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate! Rudyard Kipling For All We Have and Are [1914],st. 1 What stands if Freedom fall? Who dies if England live? Rudyard Kipling For All We Have and Are [1914],st. 4 Hot and bothered. Rudyard Kipling Independence. Rectorial Address at St. Andrews [October 10, 1923] Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed bucketshop of a refrigerator called England. Rudyard Kipling Letter to Sidney Colvin. From E. V. Lucas, The Colvins and Their Friends [1928], p. 294 When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey. Rudyard Kipling Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown [1937], ch. 8 Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946  There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts [1931] How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts [1931] Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts [1931] The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star. Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts [1931] What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts [1931] Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts [1931] Arthur Symons 1865-1945 And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover, Stoop to become your friend! Arthur Symons After Love [1892], st. 3 The gray-green stretch of sandy grass, Indefinitely desolate; A sea of lead, a sky of slate; Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone, The long hotel, acutely white, Against the after-sunset light Withers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone. Arthur Symons Color Studies [1895]. At Dieppe My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring. Arthur Symons Opals [1896] Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me. Arthur Symons The Loom of Dreams [1900], st. 1 He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue. Arthur Symons The Symbolist Movement in Literature [1899].Gerard de Nerval Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance. Arthur Symons The Symbolist Movement in Literature [1899].Stephane Mallarme The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world. Arthur Symons The Symbolist Movement in Literature [1899].Arthur Rimbaud Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders. Arthur Symons An Introduction to the Study of Browning [1906], preface Frederic Herbert Trench 1865-1923 A circumnavigator of the soul. Frederic Herbert Trench Shakespeare, st. 4 William Butler Yeats 1865-1939  The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Gray Truth is now her painted toy. William Butler Yeats Crossways [1889].The Song of the Happy Shepherd,st. 1 Words alone are certain good. William Butler Yeats Crossways [1889].The Song of the Happy Shepherd,st. 1 Dream, dream, for this is also sooth. William Butler Yeats Crossways [1889].The Song of the Happy Shepherd,last line Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. William Butler Yeats Crossways [1889].Down by the Salley Gardens She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. William Butler Yeats Crossways [1889].Down by the Salley Gardens The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet. William Butler Yeats The Countess Cathleen [1892] last lines Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days! Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways. William Butler Yeats The Rose [1893].To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time, st. 1 I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. William Butler Yeats The Rose [1893].The Lake Isle of Innisfree,st. 1 I hear it in the deep heart's core. William Butler Yeats The Rose [1893].The Lake Isle of Innisfree,st. 3 A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love. William Butler Yeats The Rose [1893].The Pity of Love The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves, The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, And all that famous harmony of leaves, Had blotted out man's image and his cry. William Butler Yeats The Rose [1893].The Sorrow of Love, st. 1 When you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book. 1 William Butler Yeats The Rose [1893].When You Are Old,st. 1 1 See Ronsard How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face. William Butler Yeats The Rose [1893].When You Are Old,st. 2 The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. William Butler Yeats The Land of Heart's Desire [1894],l. 48 Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. William Butler Yeats The Land of Heart's Desire [1894],l. 373 All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old, The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. William Butler Yeats The Wind Among the Reeds [1899].The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart, st. 1 And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight. William Butler Yeats The Wind Among the Reeds [1899].Into the Twilight And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. William Butler Yeats The Wind Among the Reeds [1899].The Song of Wandering Aengus, st. 3 Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with gold and silver light. William Butler Yeats The Wind Among the Reeds [1899].He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats The Wind Among the Reeds [1899].He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven When I play on my fiddle in Dooney, Folk dance like a wave of the sea. William Butler Yeats The Wind Among the Reeds [1899].The Fiddler of Dooney, st. 1 O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head, You'd know the folly of being comforted. William Butler Yeats In the Seven Woods [1904].The Folly of Being Comforted Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind delight. William Butler Yeats In the Seven Woods [1904].Never Give All the Heart I said, "A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. Better go down upon your marrow-bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones." William Butler Yeats In the Seven Woods [1904].Adam's Curse,st. 1 For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world. William Butler Yeats In the Seven Woods [1904].Adam's Curse,st. 1 It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring. William Butler Yeats In the Seven Woods [1904].Adam's Curse,st. 3 I heard the old, old men say, "All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters." William Butler Yeats In the Seven Woods [1904].The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water The friends that have it I do wrong When ever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake. William Butler Yeats The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats [1908], II, preliminary poem Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn? William Butler Yeats The Green Helmet and Other Poems [1910].No Second Troy The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart. William Butler Yeats The Green Helmet and Other Poems [1910].The Fascination of What's Difficult Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. William Butler Yeats The Green Helmet and Other Poems [1910].A Drinking Song Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth. William Butler Yeats The Green Helmet and Other Poems [1910].The Coming of Wisdom with Time In dreams begins responsibility. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities [1914],epigraph (from an old play) Pardon, old fathers. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities [1914],preliminary poem Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities [1914],September 1913, st. 3 Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities [1914],To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities [1914],The Magi, last line I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities [1914],A Coat Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].The Wild Swans at Coole,st. 1 Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].The Wild Swans at Coole,st. 4 Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].In Memory of Major Robert Gregory,st. 11 What made us dream that he could comb gray hair? William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].In Memory of Major Robert Gregory,st. 11 A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].In Memory of Major Robert Gregory,st. 12 I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love; My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan's poor. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].An Irish Airman Foresees His Death,l. 1 Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].An Irish Airman Foresees His Death,l. 9 And I may dine at journey's end With Landor and with Donne. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].To a Young Beauty, st. 3 Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way? William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].The Scholars, st. 2 All the wild witches, those most noble ladies, For all their broomsticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].Lines Written in Dejection l. 4 I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].His Phoenix, refrain Hands, do what you're bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].The Balloon of the Mind We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].Ego Dominus Tuus Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Alone, important and wise, And lifts to the changing moon His changing eyes. William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole [1919].The Cat and the Moon All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].Easter 1916,st. 1 Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].Easter 1916,st. 4 Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch. William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].Towards Break of Day, st. 3 Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].The Second Coming,st. 1 Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? 1 William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].The Second Coming,st. 2 1 See Heine Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].A Prayer for My Daughter,st. 2 For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].A Prayer for My Daughter,st. 3 It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat. William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].A Prayer for My Daughter,st. 4 In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned; Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned. William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].A Prayer for My Daughter,st. 5 And many a poor man that has roved, Loved and thought himself beloved, From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes. William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].A Prayer for My Daughter,st. 5 If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf. William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].A Prayer for My Daughter,st. 7 An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind? William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].A Prayer for My Daughter,st. 8 All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will. William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921].A Prayer for My Daughter,st. 9 That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees -Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Sailing to Byzantium,st. 1 An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Sailing to Byzantium,st. 2 Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Sailing to Byzantium,st. 3 Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Sailing to Byzantium,st. 4 What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail?Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].The Tower,I Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost? William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].The Tower,II, st. 13 The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen,I,st. 4 But is there any comfort to be found? Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say? William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen,I,st. 6 O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen,III, st. 3 Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen,V,st. 1 Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen,V,st. 4 Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Youth and Age Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Two Songs from a Play, II,st. 1 Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Two Songs from a Play, II,st. 2 Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Two Songs from a Play, II,st. 2 Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Fragments, I A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Leda and the Swan, st. 3 Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Among School Children, st. 8 The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler. William Butler Yeats The Tower [1928].Wisdom Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away. 1 2 3 4 William Butler Yeats From "Oedipus at Colonus," st. 3 1 See Theognis 2 See Sophocles 3 See Bacon 4 See Auden That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].A Dialogue of Self and Soul, II,st. 1 I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].A Dialogue of Self and Soul, II,st. 3 When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].A Dialogue of Self and Soul, II,st. 4 But what is Whiggery? A leveling, rancorous, rational sort of mind That never looked out of the eye of a saint Or out of a drunkard's eye. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].The Seven Sages Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].For Anne Gregory, st. 3 Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast, Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Swift's Epitaph 1 1 See Swift The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].The Choice, st. 1 The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Byzantium,st. 1 At midnight on the Emperor's pavement flit Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Byzantium,st. 4 An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Byzantium,st. 4 That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Byzantium,st. 5 No man has ever lived that had enough Of children's gratitude or woman's love. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Vacillation,III, st. 1 Things said or done long years ago, Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Vacillation,V, st. 2 Homer is my example and his unchristened heart. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Vacillation,VIII Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Quarrel in Old Age, st. 2 I had wild Jack for a lover. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Words for Music Perhaps,V, Crazy Jane on God, st. 4 "Fair and foul are near of kin, And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied." William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Words for Music Perhaps,VI, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop,st. 2 But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Words for Music Perhaps,VI, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop,st. 3 What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms? William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Words for Music Perhaps,XVI, Lullaby, st. 1 Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Words for Music Perhaps,XVII, After Long Silence I carry the sun in a golden cup, The moon in a silver bag. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].Words for Music Perhaps,XIX, Those Dancing Days Are Gone I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes, But when this soul, its body off, Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows. William Butler Yeats The Winding Stair and Other Poems [1933].A Woman Young and Old, IX, A Last Confession, st. 3 He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrowbone. William Butler Yeats A Full Moon in March [1935].A Prayer for Old Age,st. 1 I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man. William Butler Yeats A Full Moon in March [1935].A Prayer for Old Age,st. 3 Whence had they come, The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived? William Butler Yeats A Full Moon in March [1935].Supernatural Songs, VIII, Whence Had They Come? All perform their tragic play, There struts Hamlet, there is Lear. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].Lapis Lazuli,st. 2 Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages, And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages, It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].Lapis Lazuli,st. 2 Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].Lapis Lazuli,st. 5 If soul may look and body touch, Which is the more blest? William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].The Lady's Second Song, st. 3 My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination, Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].An Acre of Grass,st. 2 Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].An Acre of Grass,st. 3 An old man's eagle mind. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].An Acre of Grass,st. 4 Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].The Great Day You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song? William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].The Spur John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].The Municipal Gallery Revisited,st. 6 Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].The Municipal Gallery Revisited,st. 7 Down the mountain walls From where Pan's cavern is Intolerable music falls. Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear, Belly, shoulder, bum, Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs Copulate in the foam. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].News for the Delphic Oracle, st. 3 Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].Long-Legged Fly, refrain What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead? William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore, refrain Fifteen apparitions have I seen; The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].The Apparitions, refrain Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].The Circus Animals' Desertion,II, st. 3 Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].The Circus Animals' Desertion,III Irish poets, learn your trade, Sing whatever is well made. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].Under Ben Bulben,V Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].Under Ben Bulben,VI On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by! William Butler Yeats Last Poems [1936-1939].Under Ben Bulben,VI I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood-sex and the dead. William Butler Yeats The Letters of W. B. Yeats If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility. William Butler Yeats The Letters of W. B. Yeats We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. William Butler Yeats The Letters of W. B. YeatsLetter to Olivia Shakespeare [1936] In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion, into confusion or dullness. William Butler Yeats Essays and Introductions [1961]. Poetry and the Tradition George W. Young fl. 1900 The lips that touch liquor must never touch mine! George W. Young The Lips That Touch Liquor, st. 5 George Ade 1866-1944 In uplifting, get underneath. George Ade Fables in Slang [1899]. The Good Fairy Stay with the procession or you will never catch up. George Ade Forty Modern Fables [1901].The Old-Time Pedagogue Draw your salary before spending it. George Ade Forty Modern Fables [1901].The People's Choice Last night at twelve I felt immense, But now I feel like thirty cents. George Ade The Sultan of Sulu [1902]. Remorse But, R-e-m-o-r-s-e! The water-wagon is the place for me; It is no time for mirth and laughter, The cold, gray dawn of the morning after! 1 2 George Ade The Sultan of Sulu [1902]. Remorse 1 See Byron 2 See Dickens Tristan Bernard 1866-1947 To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give. Tristan Bernard L'Enfant Prodigue du Vesinet [1921]  Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all. Tristan Bernard Ce Que l'On Dit aux Femmes [1922], act III Gelett Burgess 1866-1951 I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one. Gelett Burgess The Purple Cow [1895] Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"- I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it. Gelett Burgess Cinq Ans Apres [1914] Edmund Vance Cooke 1866-1932 Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it. 1 Edmund Vance Cooke How Did You Die? st. 1 1 See Rice Harry Dacre d. 1922 Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do! I'm half crazy, all for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two! Harry Dacre Daisy Bell [1892] Thomas Lansing Masson 1866-1934 A Safe and Sane Fourth. Thomas Lansing Masson Slogan Beatrix Potter 1866-1943 Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit [1902] But don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden. Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit [1902] No more twist! Beatrix Potter The Tailor of Gloucester [1903] The water was all slippy-sloppy in the larder and the back passage. But Mr. Jeremy liked getting his feet wet; nobody ever scolded him, and he never caught a cold. Beatrix Potter The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher [1906] Henry J. Sayers d. 1932 Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay! Henry J. Sayers Title of minstrel show number [1891], made famous by Lottie Collins [1892] Lincoln Steffens 1866-1936  "So you've been over into Russia?" said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, "I have been over into the future, and it works." Lincoln Steffens Autobiography [1931], ch. 18 Sun Yat-sen 1866-1925  It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government; the second, the period of political tutelage; and the third, the period of constitutional government. Sun Yat-sen The Three Phases of National Reconstruction [1918] The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit . . . they are just a heap of loose sand. . . . Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat. Sun Yat-sen China as a Heap of Loose Sand [1924] China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable. Sun Yat-sen Capital and the State [1924] In the construction of a country it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find. Sun Yat-sen Chung-shan Ch'uan-shu [1936], vol. II Bert Leston Taylor 1866-1921 A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. Bert Leston Taylor The So-Called Human Race [1922] H erbert G eorge Wells 1866-1946 The Time Machine. H erbert G eorge Wells Title of book [1895] The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. H erbert G eorge Wells The Discovery of the Future [1901] Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands. H erbert G eorge Wells The World Set Free [1914] The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past. H erbert G eorge Wells The World Set Free [1914] The War That Will End War. H erbert G eorge Wells Title of book [1914] The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. H erbert G eorge Wells The Outline of History [1920], ch.40 The Great War and the Petty Peace. H erbert G eorge Wells The Outline of History [1920], ch.40 Human history is in essence a history of ideas. H erbert G eorge Wells The Outline of History [1920], ch.40 Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness. . . . Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile. . . . Not a single one but has at some time wept. H erbert G eorge Wells The Outline of History [1920], ch.40 Our true nationality is mankind. H erbert G eorge Wells The Outline of History [1920], ch.41 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H erbert G eorge Wells The Outline of History [1920], ch.41 Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man . . . unified, disciplined, armed with the secret powers of the atom and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars. 1 2 3 H erbert G eorge Wells The Outline of History [1920], ch.41 1 See Matthew 5:34-5 2 See Pope 3 See Day An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic. H erbert G eorge Wells The Temptation of Harringay [1929] In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. H erbert G eorge Wells The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind [1931], ch. 11 The Shape of Things to Come. 1 2 3 4 H erbert G eorge Wells Title of book [1933] 1 See Cicero 2 See Shakespeare 3 See Campbell 4 See Shelley A.E. George William Russell 1867-1935 Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see. A.E. Homeward Songs by the Way [1894]. The Unknown God Stanley Baldwin, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley 1867-1947 When you think about the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover. You think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies today. Stanley Baldwin, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Speech in the House of Commons [July 30, 1934] Julien Benda 1867-1956 Le Trahison des Clercs [The Treason of the Intellectuals]. Julien Benda Title of book [1927] Enoch Arnold Bennett 1867-1931  The Old Wives' Tale. Enoch Arnold Bennett Title of novel [1908] Being a husband is a whole-time job. Enoch Arnold Bennett The Title [1918], act I Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Enoch Arnold Bennett Things That Have Interested Me[1918] The price of justice is eternal publicity. Enoch Arnold Bennett Things That Have Interested MeSecond Series [1923] Vicente Blasco-IbaAnez Vicente Blasco- IbaAnez 1867-1928 It was the roar of the real, the only beast [the crowd in the arena]. Vicente Blasco-IbaAnez Sangre y Arena (Blood and Sand) [1908]  Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis [The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]. Vicente Blasco-IbaAnez Title of book [1916] Ruben Dario Felix Ruben Garcia-Sarmiento 1867-1916  I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose. Ruben Dario Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems) [1896]. I Seek a Form The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life. Ruben Dario Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas (The Swans and Other Poems) [1905].Fatalidad (Fatality) Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. Ruben Dario Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas (The Swans and Other Poems) [1905].Pity for Him Who One Day The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa, the aromatic America of Columbus, Catholic America, Spanish America, the America where noble Cuauhtemoc said: "I am not on a bed of roses"-our America, trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love: O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls, our America lives. And dreams. And loves. And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful. Ruben Dario Cantos de Vida y Esperanza (Songs of Life and Hope) [1905]. A Roosevelt (To Roosevelt) Ernest Dowson 1867-1900 Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, 1 Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion. 2 Ernest Dowson Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae [1896], 3 st. 1 1 See T. S. Eliot 2 See Cole Porter 3 See Horace, Odes IV, i, 3 I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, 1 Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng. Ernest Dowson Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae [1896], 3 st. 3 1 See Rutebeuf I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine. Ernest Dowson Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae [1896], 3 st. 4 They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.They are not long, the days of wine and roses; Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream. Ernest Dowson Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam 1 [1896] 1 See Horace From troublous sights and sounds set free; In such a twilight hour of breath, Shall one retrace his life, or see, Through shadows, the true face of death? Ernest Dowson Extreme Unction [1896], st. 3 Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley 1867-1936 Life'd not be worth livin' if we didn't keep our inimies. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War [1898].On New Year's Resolutions Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War [1898].On Charity "I think," said Mr. Dooley, "that if th' Christyan Scientists had some science an' th' doctors more Christianity, it wudden't make anny diff'rence which ye called in-if ye had a good nurse." Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Christian Science No matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].The Supreme Court's Decisions I think a lie with a purpose is wan iv th' worst kind an' th' mos' profitable. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].On Lying Th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Mr. Dooley Discusses Party Politics Th' raypublican party broke ye, but now that ye're down we'll not turn a cold shoulder to ye. Come in an' we'll keep ye-broke. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Mr. Dooley Discusses Party Politics Hogan's r-right whin he says: "Justice is blind." Blind she is, an' deef an' dumb an' has a wooden leg. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Cross-Examinations No wan cares to hear what Hogan calls "Th' short an' simple scandals iv th' poor." Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Cross-Examinations 'Twas founded be th' Puritans to give thanks f'r bein' presarved fr'm th' Indyans, an' . . . we keep it to give thanks we are presarved fr'm th' Puritans. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Thanksgiving Vice . . . is a creature of such heejous mien . . . that th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].The Crusade Against Vice Glory be, whin business gets above sellin' tinpinny nails in a brown paper cornucopy, 't is hard to tell it fr'm murther. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].On Wall Street "D' ye think th' colledges has much to do with th' progress iv th' wurruld?" asked Mr. Hennessy. "D' ye think," said Mr. Dooley, "'tis th' mill that makes th' wather run?" Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].On Wall Street If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Casual Observations Among men, Hinnissy, wet eye manes dhry heart. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Casual Observations A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He knew th' facts iv th' case. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Casual Observations 'Tis as hard f'r a rich man to enther th' kingdom iv Hiven as it is f'r a poor man to get out iv Purgatory. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Casual Observations Thrust ivrybody, but cut th' ca-ards. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Casual Observations A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tu-rrned into angels be an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Casual Observations Miracles are laughed at be a nation that r-reads thirty millyon newspapers a day an' supports Wall sthreet. Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900].Casual Observations  Th' flag floats free an' well guarded over th' govermint offices, an' th' cheery people go an' come on their errands-go out alone an' come back with th' throops. Iverywhere happiness, contint, love iv th' shtep-mother counthry, excipt in places where there ar-re people. Finley Peter Dunne Observations by Mr. Dooley [1902].The Philippine Peace If a man is wise, he gets rich, an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around. Finley Peter Dunne Observations by Mr. Dooley [1902].Newport "Oh, well," said Mr. Hennessy, "we are as th' Lord made us." "No," said Mr. Dooley, "lave us be fair. Lave us take some iv th' blame oursilves." Finley Peter Dunne Observations by Mr. Dooley [1902].Newport But th' best thing about a little judicyous swearin' is that it keeps th' temper. 'Twas intinded as a compromise between runnin' away an' fightin'. Befure it was invinted they was on'y th' two ways out iv an argymint. Finley Peter Dunne Observations by Mr. Dooley [1902].Swearing I don't think we injye other people's sufferin', Hinnissy. It isn't acshally injyement. But we feel betther f'r it. Finley Peter Dunne Observations by Mr. Dooley [1902].Enjoyment "Ye know a lot about [raising children]," said Mr. Hennessy. "I do," said Mr. Dooley. "Not bein' an author, I'm a gr-reat critic." Finley Peter Dunne Dissertations by Mr. Dooley [1906].The Bringing Up of Children Th' old story iv th' ant an' th' grasshopper-th' ant that ye can step on an' th' grasshopper ye can't catch. Finley Peter Dunne Dissertations by Mr. Dooley [1906].The Labor Troubles It is his jooty to rigorously enforce th' rules iv th' Sinit. There ar-re none. Th' Sinit is ruled be courtesy, like th' longshoreman's union. Finley Peter Dunne Dissertations by Mr. Dooley [1906].The Vice-President "Spare th' rod an' spile th' child," said Mr. Hennessy. "Yes," said Mr. Dooley, "but don't spare th' rod an' ye spile th' rod, th' child, an' th' child's father." Finley Peter Dunne Dissertations by Mr. Dooley [1906].Corporal Punishment This home iv opporchunity where ivry man is th' equal iv ivry other man befure th' law if he isn't careful. Finley Peter Dunne Dissertations by Mr. Dooley [1906].The Food We Eat "Ye ra-aly do think dhrink is a nicissry evil?" said Mr. Hennessy. "Well," said Mr. Dooley, "if it's an evil to a man, it's not nicissry, an' if it's nicissry it's an evil." Finley Peter Dunne Dissertations by Mr. Dooley [1906].The Bar "He made [money]," said Mr. Dooley, "because he honestly loved it with an innocint affiction. He was thrue to it. Th' reason ye have no money is because ye don't love it f'r itsilf alone. Money won't iver surrinder to such a flirt." Finley Peter Dunne Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Evil Necessities [1919]. On Making a Will John Galsworthy 1867-1933 Nobody tells me anything. John Galsworthy Repeatedly spoken by James Forsyte in The Man of Property [1906] and In Chancery [1920] Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. John Galsworthy Justice [1910], act II Summer-summer-summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass! John Galsworthy Indian Summer of a Forsyte [1918] Public opinion's always in advance of the law. John Galsworthy Windows [1922], actI The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. John Galsworthy Windows [1922], actII If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. John Galsworthy Swan Song [1928], pt. II, ch. 6 A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. John Galsworthy Maid in Waiting [1931], ch.3 There's just one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in Opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible. John Galsworthy Maid in Waiting [1931], ch.7 One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes. John Galsworthy Flowering Wilderness [1932], ch. 2 The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage. John Galsworthy Over the River [1933], ch.1 How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about. John Galsworthy Over the River [1933], ch.39 Edith Hamilton 1867-1963 Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. Edith Hamilton The Greek Way [1930], ch. 1 They [the Greeks] were the first Westerners; the spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world. Edith Hamilton The Greek Way [1930], ch. 1 To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction. Edith Hamilton The Greek Way [1930], ch. 1 "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought." Edith Hamilton The Greek Way [1930], ch. 1 "All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet." Edith Hamilton The Greek Way [1930], ch. 1 Charles Edward Montague 1867-1928 I was born below par to th' extent of two whiskies. Charles Edward Montague Fiery Particles [1923] Luigi Pirandello 1867-1936 Right You Are If You Think You Are [Cosi e se vi pare]. Luigi Pirandello Title of play [1917; English version, 1922] Six Characters in Search of an Author [Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore]. Luigi Pirandello Title of play [1921; English version, 1922] Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have . . . the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality (one for each and never the same for everyone) which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory. Luigi Pirandello Autobiographical Sketch in Le Lettere, Rome [October 15, 1924] As You Desire Me [Come tu mi vuoi]. Luigi Pirandello Title of play [1930; English version, 1931] Henry L ewis Stimson 1867-1950 The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust. Henry L ewis Stimson The Bomb and the Opportunity [March 1946] The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. Henry L ewis Stimson On Active Service in Peace and War [1948], introduction Edward B radford Titchener 1867-1927 Common sense is the very antipodes of science. Edward B radford Titchener Systematic Psychology: Prolegomena [1929] Harry Leon Wilson 1867-1939 I can be pushed just so far. Harry Leon Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap [1915] Wilbur Wright 1867-1912 Orville Wright 1871-1948 Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one-mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas. Orville Wright Telegram to the Reverend Milton Wright, from Kitty Hawk, N.C. [December 17, 1903] Emile Auguste Chartier Alain 1868-1951 To think is to say no. Emile Auguste Chartier Le Citoyen contre les Pouvoirs We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove. Emile Auguste Chartier Systeme des Beaux-Arts [1920] Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have. Emile Auguste Chartier Libres-propos Paul Claudel 1868-1955 You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable. Paul Claudel La Ville [1897], act I The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases. Paul Claudel La Muse Qui Est la Grace [1910] When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. Paul Claudel Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher [1929] Norman Douglas 1868-1952 You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. Norman Douglas South Wind [1917], ch.7 No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. Norman Douglas South Wind [1917], ch.10 No great man is ever born too soon or too late. Norman Douglas South Wind [1917], ch.13 Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. Norman Douglas South Wind [1917], ch.24 W illiam E dward B urghardt Du Bois 1868-1963 The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. 1 W illiam E dward B urghardt Du Bois To the Nations of the World; address to Pan-African conference, London [1900] 1 See Frederick Douglass Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor-all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked-who is good? Not that men are ignorant-what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. W illiam E dward B urghardt Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk [1903] It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others. . . . One feels his two-ness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. W illiam E dward B urghardt Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk [1903] The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. W illiam E dward B urghardt Du Bois John Brown [1909]. The Legacy of John Brown Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility. W illiam E dward B urghardt Du Bois John Brown [1909]. The Legacy of John Brown The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer. W illiam E dward B urghardt Du Bois Darkwater [1920]. The Souls of White Folk The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this-with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need-this life is hell. W illiam E dward B urghardt Du Bois To His Newborn Great-Grandson; address on his ninetieth birthday [1958] Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. W illiam E dward B urghardt Du Bois Last message to the world [written 1957]. Read at his funeral [1963] Maxim Gorki Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov 1868-1936  Former People [Creatures That Once Were Men]. Maxim Gorki Title of story [1897]  Let the storm rage ever stronger! Maxim Gorki Song of a Stormy Petrel [1901]  Lies-there you have the religion of slaves and taskmasters. Maxim Gorki The Lower Depths [1903] How marvelous is Man! How proud the word rings-Man! Maxim Gorki The Lower Depths [1903] In time I came to understand that out of the misery and murk of their lives the Russian people had learned to make sorrow a diversion, to play with it like a child's toy; seldom are they diffident about showing their happiness. And so, through their tedious weekdays, they made a carnival of grief; a fire is entertainment; and on a vacant face a bruise becomes an adornment. Maxim Gorki Autobiography [1913]. Childhood  The proletarian state must bring up thousands of excellent "mechanics of culture," "engineers of the soul." Maxim Gorki Speech at the Writers' Congress [1934] The basic hero of our books should be labor; that is, man organized by the processes of labor. Maxim Gorki Speech at the Writers' Congress [1934] Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Abe Martin 1868-1930 It's no disgrace t' be poor, but it might as well be. Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Abe Martin's Sayings and Sketches [1915] When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Hoss Sense and Nonsense [1926] Nobuddy ever fergits where he buried a hatchet. Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Abe Martin's Broadcast [1930] If capital an' labor ever do git t'gether it's good night fer th' rest of us. Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Saying Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Saying Edward Verrall Lucas 1868-1938 The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. Edward Verrall Lucas Wanderings and Diversions [1926].Zigzags in France Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. Edward Verrall Lucas Wanderings and Diversions [1926].The Continental Dictionary People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so: they are called dwellers sur la branche. Edward Verrall Lucas Wanderings and Diversions [1926].To Be Let or Sold There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. Edward Verrall Lucas Reading, Writing and Remembering [1932] William Tyler Page 1868-1942 I believe in the United States of America as a Government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies. William Tyler Page The American's Creed Edmond Rostand 1868-1918 A great nose indicates a great man- Genial, courteous, intellectual, Virile, courageous. Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac [1897],act I Free fighters, free lovers, free spenders- The Cadets of Gascoyne-the defenders Of old homes, old names, and old splendors. Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac [1897],act II I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise. Edmond Rostand Chantecler [1907], act II, sc. iii It is at night that faith in light is admirable. Edmond Rostand Chantecler [1907], act II, sc. iii Robert Falcon Scott 1868-1912  Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. Robert Falcon Scott Diary of the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic.Message to the Public Blizzard bad as ever-Wilson and Bowers unable to start-tomorrow last chance-no fuel and only one or two of food left-must be near the end. Have decided it shall be natural-we shall march for the depot with or without our effects and die in our tracks. Robert Falcon Scott Diary of the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic.Thursday, March 22 and 23, 1912 Every day we have been ready to start for our depot eleven miles away, but outside the door of the tent it remains a scene of whirling drift. I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. Scott For God's sake look after our people. Robert Falcon Scott Diary of the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic.Thursday, March 29, 1912 (last entry) Luther Standing Bear 1868-1939  Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families that we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the "Wild West" began. Luther Standing Bear Land of the Spotted Eagle [1933] Andre Suares 1868-1948 Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heretics. There are no heresies in a dead religion. 1 2 Andre Suares Peguy 1 See Tertullian 2 See Unamuno William Allen White 1868-1944 Tinhorn politicians. William Allen White Emporia Gazette [October 25, 1901] All dressed up, with nowhere to go. William Allen White Of the Progressive party in 1916, after Theodore Roosevelt retired from presidential competition Put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold-by voice, by posted card, by letter, or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and oppression have made the wrecks in the world. William Allen White Emporia Gazette [July 27, 1922] The talent of a meat-packer, the morals of a moneychanger and the manners of an undertaker. William Allen White Obituary of Frank A. Munsey [December 23, 1925] Laurence Binyon 1869-1943 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Laurence Binyon For the Fallen, st. 4 Neville Chamberlain 1869-1940  For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. 1 . . . Go home and get a nice quiet sleep. Neville Chamberlain Address from 10 Downing Street, London [September 30, 1938], after returning from the Munich Conference 1 See The Book of Common Prayer (English) Hitler has missed the bus. Neville Chamberlain Speech in the House of Commons [April 4, 1940] Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948  Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Defense against charge of sedition [March 23, 1922] The term Satyagraha was coined by me . . . in order to distinguish it from the movement then going on . . . under the name of Passive Resistance. Its root meaning is "holding on to truth," hence "force of righteousness." I have also called it love force or soul force. In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered in the earliest stages that pursuit of truth did not permit violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For what appears truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of truth, not by the infliction of suffering on the opponent, but on one's self. 1 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Defense against charge of sedition [March 23, 1922] 1 See Martin Luther King Nonviolence and truth (Satya) are inseparable and presuppose one another. There is no god higher than truth. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi True Patriotism: Some Sayings of Mahatma Gandhi [1939] Andre Gide 1869-1951  Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness. Andre Gide Les Nourritures Terrestres (Fruits of the Earth) [1897],bk. IV What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. Andre Gide Les Nourritures Terrestres (Fruits of the Earth) [1897],Envoi  Sin is whatever obscures the soul. Andre Gide La Symphonie Pastorale [1919] The most decisive actions of our life . . . are most often unconsidered actions. Andre Gide Les Faux Monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters) [1926] Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. Andre Gide Poetique  It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. Andre Gide Letter to Francois Mauriac [1928] Strickland Gillilan 1869-1954 Bilin' down 's repoort, wuz Finnigin! An' he writed this here: "Musther Flannigan- Off agin, on agin, Gone agin.-finnigin." Strickland Gillilan Finnigin to Flannigan, st. 6 Adam Had 'em. Strickland Gillilan Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes Stephen Butler Leacock 1869-1944 He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. Stephen Butler Leacock Gertrude the Governess [1911] By American literature in the proper sense we ought to mean literature written in an American way, with an American turn of language and an American cast of thought. The test is that it couldn't have been written anywhere else. Stephen Butler Leacock Mark Twain as National Asset [1932] Edgar Lee Masters 1869-1950 All, all, are sleeping on the hill. Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology [1915].The Hill, refrain Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roar in the pines! Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology [1915].Petit, the Poet Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you- It takes life to love life. Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology [1915].Lucinda Matlock Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music. Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology [1915].Anne Rutledge I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these weeds, Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln. Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology [1915].Anne Rutledge Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it. Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology [1915].The Village Atheist ÿ Henri Matisse 1869-1954 I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture. Henri Matisse Notes d'un Peintre [1908] What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. It is through it that I best succeed in expressing the almost religious feeling I have towards life. Henri Matisse Notes d'un Peintre [1908] William Vaughn Moody 1869-1910 This earth is not the steadfast place We landsmen build upon; From deep to deep she varies pace, And while she comes is gone. William Vaughn Moody Gloucester Moors [1901], st. 4 Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates. William Vaughn Moody An Ode in Time of Hesitation [1901],st. 3 The spring-laden breeze Out of the gladdening west is sinister With sounds of nameless battle overseas. William Vaughn Moody An Ode in Time of Hesitation [1901],st. 7 O ye who lead, Take heed! Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite. William Vaughn Moody An Ode in Time of Hesitation [1901],st. 9 Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869-1935 I would have rid the earth of him Once, in my pride. . . . I never knew the worth of him Until he died. Edwin Arlington Robinson An Old Story Life is the game that must be played. Edwin Arlington Robinson Ballade by the Fire. Envoy Like dead, remembered footsteps on old floors. Edwin Arlington Robinson The Pity of the Leaves The saddest among kings of earth, Bowed with a galling crown, this man Met rancor with a cryptic mirth, Laconic-and Olympian. Edwin Arlington Robinson The Master: Lincoln Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn, Grew lean while he assailed the seasons; He wept that he was ever born, And he had reasons. Edwin Arlington Robinson Miniver Cheevy [1910],st. 1 Miniver Cheevy, born too late, Scratched his head and kept on thinking; Miniver coughed and called it fate, And kept on drinking. Edwin Arlington Robinson Miniver Cheevy [1910],st. 8 I shall have more to say when I am dead. Edwin Arlington Robinson John Brown Art's long hazard, where no man may choose Whether he play to win, or toil to lose. Edwin Arlington Robinson Caput Mortuum Love that's wise Will not say all it means. Edwin Arlington Robinson Tristram [1927], pt. VII Here where the wind is always north-northeast And children learn to walk on frozen toes. Edwin Arlington Robinson New England Are you to pay for all you have With all you are? Edwin Arlington Robinson Cassandra, st. 12 He glittered when he walked. Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory,st. 2 So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head. Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory,st. 4 George Sterling 1869-1926 Thou art the star for which all evening waits. George Sterling Aldebaran at Dusk William StrunkJr. 1869-1946 Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. William StrunkJr. The Elements of Style [1918], ch. 2, sec. 13 Booth Tarkington 1869-1946 There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. Booth Tarkington Penrod [1914], ch.10 They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover. Booth Tarkington Penrod [1914], ch.26 Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959 No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other. Frank Lloyd Wright An Autobiography [1932] Bernard M annes Baruch 1870-1965 America has never forgotten-and will never forget-the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path-the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago. . . . How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom-the clothing of the grave-that some people believe she is already fitted for. Bernard M annes Baruch Address on accepting The Churchman Award, New York [May 23, 1944] Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. . . . Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction. Bernard M annes Baruch Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission [June 14, 1946]  We are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer. Bernard M annes Baruch Speech before the Senate Committee [1948] Hilaire Belloc 1870-1953 Child! do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. Hilaire Belloc A Bad Child's Book of Beasts [1896],dedication When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before. Hilaire Belloc A Bad Child's Book of Beasts [1896],The Elephant A smell of burning fills the startled air- The Electrician is no longer there! Hilaire Belloc Newdigate Poem How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast! Hilaire Belloc For a Sundial Loss and Possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. Hilaire Belloc For a Sundial And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me. Hilaire Belloc The South Country, st. 10 Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy. Hilaire Belloc Courtesy Do you remember an inn, Miranda? Hilaire Belloc Tarantella I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied. Hilaire Belloc The False Heart The chief defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of string. Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales [1907].Henry King "Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea Are all the human frame requires . . . " With that the wretched child expires. Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales [1907].Henry King Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes; Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda: The effort very nearly killed her. Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales [1907].Matilda It happened that a few weeks later Her aunt was off to the theater To see that interesting play The Second Mrs. Tanqueray. Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales [1907].Matilda For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned. Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales [1907].Matilda Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right. Hilaire Belloc The Pacifist When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, 1 but his books were read." Hilaire Belloc On His Books 1 See Isaiah 1:18 Benjamin Nathan Cardozo 1870-1938 What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly to be sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo The Paradoxes of Legal Science [1928] As I search the archives of my memory, I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, 1 verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the type demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo Law and Literature [1931] 1 See Pytheas [The Constitution] was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo Baldwin v. Seelig, 294 U.S. 511, 523 [1935] Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319, 327 [1937] Arthur J. Lamb 1870-1928 Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold, She's a bird in a gilded cage. Arthur J. Lamb A Bird in a Gilded Cage [1900] Sir Harry Lauder 1870-1950 Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin', But it's nicer to lie in bed. Sir Harry Lauder Song Just a wee doch-an'-dorris Before we gang awa' . . . If y' can say It's a braw brecht moonlecht necht, Yer a' recht, that's a'. Sir Harry Lauder Song Roamin' in the gloamin'. Sir Harry Lauder Song I Love a Lassie. Sir Harry Lauder Title of song Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov 1870-1924 Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The Three Sources and Three Constituent Parts of Marxism [1913] Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Will the Bolsheviks Retain Government Power? [1917] The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The Impending Catastrophe and How to Fight It [1917] Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin New External and Internal Position and the Problems of the Party [1920] When we say "the state," the state it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Speech [May 27, 1922] It is true that liberty is precious-so precious that it must be rationed. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Attributed. Quoted by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Soviet Communism: A New Civilization? [1936], p. 1036 Amado Nervo 1870-1919 The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him? Amado Nervo Nuestra Literatura (Our Literature) [1899] Roscoe Pound 1870-1964 The law must be stable, but it must not stand still. Roscoe Pound Introduction to the Philosophy of Law [1922] Saki H ector H ugh Munro 1870-1916 The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went. Saki Reginald [1904].Reginald on Besetting Sins Women and elephants never forget an injury. Saki Reginald [1904].Reginald on Besetting Sins I might have been a goldfish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got. Saki Reginald [1904].The Innocence of Reginald The Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. Saki Reginald in Russia [1910]. A Young Turkish Catastrophe Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. Saki The Chronicles of Clovis [1911].Esme Sredni Vashtar went forth, His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white. His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death. Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful. Saki The Chronicles of Clovis [1911].Sredni Vashtar The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. Saki Beasts and Super-Beasts [1914]. Fur A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Saki The Square Egg [1924]. The Comments of Moung Ka T. Laurence Seibert fl. 1900 Casey Jones! Orders in his hand. Casey Jones! Mounted to the cabin, Took his farewell journey to that promised land. T. Laurence Seibert Casey Jones [1909]. Adapted from verses byWallace Saunders, set to music by Eddie Newton Stephen Crane 1871-1900 They were going to look at war, the red animal-war, the blood-swollen god. Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage [1895], ch.3 It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment. Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage [1895], ch.5 At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage. Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage [1895], ch.9 The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer. Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage [1895], ch.9 He had fought like a pagan who defends his religion. Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage [1895], ch.17 He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man. Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage [1895], ch.24 When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters. Stephen Crane The Open Boat [1898], last line A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." Stephen Crane War Is Kind [1899]. Fragment W illiam H enry Davies 1871-1940 What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? 1 W illiam H enry Davies Leisure 1 See Browning Theodore Dreiser 1871-1945 Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie [1900] I acknowledge the Furies, I believe in them, I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings. Theodore Dreiser To Grant Richards [1911] An American Tragedy. Theodore Dreiser Title of novel [1925] Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay; Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming On the banks of the Wabash, far away. Theodore Dreiser On the Banks of the Wabash, chorus Arthur Guiterman 1871-1943 Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex. Arthur Guiterman Sex, st. 1 Of all cold words of tongue or pen The worst are these: "I knew him when-" 1 Arthur Guiterman Prophets in Their Own Country 1 See Whittier Ralph Hodgson 1871-1962 'Twould ring the bells of Heaven The wildest peal for years, If Parson lost his senses And people came to theirs, And he and they together Knelt down with angry prayers For tamed and shabby tigers And dancing dogs and bears, And wretched, blind pit ponies, And little hunted hares. Ralph Hodgson The Bells of Heaven Time, you old gypsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day? Ralph Hodgson Time, You Old Gypsy Man, st. 1 Oh, had our simple Eve Seen through the make-believe! Had she but known the Pretender he was! Out of the boughs he came, Whispering still her name, Tumbling in twenty rings Into the grass. Ralph Hodgson Eve, st. 5 How they all pitied Poor motherless Eve! Ralph Hodgson Eve, st. 5 Reason has moons, but moons not hers Lie mirrored on her sea, Confounding her astronomers, But O! delighting me. Ralph Hodgson Reason I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street. Ralph Hodgson Stupidity Street James Weldon Johnson 1871-1938 Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. James Weldon Johnson Lift Every Voice and Sing [1900],st. 1 We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered. James Weldon Johnson Lift Every Voice and Sing [1900],st. 2 The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an ExColored Man [1912], ch.2 Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst. James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an ExColored Man [1912], ch.10 O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrels' lyre? James Weldon Johnson O Black and Unknown Bards [1917], st. 1 And God stepped out on space, And He looked around and said, "I'm lonely- I'll make me a world." James Weldon Johnson God's Trombones [1927].The Creation,st. 1 And God smiled again, And the rainbow appeared, And curled itself around his shoulder. James Weldon Johnson God's Trombones [1927].The Creation,st. 7 With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man! James Weldon Johnson God's Trombones [1927].The Creation,st. 10 Find Sister Caroline . . . And she's tired- She's weary- Go down, Death, and bring her to me. James Weldon Johnson God's Trombones [1927].Go Down, Death, st. 5 It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic. James Weldon Johnson Black Manhattan [1930], ch. 11 William McDougall 1871-1938 Psychologists must cease to be content with the sterile and narrow conception of their science as the science of consciousness, and must boldly assert its claim to be the positive science of mind in all its aspects and modes of functioning, or, as I would prefer to say, the positive science of conduct or behavior. William McDougall An Introduction to Social Psychology [1908] Herbert George Ponting 1871-1935 On the outside grows the furside, on the inside grows the skinside; So the furside is the outside, and the skinside is the inside. Herbert George Ponting The Sleeping Bag Marcel Proust 1871-1922 When from a long distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]Swann's Way Once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me . . . immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]Swann's Way In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]Swann's Way What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]Within a Budding Grove, pt. I Not only does one not retain all at once the truly rare works, but even within such works it is the least precious parts that one perceives first. Less deceptive than life, these great masterpieces do not give us their best at the beginning. 1 Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]Within a Budding Grove, pt. I 1 See Daniel Gregory Mason The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]Within a Budding Grove, pt. I Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]Cities of the Plain, pt.I We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]Cities of the Plain, pt.II The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]The Sweet Cheat Gone We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]The Sweet Cheat Gone There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]The Sweet Cheat Gone We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]The Sweet Cheat Gone Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past [1913-1926]The Past Recaptured Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which would otherwise have remained unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists. . . . And many centuries after their core, whether we call it Rembrandt or Vermeer, is extinguished, they continue to send us their special rays. Marcel Proust The Maxims of Marcel Proust [1948] Ernest Rutherford 1871-1937 We cannot control atomic energy to an extent which would be of any value commercially, and I believe we are not likely ever to be able to do so. Ernest Rutherford Speech to the British Association for the Advancement of Science [1933] John Millington Synge 1871-1909 What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only? John Millington Synge Riders to the Sea [1904] When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen. John Millington Synge The Playboy of the Western World [1907],preface  May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy divils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave. There he is now crossing the strands, and that the Lord God would send a high wave to wash him from the world. John Millington Synge The Playboy of the Western World [1907],actII They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. John Millington Synge The Playboy of the Western World [1907],actIII A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again. John Millington Synge The Aran Islands [1907] There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. John Millington Synge The Aran Islands [1907] A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. John Millington Synge The Aran Islands [1907] I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens. John Millington Synge Prelude [1910] Paul Valery 1871-1945 The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. Paul Valery Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci [1895] Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects. Paul Valery Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci [1895]  The sea, the ever renewing sea! Paul Valery Charmes [1922]. Le Cimetiere Marin  The wind is rising . . . we must attempt to live. Paul Valery Charmes [1922]. Le Cimetiere Marin Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation." Paul Valery Litterature [1930] An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants. Paul Valery Mauvaises Pensees et Autres [1941] The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. Paul Valery Mauvaises Pensees et Autres [1941] That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Paul Valery Tel Quel [1943] God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a female companion so that he might feel his solitude more acutely. Paul Valery Tel Quel [1943] The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. Paul Valery Tel Quel [1943]  Politeness is organized indifference. Paul Valery Tel Quel [1943] Sir Norman Angell 1872-1967 The Great Illusion. Sir Norman Angell Title of book [1910] on the futility of war Sir Max Beerbohm 1872-1956 Most women are not so young as they are painted. Sir Max Beerbohm A Defense of Cosmetics Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. Sir Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson [1911],ch.2  She was one of the people who say "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like." Sir Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson [1911],ch.9 Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. Sir Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson [1911],ch.13 All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. Sir Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson [1911],Note to 1946 edition I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. Sir Max Beerbohm No. 2. The Pines It seems to be a law of nature that no man ever is loth to sit for his portrait. Sir Max Beerbohm Quia Imperfectum To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. Sir Max Beerbohm Quia Imperfectum Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter. Sir Max Beerbohm Laughter The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. Sir Max Beerbohm Comment Leon Blum 1872-1950 Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice. Leon Blum On Marriage No government can remain stable in an unstable society and an unstable world. Leon Blum [Agrave] l'Echelle Humaine [1945] Patrick Reginald Chalmers 1872-1942 What's lost upon the roundabouts we pulls up on the swings! Patrick Reginald Chalmers Roundabouts and Swings, st. 2 Calvin Coolidge 1872-1933 There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. Calvin Coolidge Telegram to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, on the Boston police strike [September 14, 1919] One with the law is a majority. Calvin Coolidge Speech [July 27, 1920] Inflation is repudiation. Calvin Coolidge Speech at Chicago [January 11, 1922] The chief business of the American people is business. Calvin Coolidge Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors [January 17, 1925] They hired the money, didn't they? Calvin Coolidge Referring to the European war debts [1925] I do not choose to run for President in 1928. 1 Calvin Coolidge Statement to reporters [August 2, 1927] 1 See Rogers I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. Calvin Coolidge Address from train platform, Bennington, Vermont [September 21, 1928] If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. Calvin Coolidge Saying He said he was against it. Calvin Coolidge On being asked what a clergyman preaching on sin had said Edward Gordon Craig 1872-1966 That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen. Edward Gordon Craig On the Art of the Theatre [1911] Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906 It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core . . . I know why the caged bird sings! Paul Laurence Dunbar Sympathy [1899], st. 3 Since thou and those who died with thee for right Have died, the Present teaches, but in vain! Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Gould Shaw It's easy 'nough to titter w'en de stew is smokin' hot, But hit's mighty ha'd to giggle w'en dey's nuffin' in de pot. Paul Laurence Dunbar Philosophy Learned Hand 1872-1961 You may ask what then will become of the fundamental principles of equity and fair play which our constitutions enshrine; and whether I seriously believe that unsupported they will serve merely as counsels of moderation. I do not think that anyone can say what will be left of those principles; I do not know whether they will serve only as counsels; but this much I think I do know-that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where that spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish. Learned Hand The Contribution of an Independent Judiciary to Civilization [1942] Justice, I think, is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodations concretely. Learned Hand From Philip Hamburger, The Great Judge [1946] "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." 1 I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken." Learned Hand Morals in Public Life [1951] 1 See Oliver Cromwell I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry. Learned Hand Speech to the Board of Regents, University of the State of New York [October 24, 1952] That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose. Learned Hand Speech to the Board of Regents, University of the State of New York [October 24, 1952] The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion. Learned Hand Speech to the Board of Regents, University of the State of New York [October 24, 1952] John McCrae 1872-1918 In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row. John McCrae In Flanders Fields [1915],st. 1 To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. John McCrae In Flanders Fields [1915],st. 3 Jose Enrique Rodo 1872-1917 To govern is to populate, assimilating in the beginning, then educating and selecting. Jose Enrique Rodo Ariel [1900] If one could say of utilitarianism that it is the word of the English spirit, the United States may be considered the incarnation of that word. Jose Enrique Rodo Ariel [1900] Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell 1872-1970 Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell Recent Work on the Principles of Mathematics [1901]. In International Monthly, vol. 4, p. 84 Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. 1 Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell The Study of Mathematics [1902] 1 See Millay Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform. Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell The Study of Mathematics [1902] It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell Principles of Social Reconstruction [1917] The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue. Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell Marriage and Morals [1929], ch. 16 To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell Marriage and Morals [1929], ch. 16 Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish [1950] Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell Autobiography [1967], prologue Ellery Sedgwick 1872-1960 Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two. Ellery Sedgwick The Happy Profession [1946], ch. 1 In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before. Ellery Sedgwick The Happy Profession [1946], ch. 1 Carl Lotus Becker 1873-1945 Economic distress will teach men, if anything can, that realities are less dangerous than fancies, that fact-finding is more effective than fault-finding. Carl Lotus Becker Progress and Power [1935] The significance of man is that he is that part of the universe that asks the question, What is the significance of Man? He alone can stand apart imaginatively and, regarding himself and the universe in their eternal aspects, pronounce a judgment: The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. Carl Lotus Becker Progress and Power [1935] George Bennard 1873-1958 I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown. 1 2 3 George Bennard The Old Rugged Cross [1913], refrain 1 See Matthew 10:38 2 See Quarles 3 See Penn Guy Wetmore Carryl 1873-1904 Thank God for peace! Thank God for peace, when the great gray ships come in! Guy Wetmore Carryl When the Great Gray Ships Come In [New York Harbor, August 20, 1898], st. 4 Willa Sibert Cather 1873-1947 No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Sibert Cather Alexander's Bridge [1912], ch. 8 There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. Willa Sibert Cather O Pioneers! [1913], pt. II, ch.4 The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. Willa Sibert Cather O Pioneers! [1913], pt. II, ch.4 I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Sibert Cather O Pioneers! [1913], pt. II, ch.8 I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate! Willa Sibert Cather The Song of the Lark [1915], pt.I Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Sibert Cather The Song of the Lark [1915], pt.VI  That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Sibert Cather My Antonia [1918], bk.I, ch. 2 Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. Willa Sibert Cather My Antonia [1918], bk.II, ch. 7 Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole-so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page. 1 Willa Sibert Cather On the Art of Fiction [1920] 1 See Hemingway That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. Willa Sibert Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop [1927], bk.I, ch. 3  In New Mexico he always awoke a young man. . . . He had noticed that this peculiar quality in the air of new countries vanished after they were tamed by man and made to bear harvests . . . that lightness, that dry aromatic odor . . . one could breathe that only on the bright edges of the world, on the great grass plains or the sagebrush desert. . . . Something soft and wild and free; something that whispered to the ear on the pillow, lightened the heart, softly, softly picked the lock, slid the bolts, and released the prisoned spirit of man into the wind, into the blue and gold, into the morning, into the morning! Willa Sibert Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop [1927], bk.IX, ch. 3 Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. Willa Sibert Cather Shadows on the Rock [1931], bk. III, ch. 5 Arthur Chapman 1873-1935 Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins. Arthur Chapman Out Where the West Begins,st. 1 Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying. Arthur Chapman Out Where the West Begins,st. 3 Colette Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 1873-1954 Those pleasures so lightly called physical. Colette Melanges Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken. Colette Le Pur et l'Impur [1932] By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet. Colette Mes Apprentissages [1936] The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before. Colette Noces [1945] Walter de la Mare 1873-1956 Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon. Walter de la Mare Silver Here lies a most beautiful lady, Light of step and heart was she; I think she was the most beautiful lady That ever was in the West Country. Walter de la Mare An Epitaph "Is there anybody there?" said the Traveler, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor. Walter de la Mare The Listeners "Tell them that I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Walter de la Mare The Listeners Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour-let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing. Walter de la Mare Fare Well [1918], st. 3 Nought but vast sorrow was there- The sweet cheat gone. Walter de la Mare The Ghost Who said "Peacock Pie"? The old king to the sparrow: Who said "Crops are ripe"? Rust to the harrow. Walter de la Mare The Song of the Mad Prince Who said, "Ay, mum's the word"? Walter de la Mare The Song of the Mad Prince Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday. Walter de la Mare Jim Jay It's a very odd thing- As odd as can be- That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T. Walter de la Mare Miss T. Three jolly gentlemen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed. Walter de la Mare The Huntsmen Bang! Now the animal Is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again, oh, what fun! Walter de la Mare Hi! Mark Fenderson 1873-1944 What's the use? Yesterday an egg, tomorrow a feather duster. Mark Fenderson Caption of cartoon: The Dejected Rooster Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Hueffer 1873-1939 This is the saddest story I have ever heard. 1 Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier [1915], first line 1 See Robert Lowell Only two classes of books are of universal appeal: the very best and the very worst. Ford Madox Ford Joseph Conrad [1924] No more hope, no more glory, not for the nation, not for the world I dare say, no more parades. Ford Madox Ford No More Parades [1925] Lena Guilbert Ford d. 1918 Keep the home fires burning, While your hearts are yearning; Though your lads are far away They dream of home. There's a silver lining 1 Through the dark cloud shining; Turn the dark cloud inside out, Till the boys come home. Lena Guilbert Ford Keep the Home Fires Burning [1915] 1 See Wodehouse W illiam C hristopher Handy 1873-1958 I hate to see the evenin' sun go down. W illiam C hristopher Handy The St. Louis Blues [1914] Otto Harbach 1873-1963 When a lovely flame dies, Smoke gets in your eyes. Otto Harbach Roberta [1933]. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Daniel Gregory Mason 1873-1953 Art of any profundity can be appreciated only slowly, gradually, in leisurely contemplation. 1 Daniel Gregory Mason Artistic Ideals [1927] 1 See Proust G eorge E dward Moore 1873-1958 It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisely what question it is which you desire to answer. G eorge E dward Moore Principia Ethica [1903], preface Albert Jay Nock 1873-1945 All Souls College, Oxford, planned better than it knew when it limited the number of its undergraduates to four; four is exactly the right number for any college which is really intent on getting results. Albert Jay Nock Memoirs of a Superfluous Man [1943],III, ch.3 Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. Albert Jay Nock Memoirs of a Superfluous Man [1943],III, ch.13 As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. Albert Jay Nock Memoirs of a Superfluous Man [1943],IV, ch. 1 Charles Peguy 1873-1914 Surrender is essentially an operation by means of which we set about explaining instead of acting. Charles Peguy Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine [1905]  Homer is new and fresh this morning, and nothing, perhaps, is as old and tired as today's newspaper. Charles Peguy Note sur M. Bergson et la Philosophie Bergsonienne [1914] Freedom is a system based on courage. Charles Peguy From Halevy, Life of Charles Peguy Sime Silverman 1873-1933  Wall Street Lays an Egg. Sime Silverman Headline announcing stock market crash [October 1929] Sticks Nix Hick Pix. Sime Silverman Headline, meaning that rural audiences do not care for motion pictures dealing with country themes Alfred E manuel Smith 1873-1944  The kiss of death. Alfred E manuel Smith Alluding to Hearst's support of Ogden Mills, Smith's unsuccessful opponent for governor of New York State [1926] Let's look at the record. Alfred E manuel Smith Campaign speeches [1928] The Governor of New York State does not have to be an acrobat. Alfred E manuel Smith Speech in behalf of Franklin D. Roosevelt [1928] Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. Alfred E manuel Smith Campaign speeches [1936] No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney. Alfred E manuel Smith Campaign speeches [1936] H enry M ajor Tomlinson 1873-1958 The sea is at its best at London, near midnight, when you are within the arms of a capacious chair, before a glowing fire, selecting phases of the voyages you will never make. H enry M ajor Tomlinson The Sea and the Jungle [1912] As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of Omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden. H enry M ajor Tomlinson The Sea and the Jungle [1912] The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem. H enry M ajor Tomlinson Between the Lines [1930] Maurice Baring 1874-1945 All theories of what a good play is, or how a good play should be written, are futile. A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards makes an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play. Maurice Baring Have You Anything to Declare? Charles A ustin Beard 1874-1948 Mary R itter Beard 1876-1958 At no time, at no place, in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it, except possibly the mention of "We, the people," in the preamble . . . When the Constitution was framed no respectable person called himself or herself a democrat. Mary R itter Beard America in Midpassage [1939], ch. 17 Gordon Bottomley 1874-1948 When you destroy a blade of grass You poison England at her roots. Gordon Bottomley To Ironfounders and Others Arthur Henry Reginald Buller 1874-1944 There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned home the previous night. Arthur Henry Reginald Buller Limerick. In Punch [December 19, 1923] G ilbert K eith Chesterton 1874-1936 "The Christian ideal," it is said, "has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." G ilbert K eith Chesterton What's Wrong with the World [1910], pt. I, ch. 5 Nothing sublimely artistic has ever arisen out of mere art, any more than anything essentially reasonable has ever arisen out of pure reason. There must always be a rich moral soil for any great aesthetic growth. G ilbert K eith Chesterton A Defense of Nonsense [1911] For the great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad. G ilbert K eith Chesterton The Ballad of the White Horse [1911], bk.II Every great literature has always been allegorical-allegorical of some view of the whole universe. G ilbert K eith Chesterton The Ballad of the White Horse [1911], bk.V The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. G ilbert K eith Chesterton Preface to Dickens, Pickwick Papers A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized. Our relations with a good joke are direct and even divine relations. G ilbert K eith Chesterton Preface to Dickens, Pickwick Papers The world will never starve for wonders; but only for want of wonder. G ilbert K eith Chesterton Inscription, General Motors Building, Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far (Don John of Austria is going to the war); Stiff flags straining in the night blasts cold In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old gold; Torchlight crimson on the copper kettledrums, Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes. G ilbert K eith Chesterton Lepanto [1915] Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath (Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath). And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain, Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain. G ilbert K eith Chesterton Lepanto [1915] To an open house in the evening Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome. G ilbert K eith Chesterton The House of Christmas Burn from my brain and from my breast Sloth, and the cowardice that clings, And stiffness and the soul's arrest: And feed my brain with better things. G ilbert K eith Chesterton A Ballade of a Book Reviewer Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. 1 G ilbert K eith Chesterton Ascribed to Chesterton by John F. Kennedy in a 1945 notebook 1 See Robert Frost St. George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale Out of an English flagon. G ilbert K eith Chesterton The Englishman Step softly, under snow or rain, To find the place where men can pray; The way is all so very plain That we may lose the way. G ilbert K eith Chesterton The Wise Men And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine." G ilbert K eith Chesterton Wine and Water I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet: There was a shout about my ears, And palms before my feet. G ilbert K eith Chesterton The Donkey Sir Winston Spencer Churchill 1874-1965  I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill The Malakand Field Force [1898] It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill The Malakand Field Force [1898] Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill The Malakand Field Force [1898] There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill The Malakand Field Force [1898] Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill The River War [1899] Terminological inexactitude. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech in the House of Commons [February 22, 1906] The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual." Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech at the Guildhall [November 9, 1914] Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Remark [1920] By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Roving Commission: My Early Life [1930] It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Roving Commission: My Early Life [1930] Come on now, all you young men, all over the world. You are needed more than ever now to fill the gap of a generation shorn by the war. You have not an hour to lose. You must take your places in life's fighting line. Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Don't be content with things as they are. "The earth is yours and the fullness thereof." Enter upon your inheritance, accept your responsibilities. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Roving Commission: My Early Life [1930] You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Roving Commission: My Early Life [1930]  Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill While England Slept [1936]  Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill While England Slept [1936] I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill While England Slept [1936] The German dictator, instead of snatching the victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech on the Munich agreement, House of Commons [October 5, 1938] That long [Canadian] frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech in honor of R. B. Bennett, Canada Club, London [April 20, 1939] I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Radio broadcast [October 1, 1939] For each and for all, as for the Royal Navy, the watchword should be, "Carry on, and dread nought." Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech on traffic at sea, House of Commons [December 6, 1939]  I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill First Statement as Prime Minister, House of Commons [May 13, 1940] Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill First Statement as Prime Minister, House of Commons [May 13, 1940] We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech on Dunkirk, House of Commons [June 4, 1940] If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech in the House of Commons [June 18, 1940] Let us . . . brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour." Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech in the House of Commons [June 18, 1940] We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Radio broadcast [July 14, 1940] Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Tribute to the Royal Air Force, House of Commons [August 20, 1940] The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Tribute to the Royal Air Force, House of Commons [August 20, 1940] This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred, this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Radio broadcast [September 11, 1940] Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Report on the war, House of Commons [October 8, 1940] We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Radio broadcast to the French people [October 21, 1940] History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Tribute to Neville Chamberlain, House of Commons [November 12, 1940] I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech in the House of Commons [January 22, 1941] Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. . . . Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Radio broadcast [February 9, 1941] This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Remark in the House of Commons following the parachute descent in Scotland of Rudolf Hess [May 13, 1941] The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Report on the war, House of Commons [June 10, 1941]  A vile race of quislings-to use the new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech at St. James's Palace, London [June 12, 1941] The destiny of mankind is not decided by material computation. When great causes are on the move in the world . . . we learn that we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Radio broadcast to America on receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Rochester, New York [June 16, 1941] Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorized into various forms of abject submission, he must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and of Asia. The terrible military machine, which we and the rest of the civilized world so foolishly, so supinely, so insensately allowed the Nazi gangsters to build up year by year from almost nothing, cannot stand idle lest it rust or fall to pieces. . . . So now this bloodthirsty guttersnipe must launch his mechanized armies upon new fields of slaughter, pillage and devastation. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Radio broadcast on the German invasion of Russia [June 22, 1941] We will have no truce or parley with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst-and we will do our best. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech to the London County Council [July 14, 1941] The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Message to the people of Europe on launching the V for Victory propaganda campaign [July 20, 1941]  Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Report on the war, House of Commons [September 30, 1941] Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. 1 2 Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Address at Harrow School [October 29, 1941] 1 See Shakespeare 2 See William Pitt Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Address at Harrow School [October 29, 1941] In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech on war with Japan, House of Commons [December 8, 1941] What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech to the U.S. Congress [December 26, 1941] We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech to the Canadian Senate and House of Commons, Ottawa [December 30, 1941] This is no time to speak of the hopes of the future, or the broader world which lies beyond our struggles and our victory. We have to win that world for our children. We have to win it by our sacrifices. We have not won it yet. The crisis is upon us. . . . In this strange, terrible world war there is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. The mine, the factory, the dockyard, the salt sea waves, the fields to till, the home, the hospital, the chair of the scientist, the pulpit of the preacher-from the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech to the Canadian Senate and House of Commons, Ottawa [December 30, 1941] When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken; some neck. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech to the Canadian Senate and House of Commons, Ottawa [December 30, 1941]  The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England-he should have said Britain, of course-always wins one battle-the last. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech at the Lord Mayor's Day Luncheon, London [November 10, 1942] Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. 1 But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech at the Lord Mayor's Day Luncheon, London [November 10, 1942] 1 See Talleyrand I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech at the Lord Mayor's Day Luncheon, London [November 10, 1942] The soft underbelly of the Axis. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Report on the war, House of Commons [November 11, 1942] There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech on Allied war gains, House of Commons [August 2, 1944]  "Not in vain" may be the pride of those who survived and the epitaph of those who fell. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech in the House of Commons [September 28, 1944] The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer-not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech in the House of Commons [September 28, 1944] He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech in the House of Commons [April 17, 1945] I think "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. I got it from Sumner Welles. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill To reporters at the Washington airport, after conferring with President Truman at the White House [February 12, 1946]  From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Address at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri [March 5, 1946] This address to which I have given the title, "The Sinews of Peace." 1 Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Address at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri [March 5, 1946] 1 See Cicero In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill The Second World War: Moral of the Work, vol.I, The Gathering Storm [1948] No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill The Second World War: Moral of the Work, vol.II, Their Finest Hour [1949] When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill The Second World War: Moral of the Work, vol.III, The Grand Alliance [1950] Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Speech in the House of Commons [January 1952] A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Saying The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Saying Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Saying It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman-they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Saying This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Attributed Clarence Day 1874-1935 It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so-and all the more-what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-blind or not-a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool; it may be a throne. 1 2 3 Clarence Day This Simian World [1920]. XIX 1 See Matthew 5:34-5 2 See Pope 3 See H. G. Wells Robert Frost 1874-1963 They would not find me changed from him they knew- Only more sure of all I thought was true. Robert Frost Into My Own [1913], st. 4 Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season? 1 Robert Frost Reluctance [1913], st. 4 1 See Pope I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I shan't be gone long.-You come too. Robert Frost The Pasture [1914], st. 1 Something there is that doesn't love a wall. Robert Frost Mending Wall [1914] My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors." 1 Robert Frost Mending Wall [1914] 1 See Herbert Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out. 1 Robert Frost Mending Wall [1914] 1 See Chesterton And nothing to look backward to with pride, And nothing to look forward to with hope. Robert Frost The Death of the Hired Man [1914] Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. Robert Frost The Death of the Hired Man [1914] The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all. Robert Frost Home Burial [1914] Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost The Black Cottage [1914] The best way out is always through. Robert Frost A Servant to Servants [1914] Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. Robert Frost The Self-Seeker [1914] I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost The Road Not Taken [1916], st. 4 The Hyla breed That shouted in the mist a month ago, Like ghost of sleighbells in a ghost of snow. Robert Frost Hyla Brook [1916] We love the things we love for what they are. Robert Frost Hyla Brook [1916] I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better. Robert Frost Birches [1916] One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Robert Frost Birches [1916] I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be gone. Robert Frost The Sound of the Trees [1916] Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of. Robert Frost New Hampshire [1923] The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil. Robert Frost New Hampshire [1923] The snake stood up for evil in the Garden. Robert Frost The Ax-Helve [1923] Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue? Robert Frost Fragmentary Blue [1923], st. 1 Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Robert Frost Fire and Ice 1 2 [1923] 1 See Dante 2 See Housman The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock treeHas given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. Robert Frost Dust of Snow [1923] We heard the miniature thunder where he fled. Robert Frost The Runaway [1923] Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [1923],st. 1 My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near. Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [1923],st. 2 The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [1923],st. 4 Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air. Robert Frost To Earthward [1923],st. 1 Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stainOf tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove. Robert Frost To Earthward [1923],st. 5, 6 Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. Dread fifty above more than fifty below. Robert Frost Goodbye and Keep Cold [1923] It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken. Robert Frost Once by the Pacific [1928] Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. Robert Frost Tree at My Window [1928],st. 1 That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather. Robert Frost Tree at My Window [1928],st. 4 I have been one acquainted with the night. Robert Frost Acquainted with the Night [1928] If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes Will keep my talk from getting overwise, I'm not the one for putting off the proof. Let it be overwhelming. Robert Frost Dust in the Eyes [1928] Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college. Robert Frost Build Soil [1932] The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March. Robert Frost Two Tramps in Mud Time [1936],st. 3 But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes. Robert Frost Two Tramps in Mud Time [1936],st. 9 No memory of having starred Atones for later disregard, Or keeps the end from being hard.Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship by your side Than none at all. Provide, provide! Robert Frost Provide, Provide [1936], st. 6, 7 The old dog barks backward without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. Robert Frost The Span of Life [1936] The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. Robert Frost The Gift Outright [1941] She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when a sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent, So that in guys it gently sways at ease. Robert Frost The Silken Tent [1942] But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware. Robert Frost The Silken Tent [1942] Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length. Robert Frost Title of poem [1942] Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament.But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been. Robert Frost Come In [1942], st. 4, 5 And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. Robert Frost The Lesson for Today [1942] We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost The Secret Sits [1942] Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion. Robert Frost Directive [1947] Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took. Robert Frost Bravado [1947] Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart. Robert Frost A Mood Apart [1947] All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief. Robert Frost Haec Fabula Docet [1947] It asks a little of us here. It asks of us a certain height, So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may take something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid. Robert Frost Take Something Like a Star [1949] Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. Robert Frost From In the Clearing [1962] I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at. Robert Frost A-Wishing Well [1962] It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling. Robert Frost It Takes All Sorts [1962] Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! 1 And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died. Robert Frost Away! [1962], st. 5, 6 1 See Anonymous: Shanties A poem . . . begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. . . . It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. Robert Frost Letter to Louis Untermeyer [January 1, 1916] It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it. 1 2 Robert Frost The Poetry of Amy Lowell. From the Christian Science Monitor [May 16, 1925] 1 See Coleridge 2 See Frost Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing. Robert Frost A Way Out [1929], preface It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love. Robert Frost The Figure a Poem Makes. Preface to Collected Poems [1939] No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. 1 Robert Frost The Figure a Poem Makes. Preface to Collected Poems [1939] 1 See Charles Churchill Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went. 1 2 Robert Frost The Figure a Poem Makes. Preface to Collected Poems [1939] 1 See Coleridge 2 See Frost How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. Robert Frost Comment It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Robert Frost Comment Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost Comment Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Robert Frost Comment Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes all the pressure off the second. Robert Frost Comment The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. Robert Frost Comment Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. Robert Frost Comment There's absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go very slow. . . . What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you. Robert Frost [March 21, 1954] Education is . . . hanging around until you've caught on. Robert Frost [January 30, 1963] Ellen Glasgow 1874-1945 No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. Ellen Glasgow Address to the Modern Language Association [1936] Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. Ellen Glasgow A Certain Measure [1943] Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity. Ellen Glasgow A Certain Measure [1943] Herbert Clark Hoover 1874-1964  The American system of rugged individualism. Herbert Clark Hoover Campaign speech, New York [October 22, 1928] The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities. Herbert Clark Hoover Speech [October 31, 1932] A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. Herbert Clark Hoover Address to the John Marshall Republican Club, St. Louis, Missouri [December 16, 1935] Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. 1 Herbert Clark Hoover Speech at the Republican National Convention, Chicago [June 27, 1944] 1 See Grantland Rice Harold L eClair Ickes 1874-1952 I am against government by crony. Harold L eClair Ickes On resigning as secretary of the interior [February 1946] W illiam L yon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. W illiam L yon Mackenzie King Message of the Carillon [1927] Karl Kraus 1874-1936  There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way. Karl Kraus Spruche und Widerspruche (Dicta and Contradictions) [1909] What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory? Karl Kraus Spruche und Widerspruche (Dicta and Contradictions) [1909] An aphorism is never exactly truthful. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half. Karl Kraus Spruche und Widerspruche (Dicta and Contradictions) [1909] Amy Lowell 1874-1925 A pattern called a war. Christ! What are patterns for? Amy Lowell Patterns Sappho would speak, I think, quite openly, And Mrs. Browning guard a careful silence, But Emily would set doors ajar and slam them And love you for your speed of observation. Amy Lowell The Sisters Heart-leaves of lilac all over New England, Roots of lilac under all the soil of New England, Lilac in me because I am New England. Amy Lowell Lilacs W illiam Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. W illiam Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage [1915], ch.39 People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. W illiam Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage [1915], ch.50 There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. . . . Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. W illiam Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage [1915], ch.51 I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked 1 2 . . . it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed. W illiam Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence [1919], ch.2 1 See T. H. Huxley 2 See William James Impropriety is the soul of wit. 1 W illiam Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence [1919], ch.4 1 See Shakespeare Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. W illiam Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence [1919], ch.14 Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. W illiam Somerset Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf [1921], ch.3 The tragedy of love is indifference. W illiam Somerset Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf [1921], ch.4 I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. W illiam Somerset Maugham Sheppy [1933], act III She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!" W illiam Somerset Maugham Altogether [1934]. Rain I would sooner read a timetable or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. W illiam Somerset Maugham The Summing Up [1938] If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. W illiam Somerset Maugham Strictly Personal [1941], ch. 31 Alice Duer Miller 1874-1942 The white cliffs of Dover, I saw rising steeply Out of the sea that once made her [England] secure. Alice Duer Miller The White Cliffs [1940] But in a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live. Alice Duer Miller The White Cliffs [1940] John D avison RockefellerJr. 1874-1960 I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. John D avison RockefellerJr. Ten Principles: Address in behalf of United Service Organizations, New York [July 8, 1941] Robert William Service 1874-1958 This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive. Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain, This is the Will of the Yukon-Lo, how she makes it plain! Robert William Service The Law of the Yukon Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew, And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou. Robert William Service The Shooting of Dan McGrew [1907], st. 1 The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee. Robert William Service The Cremation of Sam McGee [1907],st. 1 A promise made is a debt unpaid. Robert William Service The Cremation of Sam McGee [1907],st. 8 Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. Gertrude Stein Sacred Emily [written 1913]  You are all a lost generation. Gertrude Stein Used by Ernest Hemingway as an epigraph for The Sun Also Rises [1926] Pigeons on the grass alas. Gertrude Stein Four Saints in Three Acts [written 1927] Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded. Gertrude Stein Title [written 1930] Remarks are not literature [said to Hemingway]. Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas [written 1930] America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be. After all anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything. And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made. Gertrude Stein An American and France [1936] In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. Gertrude Stein The Geographical History of America [1936] What is the answer? [I was silent.] In that case, what is the question? Gertrude Stein Last words. From Alice B. Toklas, What Is Remembered [1963] Trumbull Stickney 1874-1904 Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream. Trumbull Stickney Be Still [1905] It's autumn in the country I remember. Trumbull Stickney Mnemosyne Edward L ee Thorndike 1874-1949 The intellect, character and skill possessed by any man are the product of certain original tendencies and the training which they have received. Edward L ee Thorndike Educational Psychology: Briefer Course [1914] Harry Williams 1874-1924 It's a long way to Tipperary, it's a long way to go; It's a long way to Tipperary, to the sweetest girl I know! Goodbye, Piccadilly, farewell, Leicester Square, It's a long, long way to Tipperary, but my heart's right there! Harry Williams Tipperary [1908] In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree. Harry Williams Title of song E dmund C lerihew Bentley 1875-1956  Sir Christopher Wren Said "I am going to dine with some men. If anybody calls Say I am designing St. Paul's." E dmund C lerihew Bentley Biography for Beginners.Sir Christopher Wren John Stuart Mill By a mighty effort of will Overcame his natural bonhomie And wrote Principles of Political Economy. E dmund C lerihew Bentley Biography for Beginners.John Stuart Mill George the Third Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder. E dmund C lerihew Bentley Biography for Beginners.George III Mary McLeod Bethune 1875-1955 What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them. 1 Mary McLeod Bethune "Certain Unalienable Rights." From What the Negro Wants [1944], edited by Rayford W. Logan 1 See Jordan If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything . . . that smacks of discrimination or slander. Mary McLeod Bethune "Certain Unalienable Rights." From What the Negro Wants [1944], edited by Rayford W. Logan John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir 1875-1940 We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir Address to the people of Canada, on the coronation of George VI [May 12, 1937] Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir Pilgrim's Way [1940] Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875-1950 As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy, and raising his eyes to the full moon threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people. Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes [1914], ch. 7 Carl Gustav Jung 1875-1961 Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Gustav Jung Psychological Types [1923],ch.1, p. 82 The great problems of life-sexuality, of course, among others-are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence. Carl Gustav Jung Psychological Types [1923],ch.5, p. 271 We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. Carl Gustav Jung Psychological Types [1923],conclusion, p. 628 The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation one to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment. Carl Gustav Jung Contributions to Analytical Psychology [1928],p. 185 Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain. Carl Gustav Jung Contributions to Analytical Psychology [1928],p. 193 The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. Carl Gustav Jung Contributions to Analytical Psychology [1928],p. 340 The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Gustav Jung Modern Man in Search of a Soul [1933],p. 57 The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form-an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other. Carl Gustav Jung Modern Man in Search of a Soul [1933],p. 69 Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin-and certainly a danger-to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself. Carl Gustav Jung Modern Man in Search of a Soul [1933],p. 125 All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet. Carl Gustav Jung The Integration of the Personality [1939],p. 72 If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Gustav Jung The Integration of the Personality [1939],p. 285 The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not-which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. Carl Gustav Jung Psychology and Alchemy [1953], p. 51 The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine." Carl Gustav Jung The Practice of Psychotherapy [1953], p. 364 The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process. Carl Gustav Jung From Psychological Reflections: A Jung Anthology [1953],p. 83: Collected Works, vol. 4, The Theory of Psychoanalysis [1913] This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic. Carl Gustav Jung From Psychological Reflections: A Jung Anthology [1953],p. 58: vol. 8, General Aspects of Dream Psychology [1928] The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. Carl Gustav Jung From Psychological Reflections: A Jung Anthology [1953],p. 46: vol. 10, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man [1934] Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. Carl Gustav Jung From Psychological Reflections: A Jung Anthology [1953],p. 32: vol. 9, Psychological Aspects of the Modern Archetype [1938] No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness. Carl Gustav Jung From Psychological Reflections: A Jung Anthology [1953],p. 143: vol. 15, Paracelsus the Physician [1942] Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Gustav Jung From Psychological Reflections: A Jung Anthology [1953],p. 87: vol. 7, The Psychology of the Unconscious [1943] The erotic instinct is something questionable, and will always be so whatever a future set of laws may have to say on the matter. It belongs, on the one hand, to the original animal nature of man, which will exist as long as man has an animal body. On the other hand, it is connected with the highest forms of the spirit. But it blooms only when spirit and instinct are in true harmony. If one or the other aspect is missing, then an injury occurs, or at least there is a one-sided lack of balance which easily slips into the pathological. Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal. Carl Gustav Jung From Psychological Reflections: A Jung Anthology [1953],p. 93 Thomas Mann 1875-1955 We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side. Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks [1903], pt.VIII, ch. 2 Beauty can pierce one like a pain. Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks [1903], pt.XI, ch. 2 Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state. . . . Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.1 A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.2 The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.5 Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.5 Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.5 Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.6 Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.6 All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.6 The invention of printing and the Reformation are and remain the two outstanding services of central Europe to the cause of humanity. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.6 Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact-it is silence which isolates. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.6 A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.6 What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.7 Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain [1924], ch.7 Death in Venice. Thomas Mann Stories of Three Decades [1936], title of story Disorder and Early Sorrow. Thomas Mann Stories of Three Decades [1936], title of story In the Word is involved the unity of humanity, the wholeness of the human problem, which permits nobody to separate the intellectual and artistic from the political and social, and to isolate himself within the ivory tower of the "cultural" proper. Thomas Mann Letter to the dean of the Philosophical Faculty, Bonn University [January 1937] Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. Thomas Mann The Beloved Returns [1939] Hughes Mearns 1875-1965 As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away. Hughes Mearns The Psychoed Nyozekan Hasegawa 1875-1969  The war was started as the result of a mistaken intuitive "calculation" which transcended mathematics. We believed with a blind fervor that we could triumph over scientific weapons and tactics by means of our mystic will. . . . The characteristic reliance on intuition by Japanese had blocked the objective cognition of the modern world. Nyozekan Hasegawa The Lost Japan [1952] Frank Ward O'Malley 1875-1932  Life is just one damned thing after another. Frank Ward O'Malley Attributed. (Also attributed to Elbert Hubbard) Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926 He was a poet and hated the approximate. Rainer Maria Rilke The Journal of My Other Self Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet We're never single-minded, unperplexed, like migratory birds. Rainer Maria Rilke The Duino Elegies,4 The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within. Rainer Maria Rilke The Duino Elegies,7 Death is the side of life which is turned away from us. Rainer Maria Rilke Letter to W. von Hulewicz A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Rainer Maria Rilke Letters Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke Letters In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Rainer Maria Rilke Letters Works of art are indeed always products of having been in danger, of having gone to the very end in an experience, to where man can go no further. Rainer Maria Rilke Letters Rafael Sabatini 1875-1950  Born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad, and that was his only patrimony. Rafael Sabatini Scaramouche [1921], ch. 1 Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, "Reverence for Life." 1 Albert Schweitzer Out of My Life and Thought [1949] 1 See W. E. Channing Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live. Albert Schweitzer Out of My Life and Thought [1949] Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always. Albert Schweitzer Out of My Life and Thought [1949] You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too. Albert Schweitzer On Receiving the Nobel Prize [1952] Sherwood Anderson 1876-1941 Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio [1919].The Philosopher I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio [1919].Tandy Sarah N orcliffe Cleghorn 1876-1959 The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And watch the men at play. Sarah N orcliffe Cleghorn Quatrain [1915] Irvin S hrewsbury Cobb 1876-1944 It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo, it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you have all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp. A sudden, violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across. Irvin S hrewsbury Cobb Definition of "corn licker" given to the Distillers' Code Authority, NRA Max Jacob 1876-1944 The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. Max Jacob La Defense de Tartufe [1919]  When you get to the point where you cheat for the sake of beauty, you're an artist. Max Jacob Art Poetique [1922] What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. Max Jacob Art Poetique [1922] Charles F ranklin Kettering 1876-1958 We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. Charles F ranklin Kettering Seed for Thought [1949] Maxim Maximovich Litvinov 1876-1951  Peace is indivisible. Maxim Maximovich Litvinov Speech to the League of Nations, Geneva, condemning Italian aggression in Ethiopia [July 1, 1936] Wilson Mizner 1876-1933 Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Mizner Saying Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down. Wilson Mizner Saying(Also attributed to Jimmy Durante) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. Wilson Mizner Saying(Also attributed to Jimmy Durante) You sparkle with larceny. Wilson Mizner Remark You're a mouse studying to be a rat. Wilson Mizner Remark ÿ Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli 1876-1958 Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious. Pope Pius XII Radio broadcast [September 1, 1944] If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work? Pope Pius XII Radio broadcast [September 1, 1944] G eorge M acaulay Trevelyan 1876-1962 A man and what he loves and builds have but a day and then disappear; nature cares not-and renews the annual round untired. It is the old law, sad but not bitter. Only when man destroys the life and beauty of nature, there is the outrage. G eorge M acaulay Trevelyan Grey of Fallodon [1937], bk. I, ch. 3 Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood of real civilization. G eorge M acaulay Trevelyan English Social History [1942],preface Education . . . has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G eorge M acaulay Trevelyan English Social History [1942],ch. 18 Anthony Henderson Euwer 1877-1955 As a beauty I'm not a great star. There are others more handsome, by far, But my face-I don't mind it For I am behind it; It's the people in front get the jar. Anthony Henderson Euwer Limeratomy Rose Fyleman 1877-1957 There are fairies at the bottom of our garden! Rose Fyleman The Fairies, st. 1 Godfrey Harold Hardy 1877-1947 A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. Godfrey Harold Hardy A Mathematician's Apology [1940] Sir James Hopwood Jeans 1877-1946 Taking a very gloomy view of the future of the human race, let us suppose that it can only expect to survive for two thousand million years longer, a period about equal to the past age of the earth. Then, regarded as a being destined to live for threescore years and ten, humanity, although it has been born in a house seventy years old, is itself only three days old. Sir James Hopwood Jeans The Wilder Aspects of Cosmogony [1928] All the pictures which science now draws of nature and which alone seem capable of according with observational fact are mathematical pictures. . . . From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. Sir James Hopwood Jeans The Mysterious Universe [1930] Physics tries to discover the pattern of events which controls the phenomena we observe. But we can never know what this pattern means or how it originates; and even if some superior intelligence were to tell us, we should find the explanation unintelligible. Sir James Hopwood Jeans Physics and Philosophy [1942] Lewis M adison Terman 1877-1956 One of the most serious problems confronting psychology is that of connecting itself with life. . . . Theory that does not someway affect life has no value. Lewis M adison Terman Genius and Stupidity [1906] McLandburgh Wilson fl. 1915 'Twixt the optimist and pessimist The difference is droll: The optimist sees the doughnut But the pessimist sees the hole. McLandburgh Wilson Optimist and Pessimist John M unro Woolsey 1877-1945  If Joyce did not attempt to be honest in developing the technique which he has adopted in Ulysses the result would be psychologically misleading and thus unfaithful to his chosen technique. Such an attitude would be artistically inexcusable. John M unro Woolsey U.S. v. One Book Called "Ulysses," 5 Federal Supplement 182, 184 [1933], III I am quite aware that owing to some of its scenes Ulysses is a rather strong draught to ask some sensitive, though normal, persons to take. But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that whilst in many places the effect of Ulysses on the reader is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac. Ulysses may, therefore, be admitted into the United States. 1 John M unro Woolsey U.S. v. One Book Called "Ulysses," 5 Federal Supplement 182, 184 [1933], III 1 See Joyce Emiliano Zapata c. 1877-1919  Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! Emiliano Zapata Attributed Akiko Yosano 1878-1942 Because my songs are brief, People think I hoarded words. I have spared nothing in my songs. There is nothing I can add. Unlike a fish, my soul swims without gills. I sing on one breath. Akiko Yosano My Songs George M ichael Cohan 1878-1942 Always Leave Them Laughing When You Say Goodbye. George M ichael Cohan Mother Goose [1903], title of song Give my regards to Broadway, Remember me to Herald Square, Tell all the gang at Forty-second Street That I will soon be there. George M ichael Cohan Little Johnny Jones [1904].Give My Regards to Broadway I'm a Yankee Doodle dandy, A Yankee Doodle do or die; A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam's Born on the Fourth of July. George M ichael Cohan Little Johnny Jones [1904].Yankee Doodle Dandy The Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming everywhere. George M ichael Cohan Over There [1917] And we won't come back till it's over over there. George M ichael Cohan Over There [1917] What's all the shootin' for? George M ichael Cohan The Tavern [1920] Adelaide Crapsey 1878-1914 These be Three silent things: The falling snow . . . the hour Before the dawn . . . the mouth of one Just dead. Adelaide Crapsey Cinquain: Triad Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969 The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clear and cool, from the heights of Hermon and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. The Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, for the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep. Harry Emerson Fosdick The Meaning of Service [1920] Oliver St. John Gogarty 1878-1957 If only gladiators died, Or heroes, death would be his pride; But have not little maidens gone, And Lesbia's sparrow, 1 all alone? Oliver St. John Gogarty Per Iter Tenebricosum 1 See Catullus Don ald Robert Perry Marquis 1878-1937 My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name. Don ald Robert Perry Marquis The Name, st. 1 I love you as New Englanders love pie! Don ald Robert Perry Marquis Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady [1922], XII dedicated to babs with babs knows what and babs knows why Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy and mehitabel [1927] oh i should worry and fret death and i will coquette there s a dance in the old dame yet toujours gai toujours gai Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy and mehitabel [1927]the song of mehitabel procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy and mehitabel [1927]certain maxims of archy an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy and mehitabel [1927]certain maxims of archy what in hell have i done to deserve all these kittens Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy and mehitabel [1927]mehitabel and her kittens dance mehitabel dance caper and shake a leg what little blood is left will fizz like wine in a keg Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy and mehitabel [1927]mehitabel dances with boreas it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have it used up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy and mehitabel [1927]what the ants are saying what man calls civilization always results in deserts Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy and mehitabel [1927]what the ants are saying each generation wastes a little more of the future with greed and lust for riches Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy and mehitabel [1927]what the ants are saying it wont be long now it wont be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy and mehitabel [1927]what the ants are saying i have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same with the human race Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy's life of mehitabel [1933]. random thoughts by archy it is a cheering thought to think that god is on the side of the best digestion Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy does his part [1935].the big bad wolf there is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country if you are president the trouble happens to you but if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy does his part [1935].archy's newest deal there is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble Don ald Robert Perry Marquis archy does his part [1935].comforting thoughts John Masefield 1878-1967 I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a gray mist on the sea's face and a gray dawn breaking. John Masefield Sea Fever [1902],st. 1 I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied. John Masefield Sea Fever [1902],st. 2 I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. John Masefield Sea Fever [1902],st. 3 It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries. John Masefield The West Wind [1902], st. 1 The days that make us happy make us wise. John Masefield Biography Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, 1 Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. John Masefield Cargoes,st. 1 1 See I Kings 10:22 Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smokestack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, Road rail, pig lead, Firewood, ironware, and cheap tin trays. John Masefield Cargoes,st. 3 What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells? John Masefield Sonnets, 14 But he has gone, A nation's memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will. John Masefield On the Finish of the Sailing Ship Race Lisbon to Manhattan [July 1964] Paul Reynaud 1878-1966  We shall win because we are the stronger. Paul Reynaud Radio Speech [September 10, 1939] Carl Sandburg 1878-1967 I am the people-the mob-the crowd-the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? Carl Sandburg I Am the People, the Mob [1916] Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the big shoulders. Carl Sandburg Chicago [1916] The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Carl Sandburg Fog [1916] Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all.And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now? Carl Sandburg Grass [1918] I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. Carl Sandburg Prairie [1918] When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin . . . in the dust, in the cool tombs. Carl Sandburg Cool Tombs [1918] Tell me if the lovers are losers . . . tell me if any get more than the lovers. Carl Sandburg Cool Tombs [1918] Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. Carl Sandburg Prayers of Steel [1920] Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. Carl Sandburg Jazz Fantasia [1920] The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream. Carl Sandburg Washington Monument by Night [1922] Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots. Carl Sandburg Primer Lesson [1922] Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. Carl Sandburg The People, Yes [1936] The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds. Carl Sandburg The People, Yes [1936] The people know the salt of the sea and the strength of the winds lashing the corners of the earth. The people take the earth as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope. Who else speaks for the Family of Man? Carl Sandburg The People, Yes [1936] Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother:This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers. There are men who can't be bought. Carl Sandburg The People Will Live On [1936] Louis Edwin Thayer 1878-1956 I fancy when I go to rest someone will bring to light Some kindly word or goodly act long buried out of sight; But, if it's all the same to you, just give to me, instead, The bouquets while I'm living and the knocking when I'm dead. 1 2 Louis Edwin Thayer Of Post-Mortem Praises, st. 1 1 See Martial 2 See Hazlitt John Broadus Watson 1878-1958 Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant chief and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond the facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years. John Broadus Watson Behaviorism [1925], ch.5 If "mind" acts on body, then all physical laws are invalid. John Broadus Watson Behaviorism [1925], ch.6 The universe will change if you bring up your children, not in the freedom of the libertine, but in behavioristic freedom-a freedom which we cannot even picture in words, so little do we know of it. John Broadus Watson Behaviorism [1925], ch.12 Hans Zinsser 1878-1940 The scientist takes off from the manifold observations of predecessors, and shows his intelligence, if any, by his ability to discriminate between the important and the negligible, by selecting here and there the significant steppingstones that will lead across the difficulties to new understanding. The one who places the last stone and steps across to the terra firma of accomplished discovery gets all the credit. Only the initiated know and honor those whose patient integrity and devotion to exact observation have made the last step possible. 1 2 Hans Zinsser As I Remember Him [1940], ch. 20 1 See Sir Francis Darwin 2 See Sir Alexander Fleming Ethel Barrymore 1879-1959 That's all there is, there isn't any more. Ethel Barrymore Added with the permission of author Thomas Raceward, as the curtain line of his play Sunday [1906], starring Miss Barrymore William Maxwell Aitken , Baron Beaverbrook 1879-1964 Who is responsible for this work of development [in the Aircraft Ministry] on which so much depends? To whom must the praise be given? To the boys in the back rooms. They do not sit in the limelight. But they are the men who do the work. William Maxwell Aitken , Baron Beaverbrook Broadcast when he was minister of aircraft production [1941] Sir William Henry Beveridge 1879-1963 There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment. Sir William Henry Beveridge Full Employment in a Free Society [1945] Louis Brownlow 1879-1963  They [the President's aides] should be possessed of high competence, great physical vigor, and a passion for anonymity. Louis Brownlow Administrative Management in the Government of the United States: Report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management [January 1937] James Branch Cabell 1879-1958 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell The Silver Stallion [1926], ch. 26 Ch'en Tu-hsiu 1879-1942  The pulse of modern life is economic and the fundamental principle of economic production is individual independence. Ch'en Tu-hsiu The New Youth[December 1916] All religions, laws, moral and political systems are but necessary means to preserve social order. Ch'en Tu-hsiu The New Youth[February 1918] Man's happiness in life is the result of man's own effort and is neither the gift of God nor a spontaneous natural product. Ch'en Tu-hsiu The New Youth[February 1918] During his lifetime, an individual should devote his efforts to create happiness and to enjoy it, and also to keep it in store in society so that individuals of the future may also enjoy it. Ch'en Tu-hsiu The New Youth[February 1918] Albert Einstein 1879-1955 E = mc2. Albert Einstein Statement of the mass-energy equivalence relationship The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein What I Believe [1930] To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men. Albert Einstein What I Believe [1930] Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. Albert Einstein Address, California Institute of Technology [1931] The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein Physics and Reality [1936] Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. Albert Einstein Evolution of Physics [1938] Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. Albert Einstein Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt [August 2, 1939] (the letter that resulted in the assignment of government funds for developing the atom bomb) This new phenomena [atomic energy] would also lead to the construction of bombs. . . . A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air. Albert Einstein Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt [August 2, 1939] (the letter that resulted in the assignment of government funds for developing the atom bomb) As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. Albert Einstein Einstein on the Atomic Bomb. From the Atlantic Monthly [November 1945] I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. Albert Einstein Einstein on the Atomic Bomb. From the Atlantic Monthly [November 1945] Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do. Albert Einstein Einstein on the Atomic Bomb. From the Atlantic Monthly [November 1945] I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world. 1 Albert Einstein From Philipp Frank, Einstein, His Life and Times [1947] 1 See Anatole France  The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not. Albert Einstein Inscription in Fine Hall, Princeton University Every intellectual who is called before one of the committees ought to refuse to testify, i.e., he must be prepared . . . for the sacrifice of his personal welfare in the interest of the cultural welfare of his country. . . . This kind of inquisition violates the spirit of the Constitution. If enough people are ready to take this grave step they will be successful. If not, then the intellectuals of this country deserve nothing better than the slavery which is intended for them. Albert Einstein Letter to William Frauenglass [May 16, 1953] The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes. Albert Einstein From Ralph E. Lapp, The Einstein Letter That Started It All.In the New York Times Magazine [August 2, 1964] Our defense is not in armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order. 1 Albert Einstein From Ralph E. Lapp, The Einstein Letter That Started It All.In the New York Times Magazine [August 2, 1964] 1 See Lincoln Something deeply hidden had to be behind things. Albert Einstein From Ralph E. Lapp, The Einstein Letter That Started It All.[autobiographical handwritten note] Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879-1958 A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Her Son's Wife [1926], ch. 37 E dward M organ Forster 1879-1970 When the book of life is opening, our readings are secret. E dward M organ Forster The Longest Journey [1907] Nonsense and beauty have close connections. E dward M organ Forster The Longest Journey [1907] Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. E dward M organ Forster Howards End [1910], ch. 22 The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, "Pathos, piety, courage-they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value." If one had spoken vileness in that place, or quoted lofty poetry, the [echo's] comment would have been the same-"Ou-boum." E dward M organ Forster A Passage to India [1924] Edmund L. Gruber 1879-1941 Over hill, over dale, 1 we have hit the dusty trail And those caissons go rolling along. Edmund L. Gruber The Caisson Song [1908] 1 See Shakespeare Oh, it's hi-hi-yee! for the field artilleree, Shout out your numbers loud and strong, And where'er we go, you will always know That those caissons are rolling along. Edmund L. Gruber The Caisson Song [1908] Joe Hill Joseph Hillstrom 1879-1915 Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die. Joe Hill The Preacher and the Slave John Haynes Holmes 1879-1964 If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact. John Haynes Holmes The Sensible Man's View of Religion [1933] Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism. John Haynes Holmes The Sensible Man's View of Religion [1933] The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. John Haynes Holmes The Sensible Man's View of Religion [1933] The life of humanity upon this planet may yet come to an end, and a very terrible end. But I would have you notice that this end is threatened in our time not by anything that the universe may do to us, but only by what man may do to himself. John Haynes Holmes The Sensible Man's View of Religion [1933] Vachel Lindsay 1879-1931 Booth died blind and still by faith he trod, Eyes still dazzled by the ways of God. Vachel Lindsay General William Booth Enters into Heaven [1913] Sleep softly . . . eagle forgotten . . . under the stone. Vachel Lindsay The Eagle That is Forgotten [1913], st. 5 Factory windows are always broken. Somebody's always throwing bricks, Somebody's always heaving cinders, Playing ugly Yahoo tricks. Vachel Lindsay Factory Windows, st. 1 Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings; with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom. Vachel Lindsay The Congo [1914], pt. I Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the forest with a golden track. Vachel Lindsay The Congo [1914], pt. I Be careful what you do, Or Mumbo-Jumbo, God of the Congo, And all of the other Gods of the Congo, Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you. Vachel Lindsay The Congo [1914], pt. I A bronzed, lank man! His suit of ancient black, A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl Make him the quaint great figure that men love, The prairie-lawyer, master of us all. Vachel Lindsay Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight [1914], st. 3 They spoke, I think, of perils past. They spoke, I think, of peace at last. One thing I remember: Spring came on forever, Spring came on forever, Said the Chinese nightingale. Vachel Lindsay The Chinese Nightingale [1917], end Planting the trees that would march and train On, in his name to the great Pacific, Like Birnam Wood to Dunsinane, 1 Johnny Appleseed swept on. Vachel Lindsay In Praise of Johnny Appleseed 1 See Shakespeare The more probable chance for me will come in some little row where strikers are being shot down. . . . I would be with the fool strikers, right or wrong. Vachel Lindsay Letter to Eleanor Dougherty [October 12, 1918] Dixon Lanier Merritt 1879-1972 A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But I'm damned if I see how the helican. Dixon Lanier Merritt The Pelican [1910] Jack Norworth 1879-1959 Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker-jack- I don't care if I never get back. Jack Norworth Take Me Out to the Ball Game [1908] For it's one, two, three strikes you're out At the old ball game. Jack Norworth Take Me Out to the Ball Game [1908] Will iam Penn Adair Rogers 1879-1935 All I know is just what I read in the papers. Will iam Penn Adair Rogers Prefatory remark I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce. Will iam Penn Adair Rogers The Illiterate Digest [1924],p. 30 Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. Will iam Penn Adair Rogers The Illiterate Digest [1924],p. 131 More men have been elected between sundown and sunup than ever were elected between sunup and sundown. Will iam Penn Adair Rogers The Illiterate Digest [1924],p. 152 A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious. Will iam Penn Adair Rogers Syndicated newspaper article [June 28, 1931] I not only "don't choose to run" 1 [for President] but I don't even want to leave a loophole in case I am drafted, so I won't "choose." I will say "won't run" no matter how bad the country will need a comedian by that time. Will iam Penn Adair Rogers Syndicated newspaper article [June 28, 1931] 1 See Calvin Coolidge Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. Will iam Penn Adair Rogers Syndicated newspaper article [June 28, 1931]  My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. Will iam Penn Adair Rogers Remark I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like. Will iam Penn Adair Rogers Epitaph Joseph Stalin Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili 1879-1953 Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. Joseph Stalin Speech [April 19, 1923] The most remarkable thing about socialist competition is that it creates a basic change in people's view of labor, since it changes the labor from a shameful and heavy burden into a matter of honor, matter of fame, matter of valor and heroism. Joseph Stalin Speech [June 27, 1930]  The Hitlerite blackguards . . . have turned Europe into a prison of nations, and this they call the new order in Europe. Joseph Stalin Address to the Moscow Soviet [November 6, 1942] You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. Joseph Stalin Attributed A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin Attributed Wallace Stevens 1879-1955 I heard them cry-the peacocks. Was it a cry against the twilight Or against the leaves themselves Turning in the wind, Turning as the flames Turned in the fire, Turning as the tails of the peacocks Turned in the loud fire, Loud as the hemlocks Full of the cry of the peacocks? Or was it a cry against the hemlocks? Wallace Stevens Domination of Black [1923] Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges, Into twenty villages, Or one man Crossing a single bridge into a village. Wallace Stevens Metaphors of a Magnifico [1923] Crispin, merest minuscule in the gales, Dejected his manner to the turbulence. Wallace Stevens The Comedian as the Letter C [1923],I, 3 Green barbarism turning paradigm. Wallace Stevens The Comedian as the Letter C [1923],II, 2 An annotator has his scruples, too. Wallace Stevens The Comedian as the Letter C [1923],II, 4 The book of moonlight is not written yet. Wallace Stevens The Comedian as the Letter C [1923],III, 1 And as he came he saw that it was spring, A time abhorrent to the nihilist Or searcher for the fecund minimum. Wallace Stevens The Comedian as the Letter C [1923],III, 4 The natives of the rain are rainy men. Wallace Stevens The Comedian as the Letter C [1923],IV, 1 The plum survives its poems. Wallace Stevens The Comedian as the Letter C [1923],V, 1 Arointing his dreams with fugal requiems? Wallace Stevens The Comedian as the Letter C [1923],V, 2 Yet the quotidian saps philosophers. Wallace Stevens The Comedian as the Letter C [1923],V, 4 Green crammers of the green fruits of the world. Wallace Stevens The Comedian as the Letter C [1923],VI, 2 Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Wallace Stevens A High-toned Old Christian Woman [1923] Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. Wallace Stevens The Emperor of Ice Cream [1923] Only, here and there, an old sailor, Drunk and asleep in his boots, Catches tigers In red weather. Wallace Stevens Disillusionment of Ten O'clock [1923] Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. Wallace Stevens Sunday Morning [1923],st. 1 She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need of some imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Wallace Stevens Sunday Morning [1923],st. 5 We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of that wide water, inescapable. Deer walk upon our mountains, and the quail Whistle about us their spontaneous cries; Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness; And, in the isolation of the sky, At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink, Downward to darkness, on extended wings. Wallace Stevens Sunday Morning [1923],st. 8 Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt! Wallace Stevens Bantams in Pine Woods [1923],st. 1 Damned universal cock, as if the sun Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail. Wallace Stevens Bantams in Pine Woods [1923],st. 2 I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. Wallace Stevens Anecdote of the Jar [1923], st. 1 Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs. 1 Wallace Stevens Title of poem [1923] 1 See Ambrose Bierce Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Wallace Stevens Peter Quince at the Clavier [1923],I Beauty is momentary in the mind- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal.The body dies; the body's beauty lives. Wallace Stevens Peter Quince at the Clavier [1923],IV Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory, And makes a constant sacrament of praise. Wallace Stevens Peter Quince at the Clavier [1923],IV I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird [1923], st. 5 The gongs rang loudly as the windy booms Hoo-hooed it in the darkened ocean-blooms. Wallace Stevens Sea Surface Full of Clouds [1923],II Then the sea And heaven rolled as one and from the two Came fresh transfigurings of freshest blue. Wallace Stevens Sea Surface Full of Clouds [1923],V She sang beyond the genius of the sea, The water never formed to mind or voice, Like a body wholly body, fluttering Its empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motion Made constant cry, caused constantly a cry, That was not ours although we understood, Inhuman, of the veritable ocean. Wallace Stevens The Idea of Order at Key West [1936],st. 1 Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon, The maker's rage to order words of the sea, Words of the fragrant portals, dimly starred, And of ourselves and of our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds. Wallace Stevens The Idea of Order at Key West [1936],st. 7 Poetry is the subject of the poem. Wallace Stevens The Man with the Blue Guitar [1937],XXII I am a native in this world And think in it as a native thinks. Wallace Stevens The Man with the Blue Guitar [1937],XXVIII Light Is the lion that comes down to drink. Wallace Stevens The Glass of Water [1942], st. 2 A. A violent order is disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These Two things are one. Wallace Stevens Connoisseur of Chaos [1942], st. 1 One's grand flights, one's Sunday baths, One's tootings at the weddings of the soul Occur as they occur. Wallace Stevens The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man [1942], st. 1 And, capable, created in his mind, Eventual victor, out of the martyrs' bones The ultimate elegance: the imagined land. Wallace Stevens Mrs. Alfred Uruguay [1942], st. 4 The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose. Wallace Stevens Asides on the Oboe [1942], st. 1 The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon, The ABC of being,The ruddy temper, the hammer Of red and blue, the hard sound- Steel against intimation-the sharp flash, The vital, arrogant, fatal, dominant X. Wallace Stevens The Motive for Metaphor [1947], st. 4, 5 To get at the thing Without gestures is to get at it as Idea. Wallace Stevens So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch [1947], st. 6 It was the last nostalgia: that he Should understand. Wallace Stevens Esthetique du Mal [1947],X The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair. Wallace Stevens Esthetique du Mal [1947],XV Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for thoseFor whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.It is a world of words to the end of it, In which nothing solid is its solid self. Wallace Stevens Description Without Place [1947], VII Torn by dreams,By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that defeats and dreams are one.The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate. Wallace Stevens Men Made Out of Words [1947] The inconceivable idea of the sun.You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Be Abstract,I The death of one god is the death of all. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Be Abstract,I There is a project for the sun. The sun Must bear no name, gold flourisher, but be In the difficulty of what it is to be. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Be Abstract,I It is the celestial ennui of apartments That sends us back to the first idea. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Be Abstract,II And still the grossest iridescence of ocean Howls hoo and rises and howls hoo and falls. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Be Abstract,III We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Be Abstract,IV An abstraction blooded. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Be Abstract,VI The President ordains the bee to be Immortal. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Change, II Booming and booming of the new-come bee. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Change, II He chose to include the things That in each other are included, the whole, The complicate, the amassing harmony. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Give Pleasure,VI These external regions, what do we fill them with Except reflections, the escapades of death, Cinderella fulfilling herself beneath the roof. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Give Pleasure,VIII Perhaps The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Give Pleasure,IX They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Give Pleasure,X Until flicked by feeling. Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction [1947].It Must Give Pleasure,X And one trembles to be so understood and, at last, To understand, as if to know became The fatality of seeing things too well. Wallace Stevens The Novel [1950], st. 16 We keep coming back and coming back To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns That fall upon it out of the wind. Wallace Stevens An Ordinary Evening in New Haven [1950],IX A more severe,More harassing master would extemporize Subtler, more urgent proof that the theory Of poetry is the theory of life,As it is, in the intricate evasions of as, In things seen and unseen, created from nothingness, The heavens, the hells, the worlds, the longed-for lands. Wallace Stevens An Ordinary Evening in New Haven [1950],XXVIII Total grandeur of a total edifice, Chosen by an inquisitor of structures For himself. He stops upon this threshold As if the design of all his words takes form And frame from thinking and is realized. Wallace Stevens To an Old Philosopher in Rome [1950], st. 16 A new scholar replacing an older one reflects A moment on this fantasia. He seeks For a human that can be accounted for. Wallace Stevens Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly [1950], st. 13 Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good. Wallace Stevens Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour [1950],st. 1 We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark. Wallace Stevens Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour [1950],st. 5 There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. Wallace Stevens The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain [1952], st. 1 Is it Ulysses that approaches from the east, The interminable adventurer? Wallace Stevens The World as Meditation [1952],st. 1 A form of fire approaches the cretonnes of Penelope. Wallace Stevens The World as Meditation [1952],st. 2 She wanted nothing he could not bring her by coming alone. Wallace Stevens The World as Meditation [1952],st. 5 But was it Ulysses? Or was it only the warmth of the sun On her pillow? The thought kept beating in her like her heart. The two kept beating together. It was only day. Wallace Stevens The World as Meditation [1952],st. 6 The barbarous strength within her would never fail. Wallace Stevens The World as Meditation [1952],st. 7 That scrawny cry-It was A chorister whose c preceded the choir. It was part of the colossal sun. Wallace Stevens Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself [1954], st. 5 The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises . . . A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm. Wallace Stevens Of Mere Being [1957], st. 1, 2 The essential gaudiness of poetry. Wallace Stevens Stevens's note to The Emperor of Ice Cream The essential thing in form is to be free in whatever form is used. A free form does not assure freedom. As a form, it is just one more form. So that it comes to this, I suppose, that I believe in freedom regardless of form. Wallace Stevens A Note on Poetry [1937] What makes the poet the potent figure that he is, or was, or ought to be, is that he creates the world to which we turn incessantly and without knowing it and that he gives to life the supreme fictions without which we are unable to conceive of it. Wallace Stevens The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words [1942] The subject matter of poetry is not that "collection of solid, static objects extended in space" but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes; and so reality is not that external scene but the life that is lived in it. Reality is things as they are. Wallace Stevens The Necessary Angel [1951] His [the poet's] function is to make his imagination theirs [the people's] and he fulfills himself only as he sees his imagination become the light in the minds of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives. Wallace Stevens The Necessary Angel [1951] The humble are they that move about the world with the lure of the real in their hearts. Wallace Stevens The Necessary Angel [1951]About One of Marianne Moore's Poems The greatest truth we could hope to discover, in whatever field we discovered it, is that man's truth is the final resolution of everything. Wallace Stevens The Necessary Angel [1951]The Relations Between Poetry and Painting Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music. Wallace Stevens On selecting Domination of Black as his best poem A poem is a meteor. Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous [1957]. Adagia Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous [1957]. Adagia A poem should be part of one's sense of life. Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous [1957]. Adagia A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous [1957]. Adagia All history is modern history. Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous [1957]. Adagia Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life. Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous [1957]. Adagia In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous [1957]. Adagia God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist). Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous [1957]. Adagia The world is a force, not a presence. Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous [1957]. Adagia Poetry is a search for the inexplicable. Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous [1957]. Adagia Simeon Strunsky 1879-1948 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. Simeon Strunsky No Mean City [1944], ch. 38 Leon Trotsky Leib Davydovich Bronstein 1879-1940 The literary "fellow travelers" of the Revolution. Leon Trotsky Literature and Revolution [1923], ch. 2 The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence. Leon Trotsky Terrorism and Communism [1924], p. 71 Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. Leon Trotsky Diary in Exile [1935] The vengeance of history is more terrible than the vengeance of the most powerful General Secretary. Leon Trotsky Stalin [1946], ch. 12 Guillaume Apollinaire Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitsky 1880-1918 Shepherdess, O Eiffel Tower, your flock of bridges is bleating this morning. Guillaume Apollinaire Alcools [1913].Zone Come night, strike hour. Days go, I endure. Guillaume Apollinaire Alcools [1913].Le Pont Mirabeau (Mirabeau Bridge), refrain I hibernated in my past. Guillaume Apollinaire Alcools [1913].La Chanson du Mal-Aime (Song of the Poorly Loved),st. 10 O Milky Way, sister in whiteness To Canaan's rivers and the bright Bodies of lovers drowned, Can we follow toilsomely Your path to other nebulae? Guillaume Apollinaire Alcools [1913].La Chanson du Mal-Aime (Song of the Poorly Loved),st. 13 (also st. 27) Pass on, let us pass, all is passing, And I will look back many times:The sound of hunting horns, when it dies On the wind, is like our memories. Guillaume Apollinaire Alcools [1913].Cors de Chasse (Hunting Horns), st. 2, 3 George Asaf George H. Powell 1880-1951 What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile, So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile. George Asaf Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag [1915] Alexander Blok 1880-1921 Black evening, white snow. Alexander Blok The Twelve [1918] With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution. . . . This is the music everyone who has ears should hear. Alexander Blok The Intelligentsia and the Revolution [1918] W illiam C laude Fields 1880-1946 It ain't a fit night out for man or beast. W illiam C laude Fields The Fatal Glass of Beer  Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. W illiam C laude Fields Attributed On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. W illiam C laude Fields His own epitaph Helen Keller 1880-1968 Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller The Story of My Life [1902] Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 The unfailing formula for production of morale is patriotism, self-respect, discipline, and self-confidence within a military unit, joined with fair treatment and merited appreciation from without. . . . It will quickly wither and die if soldiers come to believe themselves the victims of indifference or injustice on the part of their government, or of ignorance, personal ambition, or ineptitude on the part of their military leaders. Douglas MacArthur Annual Report of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1933 I shall return. Douglas MacArthur On leaving Corregidor for Australia [March 11, 1942] I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil. Douglas MacArthur Upon landing on Leyte [October 20, 1944] I see that the old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down. Douglas MacArthur To Colonel George M. Jones and 503rd Regimental Combat Team, who recaptured Corregidor [March 2, 1945] In war there is no substitute for victory. Douglas MacArthur Address to a Joint Meeting of Congress [April 19, 1951] I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day, which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. I now close my military career and just fade away. 1 Douglas MacArthur Address to a Joint Meeting of Congress [April 19, 1951] 1 See Anonymous It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. Douglas MacArthur Speech at the Republican National Convention [July 7, 1952] George C atlett Marshall 1880-1959 The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization. George C atlett Marshall Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff, United States Army [September 1, 1945] If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. George C atlett Marshall Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff, United States Army [September 1, 1945] Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. George C atlett Marshall Address at Harvard University [June 5, 1947], embodying the European Recovery Plan (Marshall Plan) It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. George C atlett Marshall Military Review [October 1948] Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination. George C atlett Marshall Military Review [October 1948] H enry L ouis Mencken 1880-1956 The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation. H enry L ouis Mencken A Book of Prefaces [1917], ch.1 To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies-the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said-there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. H enry L ouis Mencken A Book of Prefaces [1917], ch.2 Poverty is a soft pedal upon all branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual. H enry L ouis Mencken A Book of Prefaces [1917], ch.4 Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals. H enry L ouis Mencken A Book of Prefaces [1917], ch.4 The public . . . demands certainties. . . . But there are no certainties. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices, First Series [1919], ch.3 All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices, First Series [1919], ch.13 The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices, First Series [1919], ch.16 To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia-to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices, First Series [1919], ch.16 Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world. H enry L ouis Mencken The American Language [1919] It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices, Second Series [1920], ch. 1 If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. H enry L ouis Mencken Epitaph. From Smart Set [December 1921] There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, 1 save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices, Third Series [1922], ch.3 1 See Gray Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices, Third Series [1922], ch.3 Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices, Third Series [1922], ch.3 The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices, Third Series [1922], ch.3 Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices, Third Series [1922], ch.14 To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, 1 (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am-a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions-can be so happy as he can be in the United States. H enry L ouis Mencken On Being An American [1922] 1 See Amos 6:1 The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices,Fourth Series [1924], ch. 11 Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man. H enry L ouis Mencken Prejudices,Fifth Series [1926], ch. 5 Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. H enry L ouis Mencken A Book of Burlesques [1928] When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. H enry L ouis Mencken Newspaper Days: 1899-1906 [1941] Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. H enry L ouis Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy [1949] There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. H enry L ouis Mencken Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks [1956] The booboisie. H enry L ouis Mencken Passim  No one in this world, so far as I know . . . has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H enry L ouis Mencken Notes on Journalism, Chicago Tribune [September 19, 1926] Grantland Rice 1880-1954 When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name- He marks-not that you won or lost-but how you played the game. 1 2 Grantland Rice Alumnus Football 1 See Newbolt 2 See Cooke All wars are planned by old men In council rooms apart. 1 Grantland Rice Two Sides of War,st. 1 1 See Hoover I've noticed nearly all the dead Were hardly more than boys. Grantland Rice Two Sides of War,st. 4  Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen 1 rode again. In dramatic lore they were known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley, and Layden. Grantland Rice Story on Notre Dame football victory over Army, New York Tribune [October 18, 1924] 1 See Blasco-IbaAnez Richard Henry Tawney 1880-1962 Industrialized communities neglect the very objects for which it is worth while to acquire riches in their feverish preoccupation with the means by which riches can be acquired. Richard Henry Tawney The Acquisitive Society [1920] It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself. Richard Henry Tawney Equality [1931], ch. 4, sec. 2 T homas R ussell Ybarra 1880-1971 A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday. T homas R ussell Ybarra The Christian Franklin P ierce Adams F.P.A. 1881-1960 Christmas is over and Business is Business. Franklin P ierce Adams For the Other 364 Days Up, to the office . . . and so to bed. Franklin P ierce Adams A Ballade of Mr. Samuel Pepys. Refrain Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble: "Tinker to Evers to Chance." Franklin P ierce Adams Baseball's Sad Lexicon The best you get is an even break. 1 Franklin P ierce Adams Ballade of Schopenhauer's Philosophy 1 See Albee Of making many books there is no end- So Sancho Panza said, and so say I. 1 Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friend When only one is shining in the sky. Franklin P ierce Adams Lines on and from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 1 See Saxe Go, lovely Rose that lives its little hour! Go, little booke! and let who will be clever! Roll on! From yonder ivy-mantled tower The moon and I could keep this up forever. Franklin P ierce Adams Lines on and from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Joseph Campbell 1881-1944 As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face. Joseph Campbell The Old Woman, st. 1 Padraic Colum 1881-1972 A little house-a house of my own- Out of the wind's and the rain's way. Padraic Colum An Old Woman of the Roads, st. 6 Sir Alexander Fleming 1881-1955 It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual. 1 2 Sir Alexander Fleming Address at Edinburgh University [1951] 1 See Darwin 2 See Zinsser Edgar A lbert Guest 1881-1959 Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That maybe it couldn't, but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. Edgar A lbert Guest It Couldn't Be Done It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home, A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have t' roam Afore ye really 'preciate the things ye lef' behind, An' hunger fer 'em somehow, with 'em allus on yer mind. Edgar A lbert Guest Home Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults of those around me, Let me praise a little more. Edgar A lbert Guest A Creed Pope John XXIII Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli 1881-1963 The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries. Pope John XXIII Pacem in Terris. Encyclical letter [April 11, 1963] The moral order, which needs public authority in order to promote the common good in human society, requires also that the authority be effective in attaining that end. . . . Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of power, structure and means of the same proportions: that is, of public authorities which are in a position to operate in an effective manner on a world-wide basis. The moral order itself, therefore, demands that such a form of public authority be established. Pope John XXIII Pacem in Terris. Encyclical letter [April 11, 1963] An act of the highest importance performed by the United Nations Organization was the universal Declaration of Human Rights, approved in the General Assembly of December 10, 1948. . . . The document represents an important step on the path towards the juridical-political organization of the world community. For in it, in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life. Pope John XXIII Pacem in Terris. Encyclical letter [April 11, 1963] The representative of the highest spiritual authority of the earth is glad, indeed boasts, of being the son of a humble but robust and honest laborer. Pope John XXIII Remark to the mayor of Fleurysur-Loire. From Wit and Wisdom of Good Pope John, collected by Henri Fesquet [1963] Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 For me, a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic act, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction. Pablo Picasso From Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso [1964], pt.I Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires. Pablo Picasso From Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso [1964], pt.VI I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time. Pablo Picasso Remark Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881-1955  If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level-indeed in the molecule itself-it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Phenomenon of Man [1955], bk. IV, ch. 2, sec. 2 Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. . . . Does not love every instant achieve all around us, in the couple or the team, the magic feat . . . of "personalizing" by totalizing? Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Phenomenon of Man [1955], bk. IV, ch. 2, sec. 2 We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately must we believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Divine Milieu [1957], pt. III, ch. 3, sec. B William Temple 1881-1944 There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man. William Temple The Malvern Manifesto Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process. William Temple The Malvern Manifesto Ludwig Edler von Mises 1881-1973 Unemployment as a mass phenomenon is the outcome of allegedly "pro-labor" policies of the governments and of labor union pressure and compulsion. This explanation is by no means peculiar to those economists whom the "progressives" call "reactionaries." Ludwig Edler von Mises Bureaucracy [1944] Millions are fascinated by the plan to transform the whole world into a bureau, to make everybody a bureaucrat, and to wipe out any private initiative. The paradise of the future is visualized as an all-embracing bureaucratic apparatus. . . . Streams of blood have been shed for the realization of this ideal. Ludwig Edler von Mises Bureaucracy [1944] There are in the fields of economics no constant relations, and consequently no measurement is possible. Ludwig Edler von Mises Human Action [1949] Statistical figures referring to economic events are historical data. They tell us what happened in a nonrepeatable historical case. Ludwig Edler von Mises Human Action [1949] Sir P elham G renville Wodehouse 1881-1975 Look for the silver lining 1 Whene'er a cloud appears in the blue. Remember somewhere the sun is shining And so the right thing to do is make it shine for you. Sir P elham G renville Wodehouse Sally [1920]. Look for the Silver Lining 1 See Lena Ford So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life. Sir P elham G renville Wodehouse Sally [1920]. Look for the Silver Lining The Inimitable Jeeves. Sir P elham G renville Wodehouse Title of book [1924] Max Born 1882-1970 The human race has today the means for annihilating itself-either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war, by a brief fit of destruction, or by careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure. Max Born Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [June 1957] Berton Braley 1882-1966 And so they sailed away, these three, Mencken, Nathan and God. 1 Berton Braley Three Minus One, st. 1 1 See Field Back of the job-the dreamer Who's making the dream come true! Berton Braley The Thinker, st. 4 Georges Braque 1882-1963 Art upsets, science reassures. Georges Braque Pensees sur l'Art Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. Georges Braque Pensees sur l'Art Percy Williams Bridgman 1882-1961 The concept of length is . . . fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed . . . The concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations. Percy Williams Bridgman The Logic of Modern Physics [1927] Edward Arthur Burroughs, Bishop of Ripon 1882-1934 After all we could get on very happily if aviation, wireless, television and the like advanced no further than at present. . . . The sum of human happiness would not necessarily be reduced if for ten years every physical and chemical laboratory were closed and the patient and resourceful energy displayed in them transferred to the lost art of getting on together and finding the formula for making both ends meet in the scale of human life. Much, of course, we should lose by this universal scientific holiday . . . but human happiness would not necessarily suffer. Edward Arthur Burroughs, Bishop of Ripon Sermon to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Leeds [September 4, 1927] Father Divine George Baker c. 1882-1965 Peace, it's wonderful. Father Divine Motto of the Peace Mission Movement Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington 1882-1944 It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Space, Time, and Gravitation [1920], ch. 12 We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! it is our own. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Space, Time, and Gravitation [1920], ch. 12 I am afraid of this word Reality, not connoting an ordinarily definable characteristic of the things it is applied to, but used as though it were some kind of celestial halo. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington The Nature of the Physical World [1928], ch. 13 Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. . . . From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Stars and Atoms [1928], lecture 1 I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Stars and Atoms [1928], lecture 1 Felix Frankfurter 1882-1965 The [Fifteenth] Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination. Felix Frankfurter Lane v. Wilson, 307 U.S. 268, 275 [1939] The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. Felix Frankfurter McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332, 347 [1943] One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. . . . But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic. Felix Frankfurter Flag Salute Cases, 319 U.S. 624, 646 [1943] Courts ought not to enter this political thicket. Felix Frankfurter Colegrove v. Green, 328 U.S. 549, 556 [1946] After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, not a super-legal-aid bureau. Felix Frankfurter Uveges v. Pennsylvania, 335 U.S. 437, 449 [1948] In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives. Felix Frankfurter Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 270 [1962] I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School. Felix Frankfurter Of Law and Life and Other Things [1965] Jean Giraudoux 1882-1944 There are truths which can kill a nation. Jean Giraudoux Electra Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. Jean Giraudoux Amphitryon 38 [1929] Samuel Goldwyn 1882-1974 Include me out. Samuel Goldwyn Attributed In two words: im-possible. Samuel Goldwyn From Alva Johnston, The Great Goldwyn I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn From Alva Johnston, The Great Goldwyn Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. Samuel Goldwyn Attributed Hermann Hagedorn 1882-1964 The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. It burst. It shook the land. God have mercy on our children. God have mercy on America. Hermann Hagedorn The Bomb That Fell on America William Frederick HalseyJr. 1882-1959 Attack-Repeat-Attack. William Frederick HalseyJr. Dispatch [October 26, 1942] to the South Pacific Force before the battle of Santa Cruz Islands Hit hard, hit fast, hit often. 1 William Frederick HalseyJr. Formula for waging war 1 See Grant Send them our latitude and longitude. William Frederick HalseyJr. Retort to the enemy's question: "Where is the American fleet?" [October 1944] Our ships have been salvaged and are retiring at high speed toward the Japanese fleet. William Frederick HalseyJr. Radio message [October 1944] after Japanese claims that most of the U.S. Third Fleet had either been sunk or had retired James Joyce 1882-1941 He was outcast from life's feast. James Joyce Dubliners [1916].A Painful Case Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. James Joyce Dubliners [1916].The Dead Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916],ch. 5 Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916],Concluding words of Stephen Dedalus History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce Ulysses [1922] 1 1 See Woolsey My patience are exhausted [Martha Clifford]. James Joyce Ulysses [1922] 1 A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce Ulysses [1922] 1 And yes I said yes I will Yes. James Joyce Ulysses [1922] 1 Last words Can't hear with bawk of bats, all thim liffeying waters of. Ho, talk save us! My foos won't moos. I feel as old as yonder elm. A tale told of Shaun or Shem? All Livia's daughter-sons. Dark hawks hear us. Night! Night! My ho head halls. I feel as heavy as yonder stone. Tell me of John or Shaun? Who were Shem and Shaun the living sons or daughters of? Night now! Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! Night night! Telmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of. Night! James Joyce Finnegans Wake [1939], pt.I (end) I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me. And it's old and old it's sad and old it's sad and weary I go back to you, my cold father, my cold mad father, my cold mad feary father, till the near sight of the mere size of him, the moyles and moyles of it, moananoaning, makes me seasilt saltsick and I rush, my only, into your arms, I see them rising! Save me from those therrble prongs! Two more. Onetwo moremens more. So. Avelaval. My leaves have drifted from me. All. But one clings still. I'll bear it on me. To remind me of. Lff! So soft this morning, ours. Yes. Carry me along, taddy, like you done through the toy fair! If I seen him bearing down on me now under whitespread wings like he'd come from Arkangels, I sink I'd die down over his feet, humbly dumbly, only to washup. Yes, tid. There's where. First. We pass through grass behush the bush to. Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, far! End here. Us then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till thousendsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the James Joyce Finnegans Wake [1939], pt.IV Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian 1882-1940 A limitation of armaments by political appeasement. Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian Letter to The Times (London) [May 1934] Fiorello H enry La Guardia 1882-1947 Ticker tape ain't spaghetti. Fiorello H enry La Guardia Speech to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration [March 29, 1946] When I make a mistake it's a beaut! Fiorello H enry La Guardia On an indefensible appointment Winifred M ary Letts 1882-c. 1936 I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die. Winifred M ary Letts The Spires of Oxford, st. 1 Jacques Maritain 1882-1973 In the modern social order, the person is sacrificed to the individual. The individual is given universal suffrage, equality of rights, freedom of opinion; while the person, isolated, naked, with no social armor to sustain and protect him, is left to the mercy of all the devouring forces which threaten the life of the soul, exposed to relentless actions and reactions of conflicting interests and appetites. . . . It is a homicidal civilization. Jacques Maritain Three Reformers [1925] A lan A lexander Milne 1882-1956 I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me. A lan A lexander Milne Winnie-the-Pooh [1926], ch.4 Time for a little something. A lan A lexander Milne Winnie-the-Pooh [1926], ch.6 Sam Rayburn 1882-1961 I like to make running water walk. Sam Rayburn On Conversation. From Valton J. Young, The Speaker's Agent [1956] The greatest domestic problem facing our country is saving our soil and water. Our soil belongs also to unborn generations. Sam Rayburn On Conversation. From Valton J. Young, The Speaker's Agent [1956] The one thing besides people that I claim to know is land. Sam Rayburn On Conversation. From Valton J. Young, The Speaker's Agent [1956]  To get along, go along. Sam Rayburn Attributed Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882-1945 There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Interview in the New York Times [January 22, 1911]  These unhappy times call for the building of plans . . . that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Radio address [April 7, 1932] The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia [May 22, 1932] I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Speech accepting the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Chicago [July 2, 1932]  There is no indispensable man. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Campaign speech, New York [November 3, 1932] The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. 1 2 3 4 5 Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1933] 1 See Proverbs 3:25 2 See Montaigne 3 See Bacon 4 See Wellington 5 See Thoreau  In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor. Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Address [March 4, 1933] If I were asked to state the great objective which Church and State are both demanding for the sake of every man and woman and child in this country, I would say that that great objective is "a more abundant life." Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address to the Federal Council of Churches of Christ [December 6, 1933] We are moving forward to greater freedom, to greater security for the average man than he has ever known before in the history of America. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fireside Chat [September 30, 1934] We have earned the hatred of entrenched greed. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Message to Congress [January 3, 1936] The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address at Temple University, Philadelphia [February 22, 1936] Out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. . . . The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the Government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Speech accepting renomination [June 27, 1936] This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Speech accepting renomination [June 27, 1936] I have seen war. . . . I hate war. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address at Chautauqua, New York [August 14, 1936] I have not sought, I do not seek, I repudiate the support of any advocate of Communism or of any other alien "ism" which would by fair means or foul change our American democracy. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address at Syracuse [September 29, 1936] I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Speech at Madison Square Garden [October 31, 1936] We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Second Inaugural Address [January 20, 1937] I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Second Inaugural Address [January 20, 1937] The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Second Inaugural Address [January 20, 1937] The epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading. When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease. . . . The will for peace on the part of peace-loving nations must express itself to the end that nations that may be tempted to violate their agreements and the rights of others will desist from such a course. There must be positive endeavors to preserve peace. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Speech at Chicago [October 5, 1937] War is a contagion. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Speech at Chicago [October 5, 1937] The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fireside Chat [April 14, 1938] A program whose basic thesis is not that the system of free private enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Message on Concentration of Economic Power [April 29, 1938] The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address to the American Youth Congress [February 10, 1940]  On this tenth day of June 1940 the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville [June 10, 1940] Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address at the University of Pennsylvania [September 20, 1940] And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Campaign speech in Boston [October 30, 1940] We must be the great arsenal of democracy. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fireside Chat [December 29, 1940] We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression-everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want . . . everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear . . . anywhere in the world. 1 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Message to Congress [January 6, 1941] 1 See Roosevelt and Churchill We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. 1 Franklin Delano Roosevelt On receiving the degree of Doctor of Civil Law from Oxford University [June 19, 1941] 1 See Zapata Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Franklin Delano Roosevelt War Message to Congress [December 8, 1941] Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. 1 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fireside Chat [February 23, 1942] 1 See Churchill Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. . . . In this war, we know, books are weapons. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Message to the American Booksellers Association [April 23, 1942] It is not a tax bill but a tax relief bill providing relief not for the needy but for the greedy. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Tax bill veto message [February 22, 1944]  I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Speech at the Teamsters' Dinner, Washington [September 23, 1944] All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Campaign speech in Boston [November 4, 1944] The American people are quite competent to judge a political party that works both sides of a street. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Campaign speech in Boston [November 4, 1944] Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Franklin Delano Roosevelt State of the Union Message [January 6, 1945] We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations, far away. We have learned that we must live as men, and not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger. We have learned to be citizens of the world, 1 2 3 4 members of the human community. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fourth Inaugural Address [January 20, 1945] 1 See Socrates 2 See Bacon 3 See Paine 4 See Garrison More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address written for Jefferson Day broadcast [April 13, 1945] Franklin Delano Rooseveltand Winston Churchill First, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other. Second, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned. Winston Churchill Atlantic Charter, drawn up aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in Argentia Harbor, Newfoundland [issued August 14, 1941] Sixth, after the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want. 1 Winston Churchill Atlantic Charter, drawn up aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in Argentia Harbor, Newfoundland [issued August 14, 1941] 1 See Roosevelt Eighth, they believe that all of the nations of the world, for realistic as well as spiritual reasons, must come to the abandonment of the use of force. Since no future peace can be maintained if land, sea or air armaments continue to be employed by nations which threaten, or may threaten, aggression outside of their frontiers, they believe, pending the establishment of a wider and permanent system of general security, that the disarmament of such nations is essential. Winston Churchill Atlantic Charter, drawn up aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in Argentia Harbor, Newfoundland [issued August 14, 1941] James Stephens 1882-1950 I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare. James Stephens The Snare Forgive us all our trespasses, Little creatures, everywhere! James Stephens Little Things, st. 5 In cloud and clod to sing Of everything and anything. James Stephens The Pit of Bliss They fell out over pigs, let them fall in over pigs. James Stephens In the Land of Youth [1924] Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. James Stephens The Crock of Gold [1930], ch. 2 Virginia Woolf 1882-1941  In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June. Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway [1925] Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. 1 Virginia Woolf The Common Reader [1925].Lady Dorothy Nevill 1 See Felicia D. Hemans Trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. Virginia Woolf The Common Reader [1925].The Modern Essay There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay. Virginia Woolf The Common Reader [1925].The Modern Essay That complete statement which is literature. Virginia Woolf The Common Reader [1925].How It Strikes a Contemporary The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. Virginia Woolf The Common Reader [1925].An Elizabethan Play The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own [1929] Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own [1929] Death is the enemy. . . . Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death. Virginia Woolf The Waves [1931] Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. Virginia Woolf Between the Acts [1941] Coco Gabrielle Chanel 1883-1970 How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Gabrielle Chanel Remark There are people who have money and people who are rich. Coco Gabrielle Chanel Remark As long as you know that most men are like children you know everything. Coco Gabrielle Chanel Remark Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself. Coco Gabrielle Chanel Remark Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. Coco Gabrielle Chanel Remark Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham 1883-1963  We are so outnumbered there's only one thing to do. We must attack. Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham Before attacking the Italian fleet, Taranto [November 1940] Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931 Let there be spaces in your togetherness. 1 Kahlil Gibran The Prophet [1923].On Marriage 1 See Rilke You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. 1 Kahlil Gibran The Prophet [1923].On Children 1 See Goethe You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. 1 2 3 Kahlil Gibran The Prophet [1923].On Giving 1 See Emerson 2 See James Russell Lowell 3 See Whitman Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. Kahlil Gibran The Prophet [1923].On Work You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. Kahlil Gibran The Prophet [1923].On Prayer He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. Kahlil Gibran The Prophet [1923].On Religion I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. Kahlil Gibran Sand and Foam [1926]  We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. Kahlil Gibran Sand and Foam [1926] Nikos Kazantzakis 1883-1957 To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise. Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek [1946], ch.2 How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart. Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek [1946], ch.7 As I watched the seagulls, I thought: "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust." Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek [1946], ch.21 The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek [1946], ch.24 John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946 He [Clemenceau] had one illusion-France; and one disillusion-mankind, including Frenchmen. John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace [1919], ch.3  Watching the company, with six or seven senses not available to ordinary men, judging character, motive, and subconscious impulse, perceiving what each was thinking and even what each was going to say next, and compounding with telepathic instinct the argument or appeal best suited to the vanity, weakness, or self-interest of his immediate auditor. John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace [1919], ch.3 He [Woodrow Wilson] could write Notes from Sinai or Olympus; he could remain unapproachable in the White House or even in the Council of Ten and be safe. But if he once stepped down to the intimate quality of the Four, the game was evidently up. John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace [1919], ch.3 To make the defeated Central Empires into good neighbors. John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace [1919], ch.6 Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion-how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history. John Maynard Keynes The End of Laissez-Faire [1925], ch. 3 The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit. John Maynard Keynes A Treatise on Money [1930] Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. . . . Lenin was certainly right. John Maynard Keynes Essay in Persuasion [1931], pt.II The love of money 1 2 as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease. John Maynard Keynes Essay in Persuasion [1931], pt.V 1 See I Timothy 6:10 2 See Bellamy Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes In the New Statesman and Nation [July 15, 1933] His [Newton's] peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen through it. John Maynard Keynes Essays in Biography [1933] There is no harm in being sometimes wrong-especially if one is promptly found out. John Maynard Keynes Essays in Biography [1933] Of the maxims of orthodox finance, none, surely, is more antisocial than the fetish of liquidity. . . . It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole. John Maynard Keynes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money [1936],ch.12 There are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital. John Maynard Keynes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money [1936],ch.24 Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. . . . It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. John Maynard Keynes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money [1936],end Alfred Hart Miles 1883-1956 Anchors aweigh, my boys, Anchors aweigh! Farewell to college joys, We sail at break of day. Alfred Hart Miles Anchors Aweigh [1907] Benito Mussolini 1883-1945 The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for its force to be renewed. Benito Mussolini Editorial, Popolo d'Italia [1920] War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it. Benito Mussolini Written for The Italian Encyclopedia. From George Seldes, Sawdust Caesar [1935] We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty. Benito Mussolini Speech. From Maurice Parmelee, Bolshevism, Fascism and the Liberal-Democratic State [1934] Jose Ortega y Gasset Jose Ortega y Gasset 1883-1955 Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. Jose Ortega y Gasset Meditations on Quixote [1911] I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me. Jose Ortega y Gasset Meditations on Quixote [1911] The Mediterraneans, who do not think clearly, do see clearly. Jose Ortega y Gasset Meditations on Quixote [1911] Culture is not life in its entirety, but just the moment of security, strength, and clarity. Jose Ortega y Gasset Meditations on Quixote [1911] Nations are formed and are kept alive by the fact that they have a program for tomorrow. Jose Ortega y Gasset Invertebrate Spain [1922], ch.2 A society without an aristocracy, without an elite minority, is not a society. Jose Ortega y Gasset Invertebrate Spain [1922], ch.4 Conversation is the socializing instrument par excellence, and in its style one can see reflected the capacities of a race. Jose Ortega y Gasset Invertebrate Spain [1922], ch.7 Man was formed by his struggle with exterior forces and it is only easy for him to discern things which are outside of himself. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Modern Theme [1923],ch.2 Rationalism, in order to save truth, renounces life. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Modern Theme [1923],ch.3 The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Modern Theme [1923],ch.7 To define is to exclude and negate. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Modern Theme [1923],appendix Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. Jose Ortega y Gasset Mirabeau and Politics [1927] Europe is really a swarm: many bees on a single course. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Revolt of the Masses [1930],prologue America, far from being the future, was in truth a remote past because it was primitivism. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Revolt of the Masses [1930],prologue Minorities are individuals or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Revolt of the Masses [1930],ch.1 Physical space and time are the absolute stupidity of the universe. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Revolt of the Masses [1930],ch.4 Our life is at all times and before anything else the consciousness of what we can do. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Revolt of the Masses [1930],ch.4 A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Revolt of the Masses [1930],ch.10 War is not an instinct but an invention. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Revolt of the Masses [1930],epilogue It is not the material of life which makes up Dostoevski's "realism," but rather the shape of life. Jose Ortega y Gasset Notes on the Novel [1948] The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Dehumanization of Art [1948] The masses feel that it is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Dehumanization of Art [1948] The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man. Jose Ortega y Gasset The Dehumanization of Art [1948] I am a Spaniard, that is to say, a man without imagination. Jose Ortega y Gasset Esthetic Essays [1956] Primitive man is by definition tactile man. Jose Ortega y Gasset Esthetic Essays [1956] Joseph Alois Schumpeter 1883-1950 Entrepreneurial profit . . . is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production in exactly the same sense that wages are the value expression of what the worker "produces." It is not a profit of exploitation any more than are wages. Joseph Alois Schumpeter The Theory of Economic Development [1934], ch. 4 Without development there is no profit, without profit no development. For the capitalist system it must be added further that without profit there would be no accumulation of wealth. Joseph Alois Schumpeter The Theory of Economic Development [1934], ch. 4 Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved. Joseph Alois Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy [1942], ch.1 Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind. Joseph Alois Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy [1942], ch.1 He who places his trust in the Marxian synthesis as a whole, in order to understand present situations and problems, is apt to be woefully wrong. Joseph Alois Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy [1942], ch.4 Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. Joseph Alois Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy [1942], ch.13 There is inherent in the capitalist system a tendency toward self-destruction. Joseph Alois Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy [1942], ch.14 As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist democracy ever was. Joseph Alois Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy [1942], ch.23 There is little reason to believe that this socialism will mean the advent of the civilization of which orthodox socialists dream. It is much more likely to present fascist features. That would be a strange answer to Marx's prayer. But history sometimes indulges in jokes of questionable taste. Joseph Alois Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy [1942], ch.27 Howard Arnold Walter 1883-1918 I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. Howard Arnold Walter My Creed William Carlos Williams 1883-1963 No wreaths please- especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes-a few books perhaps. William Carlos Williams Tract [1917] Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly- to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut grief in? William Carlos Williams Tract [1917] so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens William Carlos Williams Spring and All [1923], no. XXI Mothlike in mists, scintillant in the minute brilliance of cloudless days, with broad bellying sails they glide to the wind tossing green water from their sharp prows while over them the crew crawls. William Carlos Williams The Yachts [1935], st. 1, 2 It's the anarchy of poverty delights me. William Carlos Williams The Poor [1938], st. 1 these are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. 1 The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night. William Carlos Williams These [1938], st. 1, 2 1 See William Cullen Bryant James Elroy Flecker 1884-1915 West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides I must go Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young Star captains glow. James Elroy Flecker The Dying Patriot I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep. James Elroy Flecker The Old Ships [1915] A ship, an isle, a sickle moon- With few but with how splendid stars. 1 James Elroy Flecker A Ship, An Isle, A Sickle Moon 1 See Whitman Texas Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan 1884-1933 Hello, sucker! Texas Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan Greeting to night club patrons Franz Kafka 1884-1924  "This village belongs to the Castle, and whoever lives here or passes the night here does so in a manner of speaking in the Castle itself. Nobody may do that without the Count's permission." Franz Kafka The Castle [1926] The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon. Franz Kafka The Great Wall of China. Reflections You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka The Great Wall of China. Reflections I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. . . . We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. Franz Kafka Letter to Oskar Pollak [January 27, 1904] Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session. Franz Kafka Letters. Quoted in Max Brod, Franz Kafka There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring: impatience and laziness. Franz Kafka Letters. Quoted in Max Brod, Franz Kafka ÿ Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth 1884-1980 If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me. Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth Embroidered on a pillow in her sitting room Bronislaw Malinowski 1884-1942 Is war a biological necessity? As regards the earliest cultures the answer is emphatically negative. The blow of the poisonous dart from behind a bush, to murder a woman or a child in their sleep, is not pugnacity. Nor is head-hunting, body-snatching, or killing for food instinctive or natural. Bronislaw Malinowski Phi Beta Kappa Address, Harvard University [September 17, 1936] Sean O'Casey 1884-1964 The whole world is in a state of chassis. Sean O'Casey Juno and the Paycock 1 [1924] 1 See Aesop One minute with him is all I ask; one minute alone with him, while you're runnin' for th' priest an' th' doctor. Sean O'Casey The Plow and the Stars [1926], actII A few hundhred scrawls o' chaps with a couple o' guns and Rosary beads, again' a hundhred thousand thrained men with horse, fut an' artillery . . . an' he wants us to fight fair! Sean O'Casey The Plow and the Stars [1926], actIV Anna Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt This Is My Story [1937] You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt You Learn by Living [1960] Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt [1961] Alfred Damon Runyon 1884-1946 Guys and Dolls. Alfred Damon Runyon Title of collection of stories [1931] and musical [1950] My boy . . . always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you. Alfred Damon Runyon Furthermore [1938]. A Very Honorable Guy A freeloader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner. Alfred Damon Runyon Short Takes [1946]. Freeloading Ethics George Sarton 1884-1956 Scientific activity is the only one which is obviously and undoubtedly cumulative and progressive. George Sarton The History of Science and the History of Civilization [1930] Sara Teasdale 1884-1933 When I am dead and over me bright April Shakes out her rain-drenched hair, Though you should lean above me broken-hearted, I shall not care. Sara Teasdale I Shall Not Care, st. 1 Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old. Sara Teasdale Let It Be Forgotten [1921], st. 1 O beauty, are you not enough? Why am I crying after love? Sara Teasdale Spring Night Norman Mattoon Thomas 1884-1968 I'd rather see America save her soul than her face. Norman Mattoon Thomas Speech before antiwar protest, Washington, D.C. [November 27, 1965] Harry S. Truman 1884-1972 When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. Harry S. Truman To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency [April 13, 1945] The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world. Harry S. Truman First Message to Congress [April 16, 1945] When Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas River they don't call out the National Guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring a suit in the Supreme Court of the United States and abide by the decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we cannot do that internationally. Harry S. Truman Speech in Kansas City [April 1945] We must build a new world, a far better world-one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected. Harry S. Truman Radio address to delegates at the opening session of the United Nations conference, San Francisco [April 23, 1945] Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East. Harry S. Truman First announcement of the atomic bomb [August 6, 1945] The release of atomic energy constitutes a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas. Harry S. Truman Message to Congress on atomic energy [October 3, 1945] Means of destruction hitherto unknown, against which there can be no adequate military defense, and in the employment of which no single nation can in fact have a monopoly. Harry S. Truman Declaration on Atomic Energy by President Truman and Prime Ministers Clement Attlee (Britain) and W. L. Mackenzie King (Canada) [November 15, 1945] Effective, reciprocal, and enforceable safeguards acceptable to all nations. Harry S. Truman Declaration on Atomic Energy by President Truman and Prime Ministers Clement Attlee (Britain) and W. L. Mackenzie King (Canada) [November 15, 1945] We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas. Harry S. Truman Inaugural Address (Point Four Program) [January 20, 1949] If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Harry S. Truman Saying There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty to live on happily and to be at peace with his neighbors. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.I, Year of Decisions, preface A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.1 No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.1 Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.1 Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.1 The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.8 To me, party platforms are contracts with the people. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.13 A President cannot always be popular. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.14 A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.14 The convention system has its faults, of course, but I do not know of a better method for choosing a presidential nominee. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.14 All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.19 The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.19 If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.19 There is a right kind and wrong kind of victory, just as there are wars for the right thing and wars that are wrong from every standpoint. . . . The kind of victory MacArthur had in mind-victory by the bombing of Chinese cities, victory by expanding the conflict to all of China-would have been the wrong kind of victory. Harry S. Truman Memoirs [1955], vol.II, Years of Trial and Hope, ch.19 The buck stops here. Harry S. Truman Sign on Truman's desk when President. From Alfred Steinberg. The Man from Missouri [1962] The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. Harry S. Truman From Merle Miller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman [1974], ch.23 Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix. Harry S. Truman From Merle Miller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman [1974], ch.35 A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics. Harry S. Truman From Merle Miller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman [1974], ch.38 Charter of the United Nations We, the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal right of men and women and of nations large and small . . . And for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors . . . Have resolved to combine these efforts to accomplish our aims. Charter of the United Nations Charter of the United Nations [June 1945], preamble Sophie Tucker c. 1884-1966  From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. Sophie Tucker Said at sixty-nine I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better. Sophie Tucker Attributed Niels Bohr 1885-1962 In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience. Niels Bohr Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature [1934] Arthur Wallace Calhoun 1885- Gentlemen of the old regime in the South would say, "A woman's name should appear in print but twice-when she marries and when she dies." Arthur Wallace Calhoun Social History of the American Family [1918], citingMyrta Lockett Avary, Dixie After the War [1906] Zechariah ChafeeJr. 1885-1957 The press is a sort of wild animal in our midst-restless, gigantic, always seeking new ways to use its strength. . . . The sovereign press for the most part acknowledges accountability to no one except its owners and publishers. Zechariah ChafeeJr. The Press Under Pressure [Nieman Reports, April 1948] Freedom from something is not enough. It should also be freedom for something. Freedom is not safety but opportunity. Freedom ought to be a means to enable the press to serve the proper functions of communication in a free society. Zechariah ChafeeJr. The Press Under Pressure [Nieman Reports, April 1948] Isak Dinesen Karen Blixen 1885-1962 What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine? Isak Dinesen Seven Gothic Tales [1934] Out on the safaris, I had seen a herd of buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished. Isak Dinesen Out of Africa [1937], pt.I, ch.1 I had seen a herd of elephant traveling through dense native forest . . . pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world. Isak Dinesen Out of Africa [1937], pt.I, ch.1 The giraffe, in their queer, inimitable, vegetative gracefulness, as if it were not a herd of animals but a family of rare, long-stemmed, speckled gigantic flowers slowly advancing. Isak Dinesen Out of Africa [1937], pt.I, ch.1 If I know a song of Africa-I thought-of the giraffe, and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields, and the sweaty faces of the coffee-pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Would the air over the plain quiver with a color that I had had on, or the children invent a game in which my name was, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or would the eagles of Ngong look out for me? Isak Dinesen Out of Africa [1937], pt.I, ch.4 I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them. Isak Dinesen Out of Africa [1937], pt.V, ch. 1 Will Durant 1885-1981 A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. Will Durant What Is Civilization? The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations. Will Durant What Is Civilization? Karen Horney 1885-1952 Fortunately [psycho]analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney Our Inner Conflicts [1945] Takuboku Ishikawa 1885-1912 Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight. Takuboku Ishikawa Song of My Youth Frank Hyneman Knight 1885-1974 If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself. Frank Hyneman Knight Freedom and Reform [1947], ch.4 The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant. Frank Hyneman Knight Freedom and Reform [1947], ch.5 Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual. Frank Hyneman Knight Freedom and Reform [1947], ch.13 Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power, or deadlock and stoppage, usually injuring outside people more than the immediate parties to the dispute. Frank Hyneman Knight Freedom and Reform [1947], ch.13 Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war. Frank Hyneman Knight Freedom and Reform [1947], ch.15 Ring Lardner 1885-1933 A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. Ring Lardner How to Write Short Stories [1924] "Are you lost, daddy?" I asked tenderly. "Shut up," he explained. Ring Lardner The Young Immigrunts D avid H erbert Lawrence 1885-1930 You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered. D avid H erbert Lawrence Sons and Lovers [1913], ch. 15 Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. D avid H erbert Lawrence Song of a Man Who Has Come Through [1920] If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides. D avid H erbert Lawrence Song of a Man Who Has Come Through [1920] I never saw a wild thing Sorry for itself. D avid H erbert Lawrence Self-Pity [1923] A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there. D avid H erbert Lawrence Snake [1923] For he seemed to me again like a king, Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld, Now due to be crowned again. D avid H erbert Lawrence Snake [1923] Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity. D avid H erbert Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover [1928] How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species. D avid H erbert Lawrence How Beastly the Bourgeois Is [1929] Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven. D avid H erbert Lawrence November by the Sea [1929] Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it. D avid H erbert Lawrence Sex Versus Loveliness [1930] Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. D avid H erbert Lawrence Sex Versus Loveliness [1930] How the horse dominated the mind of the early races, especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. . . . The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man. D avid H erbert Lawrence Apocalypse [1931] For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. D avid H erbert Lawrence Apocalypse [1931] I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. D avid H erbert Lawrence Apocalypse [1931] Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end. D avid H erbert Lawrence Whales Weep Not! [1932] Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark. D avid H erbert Lawrence Bavarian Gentians [1932] Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion. D avid H erbert Lawrence The Ship of Death [1932],V We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life. D avid H erbert Lawrence The Ship of Death [1932],VI Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you. D avid H erbert Lawrence The Ship of Death [1932],X Sinclair Lewis 1885-1951 His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. Sinclair Lewis Babbitt [1922], ch. 1 A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. Sinclair Lewis Babbitt [1922], ch. 1  Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize. Sinclair Lewis Letter declining the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Arrowsmith [1926] What is love? . . . It is the morning and the evening star. Sinclair Lewis Elmer Gantry [1927], ch. 20 Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. Sinclair Lewis The American Fear of Literature. Address in Stockholm on receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature [December 12, 1930] It Can't Happen Here. Sinclair Lewis Title of book [1935] Francois Mauriac 1885-1970 There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related. Francois Mauriac Memoires Interieures [1959] Andre Maurois 1885-1967 The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz. Andre Maurois Ariel [1924], ch.12 Modesty and unselfishness-these are virtues which men praise-and pass by. Andre Maurois Ariel [1924], ch.24 Chester William Nimitz 1885-1966 Uncommon valor was a common virtue. Chester William Nimitz Of the Marines at Iwo Jima [February-May 1945] George S mith Patton 1885-1945  Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. George S mith Patton In the Cavalry Journal [September 1933] To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons-you beat the soul of man of the enemy man. George S mith Patton Letter to Cadet George S. Patton IV [June 6, 1944] Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S mith Patton Letter to Cadet George S. Patton IV [June 6, 1944] The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence, utter, complete and bumptious. George S mith Patton Letter to Cadet George S. Patton IV [June 6, 1944] Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S mith Patton War As I Knew It [1947],pt. III, ch. 1 In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity. 1 2 3 George S mith Patton War As I Knew It [1947],pt. III, ch. 1 1 See Spenser 2 See Danton 3 See Channing  A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. George S mith Patton War As I Knew It [1947],Appendix D, letter [April 3, 1944] Ezra Pound 1885-1972 Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea. Ezra Pound Portrait d'une Femme [1916] Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men! Ezra Pound The Return [1916] The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro [1916] Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. 1 2 Ezra Pound Ancient Music 1 See Vogelweide 2 See Anonymous The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind. The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older. Ezra Pound The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter (After Rihaku) For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime" In the old sense. Wrong from the start- No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date. Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. E.P. Ode pour l'election de son sepulchre [1920],I His true Penelope was Flaubert, He fished by obstinate isles. Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. E.P. Ode pour l'election de son sepulchre [1920],I The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. E.P. Ode pour l'election de son sepulchre [1920],II Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. E.P. Ode pour l'election de son sepulchre [1920],II Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . . . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie. Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. E.P. Ode pour l'election de son sepulchre [1920],IV hysterias, trench confessions, laughter out of dead bellies. Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. E.P. Ode pour l'election de son sepulchre [1920],IV There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization.Charm, smiling at the good mouth, Quick eyes gone under earth's lid,For two gross of broken statues, For a few thousand battered books. Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. E.P. Ode pour l'election de son sepulchre [1920],V As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. E.P. Ode pour l'election de son sepulchre [1920],IX. Mr. Nixon Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one "Sordello." Ezra Pound Cantos [1925-1959],II And the betrayers of language ......n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges. Ezra Pound Cantos [1925-1959],XIV With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting. Ezra Pound Cantos [1925-1959],XLV No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper. Ezra Pound Cantos [1925-1959],XLV Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom contra naturam Ezra Pound Cantos [1925-1959],XLV What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage. Ezra Pound Cantos [1925-1959],LXXXI The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance. Ezra Pound Cantos [1925-1959],LXXXI The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. Ezra Pound The Spirit of Romance [1910] Poetry must be as well written as prose. Ezra Pound Letter to Harriet Monroe [January 1915] Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say. Ezra Pound Letter to Harriet Monroe [January 1915] Literature is language charged with meaning. Ezra Pound ABC of Reading [1934], ch. 2 Literature is news that stays news. Ezra Pound ABC of Reading [1934], ch. 2 Genius . . . is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and where the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art. Ezra Pound Jefferson and/or Mussolini [1935] America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation. Ezra Pound Patria Mia Charles Seymour 1885-1963 We seek the truth, and will endure the consequences. Charles Seymour Statement made while president of Yale University [1937-1950] H arold T ucker Webster 1885-1952 Caspar Milquetoast: The Timid Soul. H arold T ucker Webster Character in series of cartoons The Thrill that Comes Once in a Lifetime. H arold T ucker Webster Title of series of cartoons Humbert Wolfe 1885-1940 Like a small gray coffee pot sits the squirrel. Humbert Wolfe The Gray Squirrel [1924], st. 1 Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves! Humbert Wolfe Autumn (Resignation) [1926], st. 2 Elinor Hoyt Wylie 1885-1928 We shall walk in velvet shoes: Wherever we go Silence will fall like dews On white silence below. Elinor Hoyt Wylie Velvet Shoes [1921], st. 4 Avoid the reeking herd, Shun the polluted flock, Live like that stoic bird The eagle of the rock. Elinor Hoyt Wylie The Eagle and the Mole [1921],st. 1 If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.And there hold intercourse With roots of trees and stones, With rivers at their source, And disembodied bones. Elinor Hoyt Wylie The Eagle and the Mole [1921],st. 5, 6 Say not of Beauty she is good, Or aught but beautiful. Elinor Hoyt Wylie Beauty [1921] Enshrine her and she dies, who had The hard heart of a child. Elinor Hoyt Wylie Beauty [1921] Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones. Elinor Hoyt Wylie Wild Peaches [1921], st. 4 I was, being human, born alone; I am, being woman, hard beset; I live by squeezing from a stone The little nourishment I get. Elinor Hoyt Wylie Let No Charitable Hope [1923], st. 2 My soul, be not disturbed By planetary war; Remain securely orbed In this contracted star. Elinor Hoyt Wylie Address to My Soul [1928], st. 1 A subtle spirit has my path attended, In likeness not a lion but a pard; And when the arrows flew like hail, and hard, He licked my wounds, and all my wounds were mended. Elinor Hoyt Wylie One Person [1928]. Sonnet 9 If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now. Elinor Hoyt Wylie The Pebble The worst and best are both inclined To snap like vixens at the truth; But, O, beware the middle mind That purrs and never shows a tooth! Elinor Hoyt Wylie Nonsense Rhyme, st. 2 Honeyed words like bees, Gilded and sticky, with a little sting. Elinor Hoyt Wylie Pretty Words Hail, element of earth, receive thy own, And cherish, at thy charitable breast, This man, this mongrel beast: He plows the sand, and, at his hardest need, He sows himself for seed. Elinor Hoyt Wylie Hymn to Earth [1929], st. 6 Zoe Akins 1886-1958 The Greeks Had a Word for It. Zoe Akins Title of play [1930] Karl Barth 1886-1968 Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. Karl Barth The Word of God and the Word of Man [1957] We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below. Karl Barth The Word of God and the Word of Man [1957] William Rose Benet 1886-1950 Rain, with a silver flail; Sun, with a golden ball; Ocean, wherein the whale Swims minnow-small. William Rose Benet Whale, st. 1 And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know. William Rose Benet Sagacity Hugo La Fayette Black 1886-1971 No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution-of whatever race, creed or persuasion. Hugo La Fayette Black Chambers v. Florida, 309 U.S. 227 [1938] The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. Hugo La Fayette Black Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 [1947] It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes." Hugo La Fayette Black Interview Before the American Jewish Congress [April 14, 1962] My view is, without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases, that freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have or the views they express or the words they speak or write. Hugo La Fayette Black Interview Before the American Jewish Congress [April 14, 1962] I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says. Hugo La Fayette Black Interview Before the American Jewish Congress [April 14, 1962] An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. Hugo La Fayette Black New York Times Company v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 [1964] Frances Cornford 1886-1960 Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life. Frances Cornford Rupert Brooke 1 [1915] 1 See Rupert Brooke O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much? O fat white woman whom nobody loves, Why do you walk through the fields in gloves When the grass is as soft as the breast of doves And shivering-sweet to the touch? Frances Cornford To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train [1915] Alain-Fournier Henri Alban Fournier 1886-1914 Le Grand Meaulnes [The Wanderer]. Alain-Fournier Title of novel [1913] Al Jolson 1886-1950 You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks. Al Jolson Ad lib remark introduced in the first talking motion picture, The Jazz Singer [July 1927] Gus Kahn 1886-1941 Raymond B. Egan 1890-1952 There's nothing surer, The rich get rich and the poor get poorer, 1 In the meantime, in between time, Ain't we got fun. Raymond B. Egan Ain't We Got Fun [1921] 1 See Nehru Joyce Kilmer 1886-1918 I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Joyce Kilmer Trees 1 2 [1913] 1 See Broun 2 See Nash Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. Joyce Kilmer Trees 1 2 [1913] Aldo Leopold 1886-1948 There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac [1949],foreword We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasqueflower is a right as inalienable as free speech. Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac [1949],foreword We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac [1949],foreword Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac [1949],Part III, The Land Ethic David Morton 1886-1957 The light falls the way the light fell, And it is not clear, In the elm-shadows, if it be ourselves, here, Or others, who were before us. David Morton Village Street Siegfried Sassoon 1886-1967 Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land. Siegfried Sassoon Dreamers [1918] Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. Siegfried Sassoon Dreamers [1918] And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die-in bed. Siegfried Sassoon Base Details [1918] Who will remember, passing through this gate, The unheroic dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate- Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones? Siegfried Sassoon On Passing the New Menin Gate [1918] Junichiro Tanizaki 1886-1965 The Chinese love jade. That strange lump of stone with its faintly muddy light, like the crystallized air of the centuries, melting dimly, dully back, deeper and deeper-are not we Orientals the only ones who know its charm? We cannot say ourselves what it is that we find in this stone. It quite lacks the brightness of a ruby or an emerald or the glitter of a diamond. But this much we can say: when we see that shadowy surface, we think how Chinese it is, we seem to find in cloudiness the accumulated sediment of the long Chinese past, we think how appropriate it is that the Chinese should admire that surface and that shadow. Junichiro Tanizaki In Praise of Shadows [1934] I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly, I would strip away the useless decoration. I do not ask that this be done everywhere, but perhaps we may be allowed at least one mansion where we can turn off the electric lights and see how it is without them. Junichiro Tanizaki In Praise of Shadows [1934] Bruce Bairnsfather 1888-1959  Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it. Bruce Bairnsfather Fragments from France [1915]. Caption of cartoon Ruth Fulton Benedict 1887-1948 From the moment of his birth the customs into which [an individual] is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture. 1 Ruth Fulton Benedict Patterns of Culture [1934], ch.1 1 See Boas Our children are not individuals whose rights and tastes are casually respected from infancy, as they are in some primitive societies. . . . They are fundamentally extensions of our own egos and give a special opportunity for the display of authority. Ruth Fulton Benedict Patterns of Culture [1934], ch.7 In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture. In scientific language, culture is not a function of race. Ruth Fulton Benedict Race: Science and Politics [1940], ch.2 Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority. Ruth Fulton Benedict Race: Science and Politics [1940], ch.7 The tough-minded . . . respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions. Ruth Fulton Benedict The Chrysanthemum and the Sword [1946], ch. 1 Rupert Brooke 1887-1915 Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. Rupert Brooke The Hill [1910] And then you suddenly cried, and turned away. Rupert Brooke The Hill [1910] Curates, long dust, will come and go On lissom, clerical, printless toe. Rupert Brooke The Old Vicarage, Grantchester [1912] Oh! yet Stands the church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? Rupert Brooke The Old Vicarage, Grantchester [1912] Fish say, they have their stream and pond; But is there anything beyond? Rupert Brooke Heaven [1913] And in that Heaven of all their wish, There shall be no more land, say fish. Rupert Brooke Heaven [1913] But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own. Rupert Brooke There's Wisdom in Women [1913] Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss Of blankets; grainy wood; live hair that is Shining and free; blue-massing clouds; the keen Unpassioned beauty of a great machine; The benison of hot water; furs to touch; The good smell of old clothes. Rupert Brooke The Great Lover [1914] If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. Rupert Brooke The Soldier [1914] Now, God be thanked, Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping. Rupert Brooke Peace The worst friend and enemy is but Death. Rupert Brooke Peace Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. Rupert Brooke The Dead [1914], I Honor has come back, as a king, to earth. Rupert Brooke The Dead [1914], I Marc Chagall 1887-1985 Do not leave my hand without light. Marc Chagall Interview [1977] Marcus Garvey 1887-1940 We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building. Marcus Garvey Speech, The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, at New York [November 25, 1922] Isaac Goldberg 1887-1938 Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way. Isaac Goldberg The Reflex Martin Luis GuzmaAn 1887-  Here lay the dilemma: either Villa would submit to the idea of the revolution without understanding it, in which case he and the true revolution would succeed; or Villa would follow his instincts blindly, and the revolution and he would both fail. Martin Luis GuzmaAn El Aguila y la Serpiente (The Eagle and the Serpent) [1928], pt. II, bk. I, ch. 1 Robinson Jeffers 1887-1962 You make haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor; meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic. Robinson Jeffers Shine, Perishing Republic [1924], st. 3 Lend me the stone strength of the past and I will lend you The wings of the future, for I have them. Robinson Jeffers To the Rock That Will be a Cornerstone [1924] The deep dark-shining Pacific leans on the land, Feeling his cold strength To the outmost margins. Robinson Jeffers Night [1925] Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted, No hard gifts; the unhappy Linger a space, but pain is a thing that is glad to be forgotten; but one who has given His heart to a cause or a country, His ghost may spaniel it a while, disconsolate to watch it. Robinson Jeffers Post Mortem [1926] The world's God is treacherous and full of unreason. Robinson Jeffers Birth-Dues [1928] I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk. Robinson Jeffers Hurt Hawks [1928] I have grown to believe A stone is a better pillow than many visions. Robinson Jeffers Clouds of Evening [1930] The strong lean upon death as on a rock. Robinson Jeffers Gale in April [1930] Give Your Heart to the Hawks. Robinson Jeffers Title of poem [1933] I hate my verses, every line, every word. Robinson Jeffers Love the Wild Swan Does it matter whether you hate your . . . self? At least Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan. Robinson Jeffers Love the Wild Swan Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens, Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry. Robinson Jeffers The Day Is a Poem (September 19, 1939) [1941] If millions are born millions must die. Robinson Jeffers May-June 1940, st. 3 As for me, I would rather Be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. Robinson Jeffers Original Sin [1948] Le Corbusier Charles Edouard Jeanneret 1887-1965  A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier Vers une Architecture [1923] Emilio Mola 1887-1937  Fifth column. Emilio Mola Phrase, Spanish Civil War [1936-1939] Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Monty 1887-1976 To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history, and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Message to his troops, on the eve of the Allied invasion of Europe [June 5, 1944] Marianne Moore 1887-1972 Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this. Marianne Moore The Steeple-Jack [1935], st. 1 The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish. Marianne Moore The Steeple-Jack [1935], st. 1 Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself likean injured fan. Marianne Moore The Fish [1935], st. 1, 2 I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. Marianne Moore Poetry [1935; revised 1967] Nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can presentfor inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it. Marianne Moore Poetry [1935; revised 1967]st. 4, 5 (excluded in 1967 revision) The wrinkles progress among themselves in a phalanx-beautiful under networks of foam, and fade breathlessly while the sea rustles in and out of the seaweed. Marianne Moore A Grave [1935] And the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness. Marianne Moore A Grave [1935] I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time. Marianne Moore Marriage [1935] Ecstasy affords the occasion and expediency determines the form. Marianne Moore The Past Is the Present [1935] My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave or the glass flowers at Harvard." Marianne Moore Silence [1935] "The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint." Nor was he insincere in saying, "Make my house your inn." Inns are not residences. Marianne Moore Silence [1935] There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness. Marianne Moore Critics and Connoisseurs [1935] What is our innocence, what is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe. Marianne Moore What Are Years? [1941] The power of the visible is the invisible. Marianne Moore He "Digesteth Harde Yron" [1941], st. 8 I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish. Marianne Moore Spenser's Ireland [1941], last line Another armored animal-scale lapping scale with spruce cone regularity until they form the uninterrupted central tail row! Marianne Moore The Pangolin [1941],st. 1 Bedizened or stark naked, man, the self, the being we call human, writing master to this world. Marianne Moore The Pangolin [1941],st. 8 Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years. Marianne Moore The Pangolin [1941],st. 8 The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul." Marianne Moore The Pangolin [1941],st. 9 What sap went through that little thread to make the cherry red! Marianne Moore Nevertheless [1944], st. 11 They say there is a sweeter air where it was made, than we have here. Marianne Moore A Carriage from Sweden [1944] The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion. Marianne Moore The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing [1944], st. 1 I inwardly did nothing. O Iscariot-like crime! Marianne Moore In Distrust of Merits [1941], st. 8 We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory. Marianne Moore The Sycamore [1956], st. 2 O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon! Marianne Moore O To Be a Dragon [1959] To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it. Marianne Moore The Arctic Ox (Or Goat) [1959],st. 1 Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious. Marianne Moore The Arctic Ox (Or Goat) [1959],st. 9 Why an inordinate interest in animals and athletes? They are subjects for art and exemplars of it, are they not? minding their own business. Pangolins, hornbills, pitchers, catchers, do not pry or prey-or prolong the conversation; do not make us self-conscious; look their best when caring least. Marianne Moore A Marianne Moore Reader [1961], foreword Samuel Eliot Morison 1887-1976 A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world. Samuel Eliot Morison Maritime History of Massachusetts [1921], ch.2 On her first voyage, the Columbia had solved the riddle of the China trade. On her second, empire followed in the wake. Samuel Eliot Morison Maritime History of Massachusetts [1921], ch.4 He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience. Samuel Eliot Morison Admiral of the Ocean Sea [1942], ch. 49 A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! Samuel Eliot Morison History as a Literary Art. Old South Leaflets, ser. II, No. 1 [1946] Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise. Samuel Eliot Morison The Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin [1961] An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view. Samuel Eliot Morison Vistas of History [1964]. The Experiences and Principles of an Historian If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China. Samuel Eliot Morison The Oxford History of the American People [1965], ch.1 America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy. Samuel Eliot Morison The Oxford History of the American People [1965], ch.2 But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao. Samuel Eliot Morison The Oxford History of the American People [1965], ch.3 Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. 1 Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Samuel Eliot Morison The Oxford History of the American People [1965], ch.12 1 See Calhoun If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency of the preamble, 1 reaching back to remotest antiquity and forward to an indefinite future, have lifted the hearts of millions of men and will continue to do. . . . These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin, more explosive than the atom, a continual challenge to ourselves as well as an inspiration to the oppressed of all the world. Samuel Eliot Morison The Oxford History of the American People [1965], ch.14 1 See Jefferson The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage. Samuel Eliot Morison The Oxford History of the American People [1965], ch.33  These clipper ships of the early 1850's were built of wood in shipyards from Rockland in Maine to Baltimore. These architects, like poets who transmute nature's message into song, obeyed what wind and wave had taught them, to create the noblest of all sailing vessels, and the most beautiful creations of man in America. With no extraneous ornament except a figurehead, a bit of carving and a few lines of gold leaf, their one purpose of speed over the great ocean routes was achieved by perfect balance of spars and sails to the curving lines of the smooth black hull; and this harmony of mass, form and color was practiced to the music of dancing waves and of brave winds whistling in the rigging. These were our Gothic cathedrals, our Parthenon; but monuments carved from snow. For a few brief years they flashed their splendor around the world, then disappeared with the finality of the wild pigeon. Samuel Eliot Morison The Oxford History of the American People [1965], ch.36 No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power. 1 2 3 4 5 Samuel Eliot Morison The Oxford History of the American People [1965], ch.40 1 See Themistocles 2 See Bacon 3 See Waller 4 See Washington 5 See Mahan Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986 Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe [1976] I find that I have painted my life-things happening in my life-without knowing. Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe [1976] I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it. Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe [1976] Fairfield Osborn 1887-1969 We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present. Fairfield Osborn The Limits of the Earth, ch. 10 John Reed 1887-1920 Ten Days That Shook the World. John Reed Title of firsthand account of the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution [1919] Dame Edith Sitwell 1887-1964 Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one. Dame Edith Sitwell Heart and Mind Still falls the Rain- Dark as the world of man, black as our loss- Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the Cross. Dame Edith Sitwell Still Falls the Rain [1940] My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. Dame Edith Sitwell Collected Poems [1957]. Some Notes on My Poetry Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch. Dame Edith Sitwell Taken Care Of [1965], ch. 14 Alexander Woollcott 1887-1943 The two oldest professions in the world-ruined by amateurs. Alexander Woollcott The Knock at the Stage Door. The Actor and the Streetwalker All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening. Alexander Woollcott Remark Germany was the cause of Hitler just as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. Alexander Woollcott Last words before the microphone [January 23, 1943], on the People's Platform program Sam M. Lewis 1885-1959 Joe Young 1889-1939 How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm After They've Seen Paree? Joe Young Title and refrain of song [1919] Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko 1888-1966  Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn. Anna Akhmatova Lot's Wife [composed 1922-1924] No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. Anna Akhmatova Requiem [composed mainly 1935-1940].Epigraph [composed 1961] In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me . . . and asked me in a whisper . . . "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can." Anna Akhmatova Requiem [composed mainly 1935-1940].Instead of a Preface [composed 1957] That was a time when only the dead could smile. Anna Akhmatova Requiem [composed mainly 1935-1940].Prologue [composed 1935-1940] I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed . . . here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars. Anna Akhmatova Requiem [composed mainly 1935-1940].Epilogue [composed 1940], II And from my motionless bronze-lidded sockets may the melting snow, like teardrops, slowly trickleand a prison dove coo somewhere, over and over, as the ships sail softly down the flowing Neva. Anna Akhmatova Requiem [composed mainly 1935-1940].Epilogue [composed 1940], II Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. Anna Akhmatova Courage [composed 1942] Maxwell Anderson 1888-1959 Oh, it's a long, long while From May to December, But the days grow short, When you reach September. Maxwell Anderson Knickerbocker Holiday [1938]. September Song Oh, the days dwindle down To a precious few . . . And these few precious days I'll spend with you. Maxwell Anderson Knickerbocker Holiday [1938]. September Song Maxwell Anderson 1888-1959 Laurence Stallings 1894-1968 What Price Glory? Laurence Stallings Title of play [1924] Irving Berlin 1888- You've got to get up, you've got to get up, You've got to get up this morning! Irving Berlin Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning [1918] A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody. Irving Berlin Ziegfeld Follies [1919], title of song Say It with Music. Irving Berlin Music Box Revue [1921], title of song Dancing cheek to cheek. Irving Berlin Top Hat [1935]. Cheek to Cheek God bless America, Land that I love. Irving Berlin God Bless America [1938] From the mountains to the prairies, To the oceans white with foam, God bless America, My home sweet home! Irving Berlin God Bless America [1938] I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Irving Berlin Holiday Inn [1942]. White Christmas There's No Business Like Show Business. Irving Berlin Annie Get Your Gun [1946], title of song The Hostess with the Mostes' on the Ball. Irving Berlin Call Me Madam [1950], title of song Georges Bernanos 1888-1948 Hell, Madame, is to love no longer. Georges Bernanos Le Journal d'un Cure de Campagne (The Diary of a Country Priest) [1936] Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism. Georges Bernanos Nous Autres Francais (We French) The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions. Georges Bernanos Dialogue des Carmelites [1949] Henry Beston 1888-1968 The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, 1 for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. Henry Beston The Outermost House [1928], ch.1 1 See Markham The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. Henry Beston The Outermost House [1928], ch.2 The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. Henry Beston The Outermost House [1928], ch.3 For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars-pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time. Henry Beston The Outermost House [1928], ch.3 Heywood Broun 1888-1939 "Trees" maddens me, because it contains the most insincere line ever written by mortal man. Surely the Kilmer tongue must have been not far from the Kilmer cheek when he wrote, "Poems are made by fools like me." 1 Heywood Broun It Seems to Me [1935]."Trees," "If," and "Invictus" 1 See Kilmer Life is a copycat and can be bullied into following the master artist who bids it come to heel. Heywood Broun It Seems to Me [1935].Nature the Copycat The swaggering underemphasis of New England. Heywood Broun Heywood Broun: Collected Edition [1941] Dale Carnegie 1888-1955 How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie Title of book [1938] Raymond Chandler 1888-1959  The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler Title of novel [1939] J ames Frank Dobie 1888-1964 Conform and be dull. J ames Frank Dobie The Voice of the Coyote [1949], introduction John Foster Dulles 1888-1959 Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power. John Foster Dulles Address to the Council on Foreign Relations [January 12, 1954]  You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. . . . The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. John Foster Dulles From James Shepley, How Dulles Averted War, in Life [January 16, 1956] T homas S tearns Eliot 1888-1965 Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table. T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] There will be time to murder and create. T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous- Almost, at times, the Fool. T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] I grow old . . . I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, 1 each to each.I do not think that they will sing to me. T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] 1 See Donne Till human voices wake us, and we drown. T homas S tearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [1917] And I must borrow every changing shape To find expression. T homas S tearns Eliot Portrait of a Lady [1917], III One thinks of all the hands That are raising dingy shades In a thousand furnished rooms. T homas S tearns Eliot Preludes [1917], II Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis. T homas S tearns Eliot Rhapsody on a Windy Night [1917] I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates. T homas S tearns Eliot Morning at the Window [1917] The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn. T homas S tearns Eliot The Boston Evening Transcript [1917] Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith, The army of unalterable law. 1 T homas S tearns Eliot Cousin Nancy [1917] 1 See Meredith His laughter tinkled among the teacups. T homas S tearns Eliot Mr. Apollinax [1917] He laughed like an irresponsible foetus. T homas S tearns Eliot Mr. Apollinax [1917] Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair. T homas S tearns Eliot La Figlia Che Piange [1917],st. 1 Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand. T homas S tearns Eliot La Figlia Che Piange [1917],st. 2 Sometimes these cogitations still amaze The troubled midnight and the noon's repose. T homas S tearns Eliot La Figlia Che Piange [1917],st. 3 Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. T homas S tearns Eliot Gerontion [1920] After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us by vanities. T homas S tearns Eliot Gerontion [1920] Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. T homas S tearns Eliot Gerontion [1920] Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas. T homas S tearns Eliot Sweeney Erect [1920],st. 1 This oval O cropped out with teeth. T homas S tearns Eliot Sweeney Erect [1920],st. 4 I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney. T homas S tearns Eliot A Cooking Egg [1920],st. 3 Over buttered scones and crumpets Weeping, weeping multitudes Droop in a hundred A.B.C.'s. T homas S tearns Eliot A Cooking Egg [1920],st. 8 The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once. T homas S tearns Eliot The Hippopotamus [1920], st. 6 Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin. T homas S tearns Eliot Whispers of Immortality [1920],st. 1 He knew the anguish of the marrow The ague of the skeleton; No contact possible to flesh Allayed the fever of the bone. T homas S tearns Eliot Whispers of Immortality [1920],st. 4 [of Donne] Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss. T homas S tearns Eliot Whispers of Immortality [1920],st. 5 Reorganized upon the floor She yawns and draws a stocking up. T homas S tearns Eliot Sweeney Among the Nightingales [1920],st. 4 The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart,And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud. T homas S tearns Eliot Sweeney Among the Nightingales [1920],st. 10 April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].I, The Burial of the Dead You know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].I, The Burial of the Dead I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].I, The Burial of the Dead I think we are in rats' alley Where the dead men lost their bones. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].II, The Game of Chess O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag- It's so elegant So intelligent. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].II, The Game of Chess Hurry up please its time. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].II, The Game of Chess But at my back from time to time I hear 1 The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].III, The Fire Sermon 1 See Marvell At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting, I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives. 1 T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].III, The Fire Sermon 1 See Arnold When lovely woman stoops to folly 1 and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].III, The Fire Sermon 1 See Goldsmith Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].IV, Death by Water Here is no water but only rock. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].V, What the Thunder Said Who is the third who walks always beside you? T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].V, What the Thunder Said And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].V, What the Thunder Said Dayadhvam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison. 1 T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].V, What the Thunder Said 1 See The Upanishads These fragments I have shored against my ruins. T homas S tearns Eliot The Waste Land [1922].V, What the Thunder Said We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! T homas S tearns Eliot The Hollow Men [1925],I Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. T homas S tearns Eliot The Hollow Men [1925],I Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow. 1 T homas S tearns Eliot The Hollow Men [1925],V 1 See Dowson This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T homas S tearns Eliot The Hollow Men [1925],V A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year. T homas S tearns Eliot Journey of the Magi [1927] Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn. T homas S tearns Eliot Ash-Wednesday [1930],I Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. T homas S tearns Eliot Ash-Wednesday [1930],I Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree. T homas S tearns Eliot Ash-Wednesday [1930],II Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied. T homas S tearns Eliot Ash-Wednesday [1930],II Blown hair is sweet, brown hair over the mouth blown, Lilac and brown hair; Distraction, music of the flute, stops and steps of the mind over the third stair, Fading, fading; strength beyond hope and despair Climbing the third stair. T homas S tearns Eliot Ash-Wednesday [1930],III Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jeweled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse. T homas S tearns Eliot Ash-Wednesday [1930],IV Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. O my people, what have I done unto thee.Where shall the word be found, where will the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence. T homas S tearns Eliot Ash-Wednesday [1930],V Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying. T homas S tearns Eliot Ash-Wednesday [1930],V The white sails still fly seaward, seaward flying Unbroken wings.And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices In the lost lilac and the lost sea voices And the weak spirit quickens to rebel For the bent goldenrod and the lost sea smell. T homas S tearns Eliot Ash-Wednesday [1930],V Even among these rocks, Our peace in His will. 1 T homas S tearns Eliot Ash-Wednesday [1930],V 1 See Dante What seas what shores what gray rocks and what islands What water lapping the bow And scent of pine and the woodthrush singing through the fog What images return O my daughter. T homas S tearns Eliot Marina [1930] I'll convert you! Into a stew. A nice little, white little, missionary stew! T homas S tearns Eliot Sweeney Agonistes Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. T homas S tearns Eliot Sweeney Agonistes Two live as one One live as two Two live as three Under the bam Under the boo Under the bamboo tree. T homas S tearns Eliot Sweeney Agonistes Stone, bronze, stone, steel, stone, oakleaves, horses' heels Over the paving. T homas S tearns Eliot Coriolan I. Triumphal March O hidden under the dove's wing, hidden in the turtle's breast, Under the palmtree at noon, under the running water At the still point of the turning world. O hidden. T homas S tearns Eliot Coriolan I. Triumphal March How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! 1 With his features of clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim. T homas S tearns Eliot Five-Finger Exercises, V 1 See Lear All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust. T homas S tearns Eliot The Rock [1934], I Yet we have gone on living, Living and partly living. T homas S tearns Eliot Murder in the Cathedral [1935], pt.I They know and do not know, what it is to act or suffer. They know and do not know, that acting is suffering. T homas S tearns Eliot Murder in the Cathedral [1935], pt.I Saint and Martyr rule from the tomb. T homas S tearns Eliot Murder in the Cathedral [1935], pt.I The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. T homas S tearns Eliot Murder in the Cathedral [1935], pt.I Human kind cannot bear very much reality. T homas S tearns Eliot Murder in the Cathedral [1935], pt.II Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take the stone from the stone, take the skin from the arm, take the muscle from bone, and wash them. T homas S tearns Eliot Murder in the Cathedral [1935], pt.II Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Burnt Norton [1935],I Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose garden. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Burnt Norton [1935],I Shall we follow The deception of the thrush? Into our first world. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Burnt Norton [1935],I Garlic and sapphires in the mud Clot the bedded axle-tree. The trilling wire in the blood Sings below inveterate scars And reconciles forgotten wars. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Burnt Norton [1935],II At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Burnt Norton [1935],II Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Burnt Norton [1935],II Only through time time is conquered. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Burnt Norton [1935],II Sudden in a shaft of sunlight Even while the dust moves There rises the hidden laughter Of children in the foliage Quick now, here, now, always- Ridiculous the waste sad time Stretching before and after. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Burnt Norton [1935],V In my beginning is my end. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],I Keeping time, Keeping the rhythm in their dancing As in their living in the living seasons The time of the seasons and the constellations The time of milking and the time of harvest The time of the coupling of man and woman And that of beasts. Feet rising and falling. Eating and drinking. Dung and death. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],I What is the late November doing With the disturbance of the spring. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],II A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings. The poetry does not matter. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],II The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],II The houses are all gone under the sea. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],II The dancers are all gone under the hill. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],II O dark dark dark. 1 They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],II 1 See Milton And we all go with them, into the silent funeral, Nobody's funeral, for there is no one to bury. I said to my soul, be still, 1 and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],II 1 See Psalm 46:10 To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by the way which is the way of ignorance. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],II The whole earth is our hospital Endowed by the ruined millionaire. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],II We call this Friday good. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],II And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],V For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],V Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment And not the lifetime of one man only But of old stones that cannot be deciphered. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],V Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers 1 Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning. 2 T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.East Coker [1940],V 1 See Roethke 2 See Mary, Queen of Scots I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.The Dry Salvages [1941],I The sea is the land's edge also, the granite Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses Its hints of earlier and other creation: The starfish, the hermit crab, the whale's backbone; The pools where it offers to our curiosity The more delicate algae and the sea anemone. It tosses up our losses, the torn seine, The shattered lobsterpot, the broken oar And the gear of foreign dead men. The sea has many voices. 1 2 T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.The Dry Salvages [1941],I 1 See Revelation 14:2 2 See Tennyson There is no end of it, the voiceless wailing, No end to the withering of withered flowers. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.The Dry Salvages [1941],II Only the hardly, barely prayable Prayer of the one Annunciation. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.The Dry Salvages [1941],II The backward look behind the assurance Of recorded history, the backward halflook Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.The Dry Salvages [1941],II Time the destroyer is time the preserver. 1 T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.The Dry Salvages [1941],II 1 See Bruno Not fare well, But fare forward, voyagers. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.The Dry Salvages [1941],III Music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.The Dry Salvages [1941],V Only undefeated Because we have gone on trying; We, content at the last If our temporal reversion nourish (Not too far from the yew tree) The life of significant soil. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.The Dry Salvages [1941],V What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Little Gidding [1942],I Ash on an old man's sleeve Is all the ash the burnt roses leave. Dust in the air suspended Marks the place where a story ended. Dust inbreathed was a house- The wall, the wainscot and the mouse The death of hope and despair, This is the death of air. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Little Gidding [1942],II Water and fire shall rot The marred foundations we forgot, Of sanctuary and choir. This is the death of water and fire. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Little Gidding [1942],II In the uncertain hour before the morning Near the ending of interminable night At the recurrent end of the unending After the dark dove with the flickering tongue Had passed below the horizon of his homing. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Little Gidding [1942],II Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled us To purify the dialect of the tribe. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Little Gidding [1942],II Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Little Gidding [1942],IV A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel History is now and England. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Little Gidding [1942],V We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Little Gidding [1942],V A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are infolded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. T homas S tearns Eliot Four Quartets.Little Gidding [1942],V By the delicate, invisible web you wove- The inexplicable mystery of sound. T homas S tearns Eliot To Walter de la Mare [1948] What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. 1 2 3 4 5 6 T homas S tearns Eliot The Cocktail Party [1950] 1 See Virgil 2 See Marlowe 3 See Browne 4 See Milton 5 See Sartre 6 See Robert Lowell It [tradition] cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. T homas S tearns Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent [1919] The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. T homas S tearns Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent [1919] Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T homas S tearns Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent [1919] The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion. T homas S tearns Eliot Hamlet and His Problems [1919] Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T homas S tearns Eliot Philip Massinger [1920] Every vital development in language is a development of feeling as well. T homas S tearns Eliot Philip Massinger [1920] In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century, Milton and Dryden. T homas S tearns Eliot The Metaphysical Poets [1921] Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. . . . The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning. T homas S tearns Eliot The Metaphysical Poets [1921] Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself. T homas S tearns Eliot Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca [1927]  The great poet, in writing himself, writes his time. T homas S tearns Eliot Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca [1927] We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T homas S tearns Eliot A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry [1928] The general point of view may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion. T homas S tearns Eliot For Lancelot Andrews [1928],preface We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph. T homas S tearns Eliot For Lancelot Andrews [1928],Francis Herbert Bradley Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T homas S tearns Eliot Dante [1929] More can be learned about how to write poetry from Dante than from any English poet. . . . The language of each great English poet is his own language; the language of Dante is the perfection of a common language. T homas S tearns Eliot Dante [1929] Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion; Dante the greatest altitude and greatest depth. T homas S tearns Eliot Dante [1929] Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. T homas S tearns Eliot The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism [1933].Wordsworth and Coleridge As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. T homas S tearns Eliot The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism [1933].Conclusion Tradition by itself is not enough; it must be perpetually criticized and brought up to date under the supervision of what I call orthodoxy. T homas S tearns Eliot After Strange Gods [1934] Joseph P atrick Kennedy 1888-1969 Don't get mad, get even. Joseph P atrick Kennedy Attributed William L eonard Laurence 1888-1977 A great ball of fire about a mile in diameter, changing colors as it kept shooting upward, from deep purple to orange, expanding, growing bigger, rising as it was expanding, an elemental force freed from its bonds after being chained for billions of years. William L eonard Laurence On the first atom bomb explosion. In the New York Times [September 26, 1945] At first it was a giant column that soon took the shape of a supramundane mushroom. William L eonard Laurence On the first atom bomb explosion. In the New York Times [September 26, 1945] T homas E dward Lawrence 1888-1935  I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars. To earn you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house, that your eyes might be shining for me When we came. T homas E dward Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom 1 [1926], dedication 1 See Proverbs 9:1 There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. T homas E dward Lawrence Revolt in the Desert [1927], ch. 19 Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923 I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. . . . This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy-deep down. All is well. Katherine Mansfield Journal [1922], last entry Eugene O'Neill 1888-1953 Dat ole davil, sea. Eugene O'Neill Anna Christie [1922], actI We's all poor nuts and things happen, and we yust get mixed in wrong, that's all. Eugene O'Neill Anna Christie [1922], actIV For de little stealin' dey gits you in jail soon or late. For de big stealin' dey makes you emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks. If dey's one thing I learns in ten years on de Pullman cars listenin' to de white quality talk, it's dat same fact. Eugene O'Neill The Emperor Jones [1920], sc. i Yank: Sure! Lock me up! Put me in a cage! Dat's de on'y answer yuh know. G'wan, lock me up! Policeman: What you been doin'? Yank: Enough to gimme life for! I was born, see? Sure, dat's de charge. Write it in de blotter. I was born, get me! Eugene O'Neill The Hairy Ape [1922], sc. vii Desire Under the Elms. Eugene O'Neill Title of play [1924] God is a Mother. 1 2 3 Eugene O'Neill Strange Interlude [1928], pt.I, act V 1 See Suti and Hor 2 See Eddy 3 See John Paul I Strange interlude! Yes, our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electrical display of God the Father! Eugene O'Neill Strange Interlude [1928], pt.II, act IX Mourning Becomes Electra. Eugene O'Neill Title of dramatic trilogy [1931] The sea hates a coward. Eugene O'Neill Mourning Becomes Electra [1931].The Hunted, act IV The damned don't cry. Eugene O'Neill Mourning Becomes Electra [1931].The Haunted, actIII The dead! Why can't the dead die! Eugene O'Neill Mourning Becomes Electra [1931].The Haunted, actIV A Long Day's Journey into Night. Eugene O'Neill Title of play [1956] John Crowe Ransom 1888-1974 Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing. John Crowe Ransom Winter Remembered Hands hold much of heat in little storage. John Crowe Ransom They Hail the Sunrise The lazy geese, like a snow cloud Dripping their snow on the green grass, Tricking and stopping, sleepy and proud, Who cried in goose, Alas. John Crowe Ransom Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree. Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills, The delight of her husband, her aunts, an infant of three, And of medicos marveling sweetly on her ills. John Crowe Ransom Here Lies a Lady God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No belly and no bowels, Only consonants and vowels. John Crowe Ransom Survey of Literature Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out. John Crowe Ransom Captain Carpenter, st. 1 Knute Kenneth Rockne 1888-1931  Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. Knute Kenneth Rockne Remark to Wisconsin basketball coach Walter Meanwell [1920s] Win this one for the Gipper. Knute Kenneth Rockne Attributed Alan Seeger 1888-1916 I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When spring comes back with rustling shade And apple blossoms fill the air. Alan Seeger I Have a Rendezvous with Death [1916] And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous. Alan Seeger I Have a Rendezvous with Death [1916] Bartolomeo Vanzetti 1888-1927 If it had not been for this thing, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man, as now we do by accident. Bartolomeo Vanzetti Letter to his son [April 1927] Our words-our lives-our pains: nothing! The taking of our lives-lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler-all! That last moment belongs to us-that agony is our triumph. Bartolomeo Vanzetti Letter to his son [April 1927] I found myself compelled to fight back from my eyes the tears, and quanch my heart trobling to my throat to not weep before him. But Sacco's name will live in the hearts of the people when your name, your laws, institutions and your false god are but a dim rememoring of a cursed past in which man was wolf to the man. Bartolomeo Vanzetti Last speech to the court Henry A gard Wallace 1888-1965 Unemployed purchasing power means unemployed labor and unemployed labor means human want in the midst of plenty. This is the most challenging paradox of modern times. Henry A gard Wallace Address [1934] The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man. Henry A gard Wallace Address, The Price of Free World Victory [May 8, 1942] Conrad Aiken 1889-1973 Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; All that was once so beautiful is dead. Conrad Aiken Bread and Music [1914] Stars in the purple dusk above the rooftops Pale in a saffron mist and seem to die, And I myself on a swiftly tilting planet Stand before a glass and tie my tie. Conrad Aiken Senlin.Morning Song One by one in the moonlight there, Neighing far off on the haunted air, The unicorns come down to the sea. Conrad Aiken Senlin.Evening Song Rock meeting rock can know love better Than eyes that stare or lips that touch. All that we know in love is bitter, And it is not much. Conrad Aiken Annihilation, st. 8 All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die, And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. Conrad Aiken All Lovely Things Will Have an Ending The hiss was now becoming a roar-the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow-but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep. Conrad Aiken Silent Snow, Secret Snow [1932] O Altitudo in the bloodstream swims. 1 Conrad Aiken And in the Human Heart [1940]. Sonnet6 1 See Sir Thomas Browne Ice is the silent language of the peak; and fire the silent language of the star. Conrad Aiken And in the Human Heart [1940]. Sonnet10 For brief as water falling will be death, and brief as flower falling, or a leaf, brief as the taking, and the giving, breath; thus natural, thus brief, my love, is grief. Conrad Aiken And in the Human Heart [1940]. Sonnet18 Robert Charles Benchley 1889-1945 I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini. Robert Charles Benchley Attributed Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. Robert Charles Benchley Phobias It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert Charles Benchley Remark Charlie Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin 1889-1977 [The tramp character] A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. Charlie Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin My Autobiography [1964], ch.10 There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. Charlie Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin My Autobiography [1964], ch.20  [Beauty is] an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels-an expression of it can be a dustbin with a shaft of sunlight across it, or it can be a rose in the gutter. Charlie Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin My Autobiography [1964], ch.29 Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently, his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. Thus the progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior. Charlie Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin My Autobiography [1964], ch.29 Christopher Henry Dawson 1889-1970 As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. Christopher Henry Dawson The Judgment of the Nations [1942] Philip Guedalla 1889-1944 The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender. 1 Philip Guedalla Supers and Supermen [1920] 1 See Henry James Adolf Hitler 1889-1945 My adversaries . . . applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force. Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf (My Battle) [1933], vol.I, ch.2 A majority can never replace the man. . . . Just as a hundred fools do not make one wise man, an heroic decision is not likely to come from a hundred cowards. Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf (My Battle) [1933], vol.I, ch.3 Strength lies not in defense but in attack. Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf (My Battle) [1933], vol.I, ch.3 All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself. Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf (My Battle) [1933], vol.I, ch.6 The great masses of the people . . . will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf (My Battle) [1933], vol.I, ch.10 Never tolerate the establishment of two continental powers in Europe. Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf (My Battle) [1933], vol.II, ch. 14  After fifteen years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical will power, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles. Adolf Hitler Proclamation to the troops on taking over the leadership of the German armed forces [December 21, 1941] This war no longer bears the characteristics of former inter-European conflicts. It is one of those elemental conflicts which usher in a new millennium and which shake the world once in a thousand years. Adolf Hitler Speech to the Reichstag [April 26, 1942]  Is Paris burning? Adolf Hitler Asked at the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, Rastenburg, Germany [August 25, 1944] George S. Kaufman 1889-1961 Satire is what closes Saturday night. George S. Kaufman Saying George S. Kaufman 1889-1961 Moss Hart 1904-1961 You Can't Take It with You. 1 2 3 4 Moss Hart Title of play [1936] 1 See The Song of the Harper 2 See Ecclesiastes 5:15 3 See I Timothy 6:7 4 See Theognis The Man Who Came to Dinner. Moss Hart Title of play [1939] George Washington Slept Here. Moss Hart Title of play [1940] Stoddard King 1889-1933 There's a long, long trail a-winding Into the land of my dreams, Where the nightingales are singing And a white moon beams. Stoddard King The Long, Long Trail [1913] Walter Lippmann 1889-1974 Whether we wish it or not we are involved in the world's problems, and all the winds of heaven blow through our land. Walter Lippmann A Preface to Politics [1913], ch. 4 The liberal philosophy holds that enduring governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves; that a government responsible only to its own conscience is not for long tolerable. It holds that since any government is liable to fail, there is needed a method of changing the governors without wrecking the state. It holds that unless there is a method, be it through elections or otherwise, by which the governed can make their views effective in some proportion to their weight, the nation is at the mercy of violence in the form of terrorism, assassination, conspiracy, mass compulsion, and civil war. Walter Lippmann In Defense of Liberalism. From Vanity Fair [November 1934] This law which is the spirit of law is the opposite of an accumulation of old precedents and new fiats. By this higher law, that men must not be arbitrary, the old law is continually tested and the new law reviewed. Walter Lippmann The Good Society [1937], ch. 15 In foreign relations, as in all other relations, a policy has been formed only when commitments and power have been brought into balance. Walter Lippmann U.S. Foreign Policy [1943] The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. . . . The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. Walter Lippmann Roosevelt Has Gone [April 14, 1945] The world state is inherent in the United Nations as an oak tree is in an acorn. Walter Lippmann One World or None [1946] A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant. Walter Lippmann For Charles de Gaulle. From Today and Tomorrow [June 5, 1958] We have neglected our own affairs. Our education is inadequate, our cities are badly built, our social arrangements are unsatisfactory. We can't wait another generation. Unless we can surmount this crisis, and work and get going onto the path of a settlement in Asia, and a settlement in Europe, all of these plans of the Great Society here at home, all the plans for the rebuilding of backward countries in other continents will all be put on the shelf, because war interrupts everything like that. Walter Lippmann Conversations with Walter Lippmann [1965]. Lippmann and Eric Sevareid [February 22, 1965] A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. . . . A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society. 1 Walter Lippmann Address at the International Press Institute Assembly, London [May 27, 1965] 1 See Lyndon Johnson Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. Walter Lippmann Address at the International Press Institute Assembly, London [May 27, 1965] Responsible journalism is journalism responsible in the last analysis to the editor's own conviction of what, whether interesting or only important, is in the public interest. Walter Lippmann Address at the International Press Institute Assembly, London [May 27, 1965] As the free press develops, the paramount point is whether the journalist, like the scientist or scholar, puts truth in the first place or in the second. Walter Lippmann Address at the International Press Institute Assembly, London [May 27, 1965] Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964 The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life. Jawaharlal Nehru Credo. Reprinted in the New York Times [September 7, 1958] Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. Jawaharlal Nehru Credo. Reprinted in the New York Times [September 7, 1958] The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. 1 Jawaharlal Nehru Credo. Reprinted in the New York Times [September 7, 1958] 1 See Kahn and Egan I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized, on this earth, capable of becoming true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul. 1 2 3 4 5 Jawaharlal Nehru From Edgar Snow, Journey to the Beginning [1958] 1 See Sallust 2 See Bacon 3 See Shakespeare 4 See Tennyson 5 See Henley Vannevar Bush 1890-1974 Science: The Endless Frontier. Vannevar Bush Title of book [1945] The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist. Vannevar Bush Modern Arms and Free Men [1949],foreword If democracy loses its touch, then no great war will be needed to overwhelm it. If it keeps and enhances its strength, no great war need come again. Vannevar Bush Modern Arms and Free Men [1949],Conclusion It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenly appreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature. We were appalled by what we saw. Vannevar Bush Science Is Not Enough [1967] Science is emphatically an important part of culture today, as scientific knowledge and its applications continue to transform the world, and condition every aspect of the relations between men and nations. Vannevar Bush Science Is Not Enough [1967] Karel Capek 1890-1938  Rossum's Universal Robots. Karel Capek R.U.R. [1920] Marc us Cook Connelly 1890-1980 Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah! Marc us Cook Connelly The Green Pastures [1930] God: I'll jest r'ar back an' pass a miracle. Marc us Cook Connelly The Green Pastures [1930] Gabriel: How about cleanin' up de whole mess of 'em and sta'tin' all over ag'in wid some new kind of animal? God: An' admit I'm licked? Marc us Cook Connelly The Green Pastures [1930] Even bein' Gawd ain't a bed of roses. Marc us Cook Connelly The Green Pastures [1930] Elmer Davis 1890-1958 The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it. Elmer Davis Phi Beta Kappa Oration, Harvard [1953] With a great price our ancestors obtained this freedom, but we were born free 1 2 3 . . . But that freedom can be retained only by the eternal vigilance which has always been its price. Elmer Davis But We Were Born Free [1954], ch.1 1 See Acts 22:28 2 See Milton 3 See Rousseau The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you. Elmer Davis But We Were Born Free [1954], ch.1 This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Elmer Davis But We Were Born Free [1954], ch.1 What makes Western civilization worth saving is the freedom of the mind, now under heavy attack from the primitives . . . who have persisted among us. If we have not the courage to defend that faith, it won't matter much whether we are saved or not. Elmer Davis But We Were Born Free [1954], ch.6 Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle 1890-1970 The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Le Fil de l'Epee [1934] The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Le Fil de l'Epee [1934] Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Le Fil de l'Epee [1934] France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Broadcast from London to the French people after the fall of France [June 18, 1940] Since those whose duty it was to hold the sword of France have let it fall, I have picked up its broken point. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Radio address [July 13, 1940] If I live, I will fight, wherever I must, as long as I must, until the enemy is defeated and the national stain washed clean. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Les Memoires de Guerre, vol. I [1954] France cannot be France without greatness. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Les Memoires de Guerre, vol. I [1954] I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Reply to speaker who compared him to Robespierre. From Figaro Litteraire [1958] ÿ Dwight D avid Eisenhower 1890-1969 People of Western Europe: A landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force. This landing is part of the concerted United Nations plan for the liberation of Europe, made in conjunction with our great Russian allies. . . . I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory. Dwight D avid Eisenhower Broadcast on D-Day [June 6, 1944] Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. Dwight D avid Eisenhower Address at Guildhall, London [July 12, 1945] Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders. Dwight D avid Eisenhower Infantry School Quarterly [April 1953] This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . . We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. . . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. Dwight D avid Eisenhower Farewell Radio and Television Address to the American People [January 17, 1961] Sir Alan Patrick Herbert 1890-1971  Holy Deadlock. Sir Alan Patrick Herbert Title of novel [1934] satirizing the paradoxes of British divorce law The Common Law of England has been laboriously built upon a mythical figure-the figure of "The Reasonable Man." Sir Alan Patrick Herbert Uncommon Law [1935],p. 1 The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time. Sir Alan Patrick Herbert Uncommon Law [1935],p. 98 An Act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected. Sir Alan Patrick Herbert Uncommon Law [1935],p. 316 Samuel Hoffenstein 1890-1947 Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; Between the cradle and the grave 1 2 3 Lies a haircut and a shave. Samuel Hoffenstein Songs of Faith in the Year After Next, VIII 1 See Dyer 2 See Shelley 3 See Bellamy The heart's dead Are never buried. Samuel Hoffenstein Summer Day Gerald White Johnson 1890-1980 Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened. Gerald White Johnson American Heroes and HeroWorship [1943], ch. 1 In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid. Gerald White Johnson American Freedom and the Press [1958] Hanns Johst 1890-  When I hear the word "culture" . . . I reach for my revolver. Hanns Johst Schlageter [1933] Robert Ley 1890-1945  Strength through joy. Robert Ley Instruction for the German Labor Front [December 2, 1933] H oward P hillips Lovecraft 1890-1937 The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H oward P hillips Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu [1928], ch. 1 Christopher Morley 1890-1957 There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley Where the Blue Begins [1922] Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morley Thunder on the Left [1925], ch. 14 April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. Christopher Morley John Mistletoe [1931], 8 A human being; an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. Christopher Morley Human Being [1932], ch. 11 There was so much handwriting on the wall That even the wall fell down. Christopher Morley Around the Clock [1943] Chattering voltage like a broken wire The wild cicada cried, Six weeks to frost! Christopher Morley End of August Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs? Christopher Morley Contribution to a Contribution Allan Nevins 1890-1971 Too little and too late. Allan Nevins Current History [1935] Boris Pasternak 1890-1960 Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. Boris Pasternak On Modesty and Bravery [1936]. Speech at Writers' Conference I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field. 1 Boris Pasternak Hamlet [1946] 1 See Anonymous: Russian You are eternity's hostage A captive of time. Boris Pasternak Night [1957] But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? Boris Pasternak Bacchanalia [1957], st. 4  During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped. Boris Pasternak I Remember [1958] It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned. Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago [1958]. The Poems of Yurii Zhivago, Winter Night,st. 1 A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow. Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago [1958]. The Poems of Yurii Zhivago, Winter Night,st. 7 And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter. Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago [1958]. The Poems of Yurii Zhivago, Winter Night,epilogue Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death. Boris Pasternak Letter to Khrushchev [1958] I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me. Boris Pasternak The Nobel Prize [1959] "Red" Rowley fl. 1915 Mademoiselle from Armenteers, Hasn't been kissed in forty years, Hinky dinky, parley-voo. "Red" Rowley Mademoiselle from Armentieres Mademoiselle from St. Nazaire, She never heard of underwear. "Red" Rowley Mademoiselle from Armentieres George Seldes 1890-  Sawdust Caesar. George Seldes Title of book [1932] Fred erick Moore Vinson 1890-1953 Wars are not "acts of God." They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change. Fred erick Moore Vinson Speech at Arlington National Cemetery [Memorial Day, 1945] Charles E rwin Wilson 1890-1961 What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country. Charles E rwin Wilson To the Senate Armed Forces Committee [1952] Agatha Christie 1891-1976 "This affair must all be unraveled from within." He [Hercule Poirot] tapped his forehead. "These little gray cells. It is "up to them'-as you say over here." Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles [1920], ch.10 Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles [1920], ch.11 It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting. Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd [1926] I don't think necessity is the mother of invention 1 2 -invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie An Autobiography [1977]. Pt.III, Growing Up 1 See Persius 2 See Anonymous Latin If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life. Agatha Christie An Autobiography [1977]. Pt.III, Growing Up Trains are wonderful. . . . To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life. Agatha Christie An Autobiography [1977]. Pt.IV, Flirting, Courting, Banns Up, Marriage One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one! . . . We shall not survive war, but shall, as well as our adversaries, be destroyed by war. 1 Agatha Christie An Autobiography [1977]. Pt.X, The Second War 1 See Pyrrhus Jean Cocteau 1891-1963 Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. Jean Cocteau Des Beaux-Arts The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. Jean Cocteau Le Rappel a l'Ordre [1926] The Blood of a Poet. Jean Cocteau Title of film [1933] The matters I relate Are true lies. Jean Cocteau The Journals of Jean Cocteau [1956]. Quoted byWallace Fowlie in the introduction Ely Culbertson 1891-1955 The bizarre world of cards . . . a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately. A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it. And there were "masses"-long suits-which always asserted themselves in the end, triumphing over the kings and aces. Ely Culbertson Total Peace [1943], ch. 1 Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. Ely Culbertson Must We Fight Russia? [1946], ch.2 We must conquer war, or war will conquer us. Ely Culbertson Must We Fight Russia? [1946], ch.2 God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it. Ely Culbertson Must We Fight Russia? [1946], ch.5 Karl Kelchner Darrow 1891- One of the things which distinguishes ours from all earlier generations is this, that we have seen our atoms. Karl Kelchner Darrow The Renaissance of Physics [1936] Hu Shih 1891-1962  Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. Hu Shih La Jeunesse Nouvelle [April 1919] The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Hu Shih La Jeunesse Nouvelle [April 1919]Hu Shih wen ts'un The civilization under which people are restricted and controlled by a material environment from which they cannot escape, and under which they cannot utilize human thought and intellectual power to change environment and improve conditions, is the civilization of a lazy and nonprogressive people. It is a truly materialistic civilization. Hu Shih La Jeunesse Nouvelle [April 1919]Hu Shih wen ts'un Jomo Kenyatta Kamau Wa Ngengi 1891-1978 The question of land tenure . . . is the key to the [Kikuyu] people's life; it secures for them that peaceful tillage of the soil which supplies their material needs and enables them to perform their magic and traditional ceremonies in undisturbed serenity, facing Mount Kenya. Jomo Kenyatta Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu (Kikuyu) [1938],preface The African is conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom forever. He realizes that he must fight unceasingly for his own complete emancipation; for without this he is doomed to remain the prey of rival imperialisms. Jomo Kenyatta Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu (Kikuyu) [1938],Conclusion  We must try to trust one another. Stay and cooperate. Jomo Kenyatta Statement, as first president of the Republic of Kenya, to the white settlers [1964] David Low 1891-1963 I have never met anybody who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves. David Low From the New York Times [February 10, 1946] Osip Emilevich Mandelstam 1891-1938 We live, deaf to the land beneath us, Ten steps away no one hears our speeches,But where there's so much as half a conversation The Kremlin's mountaineer will get his mention. Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Stalin [1934],st. 1, 2 One by one forging his laws, to be flung Like horseshoes at the head, the eye, or the groin.And every killing is a treat For the broad-chested Ossete. Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Stalin [1934],st. 7, 8 Claude McKay 1891-1948 Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines. Claude McKay A Song of the Moon Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I must confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth! Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect against her hate. Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. Claude McKay America If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot. Claude McKay If We Must Die If we must die, O let us nobly die. Claude McKay If We Must Die What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Claude McKay If We Must Die Irene Rutherford McLeod 1891-1964 I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone. Irene Rutherford McLeod Songs to Save a Soul [1919]. Lone Dog Henry Miller 1891-1980 It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how . . . and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss. Henry Miller The Colossus of Maroussi [1941], pt.I Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit. Henry Miller The Colossus of Maroussi [1941], pt.III If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. Henry Miller The Colossus of Maroussi [1941], pt.III Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. The tragedy of Greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision. Henry Miller The Colossus of Maroussi [1941], pt.III Elliot Paul 1891-1958 The last time I see Paris will be on the day I die. The city was inexhaustible, and so is its memory. Elliot Paul The Last Time I Saw Paris [1942], 1 pt. II, 23 1 See Hammerstein Michael Polanyi 1891-1976 An art which has fallen into disuse for the period of a generation is altogether lost. There are hundreds of examples of this to which the process of mechanization is continuously adding new ones. These losses are usually irretrievable. It is pathetic to watch the endless efforts-equipped with microscopy and chemistry, with mathematics and electronics-to reproduce a single violin of the kind the half-literate Stradivarius turned out as a matter of routine more than two hundred years ago. Michael Polanyi Personal Knowledge [1958] Cole Albert Porter 1891-1964 You do something to me, Something that simply mystifies me. Cole Albert Porter Fifty Million Frenchmen [1929]. You Do Something to Me Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun. Cole Albert Porter Gay Divorce [1932]. Night and Day I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, So tell me why should it be true That I get a kick out of you. Cole Albert Porter Anything Goes [1934].I Get a Kick Out of You You're the Nile, You're the Tower of Pisa, You're the smile On the Mona Lisa. . . . But if, Baby, I'm the bottom you're the top! Cole Albert Porter Anything Goes [1934].You're the Top! It was great fun, But it was just one of those things. Cole Albert Porter Jubilee [1935]. Just One of Those Things It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely. Cole Albert Porter Red, Hot and Blue [1936]. It's De-Lovely My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Cole Albert Porter Leave It to Me [1938], title of song But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion, 1 Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way. Cole Albert Porter Kiss Me, Kate [1948]. Always True to You in My Fashion 1 See Dowson Nicola Sacco 1891-1927 Help the weak ones that cry for help, help the prosecuted and the victim . . . they are the comrades that fight and fall . . . for the conquest of the joy of freedom for all the poor workers. In this struggle for life you will find more love and you will be loved. Nicola Sacco Letter to his son Dante Haile Selassie Haile Selassie 1891-1975 Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. Haile Selassie Speech, the League of Nations [1936] Arthur Hays Sulzberger 1891-1968 Obviously, a man's judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Arthur Hays Sulzberger Address to the New York State Publishers Association [August 30, 1948] Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing. Arthur Hays Sulzberger Upon receiving the Columbia College award for distinguished service [1952] The vital measure of a newspaper is not its size but its spirit-that is its responsibility to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. Arthur Hays Sulzberger On accepting an award to the New York Times by Temple Israel, Boston [May 9, 1956] Earl Warren 1891-1974  To separate [Negro children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. . . . We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Earl Warren Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 [1954] When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities and is subjected to questioning . . . he must be warned prior to any ques-tioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires. Earl Warren Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 [1965] Herbert V. Wiley 1891-1954 Stand by to crash. Herbert V. Wiley Last command to the crew of the falling U.S. Navy dirigible Akron [April 4, 1933] Stella Benson 1892-1933 Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. Stella Benson To the Unborn, st. 3 Pearl S ydenstricker Buck 1892-1973 I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being. Pearl S ydenstricker Buck I Believe [1939] Walter C. Hagen 1892-1969 Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers. Walter C. Hagen From the New York Times [May 22, 1977] J ohn B urdon S anderson Haldane 1892-1964 Now, my suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. . . . I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, in any philosophy. 1 That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming. J ohn B urdon S anderson Haldane Possible Worlds [1927] 1 See Shakespeare Robert H oughwout Jackson 1892-1954 If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. 1 Robert H oughwout Jackson Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 319 U.S. 624, 642 [1940] 1 See E. B. White The first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated. Robert H oughwout Jackson Opening address before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg [1945] There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact. Robert H oughwout Jackson Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1, 37 [1949] It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. Robert H oughwout Jackson American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442 [1950] The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion. Robert H oughwout Jackson Dissenting opinion, Zorach v. Clausor, 343 U.S. 306, 325 [1952] Archibald MacLeish 1892-1982 Beauty is that Medusa's head Which men go armed to seek and sever: It is most deadly when most dead, And dead will stare and sting forever. Archibald MacLeish The Happy Marriage [1924] There with vast wings across the canceled skies, There in the sudden blackness the black pall Of nothing, nothing, nothing-nothing at all. Archibald MacLeish The End of the World [1926] A poem should not mean But be. Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica [1926] And here face downward in the sun To feel how swift how secretly The shadow of the night comes on. Archibald MacLeish You, Andrew Marvell [1930] We were the first that found that famous country: We marched by a king's name: we crossed the sierras: Unknown hardships we suffered: hunger. Archibald MacLeish Conquistador [1932]. BernaAl Diaz' Preface We were the lords of it all. . . . Archibald MacLeish Conquistador [1932]. BernaAl Diaz' Preface She lies on her left side her flank golden: Her hair is burned black with the strong sun. The scent of her hair is of rain in the dust on her shoulders: She has brown breasts and the mouth of no other country. Archibald MacLeish Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City [1933]. Landscape as a Nude, st. 1 And learn O voyager to walk The roll of earth, the pitch and fall That swings across these trees those stars: That swings the sunlight up the wall. Archibald MacLeish Seafarer [1933], st. 1 The world was always yours: you would not take it. Archibald MacLeish Speech to a Crowd [1936] Christ but this earth goes over to the squall of time! Hi but she heels to it-rail down: ribs down: rolling Dakotas under her hull! And the night climbing Sucking the green from the ferns by these Berkshire boulders! Archibald MacLeish The Sunset Piece [1936] America was promises . . . It was Man who had been promised. Archibald MacLeish America Was Promises [1939] old age level light evening in the afternoon love without the bitterness and so good-night Archibald MacLeish Definitions of Old Age [1976] Now, the fourth day evening, we descend, make fast, set foot at last upon her beaches, stand in her silence, lift our heads and see above her, wanderer in her sky, a wonder to us past the reach of wonder, a light beyond our lights, our lives, the rising earth, a meaning to us, O, a meaning! Archibald MacLeish Voyage to the Moon [1976] Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950 All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood. Edna St. Vincent Millay Renascence [1912],l. 1 The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky,- No higher than the soul is high. 1 The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. But East and West will pinch the heart That cannot keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat-the sky Will cave in on him by and by. Edna St. Vincent Millay Renascence [1912],last lines 1 See Hartley Coleridge O world, I cannot hold thee close enough! Edna St. Vincent Millay God's World [1917],st. 1 Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year. My soul is all but out of me-let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call. Edna St. Vincent Millay God's World [1917],st. 2 I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. Edna St. Vincent Millay Afternoon on a Hill [1917], st. 1 Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse. Edna St. Vincent Millay Ashes of Life [1917], st. 3 My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends- It gives a lovely light. Edna St. Vincent Millay A Few Figs from Thistles [1920].First Fig Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! 1 Edna St. Vincent Millay A Few Figs from Thistles [1920].Second Fig 1 See Matthew 7:26 We were very tired, we were very merry- We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. Edna St. Vincent Millay A Few Figs from Thistles [1920].Recuerdo I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin. Edna St. Vincent Millay A Few Figs from Thistles [1920].The Penitent, st. 1 Whether or not we find what we are seeking Is idle, biologically speaking. Edna St. Vincent Millay A Few Figs from Thistles [1920].I Shall Forget You Presently, l. 13 Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness-presently Every bed is narrow. Edna St. Vincent Millay Passer Mortuus Est [1921], st. 1 My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing; Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going. Edna St. Vincent Millay Travel [1921], st. 3 I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year. Edna St. Vincent Millay I Know I Am But Summer [1923], l. 1 I drank at every vine. The last was like the first. I came upon no wine So wonderful as thirst. Edna St. Vincent Millay Feast [1923], st. 1 I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more. Edna St. Vincent Millay What Lips My Lips Have Kissed [1923], l. 13 Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn. Edna St. Vincent Millay Pity Me Not [1923], l. 13 Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. 1 Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone. Edna St. Vincent Millay Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare [1923], l. 11 1 See Russell How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe. Edna St. Vincent Millay The Buck in the Snow [1928] If ever I said, in grief or pride, I tired of honest things, I lied. Edna St. Vincent Millay The Goose Girl [1923], l. 5 Music my rampart, and my only one. Edna St. Vincent Millay On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven [1928], l. 14 I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. Edna St. Vincent Millay Dirge Without Music [1928], st. 1 Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink. Edna St. Vincent Millay Love Is Not All [1931], l. 1 Time can make soft that iron wood. Edna St. Vincent Millay Wine from These Grapes [1934]. The Leaf and the Tree Reinhold Niebuhr 1892-1971 God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Niebuhr The Serenity Prayer [1934] Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. Reinhold Niebuhr Beyond Tragedy [1938] The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet. Reinhold Niebuhr Beyond Tragedy [1938] Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Reinhold Niebuhr The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness [1944] Humor is a prelude to faith and Laughter is the beginning of prayer. Reinhold Niebuhr Discerning the Signs of the Times [1949] Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility. Reinhold Niebuhr Faith and History [1949] Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. Reinhold Niebuhr The Irony of American History [1952] Martin Niemoeller 1892-1984 In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. 1 Martin Niemoeller Attributed 1 See Lincoln Harold Wallace Ross 1892-1951  The New Yorker will not be edited for the old lady from Dubuque. Harold Wallace Ross Upon founding The New Yorker [1925] J ohn R onald R euel Tolkien 1892-1973 In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. J ohn R onald R euel Tolkien The Hobbit; or There and Back Again [1937], ch. 1 Cesar Vallejo 1892-1938 I will die in Paris with hard dirty rain, on a day I now remember. I will die in Paris-and I don't run-maybe a Thursday, like today, in autumn. Cesar Vallejo Human Poems (Poemas Humanos) [1939].Black Stone on a White Stone (Piedra Negra Sobre una Piedra Blanca), st. 1 A man walks by with a loaf of bread on his shoulder. I'm going to write, after that, about my double? Cesar Vallejo Human Poems (Poemas Humanos) [1939].A Man Walks By,st. 1 Another shakes from cold, hacks, spits blood. Is it possible to even mention the profound I?Another searches in the mud for bones, rinds. How write after that about the infinite? Cesar Vallejo Human Poems (Poemas Humanos) [1939].A Man Walks By,st. 5, 6 Whatever may be the cause I have to defend before God, beyond death I have a defender: God. Cesar Vallejo Human Poems (Poemas Humanos) [1939].Whatever May Be the Cause Mae West 1892-1980 Come up and see me sometime. Mae West Diamond Lil [1932] Beulah, peel me a grape. Mae West I'm No Angel [1933] Wendell L ewis Willkie 1892-1944 Freedom is an indivisible word. 1 If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin. Wendell L ewis Willkie One World, ch. 13 1 See Litvinov The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. Wendell L ewis Willkie An American Program [1944], ch. 2 I believe in America because in it we are free- free to choose our government, to speak our minds, to observe our different religions. Because we are generous with our freedom, we share our rights with those who disagree with us. Because we hate no people and covet no people's lands. Because we are blessed with a natural and varied abundance. Because we have great dreams and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. Wendell L ewis Willkie His creed, inscribed on a marker by his grave in Rushville, Indiana Jack Yellen 1892-1958 Happy days are here again, The skies above are clear again: Let us sing a song of cheer again, Happy days are here again! Jack Yellen Happy Days Are Here Again [1929] Omar Bradley 1893-1981 We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Omar Bradley Address on Armistice Day [1948] The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. Omar Bradley Address on Armistice Day [1948] Our military forces are one team-in the game to win regardless of who carries the ball. This is no time for "fancy dans" who won't hit the line with all they have on every play, unless they can call the signals. Each player on this team-whether he shines in the spotlight of the backfield or eats dirt in the line-must be an All-American. Omar Bradley Testimony to the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives [October 19, 1949] In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. Omar Bradley In the Military Review [February 1950] Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. Omar Bradley Testimony to the Committee on Armed Services and Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. Senate [May 15, 1951] Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy. Omar Bradley In the Military Review [September 1951] Lew Brown 1893-1958 Buddy George Gard De Sylva 1895-1950 And love can come to everyone, The best things in life are free. Buddy George Gard De Sylva Good News [1927]. The Best Things in Life Are Free Keep your sunny side up. Buddy George Gard De Sylva Sunny Side Up [1929]. Sunny Side Up James Bryant Conant 1893-1978 He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground. James Bryant Conant Notes on the Harvard Tercentenary [1936] Liberty like charity must begin at home. James Bryant Conant Our Unique Heritage There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves. James Bryant Conant Letter to the New York Times [August 13, 1945] Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation. James Bryant Conant Education in a Divided World [1948] The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulations, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks. James Bryant Conant Science and Common Sense [1951] Jimmy James Francis Durante 1893-1980 Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are. Jimmy James Francis Durante Radio series sign-off [1942] Dese are de conditions dat prevail. Jimmy James Francis Durante Saying Stop da music! Jimmy James Francis Durante Saying Hermann Goering 1893-1946 Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you. Hermann Goering Instruction for the Prussian police [1933] Harold Joseph Laski 1893-1950 We live under a system by which the many are exploited by the few, and war is the ultimate sanction of that exploitation. Harold Joseph Laski Plan or Perish [1945] We must plan our civilization or we must perish. Harold Joseph Laski Plan or Perish [1945] It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy. Harold Joseph Laski Plan or Perish [1945] Anita Loos 1893-1981 Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes. Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1925], ch.1 She always believed in the old adage, "Leave them while you're looking good." Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1925], ch.1 Kissing your hand may make you feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever. Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1925], ch.4 Mao Tse-tung 1893-1976 A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture . . . A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. Mao Tse-tung Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung [1965], vol.I, p. 28 Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Mao Tse-tung Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung [1965], vol.II, p. 224 The contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation, and the contradiction between feudalism and the great masses of the people, are the principal contradictions in modern Chinese society. . . . The great revolutions of modern and contemporary China have emerged and developed on the basis of these fundamental contradictions. Mao Tse-tung Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung [1965], vol.III, p. 81-82  Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. Mao Tse-tung Lecture [1938] War cannot for a single minute be separated from politics. 1 Mao Tse-tung Lecture [1938] 1 See Clausewitz The people are like water and the army is like fish. Mao Tse-tung Aspects of China's Anti-Japanese Struggle [1948] The policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science; it is designed to enable a socialist culture to thrive in our land. Different forms and styles in art can develop freely, and different schools in science can develop freely, and different schools in science can contend freely. Mao Tse-tung Speech at Peking [February 27, 1957] John P hillips Marquand 1893-1960 It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. John P hillips Marquand The Late George Apley [1937], ch.3 Marriage . . . is a damnably serious business, particularly around Boston. John P hillips Marquand The Late George Apley [1937], ch.11 There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years. This is a time of life when a solicitous family does well to watch affectionately over the vagaries of its unattached relatives, particularly of those who are comfortably off. John P hillips Marquand The Late George Apley [1937], ch.23 Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovski 1893-1930 If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: Not a man, but a cloud in trousers! Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovski Cloud in Trousers [1915] Citizen! Consider my traveling expenses: Poetry- all of it- is a journey to the unknown. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovski Conversation with a Tax Collector about Poetry [1926] Then there's amortization, the deadliest of all, Amortization of the heart and soul. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovski Conversation with a Tax Collector about Poetry [1926] But I subdued myself, setting my heel On the throat of my own song. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovski At the Top of My Voice Wilfred Owen 1893-1918 Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry, The subject of it is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. All a poet can do is warn. Wilfred Owen Poems [1920], preface What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. Wilfred Owen The Anthem for Doomed Youth, st. 1 And bugles calling for them from sad shires. Wilfred Owen The Anthem for Doomed Youth, st. 1 What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. Wilfred Owen The Anthem for Doomed Youth, st. 1 And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Wilfred Owen The Anthem for Doomed Youth, st. 1 Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead. Wilfred Owen Greater Love Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled. Wilfred Owen Strange Meeting Dorothy Parker 1893-1967 Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Dorothy Parker Enough Rope [1927].Inventory,st. 1 Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Dorothy Parker Enough Rope [1927].Inventory,st. 2 Scratch a lover, and find a foe. Dorothy Parker Enough Rope [1927].Ballade of a Great Weariness, st. 1 Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker Enough Rope [1927].News Item Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. Dorothy Parker Enough Rope [1927].Resume Why is it no one ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get One perfect rose. Dorothy Parker Enough Rope [1927].One Perfect Rose, st. 3 He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms. Dorothy Parker Death and Taxes [1931].Epitaph for a Very Rich Man There was nothing more fun than a man! Dorothy Parker Death and Taxes [1931].The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk, st. 3 Runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. Dorothy Parker Attributed theater review, comment on a player Excuse my dust. Dorothy Parker Epitaph, suggested by herself Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. Dorothy Parker In the Paris Review [Summer 1956] Frederick Salomon Perls 1893-1970 I do my thing, and you do your thing . . . You are you and I am I, And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful; If not, it can't be helped. Frederick Salomon Perls Gestalt Therapy Verbatim [1969] Sir Herbert Read 1893-1968 The no-man's-years between the wars [1919-1939]. Sir Herbert Read Annals of Innocence and Experience [1940] Robert Leroy Ripley 1893-1949 Believe It or Not. Robert Leroy Ripley Title of syndicated newspaper feature Dorothy L eigh Sayers 1893-1957 The worst sin-perhaps the only sin-passion can commit, is to be joyless. Dorothy L eigh Sayers Gaudy Night [1936], ch. 23 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi von Nagyrapolt 1893-1986 The real scientist . . . is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi von Nagyrapolt Science Needs Freedom. From World Digest [1943] Harold Clayton Urey 1893-1981 One World or None. Harold Clayton Urey Title of book [1946] Fred Allen 1894-1956 To a newspaperman a human being is an item with the skin wrapped around it. Fred Allen Saying Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel 1894-c. 1939 A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice. Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel Guy de Maupassant [1924]  No steel can pierce the human heart so chillingly as a period at the right moment. Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel Guy de Maupassant [1924] Speaking of silence, we can't help talking about me, the past master of this genre. Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel Speech at First Writers' Congress [1934] The right to write badly was the privilege we widely used. Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel Speech at First Writers' Congress [1934] Louis Ferdinand Celine Louis Ferdinand Destouches 1894-1961 Those who talk about the future are scoundrels. It is the present that matters. To evoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots. Louis Ferdinand Celine Voyage au Bout de la Nuit (Journey to the End of the Night) [1932] E dward E stlin Cummings 1894-1962  All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn. E dward E stlin Cummings All in green went my love riding [1923] four lean hounds crouched low and smiling my heart fell dead before. E dward E stlin Cummings All in green went my love riding [1923] in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee E dward E stlin Cummings Chansons Innocentes [1923], 1 when the world is puddle-wonderful E dward E stlin Cummings Chansons Innocentes [1923], 1 Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silverstallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeons- justlikethatJesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death E dward E stlin Cummings Portraits [1923], 8 the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds. E dward E stlin Cummings Sonnets-Realities [1923], I Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. E dward E stlin Cummings Humanity i love you [1925] i spill my bright incalculable soul. E dward E stlin Cummings Sonnets [1925], II take it from me kiddo believe me my country, 'tis ofyou, land of the Cluett Shirt Boston Garter and Spearmint Girl With The Wrigley Eyes (of you land of the Arrow Ide and Earl [amp ] Wilson Collars) of you i sing: land of Abraham Lincoln and Lydia E. Pinkham, land above all of Just Add Hot Water And Serve- from every B.V.D.let freedom ringamen. E dward E stlin Cummings Poem, Or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal [1926] Turn Your Shirttails Into Drawers and If It Isn't An Eastman It Isn't A Kodak E dward E stlin Cummings Poem, Or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal [1926] And there're a hun-dred-mil-lion-oth-ers, like all of you successfully if delicately gelded (or spaded) gentlemen (and ladies) E dward E stlin Cummings Poem, Or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal [1926] a tiny violetflavored nuisance E dward E stlin Cummings Poem, Or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal [1926] next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth E dward E stlin Cummings next to of course god america i [1926] thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum E dward E stlin Cummings next to of course god america i [1926] for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis. E dward E stlin Cummings since feeling is first [1926] lady through whose profound and fragile lips the sweet small clumsy feet of April came into the ragged meadow of my soul. E dward E stlin Cummings if i have made, my lady, intricate [1926] i sing of Olaf glad and big whose warmest heart recoiled at war E dward E stlin Cummings i sing of Olaf glad and big [1931] "I will not kiss your f.ing flag" E dward E stlin Cummings i sing of Olaf glad and big [1931] "there is some s. I will not eat" E dward E stlin Cummings i sing of Olaf glad and big [1931] unless statistics lie he was more brave than me:more blond than you. E dward E stlin Cummings i sing of Olaf glad and big [1931] somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence. E dward E stlin Cummings somewhere I have never traveled [1931] nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands E dward E stlin Cummings somewhere I have never traveled [1931] King Christ, this world is all aleak; and lifepreservers there are none: and waves which only He may walk Who dares to call Himself a man. E dward E stlin Cummings Jehovah buried, Satan dead [1935] Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. E dward E stlin Cummings Collected Poems [1938], introduction as freedom is a breakfastfood or truth can live with right and wrong or molehills are from mountains made -long enough and just so long will being pay the rent of seem and genius please the talentgang and water most encourage flame E dward E stlin Cummings as freedom is a breakfastfood [1940] worms are the words but joy's the voice E dward E stlin Cummings as freedom is a breakfastfood [1940] anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did. E dward E stlin Cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town [1940] my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give, singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height E dward E stlin Cummings my father moved through dooms of love [1940] though dull were all we taste as bright, bitter all utterly things sweet, maggoty minus and dumb death all we inherit, all bequeath E dward E stlin Cummings my father moved through dooms of love [1940] and nothing quite so least as truth -i say though hate were why men breathe- because my father lived his soul love is the whole and more than all E dward E stlin Cummings my father moved through dooms of love [1940] a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man E dward E stlin Cummings One Times One [1944],10 mr u will not be missed who as an anthologist sold the many on the few not excluding mr u E dward E stlin Cummings One Times One [1944],11 pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease. E dward E stlin Cummings One Times One [1944],14 A world of made is not a world of born E dward E stlin Cummings One Times One [1944],14 We doctors know a hopeless case if-listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go E dward E stlin Cummings One Times One [1944],14 what if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to summer's lie. E dward E stlin Cummings One Times One [1944],20 -when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man E dward E stlin Cummings One Times One [1944],20 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again E dward E stlin Cummings One Times One [1944],39 Dashiell Hammett 1894-1961 That's the part of it I [Sam Spade] always liked. He [Flitcraft] adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to their not falling. Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon [1930], ch. 7 The Thin Man. Dashiell Hammett Title of novel [1934] Herman Hupfeld 1894-1951 You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by. Herman Hupfeld Everybody's Welcome [1931]. As Time Goes By It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of do or die! The world will always welcome lovers, As time goes by. Herman Hupfeld Everybody's Welcome [1931]. As Time Goes By Aldous Leonard Huxley 1894-1963 A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. Aldous Leonard Huxley Point Counter Point [1928], ch.13 There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail. Aldous Leonard Huxley Point Counter Point [1928], ch.13 Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. Aldous Leonard Huxley Point Counter Point [1928], ch.28 Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine. Aldous Leonard Huxley Seasons A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind. Aldous Leonard Huxley First Philosopher's Song Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev 1894-1971 Cult of personality. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Special Report to Twentieth Party Congress [February 1956]  About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come and see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Reported statement at reception for Wladyslaw Gomulka at the Polish Embassy, Moscow [November 18, 1956] Westbrook Pegler 1894-1969 I am a reactionary, that is what I am, and I would like to see a political reaction get off to a good start in our largest city. Westbrook Pegler In the New York World-Telegram [October 31, 1941] I am a member of the rabble in good standing. Westbrook Pegler The Lynching Story J ohn B oynton Priestley 1894-1984 This country is geology by day and astronomy by night. J ohn B oynton Priestley Midnight on the Desert [1937] Genevieve Taggard 1894-1948 Try tropic for your balm, Try storm, And after storm, calm. Try snow of heaven, heavy, soft, and slow, Brilliant and warm. Nothing will help, and nothing do much harm. Genevieve Taggard Of the Properties of Nature for Healing an Illness, st. 1 James Thurber 1894-1961 Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the 'phone? James Thurber Caption for cartoon in The New Yorker I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you? James Thurber Caption for cartoon in The New Yorker He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. 1 James Thurber Caption for cartoon in The New Yorker 1 See Beerbohm It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. James Thurber Caption for cartoon in The New Yorker The War Between Men and Women. James Thurber Series of cartoons Is Sex Necessary? James Thurber Title of book [1929] written with E. B. White Let Your Mind Alone. James Thurber Title of book [1937] Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. James Thurber Fables for Our Time [1940].The Shrike and the Chipmunks You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. James Thurber Fables for Our Time [1940].The Bear Who Let It Alone Don't count your boobies until they're hatched. James Thurber Fables for Our Time [1940].The Unicorn in the Garden Red Barber announces the Dodger games and he uses these expressions-picked them up down South. "Tearing up the pea patch" means going on a rampage, "sitting in the catbird seat" means sitting pretty, like a batter with three balls and no strikes on him. James Thurber The Thurber Carnival [1945]. The Catbird Seat It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. James Thurber Saying Jean Toomer 1894-1967 O can't you see it, O can't you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon . . . When the sun goes down. Jean Toomer Cane [1923].Karintha Wind is in the cane. Come along. Cane leaves swaying, rusty with talk, Scratching choruses above the guinea's squawk, Wind is in the cane. Come along. Jean Toomer Cane [1923].Carma O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines. Jean Toomer Cane [1923].Song of the Son, st. 2 A feast of moon and men and barking hounds, An orgy for some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk songs from soul sounds. Jean Toomer Cane [1923].Georgia Dusk, st. 2 Beyond plants are animals, Beyond animals is man, Beyond man is the universe.The Big Light, Let the Big Light in! Jean Toomer The Blue Meridian What use bombs and antibombs, Sovereign powers, brutal lives, ugly deaths? Are men born to go down like this? Jean Toomer The Blue Meridian Men, Men and women- Liberate! Jean Toomer The Blue Meridian Each new American- To be taken as a golden grain And lifted, as the wheat of our bodies, To matter superbly human. Jean Toomer The Blue Meridian Mark Van Doren 1894-1972 Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark. Mark Van Doren Wit, st. 1 Norbert Wiener 1894-1964 We have decided to call the entire field of control and communication theory, whether in the machine or in the animal, by the name of Cybernetics, which we form from the Greek [for] steersman. Norbert Wiener Cybernetics [1948] This new development [automation] has unbounded possibilities for good and for evil. Norbert Wiener Cybernetics [1948] The independent scientist who is worth the slightest consideration as a scientist has a consecration which comes entirely from within himself: a vocation which demands the possibility of supreme self-sacrifice. Norbert Wiener The Human Use of Human Beings [1950] The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence. The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves. Norbert Wiener God and Golem, Inc. [1964] Edward , Duke of Windsor Edward VIII 1894-1972 At long last, I am able to say a few words of my own. . . . Until now it has not been constitutionally possible for me to speak. I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. Edward , Duke of Windsor Farewell broadcast after abdication [December 11, 1936] Bud William Abbott 1895-1974 Lou Costello Louis Francis Cristillo 1906-1959 Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third- Lou Costello The Naughty Nineties [1945] Paul Eluard 1895-1952 I was born to know you To give you your name Freedom. Paul Eluard Poesie et Verite [1942].Liberte Farewell sadness Good morning sadness. Paul Eluard Poesie et Verite [1942].La Vie Immediate R ichard Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983 Don't fight forces; use them. R ichard Buckminster Fuller Shelter [1932] God is a verb. R ichard Buckminster Fuller No More Secondhand God [1963] For at least two million years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated Spaceship Earth. R ichard Buckminster Fuller Prospect for Humanity [1964] Nature has . . . some sort of arithmetical-geometrical coordinate system, because nature has all kinds of models. What we experience of nature is in models, and all of nature's models are so beautiful. It struck me that nature's system must be a real beauty, because in chemistry we find that the associations are always in beautiful whole numbers-there are no fractions. R ichard Buckminster Fuller From In the Outlaw Area; profile by Calvin Tomkins in The New Yorker [January 8, 1966] Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts. R ichard Buckminster Fuller What I Have Learned [1966]. How Little I Know Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. R ichard Buckminster Fuller Utopia or Oblivion [1969] Change the environment; do not try to change man. 1 R ichard Buckminster Fuller Design Science [1969] 1 See Bronowski Either man is obsolete or war is. R ichard Buckminster Fuller I Seem to Be a Verb [1970] I am the only guinea pig I have. R ichard Buckminster Fuller Address to Engineering Society at Tel Aviv [June 16, 1972] Dare to be naive. R ichard Buckminster Fuller Synergetics [1975].Moral of the Work Synergetics is energetic geometry since it identifies energy with number. R ichard Buckminster Fuller Synergetics [1975].sec.200.03 Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two. R ichard Buckminster Fuller Synergetics [1975].sec.224.12 Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences. R ichard Buckminster Fuller Synergetics [1975].sec.301.10 Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. R ichard Buckminster Fuller Interview in the Minneapolis Tribune [April 30, 1978] Love is metaphysical gravity. R ichard Buckminster Fuller The Lord's Prayer, third version [written May 1978] Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me. R ichard Buckminster Fuller Synergetics 2 [1979], sec. 100.12, Universal Requirements Robert Graves 1895-1985 As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever. Robert Graves Pygmalion to Galatea Goodbye to All That. Robert Graves Title of autobiography [1929] A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. Robert Graves On English Poetry, 29 The reason why the hairs stand on end, the eyes water, the throat is constricted, the skin crawls and a shiver runs down the spine when one writes or reads a true poem is that a true poem is necessarily an invocation of the White Goddess, or Muse, the Mother of All Living, the ancient power of fright and lust-the female spider or the queen bee whose embrace is death. 1 2 Robert Graves The White Goddess [1948], ch. 1 1 See Dickinson 2 See Housman Oscar HammersteinII 1895-1960 Ol' Man River He just keeps rollin' along. Oscar HammersteinII Show Boat [1927].Ol' Man River Can't help lovin' that man of mine. Oscar HammersteinII Show Boat [1927].Can't Help Lovin' That Man The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay. I heard the laughter of her heart in every street cafe. Oscar HammersteinII The Last Time I Saw Paris [1940] Oh, what a beautiful mornin' Oh, what a beautiful day. I got a beautiful feelin' Everything's going my way. Oscar HammersteinII Oklahoma! [1943]. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' The corn is as high as an elephant's eye, An' it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky. Oscar HammersteinII Oklahoma! [1943]. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' June Is Bustin' Out All Over. Oscar HammersteinII Carousel [1945], title of song Some enchanted evening . . . You may see a stranger Across a crowded room. Oscar HammersteinII South Pacific [1949].Some Enchanted Evening Younger than springtime are you. Oscar HammersteinII South Pacific [1949].Younger Than Springtime I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair. Oscar HammersteinII South Pacific [1949].Title of song There Is Nothing Like a Dame. Oscar HammersteinII South Pacific [1949].Title of song  The King and I. Oscar HammersteinII Title of musical [1951] Lorenz Milton Hart 1895-1943 That's why the lady is a tramp. Lorenz Milton Hart Babes in Arms [1937]. The Lady Is a Tramp Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Lorenz Milton Hart Pal Joey [1940], title of song L esley P oles Hartley 1895-1972 The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L esley P oles Hartley The Go-Between [1953], prologue Dolores Ibarruri La Pasionaria 1895-  No pasaraAn [They shall not pass]! Dolores Ibarruri Republican watchword in the Spanish Civil War [1936-1939] Basil Henry Liddell Hart Basil Henry Liddell Hart 1895-1970 Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face. Put yourself in his shoes-so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil-nothing so self-blinding. Basil Henry Liddell Hart Deterrent or Defense [1960]. Advice to Statesmen Groucho Julius Henry Marx 1895-1977 I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. Groucho Julius Henry Marx Saying I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member. Groucho Julius Henry Marx Attributed Lewis Mumford 1895- Layer upon layer, past times preserve themselves in the city until life itself is finally threatened with suffocation; then, in sheer defense, modern man invents the museum. Lewis Mumford The Culture of Cities [1938] Edward E. ParamoreJr. 1895-1956 Oh, the North Countree is a hard countree That mothers a bloody brood; And its icy arms hold hidden charms For the greedy, the sinful and lewd. And strong men rust, from the gold and the lust That sears the Northland soul. Edward E. ParamoreJr. The Ballad of Yukon Jake [1921] Oh, tough as a steak was Yukon Jake- Hard-boiled as a picnic egg. Edward E. ParamoreJr. The Ballad of Yukon Jake [1921] Edmund Wilson 1895-1972 As for the aims and ideals of Marxism, there is one feature of them that is now rightly suspect. The taking-over by the state of the means of production and the dictatorship in the interests of the proletariat can by themselves never guarantee the happiness of anybody but the dictators themselves. Marx and Engels, coming out of authoritarian Germany, tended to imagine socialism in authoritarian terms; and Lenin and Trotsky after them, forced as they were to make a beginning among a people who had known nothing but autocracy, also emphasized this side of socialism and founded a dictatorship which perpetuated itself as an autocracy. Edmund Wilson To the Finland Station [1940]. Summary as of 1940 I have derived a good deal more benefit of the civilizing as well as of the inspirational kind [of tradition] from the admirable American bathroom than I have from the cathedrals of Europe. . . . I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions-while soaking in comfortable baths or drying myself after bracing showers-in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral. Edmund Wilson A Piece of My Mind [1956], ch. 4 I attribute such success as I have had to the use of the periodic sentence. Edmund Wilson An Interview with Edmund Wilson [1962] Edmund Blunden 1896-1974 I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me? Edmund Blunden The Kiss Then is not Death at watch Within those secret waters? What wants he but to catch Earth's heedless sons and daughters? Edmund Blunden The Midnight Skaters Court him, elude him, reel and pass, And let him hate you through the glass. Edmund Blunden The Midnight Skaters Andre Breton 1896-1966  Subjectivity and objectivity commit a series of assaults on each other during a human life out of which the first one suffers the worse beating. Andre Breton Nadja [1928], preface It is at the movies that the only absolutely modern mystery is celebrated. Andre Breton From J. H. Mathews, Surrealism and Film John Roderigo Dos Passos 1896-1970 The chilly December day two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, 1 first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewingmachine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk. John Roderigo Dos Passos The Big Money [1936]. The Campers at Kitty Hawk 1 See Wilbur and Orville Wright F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald 1896-1940 The victor belongs to the spoils. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned [1922] Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!" F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby [1925],epigraph Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby [1925],ch.3 Her voice is full of money. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby [1925],ch.7 Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby [1925],ch.7 They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby [1925],ch.9 So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby [1925],ch.last line One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pinprick, but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald Tender Is the Night [1933], bk. III, ch. 13 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Crack-up [1936] In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning. 1 2 F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Crack-up [1936] 1 See St. John of the Cross 2 See Napoleon It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven." F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald Early Success [1937] Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not. To try to please and please not. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald Notebooks Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald Notebooks Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald Notebooks It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald Notebooks The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald My Lost City All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. F rancis Scott Key Fitzgerald Undated letter Ira Gershwin 1896-1983  Oh, lady be good To me. Ira Gershwin Lady Be Good [1924]. Oh, Lady Be Good 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous- You should care for me! Ira Gershwin Funny Face [1927]. 'S Wonderful I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more? Ira Gershwin Girl Crazy [1930]. I Got Rhythm Wintergreen for President. Ira Gershwin Of Thee I Sing [1931],title of song Love Is Sweeping the Country. Ira Gershwin Of Thee I Sing [1931],title of song Of thee I sing, baby, You have got that certain thing, baby, Shining star and inspiration Worthy of a mighty nation, Of thee I sing! Ira Gershwin Of Thee I Sing [1931],title song Summertime And the livin' is easy. Ira Gershwin Porgy and Bess [1935].Summertime A Woman Is a Sometime Thing. Ira Gershwin Porgy and Bess [1935].title of song I got plenty of nothin', And nothin's plenty for me. Ira Gershwin Porgy and Bess [1935].I Got Plenty of Nothin' It ain't necessarily so- The things that you're liable To read in the Bible- It ain't necessarily so. Ira Gershwin Porgy and Bess [1935].It Ain't Necessarily So Let's Call the Whole Thing Off! Ira Gershwin Shall We Dance [1937],title of song The memory of all that- No, no! They can't take that away from me. Ira Gershwin Shall We Dance [1937],They Can't Take That Away from Me Harold N. Gilbert 1896-1966 Keep 'em flying. Harold N. Gilbert Slogan of the Air Force, poster caption, World War II ÿ Joe Jacobs 1896-1940 We was robbed! Joe Jacobs After the heavyweight title fight between Max Schmeling and Jack Sharkey [June 21, 1932], Jacobs, Schmeling's manager, shouted into the microphone this protest against the decision I should of stood in bed. Joe Jacobs After leaving a sickbed to attend the World Series in Detroit [October 1935] and betting on the loser Liam O'Flaherty 1896- He [the informer] was a poor weak human being like themselves, a human soul, weak and helpless in suffering, shivering in the toils of the eternal struggle of the human soul with pain. Liam O'Flaherty The Informer [1925] Robert E mmet Sherwood 1896-1955 The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. Robert E mmet Sherwood The Petrified Forest [1934] Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends. Robert E mmet Sherwood Idiot's Delight [1936] Luther W allace Youngdahl 1896- When public excitement runs high as to alien ideologies, is the time when we must be particularly alert not to impair the ancient landmarks 1 set up in the Bill of Rights. Luther W allace Youngdahl United States v. Lattimore, 112 F. Supp. 507, 518 [May 2, 1953] 1 See Proverbs 22:28 Joseph Auslander 1897-1965 So there are no more words and all is ended; The timbrel is stilled, the clarion laid away; And Love with streaming hair goes unattended Back to the loneliness of yesterday. Joseph Auslander So There Are No More Words [1924] Louise Bogan 1897-1970 I burned my life, that I might find A passion wholly of the mind, Thought divorced from eye and bone, Ecstasy come to breath alone. Louise Bogan The Alchemist,st. 1 I had found unmysterious flesh- Not the mind's avid substance-still Passionate beyond the will. Louise Bogan The Alchemist,st. 2 Women have no wilderness in them, They are provident instead, Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread. Louise Bogan Women, st. 1 Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air, Reach to its rest, and fall. Louise Bogan Roman Fountain, st. 1 The cold remote islands And the blue estuaries Where what breathes, breathes The restless wind of the inlets, And what drinks, drinks The incoming tide. Louise Bogan Night,st. 1 - O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart. Louise Bogan Night,st. 4 Bernard De Voto 1897-1955 New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan, while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end. . . . It is the first American section to be finished, to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America. Bernard De Voto New England: There She Stands. In Harper's Magazine [March 1932] The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop-for convenience, the one hundredth meridian-you have reached the West. Bernard De Voto The Plundered Province. In Harper's Magazine [August 1934] Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. Bernard De Voto Mark Twain: The Ink of History. Address at the University of Missouri [December 1935] Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate. Bernard De Voto Mark Twain at Work [1942] The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire. Bernard De Voto The Year of Decision [1943] Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different integration, a different nervous and muscular and psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom. Bernard De Voto Across the Wide Missouri [1947] You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived. Bernard De Voto The Hour [1951] The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger, than without its vision there is any evidence we are. Bernard De Voto The Hour [1951] History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance. Bernard De Voto The Course of Empire [1952],preface The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn. Bernard De Voto The Course of Empire [1952],ch. 2 Sir Anthony Eden 1897-1977 Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty. Sir Anthony Eden Speech in the House of Commons [November 22, 1945] William Faulkner 1897-1962 The Long Hot Summer. William Faulkner Title of movie [1928] Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury [1929].June Second 1910 I've seed de first en de last. . . . I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin. William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury [1929].April Eighth 1928 Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury [1929].April Eighth 1928  They endured. William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury [1929].last line They [the Negroes] will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own. . . . And their virtues. . . . Endurance . . . and pity and tolerance and forbearance and fidelity and love of children . . . whether their own or not or black or not. William Faulkner The Bear [1932], pt. IV Poor man. Poor mankind. William Faulkner Light in August [1932], ch.4 Too much happens. . . . Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. . . . That's what's so terrible. William Faulkner Light in August [1932], ch.13 It's not when you realize that nothing can help you-religion, pride, anything-it's when you realize that you don't need any aid. William Faulkner Light in August [1932], ch.13  Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there. William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! [1936],ch. 9 Why do you hate the South? I dont hate it. . . . I dont hate it. . . . I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it! William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! [1936],ch. 9 jefferson, yoknapatawpha co., Mississippi. Area, 2400 Square Miles. Population, Whites, 6298; Negroes, 9313. william faulkner, Sole Owner [amp ] Proprietor. William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! [1936],Inscription on endpaper map drawn by author Intruder in the Dust. William Faulkner Title of novel [1948] He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed-love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. William Faulkner Speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize [December 10, 1950] I decline to accept the end of man. William Faulkner Speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize [December 10, 1950] I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. William Faulkner Speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize [December 10, 1950] He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. William Faulkner Speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize [December 10, 1950] It is his [the poet's, the writer's] privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. William Faulkner Speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize [December 10, 1950] The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. William Faulkner From an interview with Faulkner in New York City [1956] by Jean Stein. From Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews [1959] Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall-Kilroy was here 1 -that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see. William Faulkner Faulkner in the University [1959], Session 8 1 See Anonymous Paul Joseph Goebbels 1897-1945  We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns. Paul Joseph Goebbels Address in Berlin [January 17, 1936] David McCord 1897- A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe. David McCord Once and for All [1929], introduction March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire. David McCord The Crows [1934] By and by God caught his eye. David McCord Epitaphs: The Waiter The cricket's gone, we only hear machines; In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens. David McCord Ballade of Time and Space [1935] Still for us where Cottons mather In the spring the Willas cather As of yore. David McCord And What's More: On Stopping at a New Hampshire Inn [1941] The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His student dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was. David McCord What Cheer [1945] But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie. David McCord Communion [1950] Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit. David McCord Whereas to Mr. Franklin [1956] Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you. David McCord On the Frontiers of Understanding [1959] Erich Maria Remarque 1897-1970 Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts. Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen Nichts Neues) [1929] Thornton Niven Wilder 1897-1975 Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Niven Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey [1927], last lines George Brush is my name America's my nation Luddington's my dwelling place And Heaven's my destination. Thornton Niven Wilder Heaven's My Destination [1934], title page poem A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way. Thornton Niven Wilder Our Town [1938], actII The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the pleasures they had . . . and the things they suffered . . . and the people they loved. They get weaned away from earth-that's the way I put it-weaned away. Thornton Niven Wilder Our Town [1938], actIII That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know-that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. Thornton Niven Wilder Our Town [1938], actIII My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate-that's my philosophy. Thornton Niven Wilder The Skin of Our Teeth [1942], act I I hold that we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility. Thornton Niven Wilder The Ides of March [1948] Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. Thornton Niven Wilder The Matchmaker [1954], actI The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. Thornton Niven Wilder The Matchmaker [1954], actII Stephen Vincent Benet 1898-1943 I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me. Stephen Vincent Benet A Ballad of William Sycamore, 1790-1880 [1923],st. 16 Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my buffalo have found me. Stephen Vincent Benet A Ballad of William Sycamore, 1790-1880 [1923],st. 19 Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia. Stephen Vincent Benet The Mountain Whippoorwill [1923], st. 48 I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin titles of mining claims, The plumed war bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat. Stephen Vincent Benet American Names [1927],st. 1 Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Stephen Vincent Benet American Names [1927],st. 7 American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land. Stephen Vincent Benet John Brown's Body [1928].Invocation,st. 1 And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned.They planted England with a stubborn trust, But the cleft dust was never English dust. Stephen Vincent Benet John Brown's Body [1928].Invocation,st. 12, 13 Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name. Stephen Vincent Benet John Brown's Body [1928].bk.IV Stonewall Jackson, wrapped in his beard and his silence. Stephen Vincent Benet John Brown's Body [1928].bk.IV Sherman's buzzin' along to de sea, Like Moses ridin' on a bumblebee. Stephen Vincent Benet John Brown's Body [1928].bk.VIII We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Stephen Vincent Benet Litany for Dictatorships [1936] Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men. Stephen Vincent Benet Litany for Dictatorships [1936] If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians. Stephen Vincent Benet The Devil and Daniel Webster [1936] Even the damned may salute the eloquence of Mr. Webster. Stephen Vincent Benet The Devil and Daniel Webster [1936] When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes. Stephen Vincent Benet Daniel Boone [1942] They were half of the first families in Virginia. Well, where do you start, when you start counting F.F.V.s? Stephen Vincent Benet Western Star [1943], bk. I Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956 Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear- And he shows them pearly white- Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear- And he keeps it out of sight. Bertolt Brecht The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) [1928]. The Ballad of Mack the Knife (Moritat) Mackie's back in town. Bertolt Brecht The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) [1928]. The Ballad of Mack the Knife (Moritat) Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks? Bertolt Brecht Question of a Literary Worker (Fragen Eines Lesenden Arbeiters) Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why! Bertolt Brecht Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) [1931]. Alabama Song What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization. Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children [1941], act I One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration. Bertolt Brecht Can Today's World Become Restored Through Theater? [1955] William O rville Douglas 1898-1980 The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. William O rville Douglas An Almanac of Liberty [1954] A Wilderness Bill of Rights. William O rville Douglas Title of book [1965] The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgment the great postulate of our democracy. William O rville Douglas Quoted in the New York Times [January 20, 1980] My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own. William O rville Douglas Quoted in the New York Times [January 20, 1980] Federico Garcia Lorca 1898-1936 In the parched path I have seen the good lizard (one drop of crocodile) meditating. Federico Garcia Lorca The Old Lizard (El Lagarto Viejo) [1921] In the black moon of the highwaymen, the spurs sing.Little black horse. Whither with your dead rider? Federico Garcia Lorca Song of the Rider, 1860 (Cancion de Jinete, 1860) [1921-1924] Tree, tree, Dry and green.The girl of beautiful face goes gathering olives. The wind, that suitor of towers, grasps her round the waist. Federico Garcia Lorca Tree, Tree . . . (Arbole, Arbole . . . )[1921-1924] Green, how much I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship upon the sea and the horse in the mountain. Federico Garcia Lorca Somnambule Ballad (Romance SonaAmbulo) [1928] But I am no more I, nor is my house now my house. Federico Garcia Lorca Somnambule Ballad (Romance SonaAmbulo) [1928] I touched her sleeping breasts, and they opened to me suddenly like spikes of hyacinth. Federico Garcia Lorca The Faithless Wife (La Casada Infiel) [1928] Without silver light on their foliage the trees had grown larger and a horizon of dogs barked very far from the river. Federico Garcia Lorca The Faithless Wife (La Casada Infiel) [1928] Black are the horses. The horseshoes are black. On the dark capes glisten stains of ink and of wax. Their skulls are leaden, which is why they don't weep. With their patent leather souls they come down the street. Federico Garcia Lorca Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard (Romance de la Guardia Civil Espanola) [1928] They pass where they want, and they hide in their skulls a vague astronomy of shapeless pistols. Federico Garcia Lorca Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard (Romance de la Guardia Civil Espanola) [1928] They ride in ranks of two, a double nocturne in serge. The sky, so they fancy, is a showcase of spurs. Federico Garcia Lorca Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard (Romance de la Guardia Civil Espanola) [1928] At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon! Federico Garcia Lorca Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias) [1935],I I will not see it!Tell the moon to come for I do not want to see the blood of Ignacio on the sand. Federico Garcia Lorca Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias) [1935],II The New York dawn has four columns of mud and a hurricane of black doves that paddle in putrescent waters. Federico Garcia Lorca The Poet in New York (Poeta en Nueva York) [1940]. The Dawn (La Aurora),st. 1 The dawn comes and no one receives it in his mouth, for there no morn or hope is possible. Federico Garcia Lorca The Poet in New York (Poeta en Nueva York) [1940]. The Dawn (La Aurora),st. 3 The light is buried under chains and noises in impudent challenge of rootless science. Through the suburbs sleepless people stagger, as though just delivered from a shipwreck of blood. Federico Garcia Lorca The Poet in New York (Poeta en Nueva York) [1940]. The Dawn (La Aurora),st. 5 George Gershwin 1898-1937 Rhapsody in Blue. George Gershwin Title of composition [1924] True music . . . must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today. George Gershwin From Edward Jablonski and Lawrence D. Stewart, The Gershwin Years [1926] Horace Gregory 1898-1982 My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square. Horace Gregory Chorus for Survival [1935], 14 Edgar Y. Harburg 1898-1981 Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? Edgar Y. Harburg Americana [third edition, 1932]. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow- Why then, oh why can't I? Edgar Y. Harburg The Wizard of Oz [1939]. Over the Rainbow We gotta be free- The eagle and me. Edgar Y. Harburg Bloomer Girl [1944]. The Eagle and Me How are things in Glocca Morra this fine day? Edgar Y. Harburg Finian's Rainbow [1947]. How Are Things in Glocca Morra? C live S taples Lewis 1898-1963 The safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C live S taples Lewis The Screwtape Letters [1941],12 The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C live S taples Lewis The Screwtape Letters [1941],25 The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather [for the Devil]. C live S taples Lewis The Screwtape Letters [1941],28 Golda Meir 1898-1978 We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others. Golda Meir Address to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry [March 25, 1946] Norman Vincent Peale 1898- The Power of Positive Thinking. Norman Vincent Peale Title of book [1952] Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart Putnam 1898-1937 Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings. Amelia Earhart Courage Lionel Charles Robbins, Lord Robbins 1898- Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. Lionel Charles Robbins, Lord Robbins An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science [1932], ch.1, sec. 3 Economics is entirely neutral between ends. Lionel Charles Robbins, Lord Robbins An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science [1932], ch.2, sec. 2 Ben Shahn 1898-1969 Ever since I could remember I'd wished I'd been lucky enough to be alive at that great time-when something big was going on, like the Crucifixion. And suddenly I realized I was. Here I was living through another crucifixion. Here was something to paint! Ben Shahn On painting a gouache: Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco [1932] Humphrey DeForest Bogart 1899-1957 Tennis anyone? Humphrey DeForest Bogart Attributed Here's looking at you, kid. Humphrey DeForest Bogart Spoken as Rick in the film Casablanca [1943] Jorge Luis Borges 1899-1986 Patio, heaven's watercourse. The patio is the slope down which the sky flows into the house. Serenely eternity waits at the crossway of the stars. Jorge Luis Borges Fervor of Buenos Aires (Fervor de Buenos Aires) [1923], Un Patio A man gradually identifies himself with the form of his fate; a man is, in the long run, his own circumstances. Jorge Luis Borges El Aleph [1949]. La Escritura de Dios  It would be exaggerating to say that our relationship is hostile; I live, I let myself live, so that Borges can weave his literature and that literature justifies me. . . . I don't know which of us is writing this page. Jorge Luis Borges Personal Anthology (Antologia Personal) [1961]. Borges and Myself (Borges y Yo) Noel Coward 1899-1973 Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun. Noel Coward Mad Dogs and Englishmen I'll see you again, Whenever spring breaks through again. Noel Coward Bittersweet [1929], act I, sc. i Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. Noel Coward Private Lives [1930], act I I've got those weary Twentieth-Century Blues. Noel Coward Cavalcade [1931], pt. 3, sc. ii Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. Noel Coward Title of song Hart Crane 1899-1932 Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive No farther tides . . . High in the azure steeps Monody shall not wake the mariner. This fabulous shadow only the sea keeps. Hart Crane At Melville's Tomb [1926], st. 4 And yet this great wink of eternity, Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings. Hart Crane Voyages [1926], II,st. 1 Adagios of islands, O my Prodigal. Hart Crane Voyages [1926], II,st. 3 Bind us in time, O seasons clear, and awe. O minstrel galleons of Carib fire, Bequeath us to no earthly shore until Is answered in the vortex of our grave The seal's wide spindrift gaze toward paradise. Hart Crane Voyages [1926], II,st. 5 It was a kind and northern face That mingled in such exile guise The everlasting eyes of Pierrot And, of Gargantua, the laughter. Hart Crane Praise for an Urn: In Memoriam Ernest Nelson [1926] And biased by full sails, meridians reel Thy purpose-still one shore beyond desire! The sea's green crying towers a-sway, Beyond. Hart Crane The Bridge [1930].Ave Maria Damp tonnage and alluvial march of days . . . Tortured with history, its one will-flow. Hart Crane The Bridge [1930].The River (Mississippi) The swift red flesh, a winter king- Who squired the glacier woman down the sky? She ran the neighing canyons all the spring; She spouted arms; she rose with maize-to die. Hart Crane The Bridge [1930].The Dance Bunched in mutual glee The bearings glint-O murmurless and shined In oilrinsed circles of blind ecstasy! Hart Crane The Bridge [1930].Power: Cape Hatteras And why do I often meet your visage here, Your eyes like agate lanterns-on and on Below the toothpaste and the dandruff ads? And did their riding eyes right through your side, And did their eyes like unwashed platters ride? And Death, aloft-gigantically down 1 Probing through you toward me, O evermore! Hart Crane The Bridge [1930].The Tunnel 1 See Poe Friedrich August von Hayek 1899- The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. Friedrich August von Hayek The Road to Serfdom [1944], ch. 8 The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest fonctionnaire possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose discretion it depends whether and how I am to be allowed to live or to work. Friedrich August von Hayek The Road to Serfdom [1944], ch. 8 Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons. Friedrich August von Hayek The Use of Knowledge in Society, in Individualism and Economic Order [1948], ch. 4 We must look at the price system as . . . a mechanism for communicating information if we want to understand its real function. Friedrich August von Hayek The Use of Knowledge in Society, in Individualism and Economic Order [1948], ch. 4 Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand. Friedrich August von Hayek The Counterrevolution of Science [1952], ch. 8 The rationalist whose reason is not sufficient to teach him those limitations of the powers of conscious reason, and who despises all the institutions and customs which have not been consciously designed, would thus become the destroyer of the civilization built upon them. Friedrich August von Hayek The Counterrevolution of Science [1952], ch. 8 I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice. Friedrich August von Hayek Economic Freedom and Representative Government [1973] Inflation . . . sooner or later makes a more extensive unemployment inevitable than that which that policy was intended to prevent. It does so by drawing more and more workers into kinds of jobs which depend on continuing or even accelerating inflation. Friedrich August von Hayek From the New York Times [November 15, 1974] Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961 You and me, we've made a separate peace. Ernest Hemingway In Our Time [1924]. A Very Short Story It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . . It's sort of what we have instead of God. Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises [1926],ch. 19 "Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together." . . . "Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?" Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises [1926],last lines I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it . . . Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene. Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms [1929], ch.27 The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms [1929], ch.34 You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms [1929], ch.41 It was like saying goodbye to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain. Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms [1929], ch.47 Grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway Definition of "guts" I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway Death in the Afternoon [1932], ch. 1 I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced . . . the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and which would be as valid in a year or in ten years or, with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always. Ernest Hemingway Death in the Afternoon [1932], ch. 1 If he wrote it he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them. Ernest Hemingway Winner Take Nothing [1933]. Fathers and Sons All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. Ernest Hemingway Old Newsman Writes. From Esquire [December 1934] All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of Africa [1935], ch. 1 Ezra [Pound] was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. Gertrude [Stein] was always right. Ernest Hemingway To John Peale Bishop; quoted in his Homage to Hemingway, New Republic [November 11, 1936]  The rich were dull and they drank too much. . . . He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money." Ernest Hemingway The Fifth Column and The First Forty-Nine Stories [1938].The Snows of Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai "Ngaje Ngai," the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. Ernest Hemingway The Fifth Column and The First Forty-Nine Stories [1938].epigraph If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls [1940], ch. 43 Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Ernest Hemingway Men at War [1942], introduction Time is the least thing we have of. Ernest Hemingway From The New Yorker profile by Lillian Ross [May 13, 1950] A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea [1952] If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story. 1 Ernest Hemingway Interview in the Paris Review [Spring 1958] 1 See Cather If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. 1 Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast [1964], epigraph 1 See The Book of Common Prayer Robert Maynard Hutchins 1899-1977 Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. Robert Maynard Hutchins Democracy and Human Nature The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Robert Maynard Hutchins Great Books [1954] Charles W. Morton 1899-1967 It was around two decades ago, in the city room of the Boston Evening Transcript, that I first became aware of the elongated-yellow-fruit school of writing. The phrase turned up in a story . . . about some fugitive monkeys and the efforts of police to recapture them by using bananas as bait. Charles W. Morton The Elongated Yellow Fruit [1954] Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977 The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. 1 2 3 Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory [1947], ch. 1 1 See The Wisdom of Solomon 5:13 2 See Hall 3 See Beckett Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their nature, which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as "nymphets." Vladimir Nabokov Lolita [1955],pt. I, ch. 5 Enchanted isle of time. Vladimir Nabokov Lolita [1955],pt. I, ch. 5 I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov Lolita [1955],last paragraph E lwyn B rooks White 1899-1985  All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not. E lwyn B rooks White How to Tell a Major Poet from a Minor Poet "It's broccoli, dear." "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." E lwyn B rooks White Caption for cartoon by Carl Rose in The New Yorker [December 8, 1928] Commuter-one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again. E lwyn B rooks White Commuter [1929] I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure. E lwyn B rooks White Letter to Stanley Hart White [January 1929] A writer is like a bean plant-he has his little day, and then gets stringy. E lwyn B rooks White Letter to Harold Ross [September 19, 1938] I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. E lwyn B rooks White Letter to James Thurber [November 18, 1938] It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members. E lwyn B rooks White One Man's Meat [1944] The future . . . seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. E lwyn B rooks White One Man's Meat [1944] When Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son was born, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse. The truth of the matter was, the baby looked very much like a mouse in every way. He was only two inches high; and he had a mouse's sharp nose, a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers, and the pleasant, shy manner of a mouse. Before he was many days old he was not only looking like a mouse but acting like one, too-wearing a gray hat and carrying a small cane. E lwyn B rooks White Stuart Little [1945], ch.1 "My name is Margalo," said the bird, softly, in a musical voice. "I come from fields once tall with wheat, from pastures deep in fern and thistle; I come from vales of meadowsweet, and I love to whistle." E lwyn B rooks White Stuart Little [1945], ch.8 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. E lwyn B rooks White The Wild Flag [1946] I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears so much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic. 1 E lwyn B rooks White Letter to the New York Herald Tribune [November 29, 1947] 1 See Robert H. Jackson Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going. E lwyn B rooks White Letter to the New York Herald Tribune [November 29, 1947] When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed. E lwyn B rooks White Letter to Carrie A. Wilson [May 1, 1951] It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything. E lwyn B rooks White Charlotte's Web [1952], ch. 22 We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist. E lwyn B rooks White Letter to Janice White [April 27, 1952] Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same. E lwyn B rooks White Letter to Mary Virginia Parrish [August 29, 1969] An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life. E lwyn B rooks White Letter to Reginald Allen [March 5, 1973] As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time. E lwyn B rooks White Letter to Mr. Nadeau [March 30, 1973] Sailors . . . say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society-things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. E lwyn B rooks White Letter to Mr. Nadeau [March 30, 1973] A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist-nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time. E lwyn B rooks White Letter to Corona Machemer [June 11, 1975] The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter-philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast. E lwyn B rooks White Essays of E. B. White [1977], foreword Louis Armstrong Satchmo 1900-1971  Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know. Louis Armstrong Reply when asked what jazz is D enis W illiam Brogan 1900-1974 A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die." D enis W illiam Brogan The American Character [1944] Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats. D enis W illiam Brogan The American Character [1944] Herbert Butterfield 1900- It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom. . . . It looms so large as the real origin of the modern world and of the modern mentality that our customary periodization of European history has become an anachronism and an encumbrance. Herbert Butterfield The Origins of Modern Science [1949] Theodosius Dobzhansky 1900-1975 Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest. Theodosius Dobzhansky Mankind Evolving [1962] Elizabeth , Queen Mother of England 1900- The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever. Elizabeth , Queen Mother of England Reported reply as to whether the princesses would leave England after the bombing of Buckingham Palace [1940] Gilberto Freyre 1900- Casa Grande e Senzala [The Masters and the Slaves]. Gilberto Freyre Title of book [1946] Gottfried Haberler 1900- There are compelling reasons for the proposition that the actual importance of business monopolies for inflation is quite small compared with that of labor unions. Gottfried Haberler Economic Growth and Stability [1974], ch. 6 No private business monopoly, producer organization or cartel wields the market (and physical) power or commands the discipline over its members which many unions have achieved. Gottfried Haberler Economic Growth and Stability [1974], ch. 6 James Hilton 1900-1954 Anno domini-that's the most fatal complaint of all in the end. James Hilton Goodbye, Mr. Chips [1934], ch. 1 The austere serenity of Shangri-La. Its forsaken courts and pale pavilions shimmered in repose from which all the fret of existence had ebbed away, leaving a hush as if moments hardly dared to pass. James Hilton Lost Horizon [1933], ch. 5 If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not-squatter's rights of the heart. James Hilton Time and Time Again [1953] Margaret Mitchell 1900-1949 The usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain. Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind [1936], pt.IV, ch.36 Death and taxes 1 and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind [1936], pt.IV, ch.38 1 See Franklin  My dear, I don't give a damn [Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara]. Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind [1936], pt.V, ch. 63 Wayne Lyman Morse 1900-1974 Liberalism in politics can best be defined in terms of specific issues. Political liberalism should also be defined in terms of objectives. A major objective is the protection of the economic weak and doing it within the framework of a private property economy. The liberal, emphasizing the civil and property rights of the individual, insists that the individual must remain so supreme as to make the state his servant. Wayne Lyman Morse Definition contributed to Nine Definitions of Liberalism. In the New Republic [July 22, 1946] Stephen Potter 1900-1969 Gamesmanship: The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating. Stephen Potter Title of book [1947] One-Upmanship. Stephen Potter Title of book [1952] Ernie Pyle 1900-1945 I write from the worm's-eye point of view. Ernie Pyle Here Is Your War [1943] Leo Robin 1900- Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. Leo Robin Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1949], title of song Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900-1944 Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life. . . . But what is that something? Antoine de Saint-Exupery Vol de Nuit (Night Flight) [1931], ch. 14 Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince [1943], ch.1 It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince [1943], ch.10 It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince [1943], ch.21 Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other. Antoine de Saint-Exupery La Citadelle [1948], ch. 43 George Seferis Giorgios Sefiriades 1900-1971 Three years we waited intently for the herald closely watching the pines the shore and the stars. George Seferis Mythistorema [1935],I We were searching to rediscover the first seed so that the ancient drama could begin again. George Seferis Mythistorema [1935],I We brought back these reliefs of a humble art. George Seferis Mythistorema [1935],I I woke with this marble head in my hands; it exhausts my elbows and I don't know where to put it down. It was falling into the dream as I was coming out of the dream so our life became one and it will be very difficult for it to separate again. George Seferis Mythistorema [1935],III What are they after, our souls, traveling on the decks of decayed ships . . . ? George Seferis Mythistorema [1935],VIII Swimming in the waters of this sea and of that sea . . . in a country that is no longer ours nor yours.We knew that the islands were beautiful somewhere round about here where we're groping- a little nearer or a little farther, the slightest distance. George Seferis Mythistorema [1935],VIII We have no rivers, we have no wells, we have no springs, only a few cisterns-and these empty-that echo, and we worship them. A stagnant hollow sound, the same as our loneliness the same as our love, the same as our bodies. George Seferis Mythistorema [1935],X Give us, outside sleep, serenity. George Seferis Mythistorema [1935],XV They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look. George Seferis Mythistorema [1935],XVI They're a burden for us the friends who no longer know how to die. George Seferis Mythistorema [1935],XIX Sinks whoever raises the great stones; I've raised these stones as long as I was able . . . Wounded by my own soil tortured by my own shirt condemned by my own gods, these stones. George Seferis Gymnopaidia II. Mycenae [1936] Wherever I travel Greece wounds me. George Seferis In the Manner of G.S. [1936] In the sea caves there's a thirst there's a love there's an ecstasy all hard like shells you can hold them in your palm. George Seferis From Book of Exercises [1937] This sun was mine and yours; we shared it. Who's suffering behind the golden silk, who's dying? George Seferis Our Sun [1937] It was ours, this sun, we saw nothing behind the gold embroidery then the messengers came, dirty and breathless, stuttering unintelligible words . . . You told them to rest first and then to speak, the light had blinded you. You'd forgotten that no one rests. George Seferis Our Sun [1937] This sun was ours; you kept all of it, you didn't want to follow me. And it was then I found out about those things behind the gold and the silk: we don't have the time. The messengers were right. George Seferis Our Sun [1937] Each of us earns his death, his own death, which belongs to no one else and this game is life. George Seferis The Last Day [1939] The angels are white flaming white and the eye that would confront them shrivels and there's no other way you've got to become like stone if you want their company and when you look for the miracle you've got to scatter your blood to the eight points of the wind because the miracle is nowhere but circulating in the veins of man. George Seferis Les Anges Sont Blancs [1939] Here where one meets the path of rain, wind, and ruin does there exist the movement of the face, shape of the tenderness of those who've shrunk so strangely in our lives, those who remained the shadow of waves and thoughts with the sea's boundlessness or perhaps no, nothing is left but the weight the nostalgia for the weight of a living existence . . . the poet a void. George Seferis The King of Asine [1940] It's painful and difficult, the living are not enough for me. George Seferis Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi [1942] The moment I fall asleep the companions cut the silver strings and the flask of the winds empties. George Seferis Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi [1942] I want no more than to speak simply, to be granted that grace . . . and it's time to say our few words because tomorrow the soul sets sail. George Seferis An Old Man of the River Bank [1942] Sometimes it crosses my mind that the things I write here are nothing other than images that prisoners or sailors tattoo on their skin. George Seferis Logbook II [1944], epigraph Horror really can't be talked about because it's alive, because it's mute and goes on growing: memory-wounding pain drips by day drips in sleep. George Seferis Last Stop [1944] Countries of the sun, and yet you can't face the sun. Countries of men, and yet you can't face man. George Seferis "Thrush" [1946], III You see the sun with different eyes: you know that those who stayed behind were deceiving you the delirium of flesh, the lovely dance that ends in nakedness. George Seferis "Thrush" [1946], III The heart of the Scorpion has set, the tyrant in man has fled, and all the daughters of the sea, Nereids, Graeae, hurry to the radiance of the rising goddess: whoever has never loved will love, in the light. . . . George Seferis "Thrush" [1946], III Great suffering descended on Greece. So many bodies thrown into the jaws of the sea, the jaws of the earth . . . all for a linen undulation, a bit of cloud, a butterfly's flicker, a swan's down, an empty tunic-all for a Helen. George Seferis Helen [1953] It doesn't take much time for evil to raise its head, and the sick mind emptying doesn't take much time to fill with madness: There is an island. George Seferis Salamis in Cyprus [1953] He grew old between the fires of Troy and the quarries of Sicily. George Seferis Euripides the Athenian [1953] He saw man's veins as a net the gods made to catch us in like wild beasts: he tried to pierce it. He was a sour man, his friends were few; when the time came he was torn to pieces by dogs. George Seferis Euripides the Athenian [1953] They are children of many men, our words. George Seferis On Stage [1966], 6 As pines keep the shape of the wind even when the wind has fled and is no longer there, so words guard the shape of man even when man has fled and is no longer there. George Seferis On Stage [1966], 6 The blank page, difficult mirror, gives back only what you were. George Seferis Summer Solstice [1966],6 Your music is this life you wasted. You could regain it if you wish, if you fasten to this indifferent thing which casts you back there where you set out. George Seferis Summer Solstice [1966],6 All you have experienced falls in an unsubstantial heap if you do not trust this void. Perhaps you will find there what you thought lost: the flowering of youth, the rightful sinking of age. Your life is what you gave: this void is what you gave: the blank page. George Seferis Summer Solstice [1966],6 I watched you with all the light and darkness I have. George Seferis Summer Solstice [1966],11 When, on the road to Thebes, Oedipus met the Sphinx, who asked him her riddle, his answer was: Man. 1 This simple word destroyed the monster. We have many monsters to destroy. Let us think of Oedipus' answer. George Seferis Speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize [1963] 1 See The Riddle of the Sphinx Ignazio Silone Secondo Tranquilli 1900-1978 Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying "No" to any authority-literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political. Ignazio Silone Essay in The God That Failed [1950] Adlai E wing Stevenson 1900-1965 The most American thing about America is the free common school system. Adlai E wing Stevenson Address to Citizens' School Committee, Chicago [1948] Government is more than the sum of all the interests; it is the paramount interest, the public interest. It must be the efficient, effective agent of a responsible citizenry, not the shelter of the incompetent and the corrupt. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech at Bloomington, Illinois [1948] Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech at Urbana, Illinois [1951] More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party-the acid, final test. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination [July 26, 1952] Let's talk sense to the American people. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination [July 26, 1952] When an American says that he loves his country, he . . . means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech at New York City [August 27, 1952] A hungry man is not a free man. 1 2 Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech at Kasson, Minnesota [September 6, 1952] 1 See Cato 2 See La Fontaine The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech at San Francisco [September 9, 1952] Your public servants serve you right. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech at Los Angeles [September 11, 1952] Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech at Albuquerque, New Mexico [September 12, 1952] Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. 1 Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech at Hartford, Connecticut [September 18, 1952] 1 See J. Robert Oppenheimer As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the lawgivers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech at Chicago [September 29, 1952] Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. . . . But shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom. Adlai E wing Stevenson Godkin Lectures, Harvard University [March 1954] Democracy cannot be saved by supermen, but only by the unswerving devotion and goodness of millions of little men. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech [1955] If total isolationism is no answer, total interventionism is no answer, either. In fact, the clear, quick, definable, measurable answers are ruled out. In this twilight of power, there is no quick path to a convenient light switch. 1 Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech at Harvard University [June 17, 1965] 1 See John F. Kennedy The art of government has grown from its seeds in the tiny city-states of Greece to become the political mode of half the world. So let us dream of a world in which all states, great and small, work together for the peaceful flowering of the republic of man. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech at Harvard University [June 17, 1965] This must be the context of our thinking-the context of human interdependence in the face of the vast new dimensions of our science and our discovery . . . the awful majesty of outer space. Adlai E wing Stevenson Speech in Geneva [July 9, 1965] Spencer Tracy 1900-1967 Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture. Spencer Tracy Advice on acting William Lindsay White 1900-1973 They Were Expendable. William Lindsay White Title of book [1942] Thomas Wolfe 1900-1938 A stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel 1 [1929],foreword 1 See Milton Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel 1 [1929],foreword O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again. Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel 1 [1929],foreword Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel 1 [1929],pt.I, ch. 1 Making the world safe for hypocrisy. Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel 1 [1929],pt.III, ch. 36 The young men of this land are not, as they are often called, a "lost" race-they are a race that never yet has been discovered. And the whole secret, power, and knowledge of their own discovery is locked within them-they know it, feel it, have the whole thing in them-and they cannot utter it. Thomas Wolfe The Web and the Rock [1939], ch.13 If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. Thomas Wolfe The Web and the Rock [1939], ch.30 You Can't Go Home Again. Thomas Wolfe Title of novel [1940] Roy Campbell 1901-1957 The sap is the music, the stem is the flute, And the leaves are the wings of the seraph I shape Who dances, who springs in a golden escape, Out of the dust and the drought of the plain, To sing with the silver hosannas of rain. Roy Campbell The Palm [1928] Pass world! : I am the dreamer that remains; The man clear cut against the last horizon. Roy Campbell Epigraph for Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari 1 1 See Van der Post Margaret Craven 1901- The Indian knows his village and feels for his village as no white man for his country, his town, or even for his own bit of land. His village is not the strip of land four miles long and three miles wide that is his as long as the sun rises and the moon sets. The myths are the village, and the winds and rains. The river is the village, and . . . the talking bird, the owl, who calls the name of the man who is going to die. Margaret Craven I Heard the Owl Call My Name [1973], pt. I Werner Karl Heisenberg 1901-1976 Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created. Werner Karl Heisenberg Physics and Philosophy [1958] Since the measuring device has been constructed by the observer . . . we have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Werner Karl Heisenberg Physics and Philosophy [1958] James Michael KieranJr. 1901-1952 The brains trust. James Michael KieranJr. In conversation with Franklin D. Roosevelt [August 1932], referring to the professors and other such advisers who served Roosevelt in his first campaign. The phrase later became "brain trust." Andre Malraux 1901-1976 The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. Andre Malraux Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine) [1933] If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity? Andre Malraux Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine) [1933] One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say. Andre Malraux Man's Hope (L'Espoir) [1938] All art is a revolt against man's fate. Andre Malraux Voices of Silence (Les Voix du Silence) [1951] The human mind invents its Puss-in-Boots and its coaches that change into pumpkins at midnight because neither the believer nor the atheist is completely satisfied with appearances. Andre Malraux Anti-Memoirs [1967],preface The genius of Christianity is to have proclaimed that the path to the deepest mystery is the path of love. Andre Malraux Anti-Memoirs [1967],Anti-Memoirs, sec. 6 The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man. Andre Malraux Anti-Memoirs [1967],La Condition Humaine, sec. 2 The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves . . . is what I call hell. Andre Malraux Anti-Memoirs [1967],La Condition Humaine, sec. 2 Nazism . . . aimed at making you lose your soul, in the sense in which one talks about "losing one's reason." Andre Malraux Anti-Memoirs [1967],La Condition Humaine, sec. 2 Our civilization . . . is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it. Andre Malraux Picasso's Mask [1976] Margaret Mead 1901-1978 As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. Margaret Mead Coming of Age in Samoa [1928],introduction In this casual attitude towards life, in this avoidance of conflict, of poignant situations, Samoa contrasts strongly not only with America but also with most primitive civilizations. Margaret Mead Coming of Age in Samoa [1928],ch. 13 If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies [1935], conclusion We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation. Margaret Mead Male and Female [1948] The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one's country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries. Margaret Mead Culture and Commitment [1970] The mind is not sex-typed. Margaret Mead Blackberry Winter [1972], ch.5 Because of their age-long training in human relations-for that is what feminine intuition really is-women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise, and I feel it is up to them to contribute the kinds of awareness that relatively few men . . . have incorporated through their education. Margaret Mead Blackberry Winter [1972], ch.14 Linus Carl Pauling 1901- Science is the search for truth-it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. Linus Carl Pauling No More War! [1958] Arna Bontemps 1902-1973 Yet what I sowed and what the orchard yields My brother's sons are gathering stalk and root, Small wonder then my children glean in fields They have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit. Arna Bontemps A Black Man Talks of Reaping [1963], st. 3 Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun. Arna Bontemps The Daybreakers [1963] Thomas E dmund Dewey 1902-1971  That's why it's time for a change. Thomas E dmund Dewey Campaign speech at San Francisco [September 21, 1944] Erik Homburger Erikson 1902-  This sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly. Erik Homburger Erikson Childhood and Society [1950] Stella Gibbons 1902- The farm was crouched on a bleak hillside, whence its fields, fanged with flints, dropped steeply to the village of Howling a mile away. Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm [1932], ch.3 Something nasty in the woodshed. Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm [1932], ch.8 Wolcott Gibbs 1902-1958 Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. Wolcott Gibbs More in Sorrow [1958].Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce Where it will all end, knows God! Wolcott Gibbs More in Sorrow [1958].Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce Generally speaking, the American theater is the aspirin of the middle classes. 1 Wolcott Gibbs More in Sorrow [1958].Shakespeare, Here's Your Hat 1 See Marx Langston Hughes 1902-1967 It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro-and beautiful!" 1 Langston Hughes The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain. In The Nation [June 23, 1926] 1 See Anonymous I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers [1926] I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. Langston Hughes Negro [1926] Rest at pale evening . . . A tall slim tree . . . Night coming tenderly Black like me. Langston Hughes Dream Variations [1926] I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied. Langston Hughes The Weary Blues [1926] Wear it Like a banner For the proud- Not like a shroud. Langston Hughes Color [1943] Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Langston Hughes Dream Boogie [1951] You think It's a happy beat? Langston Hughes Dream Boogie [1951] What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? . . . Or does it explode? Langston Hughes Harlem [1951] Negro blood is sure powerful-because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop-you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful. 1 Langston Hughes Simple Takes a Wife [1953] 1 See Carmichael and Hamilton I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe. Langston Hughes American Heartbreak [1951] Quick, sunrise, come! Sunrise out of Africa, Quick, come! Langston Hughes Junior Addict [1967], st. 6 Harold Dwight Lasswell 1902-1978 Politics: Who Gets What, When, How. Harold Dwight Lasswell Title of book [1936] Carlo Levi 1902-1975  Christ Stopped at Eboli. Carlo Levi Title of book [1945] Charles A ugustus Lindbergh 1902-1974  We (that's my ship and I) took off rather suddenly. We had a report somewhere around 4 o'clock in the afternoon before that the weather would be fine, so we thought we would try it. Charles A ugustus Lindbergh Lindbergh's Own Story. In the New York Times [May 23, 1927] I saw a fleet of fishing boats. . . . I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land. Charles A ugustus Lindbergh Lindbergh's Own Story. In the New York Times [May 23, 1927] Ogden Nash 1902-1971 Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker. Ogden Nash Hard Lines [1931].Reflections on Ice-Breaking One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with. Ogden Nash Hard Lines [1931].Family Court The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. Ogden Nash Hard Lines [1931].The Turtle A bit of talcum Is always walcum. Ogden Nash Free Wheeling [1931]. The Baby Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money? Ogden Nash Happy Days [1933].The Terrible People I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. 1 Ogden Nash Happy Days [1933].Song of the Open Road 1 See Joyce Kilmer There is something about a Martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin. Ogden Nash The Primrose Path [1935]. A Drink with Something in It There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees. Ogden Nash I'm a Stranger Here Myself [1938].I Have It on Good Authority Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer. Ogden Nash I'm a Stranger Here Myself [1938].Title of poem Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways. Ogden Nash I'm a Stranger Here Myself [1938].An Introduction to Dogs, st. 4 There was a young belle of old Natchez Whose garments were always in patchez. When comment arose On the state of her clothes, She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez! Ogden Nash I'm a Stranger Here Myself [1938].Requiem There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all. Ogden Nash I'm a Stranger Here Myself [1938].Interoffice Memorandum I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is pattable. Ogden Nash Versus [1949].I Do, I Will, I Have He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick, And helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. Ogden Nash Versus [1949].The Perfect Husband Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy; Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; 1 So, presently, must I. Ogden Nash Versus [1949].For a Good Dog, st. 3 1 See Anonymous When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn; So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born. Ogden Nash Versus [1949].The Middle A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. Ogden Nash The Private Dining Room [1953]. A Dog's Best Friend Is His Illiteracy How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick? Ogden Nash You Can't Get There from Here [1957]. Preface to the Past Here lies my past. Good-bye I have kissed it; Thank you, kids. I wouldn't have missed it. Ogden Nash You Can't Get There from Here [1957]. Preface to the Past Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we couldn't settle our differences before a war instead of after. Ogden Nash Everyone but Thee and Me [1962]. Is There an Oculist in the House? I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder. 1 2 Ogden Nash There's Always Another Windmill [1968]. If a Boder Meet a Boder, Need a Boder Cry? Yes 3 1 See FitzGerald 2 See Paige 3 See Anonymous Discretion is the better part of virtue, Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you. Ogden Nash The Old Dog Barks Backwards [1972].Political Reflection Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was. Ogden Nash The Old Dog Barks Backwards [1972].What Do You Want, A Meaningful Dialogue or a Satisfactory Talk? Sir Karl Raimund Popper 1902- Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it. Sir Karl Raimund Popper Conjectures and Refutations [1963] Stevie Margaret Florence Smith 1902-1971 I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning. Stevie Margaret Florence Smith Not Waving but Drowning [1957] Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go. Stevie Margaret Florence Smith Thoughts About the Person from Porlock [1962] Sin recognized-but that-may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty. Stevie Margaret Florence Smith Recognition Not Enough [1962] He [Christ] did not love in the human way. Stevie Margaret Florence Smith Was He Married? [1962] To choose a god of love, as he did and does, Is a little move then? . . . A larger one will be when men Love love and hate hate but do not deify them?It will be a larger one. Stevie Margaret Florence Smith Was He Married? [1962] Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy. Stevie Margaret Florence Smith My Muse [1962] Yet a time may come when a poet or any person Having a long life behind him, pleasure and sorrow . . . May fancy life comes to him with love and says: We are friends enough now for me to give you death; Then he may commit suicide, then He may go. Stevie Margaret Florence Smith Exeat [1966] John Ernst Steinbeck 1902-1968 Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. John Ernst Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath [1939], ch.14 Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're scum. Don't mean nothing itself, it's the way they say it. John Ernst Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath [1939], ch.18 Nathanael West 1902-1940 Are you in trouble?-Do-you-need-advice?- Write - to - Miss - Lonelyhearts - and - she - will help-you. Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts [1933] The Miss Lonelyhearts are the priests of twentieth-century America. Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts [1933] The Day of the Locust. Nathanael West Title of novel [1939] Tallulah Brockman Bankhead 1903-1968 There is less in this than meets the eye. Tallulah Brockman Bankhead Remark to Alexander Woollcott at Aglavaine and Selysette byMaurice Maeterlinck [January 3, 1922] Erskine Caldwell 1903-1987 Tobacco Road. Erskine Caldwell Title of novel [1932] Count Galeazzo Ciano 1903-1944  As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. Count Galeazzo Ciano The Ciano Diaries 1939-1943 [1946]. [September 9, 1942] Cyril Vernon Connolly 1903-1974 Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. Cyril Vernon Connolly The Unquiet Grave [1945], pt.I Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out. Cyril Vernon Connolly The Unquiet Grave [1945], pt.II Countee Cullen 1903-1946 One three centuries removed From the scenes his fathers loved, Spicy grove, cinnamon tree, What is Africa to me? Countee Cullen Heritage [1925] So I lie, who all day long Want no sound except the song Sung by wild barbaric birds Goading massive jungle herds, Juggernauts of flesh that pass Trampling tall defiant grass. Countee Cullen Heritage [1925] Not yet has my heart or head In the least way realized They and I are civilized. Countee Cullen Heritage [1925] William Thomas Cummings 1903-1944  There are no atheists in the foxholes. 1 William Thomas Cummings Field sermon, Bataan [1942]. From Carlos P. Romulo, I Saw the Fall of the Philippines [1942] 1 See Young Malcolm Muggeridge 1903- As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did. Malcolm Muggeridge Jesus [1975], pt. I Anais Nin 1903-1977 It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin, vol.I [1966], June 1933 There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one's life as possible is right to me. Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin, vol.II [1967],June 1935 People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin, vol.II [1967],August 1935 Dreams are necessary to life. Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin, vol.II [1967],June 1936 (letter to her mother) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin, vol.II [1967],March 1937 Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it. Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin, vol.II [1967],Summer 1937 Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology. Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin, vol.III [1969],September 1940 Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin, vol.III [1969],June 1941 There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin, vol.III [1969],Fall 1943 Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky. Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin, vol.III [1969],January 1944 George Orwell Eric Blair 1903-1950 All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell Animal Farm [1945], ch. 10 It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. George Orwell 1984 [1948], opening line Big Brother is watching you. George Orwell 1984 [1948], opening line Benjamin Spock 1903- The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. Benjamin Spock The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care [1946], ch. 1 Evelyn Waugh 1903-1966 "What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for, anyway?" Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies [1930], ch. 8 Peter Arno 1904-1968 I consider your conduct unethical and lousy. Peter Arno Caption for cartoon Well, back to the old drawing board. Peter Arno Caption for cartoon showing designer walking away from crashed plane Richard Eberhart 1904- But the year had lost its meaning, And in intellectual chains I lost both love and loathing, Mured up in the wall of wisdom. Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930-1960 [1960].The Groundhog I stood there in the whirling summer, My hand capped a withered heart, And thought of China and of Greece, Of Alexander in his tent; Of Montaigne in his tower, Of Saint Theresa in her wild lament. Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930-1960 [1960].The Groundhog It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930-1960 [1960].On a Squirrel This fevers me, this sun on green, On green glowing, this young spring. Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930-1960 [1960].A Bravery of Earth Bergen Baldwin Evans 1904-1978 Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. Bergen Baldwin Evans The Natural History of Nonsense [1946], ch. 19 Clifton Fadiman 1904- When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. Clifton Fadiman Any Number Can Play [1957] Graham Greene 1904- This Gun for Hire. Graham Greene Title of novel [1936] There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Graham Greene The Power and the Glory [1940], ch. 1 In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter [1948], pt.I, ch. 2, sec. iv No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter [1948], pt.III, ch. 1, sec. i The Third Man. Graham Greene Title of novel [1950] If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ? Graham Greene The End of the Affair [1951] Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? . . . Like a marriage from which love has gone. . . . And patience, patience everywhere like a fog. Graham Greene The Potting Shed [1957] Our Man in Havana. Graham Greene Title of novel [1958] Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate . . . if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name? Graham Greene The Comedians [1966] Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. Graham Greene The Human Factor [1978], pt. III, ch. 3 Moss Hart 1904-1961 Boredom is the keynote of poverty . . . for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. Moss Hart Act One [1959], pt.I Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx. Moss Hart Act One [1959], pt.I A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern. Moss Hart Act One [1959], pt.II The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise. Moss Hart Act One [1959], pt.II Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does! Moss Hart Act One [1959], pt.II The only credential the city [New York] asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from. Moss Hart Act One [1959], pt.II Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood 1904-1986 I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood The Berlin Stories [1945]. Goodbye to Berlin [1939], A Berlin Diary [Autumn 1930] George F rost Kennan 1904- Many of the present relationships of international life are only the eroded remnants of ones which, at one time, were relationships of uncompromising hostility. Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government, and it will always be this way so long as the sovereign state, with its supremely self-centered rationale, remains the basis of international life. George F rost Kennan Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin [1961], ch. 25 If we are to regard ourselves as a grown-up nation-and anything else will henceforth be mortally dangerous-then we must, as the Biblical phrase goes, put away childish things; and among these childish things the first to go, in my opinion, should be self-idealization and the search for absolutes in world affairs: for absolute security, absolute amity, absolute harmony. George F rost Kennan Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin [1961], ch. 25 There is no political or ideological difference between the Soviet Union and the United States-nothing which either side would like, or would hope, to achieve at the expense of the other-that would be worth the risks and sacrifices of a military encounter. George F rost Kennan The Cloud of Danger [1977], ch.11 A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. George F rost Kennan The Cloud of Danger [1977], ch.13 The greatest danger inherent in the existing competition between the Soviet Union and the United States in the military field is . . . that the momentum of this tremendous and infinitely dangerous weapons race will get out of hand, will become wholly uncontrollable and will, either through proliferation or by accident, carry us all to destruction. George F rost Kennan The Cloud of Danger [1977], ch.13 C ecil Day Lewis 1904-1972 Tempt me no more; for I Have known the lightning's hour, The poet's inward pride, The certainty of power. C ecil Day Lewis Tempt Me No More, st. 1 Pablo Neruda Neftali Ricardo Reyes y Basualto 1904-1973 I could write the saddest poem tonight. For example, "The night is starry bright and the ice-blue orbs are shivering far above" . . . I could write the saddest poem tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Pablo Neruda Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada) [1924]. I Could Write (Puedo Escribir) I happen to be tired of being a man I happen to enter tailor shops and movie houses withered, impenetrable, like a felt swan navigating in a water of sources and ashes. Pablo Neruda Residencia en la Tierra (Residence on Earth),series II [1935]. Walking Around Treacherous generals: look at my dead house, look at broken Spain. Pablo Neruda Residencia en la Tierra (Residence on Earth),series III [1947]. I Explain a Few Things (Explico Algunas Cosas) But from each hollow of Spain Spain comes forth. Pablo Neruda Residencia en la Tierra (Residence on Earth),series III [1947]. I Explain a Few Things (Explico Algunas Cosas) But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies. Pablo Neruda Residencia en la Tierra (Residence on Earth),series III [1947]. I Explain a Few Things (Explico Algunas Cosas) All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song-but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny. Pablo Neruda Toward the Splendid City, upon receiving the Nobel Prize [1971] What a great language I have, it's a fine language we inherited from the fierce Conquistadors . . . They carried everything off and left us everything . . . They left us the words. Pablo Neruda Memoirs (Confieso Que He Vivido: Memorias) [1974], ch.2 Night in Valparaiso! . . . The immense deserted night set up its formation of colossal figures that seeded light far and wide. Aldebaran trembled, throbbing far above, Cassiopeia hung her dress on heaven's doors, while the noiseless chariot of the Southern Cross rolled over the night sperm of the Milky Way. Pablo Neruda Memoirs (Confieso Que He Vivido: Memorias) [1974], ch.3 Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread. Pablo Neruda Memoirs (Confieso Que He Vivido: Memorias) [1974], ch.6 I continue to work with the materials I have, the materials I am made of. With feelings, beings, books, events, and battles, I am omnivorous. I would like to swallow the whole earth. I would like to drink the whole sea. Pablo Neruda Memoirs (Confieso Que He Vivido: Memorias) [1974], ch.11 Poetry is a deep inner calling in man; from it came liturgy, the psalms, and also the content of religions. Pablo Neruda Memoirs (Confieso Que He Vivido: Memorias) [1974], ch.11 J ulius Robert Oppenheimer 1904-1967  In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. 1 J ulius Robert Oppenheimer Physics in the Contemporary World, lecture at MassachusettsInstitute of Technology [November 25, 1947] 1 See Adlai Stevenson The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community. J ulius Robert Oppenheimer Science and the Common Understanding [1953] S idney J oseph Perelman 1904-1979 One Touch of Venus. S idney J oseph Perelman Title of play [1943] (with Ogden Nash) Crazy Like a Fox. S idney J oseph Perelman Title of book [1944] Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904- When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's most important. It becomes a kind of idolatry. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks . . . About Everything, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [November 26, 1978] It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real names. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks . . . About Everything, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [November 26, 1978] When the writer becomes the center of his attention, he becomes a nudnik. And a nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks . . . About Everything, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [November 26, 1978] We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks . . . About Everything, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [November 26, 1978] The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks . . . About Everything, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [November 26, 1978] Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks . . . About Everything, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [November 26, 1978] If you write about the things and the people you know best, you discover your roots. Even if they are new roots, fresh roots . . . they are better than . . . no roots. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks . . . About Everything, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [November 26, 1978] What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks . . . About Everything, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [November 26, 1978] The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual-when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions-it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer's Universe, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [December 3, 1978] Man cannot live without self-control. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer's Universe, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [December 3, 1978] When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer's Universe, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [December 3, 1978] Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer's Universe, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [December 3, 1978] I never say the universe was an accident. The word "accident" should be erased from the dictionary. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer's Universe, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [December 3, 1978] Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer's Universe, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [December 3, 1978] Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer's Universe, interview with Richard Burgin in the New York Times Magazine [December 3, 1978] ÿ B urrhus F rederic Skinner 1904- The one fact that I would cry from every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us-here and now! . . . At this very moment we have the necessary techniques, both material and psychological, to create a full and satisfying life for everyone. B urrhus F rederic Skinner Walden Two [1948], ch.23 I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, "Behave, damn you, behave as you ought!" Eventually I realized that the subjects were always right. It was I who was wrong. I had made a bad prediction. B urrhus F rederic Skinner Walden Two [1948], ch.32 We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. B urrhus F rederic Skinner From R. Evans, B. F. Skinner: The Man and His Ideas [1968] The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B urrhus F rederic Skinner Contingencies of Reinforcement [1969], ch. 9 We do not choose survival as a value; it chooses us. B urrhus F rederic Skinner Transcript of television program [October 17, 1971] We are all controlled by the world in which we live, and part of that world has been and will be constructed by men. The question is this: are we to be controlled by accidents, by tyrants, or by ourselves in effective cultural design? B urrhus F rederic Skinner Cumulative Record [third edition, 1972], ch.1 Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters. B urrhus F rederic Skinner Cumulative Record [third edition, 1972], ch.5 Jane Ace 1905-1974 Time wounds all heels. 1 Jane Ace From Goodman Ace, The Fine Art of Hypochondria; or, How Are You? [1966] 1 See Terence J ames William Fulbright 1905- There is an inevitable divergence, attributable to the imperfections of the human mind, between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it. J ames William Fulbright Speech in the Senate [March 27, 1964] We are handicapped by [foreign] policies based on old myths rather than current realities. J ames William Fulbright Speech in the Senate [March 27, 1964] A policy that can be accurately, though perhaps not prudently, defined as one of "peaceful coexistence." J ames William Fulbright Speech in the Senate [March 27, 1964] There is much cant in American moralism and not a little inconsistency. J ames William Fulbright Speech in the Senate [March 27, 1964] We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which these are practiced in America-with capitalism, federalism and the two-party system, which are not moral principles, but simply the accepted practices of the American people. J ames William Fulbright Speech in the Senate [March 27, 1964] The master myth of the cold war is that the Communist bloc is a monolith, composed of governments which are not really governments at all, but organized conspiracies . . . all equally resolute and implacable in their determination to destroy the free world. J ames William Fulbright Speech in the Senate [March 27, 1964] We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. J ames William Fulbright Speech in the Senate [March 27, 1964] The Arrogance of Power. J ames William Fulbright Title of book [1967] Greta Garbo Greta Gustafson 1905-  I want to be alone. Greta Garbo Attributed Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 What gives life its value you can find-and lose. But never possess. This holds good above all for "the Truth about Life." Dag Hammarskjold Markings The longest journey 1 Is the journey inwards Of him who has chosen his destiny. Dag Hammarskjold Markings 1 See Shelley He who has nothing can give nothing. The gift is God's-to God. Dag Hammarskjold Markings Lillian Hellman 1905-1984 There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat it. Lillian Hellman The Little Foxes [1939], act III For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. Lillian Hellman Watch on the Rhine [1941], act II Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier. Lillian Hellman The Autumn Garden [1951], act I I am most willing to answer all questions about myself . . . But . . . I am not willing, now or in the future, to bring bad trouble to people who, in my past association with them, were completely innocent of any talk or any action that was disloyal or subversive. Lillian Hellman Letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities [May 19, 1952] I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. Lillian Hellman Letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities [May 19, 1952] A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. Lillian Hellman Candide [1956], act II, sc. iii We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth. Lillian Hellman Candide [1956], act II, sc. iii I do not believe in recovery. The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. Lillian Hellman Scoundrel Time [1976] Stanley Kunitz 1905- Now, while the antler of the eaves Liquefies, drop by drop, I brood On a Christian thing: unless the leaves Perish, the tree is not renewed.If all our perishable stuff Be nourished to its rot, we clean Our trunk of death, and in our tough And final growth are evergreen. Stanley Kunitz Deciduous Branch [1930], st. 4, 5 I stand on the terrible threshold, and I see The end and the beginning in each other's arms. Stanley Kunitz Open the Gates [1944], st. 3 Awake! My whirling hands stay at the noon, Each cell within my body holds a heart And all my hearts in unison strike twelve. Stanley Kunitz The Science of the Night [1958] Doomsday is the eighth day of the week. Stanley Kunitz Foreign Affairs [1958] On the royal road to Thebes I had my luck, I met a lovely monster, And the story's this: I made the monster me. Stanley Kunitz The Approach to Thebes [1958] We learn, as the thread plays out, that we belong Less to what flatters us than to what scars, So, freshly turning, as the turn condones, For her I killed the propitiatory bird, Kissing her down. Peace to her bitter bones, Who taught me the serpent's word, but yet the word. Stanley Kunitz The Dark and the Fair [1958] I recognize the gods' capricious hand And write this poem for money, rage, and love. Stanley Kunitz The Thief [1958] An agitation of the air, A perturbation of the light Admonished me the unloved year Would turn on its hinge that night. Stanley Kunitz End of Summer [1958],st. 1 Already the iron door of the north Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows Order their populations forth, And a cruel wind blows. Stanley Kunitz End of Summer [1958],st. 4 The thing that eats the heart is mostly heart. Stanley Kunitz The Thing That Eats the Heart [1958], last line I was a stranger on earth. Stepping on the moon, I begin the gay pilgrimage to new Jerusalems in foreign galaxies. Heat. Cold. Craters of silence. The Sea of Tranquillity rolling on the shores of entropy. And, beyond, the intelligence of the stars. Stanley Kunitz The Flight of Apollo [1971], 2 Slime, in the grains of the State, like smut in the corn, from the top infected. Hatred made law. Stanley Kunitz Around Pastor Bonhoeffer [1971]. Next to Last Things He had heard the midnight bells jangling: if you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? Stanley Kunitz Around Pastor Bonhoeffer [1971]. Next to Last Things On the threshold of the last mystery, at the brute absolute hour, you have looked into the eyes of your creature self, which are glazed with madness, and you say he is not broken but endures, limber and firm in the state of his shining, forever inheriting his salt kingdom, from which he is banished forever. Stanley Kunitz King of the River [1971] That pack of scoundrels tumbling through the gate emerges as the Order of the State. Stanley Kunitz The System [1971] I've a long way to go Who never learned to pray. Stanley Kunitz The Game [1971], st. 4 These relics on display . . . make a noble, dissolving music out of homely fife and drum, and that's miraculous. Stanley Kunitz The Lincoln Relics [1979], 1 Liebchen, with whom should I quarrel except in the hiss of love, that harsh, irregular flame? Stanley Kunitz The Quarrel [1979] In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter. Stanley Kunitz Route Six [1979] How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses? In a rising wind the manic dust of my friends, those who fell along the way, bitterly stings my face. Yet I turn, I turn. Stanley Kunitz The Layers [1979] "Live in the layers, not on the litter" . . . No doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes. Stanley Kunitz The Layers [1979] Phyllis McGinley 1905-1977 Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps. Phyllis McGinley Ode to the End of Summer Prince, I warn you, under the rose, Time is the thief you cannot banish. These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish? Phyllis McGinley Ballade of Lost Objects [1954] Always on Monday morning the press reports God as revealed to His vicars in various guises- Benevolent, stormy, patient, or out of sorts. God knows which God is the God God recognizes. Phyllis McGinley The Day After Sunday [1954] Ah! some love Paris, And some Purdue. But love is an archer with a low I.Q. A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. So I'm in love with New York City. Phyllis McGinley A Kind of Love Letter to New York [1954] A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you. Phyllis McGinley The Adversary We who belong to that Profession [of housewife] hold the fate of the world in our hands. Phyllis McGinley Sixpence in Her Shoe [1964], ch. 3 John O'Hara 1905-1970 Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm. John O'Hara The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald [1945], introduction An artist is his own fault. John O'Hara The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald [1945], introduction Ayn Rand 1905-1982 Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Ayn Rand The Fountainhead [1943] Great men can't be ruled. Ayn Rand The Fountainhead [1943] Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man. Ayn Rand The Fountainhead [1943] Jean Paul Sartre 1905-1980 Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea. Jean Paul Sartre La Nausee [1938] Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have. Jean Paul Sartre Situations [1939],I We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are-that is the fact. Jean Paul Sartre Situations [1939],II Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence, every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment. Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches (The Flies) [1943] Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth. Jean Paul Sartre L'[Ecirc ]tre et le Neant (Being and Nothingness) [1943] Hell is-other people! Jean Paul Sartre Huis-Clos (No Exit) [1944], sc. v I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others. Jean Paul Sartre The Words (Les Mots) [1964] All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image. Jean Paul Sartre The Words (Les Mots) [1964] Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent"; my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith. Jean Paul Sartre The Words (Les Mots) [1964] If I relegate impossible Salvation to the proproom, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any. Jean Paul Sartre The Words (Les Mots) [1964] Sir C harles P ercy Snow 1905-1980 Literary intellectuals at one pole-at the other scientists. . . . Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension. Sir C harles P ercy Snow The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution [1959] No one is fit to be trusted with power. . . . No one. . . . Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of. If he does not know it, he is not fit to govern others. And if he does know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate. Sir C harles P ercy Snow The Light and the Dark [1961] Corridors of Power. Sir C harles P ercy Snow Title of novel [1965] Lionel Trilling 1905-1976 The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination [1950].Freud and Literature There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination [1950].The Function of the Little Magazine Occasions are rare when the best literature becomes, as it were, the folk literature, and generally speaking literature has always been carried on within small limits and under great difficulties. Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination [1950].The Function of the Little Magazine We are all ill [i.e., neurotic]: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination [1950].Art and Neurosis The poet . . . may be used as the barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination [1950].The Sense of the Past Harold Adamson 1906-1980 Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer. Harold Adamson Title of song [1943] Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 Aristotle explicitly assures us that man, insofar as he is a natural being and belongs to the species of mankind, possesses immortality; through the recurrent cycle of life, nature assures the same kind of being-forever to things that are born and die as to things that are and do not change. Hannah Arendt Between Past and Future [1961], ch. 2 It was as though in those last minutes he [Eichmann] was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us-the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil. Hannah Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil [1963],ch. 15 No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could have been. Hannah Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil [1963],epilogue In a constellation that poses the threat of total annihilation through war against the hope for the emancipation of all mankind through revolution . . . no cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. Hannah Arendt On Revolution [1963],introduction As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. Hannah Arendt On Revolution [1963],ch. 2 Samuel Beckett 1906- He can't think without his hat. Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot [1952], actI We all are born mad. Some remain so. Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot [1952], actI They give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. 1 2 3 Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot [1952], actII 1 See the Wisdom of Solomon 5:13 2 See Hall 3 See Nabokov Do you believe in the life to come? Mine was always that. Samuel Beckett Endgame [1957] Krapp's Last Tape. Samuel Beckett Title of play [1959] John Betjeman 1906-1984 He rose, and he put down The Yellow Book. He staggered-and, terrible-eyed, He brushed past the palms on the staircase And was helped to a hansom outside. John Betjeman The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel [1937], st. 9 Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me. John Betjeman In Westminster Abbey [1940] The sort of girl I like to see Smiles down from her great height at me. John Betjeman The Olympic Girl [1954] Oh! would I were her racket pressed With hard excitement to her breast. John Betjeman The Olympic Girl [1954] Summoned by Bells. John Betjeman Title of book [1960] Leo Durocher 1906- Nice guys finish last. Leo Durocher Remark Dilys Laing 1906-1960 To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds. Dilys Laing Sonnet to a Sister in Error [1957], st. 2 Curtis Emerson LeMay 1906- My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] . . . they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. Curtis Emerson LeMay Mission with LeMay [1965] Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1906- The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. Anne Morrow Lindbergh The Wave of the Future [1940] I . . . understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has to do primarily with distractions. . . . Woman's normal occupations run counter to creative life, or contemplative life or saintly life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gift from the Sea [1955], ch.2 The most exhausting thing in life . . . is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gift from the Sea [1955], ch.2 When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gift from the Sea [1955], ch.3 By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gift from the Sea [1955], ch.3 Satchel Leroy Paige c. 1906-1982 Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you. Satchel Leroy Paige How to Keep Young [1953] Roberto Rossellini 1906-1977 I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. Roberto Rossellini Interview in Cahiers du Cinema [1954] Laurens Van der Post 1906- Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril. Laurens Van der Post Venture to the Interior [1951], pt. III There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living: a way in which life itself is sheer knowing. Laurens Van der Post Venture to the Interior [1951], pt. III Africa has always walked in my mind proudly upright, an African giant among the other continents, toes well dug into the final ocean of one hemisphere, rising to its full height in the graying skies of the other; head and shoulders broad, square and enduring, making light of the bagful of blue Mediterranean slung over its back as it marches patiently through time. Laurens Van der Post Flamingo Feather [1955], ch.3 Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way. Laurens Van der Post Flamingo Feather [1955], ch.7 The buffalo's powerful head darkening the yellow grass, like the lion's imperative roar and the elephant's long, somnambulistic stride, has more of the quintessential Africa in it for me than any other manifestation of all the scores of animals that I know and love. Laurens Van der Post Flamingo Feather [1955], ch.10 Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. Laurens Van der Post The Lost World of the Kalahari [1958], ch.3 By chance (to use the only phrase we have for describing one of the most significant manifestations of life). Laurens Van der Post The Lost World of the Kalahari [1958], ch.8 W ystan H ugh Auden 1907-1973 Let us honor if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one. W ystan H ugh Auden Epigraph for Poems [1930] If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try; If we don't it doesn't matter, we'd better start to die. W ystan H ugh Auden If We Really Want to Live [1930] Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving all But will his negative inversion, be prodigal. W ystan H ugh Auden Sir, No Man's Enemy [1930] Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. W ystan H ugh Auden Sir, No Man's Enemy [1930] Fish in the unruffled lakes The swarming colors wear, Swans in the winter air A white perfection have, And the great lion walks Through his innocent grove Lion, fish, and swan Act, and are gone Upon Time's toppling wave. W ystan H ugh Auden Fish in the Unruffled Lakes [1936],st. 1 We must lose our loves, On each beast and bird that moves Turn an envious look. W ystan H ugh Auden Fish in the Unruffled Lakes [1936],st. 2 The greater the love, the more false to its object, Not to be born is the best for man; 1 2 3 4 After the kiss comes the impulse to throttle, Break the embraces, dance while you can. W ystan H ugh Auden O Who Can Ever Gaze His Fill [1937] 1 See Theognis 2 See Sophocles 3 See Bacon 4 See Yeats The stars are dead. The animals will not look. We are left alone with our day, and the time short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon. W ystan H ugh Auden Spain [1937] About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters. W ystan H ugh Auden Musee des Beaux Arts [1940] O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea cup opens A lane to the land of the dead. W ystan H ugh Auden As I Walked Out One Evening [1940], st. 10, 11 Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. W ystan H ugh Auden In Memory of W. B. Yeats [1940], 1 III,st. 1 1 See Yeats In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark. W ystan H ugh Auden In Memory of W. B. Yeats [1940], 1 III,st. 2 Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye. W ystan H ugh Auden In Memory of W. B. Yeats [1940], 1 III,st. 3 To us he is no more a person Now but a whole climate of opinion. W ystan H ugh Auden In Memory of Sigmund Freud 1 [1940] 1 See Freud One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite. W ystan H ugh Auden In Memory of Sigmund Freud 1 [1940] Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm. W ystan H ugh Auden Lullaby [1940],st. 1 Every farthing of the cost, All the dreaded cards foretell, Shall be paid, but from this night Not a whisper, not a thought, Not a kiss nor look be lost. W ystan H ugh Auden Lullaby [1940],st. 3 At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe's We drank our liquor straight, Some went upstairs with Margery, And some, alas, with Kate. W ystan H ugh Auden The Sea and the Mirror [1944]. Master and Boatswain And children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land. W ystan H ugh Auden Edward Lear [1945] Sob, heavy world, Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist, remote from the happy. W ystan H ugh Auden The Age of Anxiety [1947] She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble, well-governed cities And ships upon wine-dark seas; But there on the shining metal His hands had put instead An artificial wilderness And a sky like lead. W ystan H ugh Auden The Shield of Achilles [1955],st. 1 The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same, Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help, and no help came; What their foes liked to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish: they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died. W ystan H ugh Auden The Shield of Achilles [1955],st. 6 Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went. W ystan H ugh Auden The Unknown Citizen (To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard. W ystan H ugh Auden The Unknown Citizen (To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) A culture is no better than its woods. W ystan H ugh Auden Bucolics. Woods When a just man dies, Lamentation and praise, Sorrow and joy, are one. W ystan H ugh Auden Elegy for John F. Kennedy [1963] Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit. 1 W ystan H ugh Auden About the House [1965] 1 See Sommer Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. W ystan H ugh Auden The Dyer's Hand 1 [1962]. Pt.I,Reading 1 See Shakespeare It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ. W ystan H ugh Auden The Dyer's Hand 1 [1962]. Pt.I,Writing The old lady, quoted by E. M. Forster-"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?" W ystan H ugh Auden The Dyer's Hand 1 [1962]. Pt.I,Writing Speaking for myself, the questions which interest me most when reading a poem are two. The first is technical: "Here is a verbal contraption. How does it work?" The second is, in the broadest sense, moral: "What kind of a guy inhabits this poem? What is his notion of the good life or the good place? His notion of the Evil One? What does he conceal from the reader? What does he conceal even from himself?" W ystan H ugh Auden The Dyer's Hand 1 [1962]. Pt.II, Making, Knowing and Judging Whatever its actual content and overt interest, every poem is rooted in imaginative awe. Poetry can do a hundred and one things, delight, sadden, disturb, amuse, instruct-it may express every possible shade of emotion, and describe every conceivable kind of event, but there is only one thing that all poetry must do; it must praise all it can for being and for happening. W ystan H ugh Auden The Dyer's Hand 1 [1962]. Pt.II, Making, Knowing and Judging Jacques Barzun 1907- Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game-and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. Jacques Barzun God's Country and Mine [1954] Rachel Louise Carson 1907-1964 The sea lies all about us. The commerce of all lands must cross it. The very winds that move over the lands have been cradled on its broad expanse and seek ever to return to it. The continents themselves dissolve and pass to the sea, in grain after grain of eroded land. So the rains that rose from it return again in rivers. In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last returns to the sea-to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end. Rachel Louise Carson The Sea Around Us [1951], ch. 14, ending As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. Rachel Louise Carson Silent Spring [1962] Christopher Fry 1907- I travel light; as light, That is, as a man can travel who will Still carry his body around because Of its sentimental value. Christopher Fry The Lady's Not for Burning [1950], actI Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural. Christopher Fry The Lady's Not for Burning [1950], actII Try thinking of love or something. Amor vincit insomnia. 1 Christopher Fry A Sleep of Prisoners [1951] 1 See Virgil Louis MacNeice 1907-1963 It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall forever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather. Louis MacNeice Bagpipe Music, last stanza The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its net of gold, When all is told We cannot beg for pardon. Louis MacNeice The Sunlight on the Garden, st. 1 John Wayne 1907-1979 Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. John Wayne Advice on acting Simone de Beauvoir 1908-1986 I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. Simone de Beauvoir The Blood of Others (Le Sang des Autres) [1946] This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate. Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (Le Deuxieme Sex) [1949-1950], pt.II, ch. 4 It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (Le Deuxieme Sex) [1949-1950], pt.II, ch. 4  One is not born a woman, one becomes one. Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (Le Deuxieme Sex) [1949-1950], pt.IV, ch. 12 When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (Le Deuxieme Sex) [1949-1950], pt.VII. Conclusion It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood. Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (Le Deuxieme Sex) [1949-1950], pt.VII. Conclusion Jacob Bronowski 1908-1974 Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals: so that, unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape-he is a shaper of the landscape. In body and in mind he is the explorer of nature, the ubiquitous animal, who did not find but has made his home in every continent. Jacob Bronowski The Ascent of Man [1973], ch. 1 Nature-that is, biological evolution-has not fitted man to any specific environment. . . . Among the multitude of animals which scamper, fly, burrow, and swim around us, man is the only one who is not locked into his environment. His imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness, make it possible for him not to accept the environment but to change it. 1 And that series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution-not biological, but cultural evolution. I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man. Jacob Bronowski The Ascent of Man [1973], ch. 1 1 See R. B. Fuller Jacob Bronowski 1908-1974 Bruce Mazlish 1923- Every thoughtful man who hopes for the creation of a contemporary culture knows that this hinges on one central problem: to find a coherent relation between science and the humanities. Bruce Mazlish The Western Intellectual Tradition [1960] Howell M aurice Forgy 1908-1983  Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Howell M aurice Forgy Said at Pearl Harbor [December 7, 1941] John Kenneth Galbraith 1908- One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money. John Kenneth Galbraith The Great Crash, 1929 [1955], ch.1 The stock market is but a mirror which . . . provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street. John Kenneth Galbraith The Great Crash, 1929 [1955], ch.6 Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves. John Kenneth Galbraith The Great Crash, 1929 [1955], ch.7 When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic. John Kenneth Galbraith The Great Crash, 1929 [1955], ch.10 It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society [1958], ch.11 The myth that military power is a function of economic output. If peace and survival are to be achieved, the search must almost certainly go beyond the effort to find a balance in thermonuclear terror. John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society [1958], ch.12 Just as there must be balance in what a community produces, so there must also be balance in what the community consumes. John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society [1958], ch.17 The greater the wealth, the thicker will be the dirt. This indubitably describes a tendency of our time. John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society [1958], ch.17 In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway. John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society [1958], ch.18 Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation. John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society [1958], ch.18 Social imbalance reflects itself in inability to enforce laws, including significantly those which protect and advance basic social justice, and in failure to maintain and improve essential services. . . . Over much of the world, there is a rough and not accidental correlation between the strength of indigenous Communist parties or the frequency of revolutions and the persistence of inflation. John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society [1958], ch.18 The leisured class has been replaced by another and much larger class to which work has none of the older connotation of pain, fatigue, or other mental or physical discomfort. We have failed to observe the emergence of this New Class, as it may be simply called. John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society [1958], ch.24 People are the common denominator of progress. So . . . no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development. . . . But we are coming to realize . . . that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first. John Kenneth Galbraith Economic Development [1964], ch. 2 Affluence adds to the need for . . . stabilization of aggregate demand. A man who lives close to the margin of subsistence must spend to exist and what he spends is spent. A man with ample income can save . . . Moreover, a rich society owes its productivity and income, at least in part, to large-scale organization-to the corporation. John Kenneth Galbraith The New Industrial State [1967], ch.1 The imperatives of technology and organization, not the images of ideology, are what determine the shape of economic society. John Kenneth Galbraith The New Industrial State [1967], ch.1 We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. John Kenneth Galbraith The New Industrial State [1967], ch.1 The enemy of the market is not ideology but the engineer. John Kenneth Galbraith The New Industrial State [1967], ch.3 The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. John Kenneth Galbraith The New Industrial State [1967], ch.4 It was with Malthus and Ricardo that economics became the dismal science. 1 John Kenneth Galbraith The Age of Uncertainty [1977], ch. 1 1 See Carlyle Lyndon B aines Johnson 1908-1973 Come now, let us reason together. 1 Lyndon B aines Johnson Saying 1 See Isaiah 1:18 I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. Lyndon B aines Johnson Quoted by Adlai Stevensonin his introduction to Johnson, A Time for Action [1964] All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today. Lyndon B aines Johnson First address to Congress as President [November 27, 1963] We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write in the books of law. Lyndon B aines Johnson First address to Congress as President [November 27, 1963] Unfortunately many Americans live on the outskirts of hope-some because of their poverty, some because of their color, and all too many because of both. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. 1 Lyndon B aines Johnson First State of the Union Message [January 8, 1964] 1 See Michael Harrington The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use [our] wealth to enrich and elevate our national life-and to advance the quality of American civilization. Lyndon B aines Johnson Speech at the University of Michigan [May 22, 1964] We still seek no wider war. Lyndon B aines Johnson Radio/television speech [August 4, 1964] on the Gulf of Tonkin resolution This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, 1 a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor. Lyndon B aines Johnson Address, accepting the presidential nomination [August 1964] 1 See Lippmann Otto KernerJr. 1908-1976 Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal. Otto KernerJr. Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders [1968], p. 1 Abraham H arold Maslow 1908-1970 A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. Abraham H arold Maslow Motivation and Personality [1954] Edward R oscoe Murrow 1908-1965 This-is London. Edward R oscoe Murrow Opening phrase for broadcasts from London during World War II [1939-1945] We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. Edward R oscoe Murrow See It Now (broadcast). Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy [March 7, 1954] We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we . . . remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment unpopular. Edward R oscoe Murrow See It Now (broadcast). Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy [March 7, 1954] I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence. Edward R oscoe Murrow Speech at the Radio and Television News Directors Convention, Chicago [October 15, 1958] In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast. Edward R oscoe Murrow Speech at the Radio and Television News Directors Convention, Chicago [October 15, 1958] Theodore Roethke 1908-1963 My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. My heart keeps open house, My doors are widely flung. Theodore Roethke Open House [1941], st. 1 Thought does not crush to stone. The great sledge drops in vain. Truth never is undone; His shafts remain. Theodore Roethke The Adamant [1941], st. 1 For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face. Theodore Roethke The Bat [1941], st. 5 This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks, Cut stems struggling to put down feet, What saint strained so much, Rose on such lopped limbs to a new life? Theodore Roethke Cuttings Later [1948] Nothing would sleep in that cellar. Theodore Roethke Root Cellar [1948] Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath. Theodore Roethke Root Cellar [1948] Tugging all day at perverse life: The indignity of it! Theodore Roethke The Weed Puller [1948] And afterwards I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road, As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland; Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance, By pulling off flesh from the living planet; As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration. Theodore Roethke Moss Gathering [1948] The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. Theodore Roethke My Papa's Waltz [1948], st. 1 I study the lives on a leaf: the little Sleepers, numb nudgers in cold dimensions, Beetles in caves, newts, stone-deaf fishes, Lice tethered to long limp subterranean weeds, Squirmers in bogs, And bacterial creepers. Theodore Roethke The Minimal [1948] At Woodlawn I heard the dead cry; I was lulled by the slamming of iron, A slow drip over stones, Toads brooding in wells. All the leaves stuck out their tongues; I shook the softening chalk of my bones, Saying, Snail, snail, glister me forward, Bird, soft-sigh me home. Worm, be with me. This is my hard time. Theodore Roethke The Lost Son [1948],I Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones. Theodore Roethke The Lost Son [1948],III A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. Theodore Roethke The Lost Son [1948],V And the new plants, still awkward in their soil, The lovely diminutives. I could watch! I could watch! I saw the separateness of all things! Theodore Roethke A Field of Light [1948], III To follow the drops sliding from a lifted oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward; To know that light falls and fills, often without our knowing. Theodore Roethke The Shape of the Fire [1948], V I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils, And her quick look a sidelong pickerel smile. Theodore Roethke Elegy for Jane [1953] I take this cadence from a man named Yeats; I take it, and I give it back again. Theodore Roethke Four for Sir John Davies [1953],I. The Dance All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure. Theodore Roethke Four for Sir John Davies [1953],IV.The Vigil Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all. Theodore Roethke Four for Sir John Davies [1953],IV.4 I wake to sleep, 1 and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. Theodore Roethke The Waking [1953] 1 See Montaigne I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain! Theodore Roethke I Knew a Woman [1958] I weep for what I'm like when I'm alone. Theodore Roethke The Sententious Man [1958], st. 6 Each one's himself yet each one's everyone. Theodore Roethke The Sententious Man [1958], st. 6 When I was a lark, I sang; When I was a worm, I devoured. Theodore Roethke What Can I Tell My Bones? [1958] I live in light's extreme; I stretch in all directions; Sometimes I think I'm several. Theodore Roethke What Can I Tell My Bones? [1958] The sun! The sun! And all we can become! And the time ripe for running to the moon! In the long fields, I leave my father's eye; And shake the secrets from my deepest bones; My spirit rises with the rising wind. Theodore Roethke What Can I Tell My Bones? [1958] I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form. Theodore Roethke The Longing [1964] Old men should be explorers? 1 I'll be an Indian. Ogalala? Iroquois. Theodore Roethke The Longing [1964] 1 See T. S. Eliot Now, in this waning of light, I rock with the motion of morning; In the cradle of all that is, I'm lulled into half-sleep By the lapping of water, Cries of the sandpiper. Water's my will, and my way, And the spirit runs, intermittently, In and out of the small waves, Runs with the intrepid shorebirds- How graceful the small before danger!In the first of the moon, All's a scattering, A shining. Theodore Roethke Meditation at Oyster River [1964], IV What I love is near at hand, Always, in earth and air. Theodore Roethke The Far Field [1964],III All finite things reveal infinitude. Theodore Roethke The Far Field [1964],IV Light listened when she sang. Theodore Roethke Light Listened [1964], st. 4 I am most immoderately married: The Lord God has taken my heaviness away; I have merged, like the bird, with the bright air, And my thought flies to the place by the bo-tree.Being, not doing, is my first joy. Theodore Roethke The Abyss [1964], V We end in joy. Theodore Roethke The Moment [1964], last line In a dark time, the eye begins to see. Theodore Roethke In a Dark Time [1964],st. 1 A steady storm of correspondences! A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon, And in broad day the midnight come again! Theodore Roethke In a Dark Time [1964],st. 3 Was I too glib about eternal things, An intimate of air and all its songs? Pure aimlessness pursued and yet pursued And all wild longings of the insatiate blood Brought me down to my knees. O who can be Both moth and flame? The weak moth blundering by. Whom do we love? I thought I knew the truth; Of grief I died, but no one knew my death. Theodore Roethke The Sequel [1964], I The soul has many motions, body one. Theodore Roethke The Motion [1964],I Love begets love. This torment is my joy. Theodore Roethke The Motion [1964],II Rising or falling's all one discipline! The line of my horizon's growing thin! Which is the way? I cry to the dread black, The shifting shade, the cinders at my back. Which is the way? I ask, and turn to go, As a man turns to face on-coming snow. Theodore Roethke The Decision [1964], II What's the worst portion in this mortal life? A pensive mistress, and a yelping wife. Theodore Roethke The Marrow [1964],I Brooding on God, I may become a man. Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire; What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire. Theodore Roethke The Marrow [1964],II Lord, hear me out, and hear me out this day: From me to Thee's a long and terrible way. Theodore Roethke The Marrow [1964],III Yea, I have slain my will, and still I live; I would be near; I shut my eyes to see; I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestow Upon that God who knows what I would know. Theodore Roethke The Marrow [1964],IV The present falls, the present falls away; How pure the motion of the rising day, The white sea widening on a farther shore. The bird, the beating bird, extending wings- Thus I endure this last pure stretch of joy, The dire dimension of a final thing. Theodore Roethke The Tree, the Bird [1964] Let others probe the mystery if they can. Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will- The right thing happens to the happy man.The bird flies out, the bird flies back again; The hill becomes the valley, and is still; Let others delve that mystery if they can. Theodore Roethke The Right Thing [1964], st. 1, 2 Now I adore my life With the Bird, the abiding Leaf, With the Fish, the questing Snail, And the Eye altering all; And I dance with William Blake For love, for Love's sake. Theodore Roethke Once More, the Round [1964] William Saroyan 1908-1981 The Time of Your Life. William Saroyan Title of play [1939] If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief. William Saroyan The Human Comedy [1943], ch. 4 Victor Frederick Weisskopf 1908- In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain. Therefore, it is not surprising that, after a long period of searching and erring, some of the concepts and ideas in human thinking should have come gradually closer to the fundamental laws of this world, that some of our thinking should reveal the true structure of atoms and the true movements of the stars. Nature, in the form of man, begins to recognize itself. Victor Frederick Weisskopf Knowledge and Wonder [1962] Richard Wright 1908-1960 Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail. Richard Wright Native Son [1940] Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling? Richard Wright Native Son [1940] If we had been allowed to participate in the vital processes of America's national growth, what would have been the textures of our lives, the pattern of our traditions, the routine of our customs, the state of our arts, the code of our laws, the function of our government! . . . We black folk say that America would have been stronger and greater. Richard Wright Twelve Million Black Voices [1941] James Agee 1909-1955 Now is the night one blue dew. James Agee A Death in the Family [1957], Knoxville: Summer 1915 Sleep, soft smiling, draws me unto her: and those receive me, who quietly treat me, as one familiar and well-beloved in that home: but will not, oh, will not, not now, not ever; but will not ever tell me who I am. James Agee A Death in the Family [1957], Knoxville: Summer 1915 Paul Brooks 1909- We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property . . . In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. Paul Brooks The Pursuit of Wilderness [1971], ch. 1 Osamu Dazai Shuji Tsushima 1909-1948 My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no. Osamu Dazai No Longer Human Edwin Herbert Land 1909- The bottom line is in heaven. Edwin Herbert Land Reply [1977] rejecting view that only the bottom line of the balance sheet shows the worth of a product Stanislaw J erzy Lec 1909-1966 One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them. Stanislaw J erzy Lec Unkempt Thoughts [1962] Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation. Stanislaw J erzy Lec Unkempt Thoughts [1962] No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Stanislaw J erzy Lec More Unkempt Thoughts [1968] Get out of the way of Justice. She is blind. Stanislaw J erzy Lec More Unkempt Thoughts [1968] Prolong human life only when you can shorten its miseries. Stanislaw J erzy Lec More Unkempt Thoughts [1968] Most of the sighs we hear have been edited. Stanislaw J erzy Lec More Unkempt Thoughts [1968] Malcolm Lowry 1909-1957 Malcolm Lowry Late of the Bowery His prose was flowery And often glowery He lived, nightly, and drank, daily, And died playing the ukelele. Malcolm Lowry Epitaph Success is like some horrible disaster Worse than your house burning. 1 Malcolm Lowry After publication of Under the Volcano [1962] 1 See Cunninghame-Graham Fame like a drunkard consumes the house of the soul. Malcolm Lowry After publication of Under the Volcano [1962] Ah, that I had never suffered this treacherous kiss And had been left in darkness forever to founder and fail. Malcolm Lowry After publication of Under the Volcano [1962] Elting E lmore Morison 1909- The computer is no better than its program. Elting E lmore Morison Men, Machines and Modern Times [1966] From Knowhow to Nowhere. Elting E lmore Morison Title of book [1975] C yril Northcote Parkinson 1909- Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. C yril Northcote Parkinson Parkinson's Law [1957], ch. 1 Stephen Spender 1909- I think continually of those who were truly great- The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center. Stephen Spender I Think Continually of Those Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, And left the vivid air signed with their honor. Stephen Spender I Think Continually of Those Simone Weil 1909-1943 Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil Gravity and Grace (La Pesanteur et la Grace) [1947] Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement. Simone Weil Gravity and Grace (La Pesanteur et la Grace) [1947] Man alone can enslave man. Simone Weil Oppression and Liberty [1958]. Reflections Concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Gasoline is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. Simone Weil The Need for Roots (L'Enracinement) [1949] Eudora Welty 1909- I haven't a literary life at all, not much of a confession, maybe. But I do feel that the people and things I love are of a true and human world, and there is no clutter about them. . . . I would not understand a literary life. Eudora Welty Selected Stories of Eudora Welty [1943], introduction The storm had rolled away to faintness like a wagon crossing a bridge. Eudora Welty A Curtain of Green [1941]. A Piece of News The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Eudora Welty The Wide Net [1943]. The Wide Net Beauty is . . . associated with reticence, with stubbornness, of a number of kinds. It arises somehow from a desire not to comply with what may be expected, but to act inevitably, as long as some human truth is in sight, whatever that inevitability may call for. Beauty is not a means . . . it is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect. Eudora Welty The Eye of the Story [1979]. On Writing.Looking at Short Stories Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery; it is not words that make it so in life, but words have to make it so in a story. Brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to. Eudora Welty The Eye of the Story [1979]. On Writing.Writing and Analyzing a Story Jean Anouilh 1910-1987 Orpheus-they've gone on now, the good as well as the bad. . . . They've done their little song and dance in your life. . . . They are that way in you now, forever. Jean Anouilh Eurydice [1942] This horror and all these useless gestures, this grotesque adventure is ours. We must live it. Death is absurd also. Jean Anouilh Romeo and Jeannette [1946] And under this carnival disguise the heart of an old youngster who is still waiting to give his all. But how to be recognized under this mask? This is what they call a fine career. Jean Anouilh The Waltz of the Toreadors [1952]. English version Jimmy Cannon 1910-1973 He's a credit to his race-the human race. Jimmy Cannon On Joe Louis Tony Two-Ton Galento 1910-1979 I'll moider de bum. Tony Two-Ton Galento Before his unsuccessful fight with Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship [June 28, 1939] Jean Genet 1910-1986 To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. Jean Genet The Thief's Journal (Le Journal du Voleur) [1949] I was already refusing to have taste. I forbade myself to have it. I knew that the cultivation of it would have not refined me but softened me. Jean Genet The Thief's Journal (Le Journal du Voleur) [1949] I call saintliness not a state but the moral procedure leading to it. Jean Genet Quoted by Jean Paul Sartre in Saint Genet [1952] Thomas Anthony Harris 1910- I'm OK-You're OK. 1 Thomas Anthony Harris Title of book [1969] 1 See Anonymous George C aspar Homans 1910- Liberty is a beloved discipline. George C aspar Homans The Human Group [1950], ch. 12 Wright Morris 1910- In the dry places . . . towns, like weeds, spring up when it rains, dry up when it stops. But in a dry climate the husk of the plant remains. The stranger might find, as if preserved in amber, something of the green life that was once lived there, and the ghosts of men who have gone on to a better place. The withered towns are empty, but not uninhabited. Wright Morris The Works of Love [1952], ch. 1 David Morris Potter 1910-1971 Democracy is clearly most appropriate for countries which enjoy an economic surplus and least appropriate for countries where there is an economic insufficiency. David Morris Potter People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character [1954] Don K rasher Price 1910- Science . . . cannot exist on the basis of a treaty of strict nonaggression with the rest of society; from either side, there is no defensible frontier. Don K rasher Price Government and Science [1954] Elizabeth Bishop 1911-1979 This iceberg cuts its facets from within. Like jewelry from a grave It saves itself perpetually and adorns Only itself. Elizabeth Bishop The Imaginary Iceberg [1946], st. 3 Icebergs behoove the soul (Both being self-made from elements least visible) To see them so: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible. Elizabeth Bishop The Imaginary Iceberg [1946], st. 3 Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily like a dog looking for a place to sleep in, listen to it growling. Elizabeth Bishop Little Exercise [1946], st. 1 Until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go. Elizabeth Bishop The Fish [1946] Cold dark deep and absolutely clear, element bearable to no mortal, to fish and to seals . . . Elizabeth Bishop At the Fishhouses [1955] It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown. Elizabeth Bishop At the Fishhouses [1955] From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying. Elizabeth Bishop Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore [1955], st. 1 Should we have stayed at home, wherever that may be? Elizabeth Bishop Questions of Travel [1965] Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house. Elizabeth Bishop Sestina [1965] The staring sailor that shakes his watch that tells the time of the poet, the man that lies in the house of Bedlam. Elizabeth Bishop Visits to St. Elizabeths [1965], st. 11 He was all white, like a doll that hadn't been painted yet. Elizabeth Bishop First Death in Nova Scotia [1965], st. 4 I knew that nothing stranger had ever happened. Elizabeth Bishop In the Waiting Room [1976] How had I come to be here like them, and overhear a cry of pain that could have got loud and worse but hadn't? Elizabeth Bishop In the Waiting Room [1976] Homemade, homemade! But aren't we all? Elizabeth Bishop Crusoe in England [1976] Why didn't I know enough of something? Elizabeth Bishop Crusoe in England [1976] I'd have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography. Elizabeth Bishop Crusoe in England [1976] And Friday, my dear Friday, died of measles seventeen years ago come March. Elizabeth Bishop Crusoe in England [1976] Life and the memory of it cramped, dim, on a piece of Bristol board. Elizabeth Bishop Poem [1976] Yesterday brought to today so lightly! (A yesterday I find almost impossible to lift.) Elizabeth Bishop Five Flights Up [1976] Max Frisch 1911- Technology . . . the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. Max Frisch Homo Faber [1957] William Golding 1911- The Lord of the Flies. William Golding Title of book [1954] Hubert H oratio Humphrey 1911-1978 The politics of joy. Hubert H oratio Humphrey Presidential campaign slogan [1968] Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. Hubert H oratio Humphrey Remark Some people look upon any setback as the end. They're always looking for the benediction rather than the invocation. . . . But you can't quit. That isn't the way our country was built. Hubert H oratio Humphrey Remark Clark Kerr 1911- The university has become the multiversity and the nature of the presidency has followed this change. . . . The president of the multiversity is leader, educator, wielder of power, pump; he is also officeholder, caretaker, inheritor, consensus seeker, persuader, bottleneck. But he is mostly a mediator. Clark Kerr The Uses of the University. The Godkin lectures at Harvard University [1963] Marshall Herbert McLuhan 1911-1980 The medium is the message. Marshall Herbert McLuhan Understanding Media [1964], title of first chapter The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. Marshall Herbert McLuhan The Medium is the Massage [1967] Kenneth Patchen 1911-1972 Let us have madness openly, O men Of my generation. Let us follow The footsteps of this slaughtered age. Kenneth Patchen Let Us Have Madness Openly [1936] There is no betrayal in the human face. Time's fin, hoof, wing, and fang struggle there. Kenneth Patchen To Whom It May Concern [1939] I'd like to die like this . . . with the dark fingers of the water closing and unclosing over these sleepy lights and a sad bell somewhere murmuring good night. Kenneth Patchen Crossing on Staten Island Ferry [1939] Do I not deal with angels When her lips I touch. Kenneth Patchen For Miriam [1942] I am come to her wonder Like a boy finding a star in a haymow And there is nothing cruel or mad or evil Anywhere. Kenneth Patchen For Miriam [1942] Great mother of big apples it is a pretty World! Kenneth Patchen I Feel Drunk All the Time [1945] I don't know how the rest of you feel, But I feel drunk all the time. Kenneth Patchen I Feel Drunk All the Time [1945] I am the magical mouse I don't eat cheese I eat sunsets And the tops of trees. Kenneth Patchen The Magical Mouse [1952], st. 1 Oh lonesome's a bad place To get crowded into. Kenneth Patchen Lonesome Boy Blues [1952] E rnst F riedrich Schumacher 1911-1977 Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered. E rnst F riedrich Schumacher Title of book [1973] A census . . . treats people as if they were units, whereas they are not. Each is a universe. E rnst F riedrich Schumacher Good Work [1979], ch. 6 Jorge Amado 1912- Color of cinnamon Clove's sweet smell, I've come a long way To see Gabrielle. Jorge Amado Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (Gabriela, Cravo e Canela) [1958], epigraph John Cheever 1912-1982 Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord. John Cheever The Wapshot Chronicle [1957], ch. 36, end This is a night when kings in golden mail ride their elephants over the mountains. John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever [1978],preface The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever [1978],The Bus to St. James For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they become something different and better. John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever [1978],The Bus to St. James Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time . . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find. John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever [1978],The Bella Lingua Lawrence George Durrell 1912- So the riders of the darkness pass On their circuit: the luminous island Of the self trembles and waits, Waits for us all, my friends, Where the sea's big brush recolors The dying lives, and the unborn smiles. Lawrence George Durrell Fangbrand [1946], last stanza I felt once more the strange equivocal power of the city-its flat alluvial landscape and exhausted airs . . . Alexandria; which is neither Greek, Syrian nor Egyptian, but a hybrid: a joint. Lawrence George Durrell Justine [1957], pt. I We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. Lawrence George Durrell Justine [1957], pt. I Milton Friedman 1912- Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgments . . . In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science. Milton Friedman Essays in Positive Economics [1953], pt. I, ch. 1 Factual evidence can never "prove" a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is "confirmed" by experience. Milton Friedman Essays in Positive Economics [1953], pt. I, ch. 1 Economics as a positive science is a body of tentatively accepted generalizations about economic phenomena that can be used to predict the consequences of changes in circumstances. Milton Friedman Essays in Positive Economics [1953], pt. I, ch. 1 The construction of hypotheses is a creative act of inspiration, intuition, invention; its essence is the vision of something new in familiar material. Milton Friedman Essays in Positive Economics [1953], pt. I, ch. 1 Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself . . . Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom. Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom [1962], ch. 1 History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom [1962], ch. 1 Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion-the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals-the technique of the marketplace. Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom [1962], ch. 1 The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom [1962], ch. 1 The long-range solution [to high unemployment] is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work and employ others. We make it costly for employers to employ people, and we subsidize people not to go to work. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. Milton Friedman In U.S. News [amp ] World Report [March 7, 1977] I would cut the real taxes borne by the American people by cutting all government spending 10 percent across the board. Milton Friedman In U.S. News [amp ] World Report [March 7, 1977] There's only one place where inflation is made: that's in Washington . . . in response to pressures from the people at large . . . The voting public . . . ask their Congressmen to enact goodies in the form of spending, but they are unhappy about having taxes raised to pay for those goodies. Milton Friedman In U.S. News [amp ] World Report [March 7, 1977] The government first provides very poor schooling, and then the harm is multiplied by the minimum wage law, which makes it difficult . . . to get on-the-job training. Without the minimum wage law, the least skilled could offer to work for low wages, which would provide an incentive for employers to hire and train them. Milton Friedman In U.S. News [amp ] World Report [March 7, 1977] Woody Woodrow Wilson Guthrie 1912-1967 This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York island, From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, This land was made for you and me. Woody Woodrow Wilson Guthrie This Land Is Your Land [1956] Eugene Ionesco 1912- Take a perfect circle, caress it and you'll have a vicious circle. Eugene Ionesco The Bald Soprano (La Cantatrice Chauve) [1950] We haven't the time to take our time. Eugene Ionesco Exit the King (Le Roi Se Meurt) [1963] Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes [1969] Pope John Paul I Albino Luciani 1912-1978 If all the sons and daughters of the Church would know how to be tireless missionaries of the Gospel, a new flowering of holiness and renewal would spring up in this world that thirsts for love and for truth. Pope John Paul I Homily at the mass celebrating his installation [September 3, 1978] He is Father. Even more, God is Mother, who does not want to harm us. 1 2 3 Pope John Paul I At Sunday Angelus blessing, St. Peter's Square [September 17, 1978] 1 See Suti and Hor 2 See Eddy 3 See O'Neill I am only a poor man, accustomed to small things and silence. Pope John Paul I Illustrissimi [1978], epilogue Mary Therese McCarthy 1912- The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt. Mary Therese McCarthy The Company She Keeps [1942]. Title of story David Rousset 1912- Concentration Camp Universe [L'Univers Concentrationnaire]. David Rousset Title of book [1946] Studs Louis Terkel 1912- Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell. Studs Louis Terkel Working [1972], introduction George Barker 1913- Fiend behind the fiend behind the fiend behind the Fiend. Mastodon with mastery, monster with an ache At the tooth of the ego, the dead drunk judge: Wheresoever Thou art our agony will find Thee Enthroned on the darkest altar of our heartbreak Perfect. Beast, brute, bastard. O dog my God! George Barker Sacred Elegy V [1943], iv Menachem Begin 1913- Who will condemn the hatred of evil that springs from the love of what is good and just? Menachem Begin The Revolt [1951], introduction If you love freedom, you must hate slavery; if you love your people, you cannot but hate the enemies that compass their destruction; if you love your country, you cannot but hate those who seek to annex it. Menachem Begin The Revolt [1951], introduction The ancient Jewish people gave the New World a vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war. Menachem Begin On signing the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Washington, D.C. [March 26, 1979] 1 1 See Sadat A great day in the annals of two ancient nations, Egypt and Israel, whose sons met in battle five times, fighting and falling. . . . It is thanks to our fallen heroes that we could have reached this day. Menachem Begin On signing the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Washington, D.C. [March 26, 1979] 1 No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever. Menachem Begin On signing the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Washington, D.C. [March 26, 1979] 1 Albert Camus 1913-1960 Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday. Albert Camus The Stranger (L'Etranger) [1942],I For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. Albert Camus The Stranger (L'Etranger) [1942],IV The absurd is essentially a divorce. It is in neither one nor the other of the compared elements. It is born of their confrontation. Albert Camus Le Mythe de Sisyphe [1942] The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus Le Mythe de Sisyphe [1942] The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy. Albert Camus Le Mythe de Sisyphe [1942] It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. Albert Camus The Plague (La Peste) [1947] Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today. Albert Camus The Plague (La Peste) [1947] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. Albert Camus The Fall (La Chute) [1956] Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. Albert Camus Resistance, Rebellion, and Death [1960] A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse. Albert Camus Resistance, Rebellion, and Death [1960] Poe and the four conditions for happiness: (1) Life in the open air. (2) The love of another being. (3) Freedom from all ambition. (4) Creation. Albert Camus Notebooks: 1935-1942 [1963], III, April 1939-February 1942 In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus Summer (L'Ete) [1954]. Return to Tipasa Gerald R udolph Ford 1913- I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. Gerald R udolph Ford Comment after his nomination for the vice-presidency [October 12, 1973] Our long national nightmare is over. Gerald R udolph Ford On being sworn in as President [August 9, 1974] Donald Francis Mason 1913- Sighted sub, sank same. Donald Francis Mason Radio message to U.S. Navy Base [January 28, 1942] Richard M ilhous Nixon 1913- You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. Richard M ilhous Nixon To the press [November 7, 1962] Bring us together again. Richard M ilhous Nixon Speech in New York City [October 31, 1968] The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America. . . . This is our summons to greatness. Richard M ilhous Nixon Inaugural address [January 20, 1969] Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to earth. Richard M ilhous Nixon Phone call to the moon [July 20, 1969] 1 1 See Armstrong The great silent majority. Richard M ilhous Nixon Speech [November 3, 1969] The Chinese are a great and vital people who should not remain isolated from the international community. . . . It is certainly in our interest, and in the interest of peace and stability in Asia and the world, that we take what steps we can toward improved practical relations with Peking. Richard M ilhous Nixon First Foreign Policy Report to Congress [February 1970] If when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation . . . acts like a pitiful,helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world. Richard M ilhous Nixon Televised speech [April 30, 1970] announcing major United States offensive into Cambodia I want you all to stonewall it. Richard M ilhous Nixon Presidential transcript [March 22, 1973] I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life I have never profited, never profited from public service. I have earned every cent. . . . I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. Richard M ilhous Nixon Press conference [November 11, 1973] Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M ilhous Nixon Address to members of the administration on leaving office [August 9, 1974] When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. Richard M ilhous Nixon Interview with David Frost [May 19, 1977] Tillie Olsen 1913- She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others. Tillie Olsen Tell Me a Riddle [1960], title story, sec. 1 Women are traditionally trained to place others' needs first . . . their satisfaction to be in making it possible for others to use their abilities. Tillie Olsen Silences [1978], pt. I Children need one now . . . The very fact that these are real needs, that one feels them as one's own (love, not duty); that there is no one else responsible for these needs, gives them primacy. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. . . . Unused capacities atrophy, cease to be. Tillie Olsen Silences [1978], pt. I We are in a time of more and more hidden and foreground silences, women and men. Denied full writing life, more may try to "nurse through night" (that part-time, part-self night) "the ethereal spark," but it seems to me there would almost have had to be "flame on flame" first; and time as needed, afterwards; and enough of the self, the capacities, undamaged for the rebeginnings on the frightful task. Tillie Olsen Silences [1978], pt. I Muriel Rukeyser 1913-1980 Fly down, Death: Call me: I have become a lost name. Muriel Rukeyser Madboy's Song, refrain Delmore Schwartz 1913-1966 Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. Delmore Schwartz For Rhoda [1938] That inescapable animal walks with me. Has followed me since the black womb held, Moves where I move, distorting my gesture, A caricature, a swollen shadow, A stupid clown of the spirit's motive, Perplexes and affronts with his own darkness, The secret life of belly and bone. Delmore Schwartz The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me, st. 3 Karl Shapiro 1913- Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say. Karl Shapiro Elegy for Two Banjos, st. 1, 14 Lewis Thomas 1913- What is [the earth] most like? . . . It is most like a single cell. Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell [1974].The Lives of a Cell There is really no such creature as a single individual; he has no more life of his own than a cast-off cell marooned from the surface of your skin. Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell [1974].Antaeus in Manhattan An active field of science is like an immense anthill; the individual almost vanishes into the mass of minds tumbling over each other, carrying information from place to place, passing it around at the speed of light. Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell [1974].Natural Science Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth . . . is that it is alive. . . . Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. . . . It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun. Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell [1974].The World's Biggest Membrane We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail [1979].The Youngest and Brightest Thing Around We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail [1979].The Youngest and Brightest Thing Around Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness, is terrifying. Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail [1979].On Cloning a Human Being The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. . . . It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect. Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail [1979].On Cloning a Human Being We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people; we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail [1979].On Committees John Berryman 1914-1972 Huffy Henry hid the day, Unappeasable Henry sulked. John Berryman 77 Dream Songs [1964], poem no.1 I don't see how Henry, pried open for all the world to see, survived. John Berryman 77 Dream Songs [1964], poem no.1 Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. John Berryman 77 Dream Songs [1964], poem no.14 Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of the gorgeous room and one told the other a lie. John Berryman 77 Dream Songs [1964], poem no.16 It's not a good position I am in. If I had to do the whole thing over again I wouldn't. John Berryman 77 Dream Songs [1964], poem no.28 But never did Henry, as he thought he did, end anyone and hacks her body up and hide the pieces, where they may be found. He knows: he went over everyone, [amp ] nobody's missing. Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. Nobody is ever missing. John Berryman 77 Dream Songs [1964], poem no.29 Something can (has) been said for sobriety but very little. John Berryman 77 Dream Songs [1964], poem no.57 But I do guess mos peoples gonna lose. John Berryman 77 Dream Songs [1964], poem no.60 The world is gradually becoming a place where I do not care to be any more. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.149 I do this thrice a year; that is, I grope a few sore hours among my actuals for evidence of knighthood. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.163 This world is a solemn place, with room for tennis. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.175 It is a true error to marry with poets or to be by them. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.187 Decent fall the cloths over a high income. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.196 I saw in my dream the great lost cities, Machu Picchu, Cambridge Mass., Angkor. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.197 With shining strides hear his redeemer come, in a hospital gown. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.202 What was it missing, then, at the man's heart so that he does not wound? John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.219 (So Long? Stevens) Perhaps God resembles one of the last etchings of Goya [amp ] not Velasquez, never Rembrandt no. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.238 (Henry's Programme for God) I always wanted to be old, I wanted to say I haven't read that for fifteen years. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.264 Ingratitude is the necessary curse of making things new. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.312 I haven't lost a battle yet but I am tense for the first losing. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.315 Offering dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts [amp ] come on again, they have to be killed. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.316 When will indifference come. John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [1968], poem no.384 Ralph Waldo Ellison 1914- I am an invisible man. . . . I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids-and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Ralph Waldo Ellison The Invisible Man [1952],prologue America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. . . . Our fate is to become one, and yet many. Ralph Waldo Ellison The Invisible Man [1952],epilogue John Hersey 1914- There was no sound of planes. The morning was still; the place was cool and pleasant. Then a tremendous flash of light cut across the sky. Mr. Tanimoto has a distinct recollection that it traveled from east to west, from the city toward the hills. It seemed a sheet of sun. Both he and Mr. Matsuo reacted in terror. . . . Under what seemed to be a local dust cloud, the day grew darker and darker. John Hersey Hiroshima [1946], ch. 1 There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. John Hersey Hiroshima [1946], ch. 1 Randall Jarrell 1914-1965 Nothing comes from nothing, The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain. 1 Randall Jarrell 90 North [1955], st. 8 1 See Aeschylus But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human. Randall Jarrell The One Who Was Different [1965] Ross Parker 1914- Hughie Charles 1907- There'll Always Be an England. Hughie Charles Title of song [1939] Nicanor Parra 1914- Our Father who art where thou art Surrounded by unfaithful Angels Sincerely don't suffer any more for us You must take into account That the gods are not infallible And that we have come to forgive everything. Nicanor Parra Breathing Exercises (Ejercicios Respirato) [1966]. Our Father (Padre Nuestro), st. 5 A little snow is starting to fall again. Nicanor Parra Russian Songs (Canciones Rusas) [1967]. Snow Octavio Paz 1914- Would it not be true to say that North Americans prefer to use reality rather than to know it? Octavio Paz The Labyrinth of Solitude (El Labrinto de la Soledad) [1950],ch.1 Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Octavio Paz The Labyrinth of Solitude (El Labrinto de la Soledad) [1950],ch.2 Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them. Octavio Paz The Labyrinth of Solitude (El Labrinto de la Soledad) [1950],Appendix Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other. Octavio Paz The Labyrinth of Solitude (El Labrinto de la Soledad) [1950],Appendix Touched by poetry, language is more fully language and at the same time is no longer language: it is a poem. Octavio Paz Claude Levi-Strauss [1967], ch.3 Alienation, if such an overused word still has meaning, is not only the result of social systems, be they capitalist or socialist, but of the very nature of technology: the new means of communication accentuate and strengthen noncommunication. Octavio Paz Claude Levi-Strauss [1967], ch.4 We are condemned to kill time: Thus we die bit by bit Octavio Paz Cuento de los Jardines [1968] Political crises are moral crises. Octavio Paz Postscript (Posdata) [1970] The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, "Not yet," and thus denies us. The future is not the time of love: what man truly wants he wants now. Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present. Octavio Paz Postscript (Posdata) [1970] Criticism, the acid that dissolves images. . . . Criticism tells us that we should learn to dissolve the idols. Octavio Paz Postscript (Posdata) [1970] And the world is changed if two people shaken by dizziness and enlaced are fallen among the grass. Octavio Paz Configurations [1971].Sun Stone (Piedra de Sol), l. 432 My steps along this street Resound in another street In which I hear my steps Passing along this street In whichOnly the mist is real. Octavio Paz Configurations [1971].Here (Aqui) If man is dust Those who go through the plain Are men. Octavio Paz Configurations [1971].Apparition (Aparicion) The absolutes the eternities Their outlying districts Are not my theme I am hungry for life and for death also I know what I know and I write it. Octavio Paz Configurations [1971].Vrindaban, l. 152 Western civilization should be feminized. Octavio Paz Seven Voices [1972], interview There can be a "boom" in petroleum or wheat, but there can't be a boom in the novel and less still in poetry. Octavio Paz Seven Voices [1972], interview Modern art is modern because it is critical. Octavio Paz Children of the Mire (Los Hijos del Limo) [1974], ch. 6 Dylan Thomas 1914-1953 The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever. Dylan Thomas The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower [1934] Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides. Dylan Thomas Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines [1934] The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death. Dylan Thomas The Hand That Signed the Paper [1936] When all my five and country senses see, The fingers will forget green thumbs and mark How, through the halfmoon's vegetable eye, Husk of young stars and handfull zodiac, Love in the frost is pared and wintered by. Dylan Thomas When All My Five and Country Senses See [1939] And death shall have no dominion. 1 Dylan Thomas Refrain and title of poem [1943] 1 See Romans 6:9 After the first death there is no other. Dylan Thomas A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London [1946] Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother Through the parables Of sunlight And the legend of the green chapels. Dylan Thomas Poem in October [1946] Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green. Dylan Thomas Fern Hill,st. 1 [1946] And honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns. Dylan Thomas Fern Hill,st. 1 [1946] And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams. Dylan Thomas Fern Hill,st. 2 In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means. Dylan Thomas Fern Hill,st. 2 And honored among foxes and pheasants by the gay house Under the new-made clouds and happy as the heart was long, In the sun born over and over, I ran my heedless ways. Dylan Thomas Fern Hill,st. 5 Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea. Dylan Thomas Fern Hill,st. 6 Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night [1952] One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the seatown corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. Dylan Thomas Quite Early One Morning [1954]. A Child's Christmas in Wales It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black. Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood [1954] You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick. . . . You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in. The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of man. Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas's Poetic Manifesto. In the Texas Quarterly [Winter 1961] Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams 1914-1983 Knowledge-Zzzzzp! Money-Zzzzzp!-Power! That's the cycle democracy is built on! Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams The Glass Menagerie [1945], sc. vii A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams Title of play [1947] Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams The Rose Tattoo [1950]. Foreword, The Timeless World of a Play Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof-is there? Is there, baby? Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1 [1955], act III, last line 1 See John Ray ÿ Saul Bellow 1915- There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger. . . . It never said a thing except I want, I want, I want! Saul Bellow Henderson the Rain King [1959] I am simply a human being, more or less. Saul Bellow Herzog [1964] A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice. . . . Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. Saul Bellow Speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize [1976] Jerome S eymour Bruner 1915- The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. Jerome S eymour Bruner The Process of Education [1960] Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development. Jerome S eymour Bruner The Process of Education [1960] Sir Peter Brian Medawar 1915-1987 The scientist values research by the size of its contribution to that huge, logically articulated structure of ideas which is already, though not yet half built, the most glorious accomplishment of mankind. Sir Peter Brian Medawar The Art of the Soluble [1967] Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics. Sir Peter Brian Medawar The Art of the Soluble [1967] Arthur Miller 1915- I don't say he's a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person. Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman [1949],act I Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back-that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory. Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman [1949],Requiem Jean Stafford 1915-1979 To her own heart, which was shaped exactly like a valentine, there came a winglike palpitation, a delicate exigency, and all the fragrance of all the flowery springtime love affairs that ever were seemed waiting for them in the whiskey bottle. Jean Stafford Children Are Bored on Sundays [1953], title story Margaret Abigail Walker 1915- For my people lending their strength to the years, the gone years and the now years and the maybe years. Margaret Abigail Walker For My People [1942],st. 2 Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. . . . Let a beauty full of healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now rise and take control. Margaret Abigail Walker For My People [1942],st. 10 My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil, They moved through fields sowing seed. They touched earth and grain grew. Margaret Abigail Walker Lineage [1942] John Malcolm Brinnin 1916- I seek a father who most need a son. John Malcolm Brinnin Oedipus: His Cradle Song [1963] In their big peppermint hotels. John Malcolm Brinnin News from the Islands [1963] Another hill town: another dry Cinzano in the sun. John Malcolm Brinnin Hotel Paradiso e Commerciale [1963] I start by the cats' corridors (Banco di Roma, wineshops, gorgeous butcheries) toward some mild angel of annunciation- upstairs, most likely, badly lit, speaking in rivets on a band of gold. John Malcolm Brinnin Hotel Paradiso e Commerciale [1963] We have all done this before; we're bored and terrified. John Malcolm Brinnin Flight 539 [1963] All of a sudden came the pelicans: crazy old men in baseball caps, who flew like jackknives and collapsed like fans. John Malcolm Brinnin Skin Diving in the Virgins [1970] John Ciardi 1916-1986 It is by falling in and in we make the all-bearing point, for one another's sake, in faultless failing, raised by our own weight. John Ciardi Most Like an Arch This Marriage [1958] Walter Cronkite 1916- And that's the way it is. Walter Cronkite Sign-off sentence, CBS Evening News Elizabeth Hardwick 1916- Collaborating in the very private way of love or the highest kind of friendship . . . is the way for gifted, energetic wives of writers to a sort of composition of their own, this peculiar illusion of collaboration. Elizabeth Hardwick Seduction and Betrayal: Women in Literature [1974]. Amateurs This is the unspoken contract of a wife and her works. In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin-consideration for their feelings. And it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. Elizabeth Hardwick Seduction and Betrayal: Women in Literature [1974]. Amateurs The raging productivity of the Victorians shattered nerves and punctured stomachs, but it was a thing noble, glorious, awesome in itself. Elizabeth Hardwick Seduction and Betrayal: Women in Literature [1974]. Amateurs Walker Percy 1916- The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives. Walker Percy The Moviegoer [1961] Gwendolyn Brooks 1917- Maud went to college. Sadie stayed at home. Sadie scraped life With a fine-tooth comb. Gwendolyn Brooks A Street in Brownsville [1945].Sadie and Maud, st. 1 People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know. Gwendolyn Brooks A Street in Brownsville [1945].The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith, st. 8 What shall I give my children? who are poor, Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land. Gwendolyn Brooks Annie Allen [1949].The Womanhood. The Children of the Poor, sonnet2 And plenitude of plan shall not suffice Nor grief nor love shall be enough alone To ratify my little halves who bear Across an autumn freezing everywhere. Gwendolyn Brooks Annie Allen [1949].The Womanhood. The Children of the Poor, sonnet2 First fight. Then fiddle. Gwendolyn Brooks Annie Allen [1949].The Womanhood. The Children of the Poor, sonnet4 Win war. Rise bloody, maybe not too late For having first to civilize a space Wherein to play your violin with grace. Gwendolyn Brooks Annie Allen [1949].The Womanhood. The Children of the Poor, sonnet4 Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise. Gwendolyn Brooks Annie Allen [1949].Exhaust the Little Moment And remembering . . . Remembering, with twinklings and twinges, As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes. Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters [1960].The Bean Eaters, st. 3 We real cool. We Left school. Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters [1960].We Real Cool, st. 1 When there were all those gods administering to panthers, jumping over mountains, and lighting stars and comets and a moon, what was their one Belief? what was their joining thing? Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca [1968],st. 4 What else is there to say but everything? Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca [1968],st. 16 He opened us- who was a key, who was a man. Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca [1968],After Mecca. Malcolm X Build with lithe love. With love like lion-eyes. With love like morningrise, With love like black, our black. Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca [1968],The Sermon on the Warpland The time cracks into furious flower. Lifts its face all unashamed. And sways in wicked grace. Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca [1968],The Second Sermon on the Warpland, st. 4 Big Bessie's feet hurt like nobody's business, but she stands-bigly-under the unruly scrutiny, stands in the wild weed. In the wild weed she is a citizen. Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca [1968],The Second Sermon on the Warpland, st. 4 Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind. Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca [1968],The Second Sermon on the Warpland, st. 4 Beware the easy griefs that fool and fuel nothing. Gwendolyn Brooks Beckonings [1975]. Boys. Black, st. 7 Joe Darion 1917- To dream the impossible dream, To reach the unreachable star! Joe Darion The Impossible Dream [1965] John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917-1963 It was involuntary. They sank my boat. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Remark when asked how he became a hero. Quoted inArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days [1965], ch. 4 For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men . . . have lived. . . . A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Profiles in Courage [1956], ch. 11 It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Television address [July 4, 1960] The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination [July 15, 1960] For of those to whom much is given, much is required. 1 And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage . . . Second, were we truly men of judgment . . . Third, were we truly men of integrity . . . Finally, were we truly men of dedication? John Fitzgerald Kennedy Speech to the Massachusetts State Legislature [January 9, 1961] 1 See Luke 12:48 Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural address [January 20, 1961] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural address [January 20, 1961] Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural address [January 20, 1961] All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural address [January 20, 1961] Now the trumpet summons us again-not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, 1 year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation," a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural address [January 20, 1961] 1 See Adlai Stevenson  And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural address [January 20, 1961] It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us bythose who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Address at the dedication ceremonies of the National Wildlife Federation Building [March 3, 1961] Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Address to the United Nations [September 25, 1961] If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Address to the United Nations [September 25, 1961] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Address to Latin American diplomats, the White House [March 12, 1962] There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country . . . Life is unfair. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Press conference [March 21, 1962] The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Address at the University of California, Berkeley [March 23, 1962] In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power. 1 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Address at the University of California, Berkeley [March 23, 1962] 1 See Bacon I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Address at a White House dinner and reception honoring Nobel Prize winners [April 1962] If . . . history . . . teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Address at Rice University, Houston [September 12, 1962]  We don't see the end of the tunnel, but I must say I don't think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Press conference [December 12, 1962] Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Remarks on the ninetieth anniversary of Vanderbilt University [March 18, 1963] If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Address at American University, Washington, D.C. [June 10, 1963] Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Television address on civil rights, after the registration of two Negroes at the University of Alabama [June 11, 1963] No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America-there are no "white" or "colored" signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Message to Congress on proposed civil rights bill [June 19, 1963] All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner." John Fitzgerald Kennedy Address at City Hall, West Berlin [June 26, 1963] Yesterday, a shaft of light cut into the darkness. . . . For the first time, an agreement has been reached on bringing the forces of nuclear destruction under international control. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Television address in Washington [July 26, 1963] When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, 1 2 3 poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Address at Amherst College [October 26, 1963] 1 See Pitt 2 See Shelley 3 See Lord Acton Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Remarks prepared for delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas [November 22, 1963] Washington is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Remark. Quoted in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days [1965], ch. 25 Walter Lord 1917- A Night to Remember. Walter Lord Title of book [1955] Robert Traill Spence Lowell 1917-1977 Christ walks on the black water. In Black Mud Darts the kingfisher. On Corpus Christi, heart, Over the drum-beat of St. Stephen's choir I hear him, Stupor Mundi, and the mud Flies from his hunching wings and beak-my heart, The blue kingfisher dives on you in fire. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Colloquy in Black Rock [1946], st. 5 I will catch Christ with a greased worm. Robert Traill Spence Lowell The Drunken Fisherman [1946], st. 5 I saw the spiders marching through air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Mr. Edwards and the Spider [1946],st. 1 On Windsor Marsh, I saw the spider die When thrown into the bowels of fierce fire: There's no long struggle, no desire To get up on its feet and fly- It stretches out its feet And dies. This is the sinner's last retreat; Yes, and no strength exerted on the heat Then sinews the abolished will, when sick And full of burning, it will whistle on a brick. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Mr. Edwards and the Spider [1946],st. 4 This is the Black Widow, death. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Mr. Edwards and the Spider [1946],st. 5 I saw the sky descending, black and white, Not blue, on Boston. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Where the Rainbow Ends [1946], st. 1 Now Paris, our black classic, breaking up like killer kings on an Etruscan cup. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Beyond the Alps [1959] Your Good Soldier the best French novel in the language. 1 Robert Traill Spence Lowell Ford Madox Ford [1959] 1 See Ford Madox Ford O divorced, divorced from the whale-fat of postwar London! Boomed, cut, plucked and booted! In Provence, New York . . . marrying, blowing . . . nearly dying at Boulder, when the altitude pressed the world on your heart. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Ford Madox Ford [1959] Fiction! I'm selling short your lies that made the great your equals. Ford, you were a kind man and you died in want. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Ford Madox Ford [1959] "There is no God and Mary is His Mother." Robert Traill Spence Lowell For George Santayana [1959] You said: "We poets in our youth begin in sadness; thereof in the end come despondency and madness." 1 2 3 Robert Traill Spence Lowell To Delmore Schwartz (Cambridge 1946) [1959] 1 See Democritus 2 See Robert Burton 3 See Wordsworth Who asks for me, the Shelley of my age, must lay his heart out for my bed and board. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Words for Hart Crane [1959] I doodle handlebar moustaches on the last Russian Czar. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Grandparents [1959] We are old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Waking in the Blue [1959] I keep no rank nor station. Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Home After Three Months Away [1959] Only teaching on Tuesdays, bookworming in pajamas fresh from the washer each morning, I hog a whole house on Boston's "hardly passionate Marlborough Street." Robert Traill Spence Lowell Memories of West Street and Lepke [1959] These are the tranquillized Fifties, and I am forty. Ought I to regret my seedtime? I was a fire-breathing Catholic C.O., and made my manic statement, telling off the state and president, and then sat waiting sentence in the bull pen beside a Negro boy with curlicues of marijuana in his hair. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Memories of West Street and Lepke [1959] Flabby, bald, lobotomized, he drifted in a sheepish calm, where no agonizing reappraisal jarred his concentration on the electric chair- hanging like an oasis in his air of lost connections. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Memories of West Street and Lepke [1959] Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Man and Wife [1959] Oh my Petite, clearest of all God's creatures, still all air and nerve. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Man and Wife [1959] your old-fashioned tirade- loving, rapid, merciless- breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Man and Wife [1959] Gored by the climacteric of his want, he stalls above me like an elephant. Robert Traill Spence Lowell "To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" [1959] My mind's not right.A car radio bleats, "Love, O careless Love. . . . " I hear my ill-spirit sob in each blood cell, as if my hand were at its throat. . . . I myself am hell; 1 2 3 4 5 6 nobody's here. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Skunk Hour [1959], st. 5, 6 1 See Virgil 2 See Marlowe 3 See Browne 4 See Milton 5 See Eliot 6 See Sartre My old flame, my wife! Remember our lists of birds? Robert Traill Spence Lowell The Old Flame [1964], st. 1 Father, forgive me my injuries, as I forgive those I have injured!You never climbed Mount Sion, yet left dinosaur death-steps on the crust, where I must walk. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Middle Age [1964], st. 3, 4 We are like a lot of wild spiders crying together, but without tears. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Fall 1961 [1964], st. 4 I am tired. Everyone's tired of my turmoil. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Eye and Tooth [1964], st. 9 Two months after marching through Boston, half the regiment was dead; at the dedication, William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe.Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. Its Colonel is as lean as a compass needle.He has an angry wrenlike vigilance, a greyhound's gentle tautness; he seems to wince at pleasure, and suffocate for privacy. Robert Traill Spence Lowell For the Union Dead [1964], st. 7-9 Some mote, some eye-flaw, wobbles in the heat, hair-thin, hair-dark, the fragment of a hair-a noose, a question? Robert Traill Spence Lowell The Flaw [1964],st. 1, 2 on Boylston Street, a commercial photograph shows Hiroshima boiling. Robert Traill Spence Lowell The Flaw [1964],st. 14 When I crouch to my television set, the drained faces of Negro school chil- dren rise like balloons. Robert Traill Spence Lowell The Flaw [1964],st. 15 The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. Robert Traill Spence Lowell The Flaw [1964],st. 17 We beg delinquents for our life. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Central Park. In the New York Review [October 1965] Rome, if built at all, must be built in a day. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Marcus Cato 234-149 b.c. [1973] Christ lost, our only king without a sword, turning the word forgiveness to a sword. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Anne Dick 2. 1936 [1973] No one like one's mother and father ever lived. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Returning [1973] The cliff drops; over it, the water drops, and steams out the footprints that led us on. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Die Gold Orangen [1973] Creature could face creator in this suit, fishers of fish not men. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Seals [1973] After loving you so much, can I forget you for eternity, and have no other choice? Robert Traill Spence Lowell Obit [1973] The line must terminate. Yet my heart rises, I know I've gladdened a lifetime knotting, undoing a fishnet of tarred rope; the net will hang on the wall when the fish are eaten, nailed like illegible bronze on the futureless future. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Fishnet [1973] If I could go through it all again, the slender iron rungs of growing up, I would be as young as any, a child lost in unreality and loud music. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Realities [1977] Still seeking a boy's license to see the countryside without arrival. Robert Traill Spence Lowell The Withdrawal [1977] Darling, terror in happiness may not cure the hungry future, the time when any illness is chronic, and the years of discretion are spent on complaint- until the wristwatch is taken from the wrist. Robert Traill Spence Lowell The Withdrawal [1977] It has taken me the time since you died to discover you are as human as I am . . . if I am. Robert Traill Spence Lowell To Mother [1977] I- really I can do little, as little now as then, about the infernal fires- I cannot blow out a match. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Grass Fires [1977] How often have my antics and insupportable, trespassing tongue gone astray and led me to prison . . . to lying . . . kneeling . . . standing. Robert Traill Spence Lowell The Downlook [1977] We are poor passing facts, warned by that to give each figure in the photograph his living name. Robert Traill Spence Lowell Epilogue [1977] Carson Smith McCullers 1917-1967 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. 1 Carson Smith McCullers Title of novel [1940] 1 See Sharp The Member of the Wedding. Carson Smith McCullers Title of novel [1946] and play [1950] If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do. Carson Smith McCullers The Ballad of the Sad Cafe [1951] Arthur M eier SchlesingerJr. 1917- Above all he [John F. Kennedy] gave the world for an imperishable moment the vision of a leader who greatly understood the terror and the hope, the diversity and the possibility, of life on this planet and who made people look beyond nation and race to the future of humanity. Arthur M eier SchlesingerJr. A Thousand Days [1965], ch. 37 James Harlan Cleveland 1918-  The Revolution of Rising Expectations. James Harlan Cleveland Title of speech at Colgate University [1949] Alan Jay Lerner 1918-1986 Oh, wouldn't it be loverly? Alan Jay Lerner My Fair Lady [1956], actI, sc.i They're always throwing goodness at you But with a little bit of luck A man can duck. Alan Jay Lerner My Fair Lady [1956], actI, sc.ii The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. Alan Jay Lerner My Fair Lady [1956], actI, sc.v In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen. Alan Jay Lerner My Fair Lady [1956], actI, sc.v I could have danced all night! Alan Jay Lerner My Fair Lady [1956], actI, sc.v Get me to the church on time! Alan Jay Lerner My Fair Lady [1956], actII, sc.iii Why can't a woman be more like a man? Alan Jay Lerner My Fair Lady [1956], actII, sc.iv I've grown accustomed . . . to her face. Alan Jay Lerner My Fair Lady [1956], actII, sc.vi Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment that was known As Camelot. Alan Jay Lerner Camelot [1960], end On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Alan Jay Lerner Title of musical [1965] Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness. Alan Jay Lerner The Street Where I Live [1978]. My Fair Lady Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. Alan Jay Lerner The Street Where I Live [1978]. My Fair Lady Men die but an idea does not. Alan Jay Lerner The Street Where I Live [1978]. My Fair Lady Edwin O'Connor 1918-1968 The Last Hurrah. Edwin O'Connor Title of novel [1956] Anwar al- Sadat 1918-1981 Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation. Anwar al- Sadat In Search of Identity [1978], ch.1 A man's village is his peace of mind. Anwar al- Sadat In Search of Identity [1978], ch.2 Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. Anwar al- Sadat In Search of Identity [1978], ch.2 Without a vocation, man's existence would be meaningless. . . . [Each man] should first recognize and be loyal to his real entity within . . . for it is this alone which will enable him to belong and owe allegiance to that Entity which is greater, vaster, and more permanent than his individual self. Anwar al- Sadat In Search of Identity [1978], ch.3 Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist. Anwar al- Sadat In Search of Identity [1978], ch.3 There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, and not as many separate ones. Anwar al- Sadat In Search of Identity [1978], ch.3 Peace is much more precious than a piece of land. Anwar al- Sadat Speech in Cairo [March 8, 1978] Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith. Anwar al- Sadat On signing the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Washington, D.C. [March 26, 1979] 1 1 See Begin Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 1918- A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The First Circle [1964] The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Nobel Lecture [1972] Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience . . . from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Nobel Lecture [1972] World literature is . . . a kind of collective body and a common spirit, a living unity of the heart which reflects the growing spiritual unity of mankind. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Nobel Lecture [1972] Violence does not and cannot exist by itself; it is invariably intertwined with the lie. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Nobel Lecture [1972] The Kolyma was the greatest and most famous island, the pole of ferocity of that amazing country of Gulag, which, though scattered in an archipelago geographically, was, in the psychological sense, fused into a continent-an almost invisible, almost imperceptible country inhabited by the Zek people. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, [1974, in translation], I, preface The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and of course in the United Nations. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The Exhausted West. Commencement Address at Harvard University [June 8, 1978] I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The Exhausted West. Commencement Address at Harvard University [June 8, 1978] Muriel Spark 1918- I am putting old heads on your young shoulders . . . and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [1962], ch. 1 Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life. Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [1962], ch. 1 One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [1962], ch. 1 It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays a heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. Muriel Spark Territorial Rights [1979], ch. 3 Doris Lessing 1919- A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, Perhaps this is the man. Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook [1962]. Free Women, 5 None of you [men] ask for anything-except everything, but just for so long as you need it. Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook [1962]. Free Women, 5 Wladziu Valentino Lee Liberace 1919-1987 I cried all the way to the bank. Wladziu Valentino Lee Liberace Liberace: An Autobiography [1973], ch. 2 Laurence J ohnston Peter 1919- In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Laurence J ohnston Peter The Peter Principle [1969] J erome D avid Salinger 1919- I keep picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye. . . . If they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy. 1 J erome D avid Salinger The Catcher in the Rye [1951] 1 See Anonymous There isn't anyone anywhere that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know-listen to me, now-don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy. J erome D avid Salinger Franny and Zooey [1961] Pete Peter Seeger 1919- Where have all the flowers gone? The girls have picked them every one. Oh, when will they ever learn? Pete Peter Seeger Where Have All the Flowers Gone? [1961] May Swenson 1919- Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen May Swenson Question [1954],st. 1 Where can I go without my mount all eager and quick How will I know in thicket ahead is danger or treasure when Body my good bright dog is dead May Swenson Question [1954],st. 3 Is there anything I can do or has everything been done or do you prefer somebody else to do it or don't you trust me to do it right or is it hopeless. May Swenson The Key to Everything [1954] Behind the wall of St. John's in the city in the shade of the garden the Rector's wife walks with her baby a girl and the first. May Swenson The Garden at St. John's [1954] The summer that I was ten- Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? May Swenson The Centaur [1958] Youth is given. One must put it away like a doll in a closet, take it out and play with it only on holidays. May Swenson How to Be Old [1963] The idea is to make a vehicle out of it. May Swenson Out of My Head [1963] In the lobby (in a niche) between two glass revolving doors sluff sluff sluff sluff (rubber bottoms of whirling doors) flick flick click click (women in women out) sits a nun. May Swenson A Fixture [1963] My face a negative in the slate window, I sit in a lit corridor that races through a dark one. May Swenson Riding the "A" [1963] But night is a fiction hollowed at the back of our ball, when from its obverse side a cone of self-thrown shade evades the shining. May Swenson Sleeping Overnight on the Shore [1967] A bloody egg yolk. A burnt hole spreading in a sheet. An en- raged rose threatening to bloom. May Swenson Out of the Sea, Early [1967] Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla 1920- The greatness of work is inside man. Pope John Paul II Easter Vigil and Other Poems [1979].The Quarry,I, Material Hands are the heart's landscape. Pope John Paul II Easter Vigil and Other Poems [1979].The Quarry,I, Material Man matures through work Which inspires him to difficult good. Pope John Paul II Easter Vigil and Other Poems [1979].The Quarry,II, Inspiration We must ask ourselves whether there will continue to accumulate over the heads of this new generation of children the threat of common extermination . . . Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? How are we to explain this unbridled race? Pope John Paul II Speech at the United Nations [October 2, 1979] Timothy Leary 1920- Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out. Timothy Leary Title of lecture [1967] Howard Nemerov 1920- But all that whalebone came from whales. Howard Nemerov I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee [1955] And he heard how once a team and driver drowned in the break of spring: the man's cry melting from the ice that summer frightened the sherbet-eaters off the terrace. Howard Nemerov The Icehouse in Summer [1960] Flaubert wanted to write a novel About nothing. Howard Nemerov Style [1967] On this side of the tapestry There sits the bearded king. Howard Nemerov The Tapestry [1973] When the gray stranger shows up in your dream. Howard Nemerov Nightmare [1975],st. 1 You know That if you were for a time in mortal danger, And are so still, it was not from a stranger. Howard Nemerov Nightmare [1975],st. 3 Mario Puzo 1920- I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. Mario Puzo The Godfather [1969] Stewart Lee Udall 1920- The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the lifegiving earth, and the native American shared this elemental ethic: the land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. His feelings were made visible in medicine bundles and dance rhythms for rain, and all of his religious rites and land attitudes savored the inseparable world of nature and God, the master of Life. During the long Indian tenure the land remained undefiled save for scars no deeper than the scratches of cornfield clearings or the farming canals of the Hohokams on the Arizona desert. Stewart Lee Udall The Quiet Crisis [1963], ch.1 A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. If, in our haste to "progress," the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. Stewart Lee Udall The Quiet Crisis [1963], ch.14 Sloan Wilson 1920- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Sloan Wilson Title of novel [1955] Hal David 1921- What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. Hal David What the World Needs Now Is Love [1965] Betty Naomi Friedan 1921- When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. Betty Naomi Friedan The Feminine Mystique [1963],ch. 14 Girls must be encouraged to go on [after college], to make a life plan. It has been shown that girls with this kind of commitment are less eager to rush into early marriage. . . . Most of them marry, of course, but on a much more mature basis. Their marriages then are not an escape but a commitment shared by two people that becomes part of their commitment to themselves and society. Betty Naomi Friedan The Feminine Mystique [1963],ch. 14 A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination. She must learn to compete . . . not as a woman, but as a human being. 1 Betty Naomi Friedan The Feminine Mystique [1963],ch. 14 1 See Anthony Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love? . . . The time is at hand when the voices of the feminine mystique can no longer drown out the inner voice that is driving women on to become complete. 1 Betty Naomi Friedan The Feminine Mystique [1963],end 1 See Sheehy Bill William Henry Mauldin 1921- I feel like a fugitive from th' law of averages. Bill William Henry Mauldin Up Front [1944]. Caption for cartoon Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen. Bill William Henry Mauldin Up Front [1944]. Caption for cartoon He's right, Joe, when we ain't fightin' we should ack like sojers. Bill William Henry Mauldin Up Front [1944]. Caption for cartoon Julius K ambarage Nyerere 1921- The survival of our wildlife is a matter of grave concern to all of us in Africa. These wild creatures amid the wild places they inhabit are not only important as a source of wonder and inspiration but are an integral part of our natural resources and of our future livelihood and well-being. Julius K ambarage Nyerere The Arusha Declaration, Tanganyika [September 1961] Peter Ustinov 1921- The superpowers have the privilege of being able to destroy our planet several times in rapid succession, and yet there are still those who try to score political points by declaring that one or other of them is lagging dangerously behind the other in potential for obliteration. Peter Ustinov Dear Me [1977], ch.11 I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn? Peter Ustinov Dear Me [1977], ch.13 The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. . . . Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. Peter Ustinov Dear Me [1977], ch.18 Richard Purdy Wilbur 1921- But up in his room by artificial light My father paints the summer. Richard Purdy Wilbur My Father Paints the Summer [1947] The selfsame toothless voice for death or bridal. Richard Purdy Wilbur Bell Speech [1947] Great Paul, great pail of sound, still dip and draw Dark speech from the deep and quiet steeple well. Richard Purdy Wilbur Bell Speech [1947]st. 4 It is a graph of a theme that flings The dancer kneeling on nothing into the wings. Richard Purdy Wilbur Grace [1947],st. 3 We respect Some scholars' stutters. Richard Purdy Wilbur Grace [1947],st. 5 The beautiful changes as a forest is changed By a chameleon's tuning his skin to it. Richard Purdy Wilbur The Beautiful Changes [1947], st. 2 I dreamt the past was never past redeeming: But whether this was false or honest dreaming I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead. Richard Purdy Wilbur The Pardon [1950], last stanza We milk the cow of the world, and as we do We whisper in her ear, "You are not true." Richard Purdy Wilbur Epistemology [1950], II I never knew the road From which the whole earth didn't call away, With wild birds rounding the hill crowns, Haling out of the heart an old dismay. Richard Purdy Wilbur The Sirens [1950], st. 1 Forgive the hero, you who would have died Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide To Ararat: all men are Noah's sons. Richard Purdy Wilbur Still, Citizen Sparrow [1950], last stanza Ho-hum. I am for wit and wakefulness, And love this feigning lady by Bazille. What's lightly hid is deepest understood, And when with social smile and formal dress She teaches leaves to curtsy and quadrille, I think there are most tigers in the wood. Richard Purdy Wilbur Ceremony [1950], st. 3 The eyes open to a cry of pulleys, And spirited from sleep, the astounded soul Hangs for a moment bodiless and simple. as false dawn. Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels. Richard Purdy Wilbur Love Calls Us to the Things of This World [1956] The soul shrinks From all that it is about to remember, From the punctual rape of every blessed day, And cries, "Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven." Richard Purdy Wilbur Love Calls Us to the Things of This World [1956] Neither pale nor bright, The turkey-cock parades Through radiant squalors, darkly auspicious as The ace of spades,Himself his own cortege And puffed with the pomp of death, Rehearsing over and over with strangled r[acirc ]le His latest breath. Richard Purdy Wilbur A Black November Turkey [1956], st. 3, 4 Mind in its purest play is like some bat That beats about in caverns all alone, Contriving by a kind of senseless wit Not to conclude against a wall of stone.It has no need to falter or explore; Darkly it knows what obstacles are there, And so may weave and flitter, dip and soar In perfect courses through the blackest air.And has this simile a like perfection? The mind is like a bat. Precisely. Save That in the very happiest intellection A graceful error may correct the cave. Richard Purdy Wilbur Mind [1956] Dear God, let it be with these donkeys that I come, And let it be that angels lead us in peace To leafy streams where cherries tremble in air, Sleek as the laughing flesh of girls; and there In that haven of souls let it be that, leaning above Your divine waters, I shall resemble these donkeys, Whose humble and sweet poverty will appear Clear in the clearness of your eternal love. Richard Purdy Wilbur Francis Jammes: A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys [1956] The werewolf's painful change. Turning his head away On the sweaty bolster, he tries to remember The mood of manhood,But lies at last, as always, Letting it happen, the fierce fur soft to his face, Hearing with sharper ears. Richard Purdy Wilbur Beasts [1956], st. 3, 4 What is our praise or pride But to imagine excellence, and try to make it? What does it say over the door of Heaven But homo fecit? Richard Purdy Wilbur For the New Railway Station in Rome [1956], last stanza When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city, Mad-eyed from stating the obvious, Not proclaiming our fall but begging us In God's name to have self-pity,Spare us all word of the weapons, their force and range, The long numbers that rocket the mind; Our slow, unreckoning hearts will be left behind, Unable to fear what is too strange.Nor shall you scare us with talk of the death of the race. How should we dream of this place without us?- The sun mere fire, the leaves untroubled about us, A stone look on the stone's face? Richard Purdy Wilbur Advice to a Prophet [1961],st. 1-3 Ask us, prophet, how we shall call Our natures forth when that live tongue is all Dispelled, that glass obscured or brokenIn which we have said the rose of our love and the clean Horse of our courage, in which beheld The singing locust of the soul unshelled, And all we mean or wish to mean. Richard Purdy Wilbur Advice to a Prophet [1961],st. 7, 8 Duke, keep your coin. All men are born distraught, And will not for the world be satisfied. Whether we live in fact, or but in thought, We die of thirst, here at the fountainside. Richard Purdy Wilbur Ballade for the Duke of Orleans 1 [1961], who offered a prize at Blois [c. 1457] for the best ballade employing the line "Je meurs de soif aupres de la fontaine." 1 See Charles d'Orleans All bitter things conduce to sweet, As this example shows; Without the little spirochete We'd have no chocolate to eat, Nor would tobacco's fragrance greet The European nose. Richard Purdy Wilbur Pangloss's Song: A Comic Opera Lyric [1961] 1 1 See Hellman What can I do but move From folly to defeat, And call that sorrow sweet That teaches us to see The final face of love In what we cannot be? Richard Purdy Wilbur Someone Talking to Himself [1961], last stanza All things shall be brought To the full state and stature of their kind, By what has found the manhood of this stone. May that vast motive wash and wash our own. Richard Purdy Wilbur On the Marginal Way [1969], st. 2 This plant would like to grow And yet be embryo. Richard Purdy Wilbur Seed Leaves [1969] We could no doubt mistake These flowers for some answer to that fright We felt for all creation's sake In our dark talk last night. Richard Purdy Wilbur In the Field [1969] But no one style, I think, is recommended. Richard Purdy Wilbur A Wood [1969] All that we do Is touched with ocean, yet we remain On the shore of what we know. Richard Purdy Wilbur For Dudley [1969] What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out. Richard Purdy Wilbur Walking to Sleep [1969] Let us have music again when the light dies (Sullenly, or in glory) and we can give it Something to organize. Richard Purdy Wilbur C Minor [1976] Whitney M oore YoungJr. 1921-1971 It is obvious that the urban crisis stems in large part from the failure to resolve the problems that confront the Negro. Whitney M oore YoungJr. Speech, The Crisis of the Cities [1967] Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin. Whitney M oore YoungJr. Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society [1969] Together, blacks and whites can move our country beyond racism and create for the benefit of all of us an open society, one that assures freedom, justice, and full equality for all. Whitney M oore YoungJr. Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society [1969] Jack Kerouac 1922-1969 The beat generation. Jack Kerouac Remark But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" Jack Kerouac On the Road [1957] Philip Larkin 1922-1985 Only one ship is seeking us, a black- Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back A huge and birdless silence. In her wake No waters breed or break. Philip Larkin Next, Please [1955] Alain Robbe-Grillet 1922-  The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it. Alain Robbe-Grillet For a New Novel [1963] Charles M onroe Schulz 1922- Happiness Is a Warm Puppy. Charles M onroe Schulz Title of book [1962] You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Charles M onroe Schulz Title of play [1967] based on the comic strip Peanuts Kurt VonnegutJr. 1922- You know-we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "My God, my God-" I said to myself, "it's the Children's Crusade." Kurt VonnegutJr. Slaughterhouse-Five [1969], ch. 5 High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. Kurt VonnegutJr. From his introduction to Our Time Is Now: Notes from the High School Underground, edited by John Birmingham [1970] Paddy Chayevsky 1923-1981 I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more. Paddy Chayevsky Network, screenplay [1976] James Dickey 1923- Inventing a story with grass, I find a young horse deep inside it. James Dickey A Birth [1962] A shudder of joy runs up The trunk: the needles tingle; One bird uncontrollably cries. The wind changes round, and I stir Within another's life. Whose life? James Dickey In the Tree House at Night [1962] All families lie together, though some are burned alive. The others try to feel For them. Some can, it is often said. James Dickey The Firebombing [1965] There, In the other wood,The uncornered animal's, running off Upon instinct. Sails spread, fox wings Lift him alive over gullies, Hair tips all over him lightlyTouched with the moon's red silver, Back-hearing around The stream of his body the tongue of hounds Feather him. In his own animal sun Made of human moonlight,He flies like a bolt running home. James Dickey Fox Blood [1965] All day I climb myself Bowlegged up those damned polesrooster-heeled in all Kinds of weather. James Dickey Power and Light [1967] And this is the house I pass through on my way To power and light. James Dickey Power and Light [1967] People are calling each otherweeping with a hundred thousand Voltsmaking dealspleadinglaughing like fate, Far off, invulnerable. James Dickey Power and Light [1967] We have all been in rooms We cannot die in. James Dickey Adultery [1967] Something has licked my heel Like a surgeon And I have a problem with My right foot and my life. James Dickey Snakebite [1967] The moon lying on the brain as on the excited sea as on The strength of fields. Lord, let me shake With purpose. James Dickey The Strength of Fields [1977] More kindness will do nothing less Than save every sleeping one And nightwalking one Of us. My life belongs to the world. I will do what I can. James Dickey The Strength of Fields [1977]last lines Joseph Heller 1923- There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. . . . If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. . . . "That's some catch, that Catch-22," he [Yossarian] observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed. Joseph Heller Catch-22 [1955], ch. 5 Henry Alfred Kissinger 1923-  Power is the great aphrodisiac. Henry Alfred Kissinger From the New York Times [January 19, 1971] History knows no resting places and no plateaus. Henry Alfred Kissinger White House Years [1979], ch.3 The management of a balance of power is a permanent undertaking, not an exertion that has a foreseeable end. Henry Alfred Kissinger White House Years [1979], ch.5 Denise Levertov 1923- I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature in repose, distinct. Denise Levertov Pleasures [1959] The butterfly glowin the narrow flute from which the morning-glory opens blue and cool on a hot morning. Denise Levertov Pleasures [1959] That's joy, it's always a recognition, the known appearing fully itself, and more itself than one knew. Denise Levertov Matins [1962],II Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. Denise Levertov Matins [1962],VII Dwell in our crowded hearts our steaming bathrooms, kitchens full of things to be done, the ordinary streets.Thrust close your smile that we know you, terrible joy. Denise Levertov Matins [1962],VII Two by two in the ark of the ache of it. Denise Levertov The Ache of Marriage [1964] Hank Williams 1923-1953 Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whining low, I'm so lonesome, I could cry. Hank Williams I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry [1942] James Baldwin 1924- [The Negro past] of rope, fire, torture, castration, infanticide, rape; death and humiliation; fear by day and night, fear as deep as the marrow of the bone; doubt that he was worthy of life, since everyone around him denied it; sorrow for his women, for his kinfolk, for his children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect; rage, hatred and murder, hatred for white men so deep that it often turned against him and his own, and made all love, all trust, all joy impossible. James Baldwin The Fire Next Time [1963] If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time! James Baldwin The Fire Next Time [1963]end Truman Capote 1924-1984 Other Voices, Other Rooms. Truman Capote Title of book [1948] I didn't want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat. Truman Capote In Cold Blood [1966] Jimmy Carter James Earl CarterJr. 1924- No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice. Jimmy Carter Inaugural address as governor, Atlanta [January 12, 1971] We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means. 1 Jimmy Carter In an interview with Robert L. Turner [March 16, 1976] 1 See John 3:3 All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people. Jimmy Carter Speech to the California State Senate, Sacramento [May 20, 1976] The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work. Jimmy Carter Speech at Women's Agenda Conference, Washington, D.C. [October 2, 1976] Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men. Jimmy Carter Speech at Women's Agenda Conference, Washington, D.C. [October 2, 1976] We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength. . . . The question is not when we came here . . . but why our families came here. And what we did after we arrived. Jimmy Carter Speech at Al Smith Dinner, New York City [October 21, 1976] Arthur Charles Erickson 1924- North American civilization is one of the ugliest to have emerged in human history, and it has engulfed the world. Asphalt and exhaust fumes clog the villages. . . . This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see . . . the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the globe. Arthur Charles Erickson Speech at Simon Fraser University [1973] What the West has thrown on the waters of the world drifts back to us on a tide of cultural pollution appalling to behold. Arthur Charles Erickson Speech at International Congress of Architecture in Iran [1974] Yogi Lawrence Peter Berra 1925- The game isn't over till it's over. Yogi Lawrence Peter Berra Attributed John Daniel Ehrlichman 1925- It'll play in Peoria. John Daniel Ehrlichman Phrase [1970] I think we ought to let him [Patrick Gray] hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind. John Daniel Ehrlichman Telephone conversation with John Dean [March 7/8, 1973] Maxine Winokur Kumin 1925- I took the lake between my legs. Maxine Winokur Kumin Morning Swim [1965] Something went crabwise across the snow this morning. Maxine Winokur Kumin The Presence [1970] Love, we are a small pond. Maxine Winokur Kumin We Are [1970] Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of. Maxine Winokur Kumin The Nightmare Factory [1970] And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. Maxine Winokur Kumin Creatures [1972] Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air or water. Maxine Winokur Kumin Turning To [1972] Our daughters and sons have burst from the marionette show leaving a tangle of strings and gone into the unlit audience. Maxine Winokur Kumin The Absent Ones [1972] Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentucky, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A [amp ] P? Maxine Winokur Kumin Living Alone with Jesus [1972] It is said to begin with the father. Maxine Winokur Kumin The Horsewoman [1975] The time on either side of now stands fast. Maxine Winokur Kumin July, Against Hunger [1978] Malcolm X El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz 1925-1965 Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. Malcolm X Speech, The Ballot or the Bullet [1964] The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more. Malcolm X Speech, The Ballot or the Bullet [1964] We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for . . . human rights. Malcolm X Speech, Black Revolution, New York [1964] I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds and his conscious behavior. And it teaches me to be for the rights of all human beings, but especially the Afro-American human being, because my religion is a natural religion, and the first law of nature is self-preservation. Malcolm X Speech, Prospects for Freedom, New York [1965] Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. Malcolm X Speech, Prospects for Freedom, New York [1965] Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev 1925- Science and technology, and the various forms of art, all unite humanity in a single and interconnected system. As science progresses, the worldwide cooperation of scientists and technologists becomes more and more of a special and distinct intellectual community of friendship, in which, in place of antagonism, there is growing up a mutually advantageous sharing of work, a coordination of efforts, a common language for the exchange of information, and a solidarity, which are in many cases independent of the social and political differences of individual states. Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev The Medvedev Papers [1970], preface Yukio Mishima Kimitake Hiraoka 1925-1970 My solitude grew more and more obese, like a pig. Yukio Mishima Temple of the Golden Pavilion [1959] Flannery O'Connor 1925-1964 Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. Flannery O'Connor Wise Blood [1952], foreword "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." Flannery O'Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find [1955] I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why. Flannery O'Connor Talk at Notre Dame University [spring 1957] Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol. Flannery O'Connor Talk at Notre Dame University [spring 1957] A rchie R andolph Ammons 1926- The wind said You know I'm the result of forces beyond my control. A rchie R andolph Ammons The Wide Land [1972] The air's glass jail seals each thing in its entity. A rchie R andolph Ammons Gravelly Run,l. 21 The sunlight has never heard of trees. A rchie R andolph Ammons Gravelly Run,l. 27 Though I have looked everywhere I can find nothing lowly in the universe. A rchie R andolph Ammons Still [1972] In nature there are few sharp lines. A rchie R andolph Ammons Corson's Inlet [1972],l. 31 No humbling of reality to precept. A rchie R andolph Ammons Corson's Inlet [1972],l. 116 Counting my numberless fingers. A rchie R andolph Ammons Mountain Talk [1972] Not so much looking for the shape as being available to any shape that may be summoning itself through me from the self not mine but ours. A rchie R andolph Ammons Poetics [1972] The stones are prepared: they are round and ready. A rchie R andolph Ammons Upland [1972] A squash blossom dies, I feel withered as if a stained zucchini. A rchie R andolph Ammons Cut the Grass [1972] Robert Bly 1926- I have wandered in a face, for hours, Passing through dark fires. I have risen to a body Not yet born, Existing like a light around the body, Through which the body moves like a sliding moon. Robert Bly The Light Around the Body[1967].Looking into a Face What shall the world do with its children? There are lives the executives Know nothing of . . . The other world is like a thorn In the ear of a tiny beast! Robert Bly The Light Around the Body[1967].Romans Angry About the Inner World The sound of the rampaging Missouri, Bending the reeds again and again-something inside us Like a ghost train in the Rockies About to be buried in snow! Its long hoot Making the owl in the Douglas fir turn his head. Robert Bly The Light Around the Body[1967].Asian Peace Offers Rejected Without Publication Fidel Castro 1926- We are not only a Latin-American nation; we are an Afro-American nation also. Fidel Castro Speech in Havana [1977] Allen Ginsberg 1926- I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. Allen Ginsberg Howl [1956] James Ingram Merrill 1926- Crossing the street, I saw the parents and the child At their window, gleaming like fruit With evening's mild gold leaf. James Ingram Merrill The Broken Home [1966], st. 1 Again last night I dreamed the dream called Laundry. James Ingram Merrill The Mad Scene [1966] I yearned for the kind of unseasoned telling found In legends, fairy tales, a tone licked clean Over the centuries by mild old tongues, Grandam to cub, serene, anonymous. James Ingram Merrill The Book of Ephraim [1976], sec.A What we dream up must be lived down, I think. James Ingram Merrill The Book of Ephraim [1976], sec.I he prefers live music to a patron's humdrum spheres Is this permitted? when u are mozart yes He's living now? As what? a black rock star whatever that is. James Ingram Merrill The Book of Ephraim [1976], sec.P Jung says-or if he doesn't, all but does- That God and the Unconscious are one. Hm. James Ingram Merrill The Book of Ephraim [1976], sec.U The plants, the sorry few that linger, scatter Leaflets advocating euthanasia. James Ingram Merrill The Book of Ephraim [1976], sec.Z William D eWitt Snodgrass 1926- It was the nature of the thing: No moon outlives its leaving night, No sun its day. And I went on Rich in the loss of all I sing To the threshold of waking light, To larksong and the live, gray dawn. So night by night, my life has gone. William D eWitt Snodgrass Orpheus [1959] Though trees turn bare and girls turn wives, We shall afford our costly seasons; There is a gentleness survives That will outspeak and has its reasons. There is a loveliness exists, Preserves us, not for specialists. William D eWitt Snodgrass April Inventory [1959] John Ashbery 1927- As I sit looking out of a window of the building I wish I did not have to write the instruction manual on the uses of a new metal. John Ashbery The Instruction Manual [1956] Guadalajara! City of rose-colored flowers! City I wanted most to see, and most did not see, in Mexico! But I fancy I see, under the press of having to write the instruction manual, Your public square, city, with its elaborate little bandstand! John Ashbery The Instruction Manual [1956] Calling attention Isn't the same thing as explaining. John Ashbery Some Trees [1956] The carnivorous Way of these lines is to devour their own nature, leaving Nothing but a bitter impression of absence, which as we know involves presence, but still, Nevertheless these are fundamental absences, struggling to get up and be off themselves. John Ashbery Some Trees [1956] As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as though to protect What it advertises. John Ashbery Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror [1975] Something like living occurs, a movement Out of the dream into its codification. John Ashbery Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror [1975] Cesar Estrada Chavez 1927- Viva la huelga [Long live the strike]! Cesar Estrada Chavez Slogan of the United Farm Workers [the 1960s] R onald D avid Laing 1927- We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. R onald D avid Laing The Politics of Experience [1967],introduction Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. R onald D avid Laing The Politics of Experience [1967],ch. 6 W illiam S tanley Merwin 1927- This is the black sea brute bulling through wave wrack, Ancient as ocean's shifting hills, who in sea toils Traveling, who furrowing the salt acres Heavily, his wake hoary behind him, Shoulders spouting, the fist of his forehead Over wastes gray-green crashing. W illiam S tanley Merwin Leviathan [1956] He is that curling serpent that in ocean is, Sea fright he is, and the shadow under the earth. W illiam S tanley Merwin Leviathan [1956] It was never there and already it's vanishing. W illiam S tanley Merwin Before That [1963] Coming late, as always, I try to remember what I almost heard. W illiam S tanley Merwin The Poem [1963] I live up here. W illiam S tanley Merwin I Live Up Here [1967] You came back to us in a dream and we were not here. W illiam S tanley Merwin Come Back [1967] The dead will think the living are worth it we will know Who we are And we will all enlist again. W illiam S tanley Merwin When the War Is Over [1967] Whatever I have to do has not yet begun It is March And from a corner the sounds of a small bird trying From time to time to fly a few beats in the dark. W illiam S tanley Merwin The Room [1967] Every year without knowing it I have passed the day. W illiam S tanley Merwin For the Anniversary of My Death [1967] Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning. W illiam S tanley Merwin In the Winter of My Thirty-eighth Year [1967] Whiteness came back to the paths after each footstep and the travelers never met in the single files who deepened the same shadows. W illiam S tanley Merwin The Prints [1971] In the quiver on Paris's back the head of the arrow for Achilles' heel smiled in its sleep. W illiam S tanley Merwin The Judgment of Paris [1971] Through the evening the mountains approach over the desert sails from a windless kingdom. W illiam S tanley Merwin The Calling Under the Breath [1971] At the day's end all our footsteps are added up to see how near. W illiam S tanley Merwin Last People [1971] I think I was cold in the womb. W illiam S tanley Merwin The Forebears [1971] I am the son of the first fish who climbed ashore but the news has not yet reached my bowels. W illiam S tanley Merwin Psalm: Our Fathers [1971] Like shadows of the plumbing that is all that is left of the great city. W illiam S tanley Merwin The Plumbing [1971] Some alien blessing is on its way to us. W illiam S tanley Merwin Midnight in Early Spring [1971] All through the dark the wind looks for the grief it belongs to. W illiam S tanley Merwin Night Wind [1971] Oh pile of white shirts who is coming to breathe in your shapes. W illiam S tanley Merwin The Night of the Shirts [1971] Deliver meFrom the ruth of the lair, which clings to me in the morning. W illiam S tanley Merwin Lemuel's Blessing [1973],st. 2 From the ruth of kindness with its licked hands; I have sniffed baited fingers and followed Toward necessities which were not my own. W illiam S tanley Merwin Lemuel's Blessing [1973],st. 3 From the ruth of prepared comforts, with its Habitual dishes sporting my name and its collars and leashes of vanity. W illiam S tanley Merwin Lemuel's Blessing [1973],st. 4 From the ruth of approval, with its nets, kennels, and taxidermists. W illiam S tanley Merwin Lemuel's Blessing [1973],st. 5 Andy Warhol 1927-1987 In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes. Andy Warhol Catalogue of his photo exhibition in Stockholm [1968] Edward Franklin Albee 1928- George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf . . . Martha: I . . . am . . . George . . . I am. Edward Franklin Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [1962]. The Exorcism Gabriel Garcia MaArquez 1928- It was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forevermore, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth. Gabriel Garcia MaArquez One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Anos de Soledad) [1967] Larry Gelbart 1928- Burt Shevelove 1915- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Burt Shevelove Title of musical comedy [1962] Michael Harrington 1928- The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us. . . . The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation. 1 Michael Harrington The Other America: Poverty in the United States [1962], ch. 1 1 See Lyndon Johnson For the urban poor the police are those who arrest you. In almost any slum there is a vast conspiracy against the forces of law and order. Michael Harrington The Other America: Poverty in the United States [1962], ch. 1 Donn Pearce 1928- What we've got here is a failure to communicate. Donn Pearce Cool Hand Luke, screenplay [1967] Anne Sexton 1928-1974 You, Doctor Martin, walk from breakfast to madness. Late August, I speed through the antiseptic tunnel where the moving dead still talk of pushing their bones against the thrust of cure. And I am queen of this summer hotel or the laughing bee on a stalk of death. Anne Sexton You, Doctor Martin [1960],st. 1 And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, counting this row and that row of moccasins waiting on the silent shelf. Anne Sexton You, Doctor Martin [1960],last stanza I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night. Anne Sexton Her Kind [1960] A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind. Anne Sexton Her Kind [1960] Leaving the page of the book carelessly open, something unsaid, the phone off the hook and the love, whatever it was, an infection. Anne Sexton Wanting to Die [1966], last stanza Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman. Anne Sexton Title of poem [1966] I say Live, Live, because of the sun, The dream, the excitable gift. Anne Sexton Live [1966] I would like a simple life yet all night I am laying poems away in a long box. Anne Sexton The Ambition Bird [1973], st. 4 Alvin Toffler 1928-  Future shock . . . the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. Alvin Toffler Future Shock [1970], ch. 1 Anne Frank 1929-1945  Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! Anne Frank Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl [1952].March 7, 1944 What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. Anne Frank Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl [1952].May 22, 1944 [Daddy] said: "All children must look after their own upbringing." Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl [1952].July 15, 1944 In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl [1952].July 15, 1944 Martin Luther KingJr. 1929-1968 If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther KingJr. Speech in Detroit [June 23, 1963] Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther KingJr. Letter from the Birmingham jail. In the Atlantic Monthly [August 1963] Unearned suffering is redemptive. Martin Luther KingJr. Letter from the Birmingham jail. In the Atlantic Monthly [August 1963]  I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. Martin Luther KingJr. Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington [August 28, 1963] I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther KingJr. Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington [August 28, 1963] Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. 1 Martin Luther KingJr. Speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize [December 11, 1964] 1 See Gandhi The tortuous road which has led from Montgomery to Oslo is a road over which millions of Negroes are traveling to find a new sense of dignity. It will, I am convinced, be widened into a superhighway of justice. Martin Luther KingJr. Speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize [December 11, 1964] I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him. Martin Luther KingJr. Speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize [December 11, 1964] I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. Martin Luther KingJr. Speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize [December 11, 1964] Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the process of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force. Martin Luther KingJr. Why We Can't Wait [1964] The Negro was willing to risk martyrdom in order to move and stir the social conscience of his community and the nation . . . he would force his oppressor to commit his brutality openly, with the rest of the world looking on . . . Nonviolent resistance paralyzed and confused the power structures against which it was directed. Martin Luther KingJr. Why We Can't Wait [1964] I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land . . . So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Martin Luther KingJr. Speech at Clayborn Temple, Memphis, Tennessee [April 3, 1968], the evening before his assassination John James Osborne 1929- Look Back in Anger. John James Osborne Title of play [1956] Dory Previn c. 1929- i was you baby i was you too long Dory Previn On My Way to Where [1971].I Was You i can't go on . . . i really can't go on i swear i can't go on so i guess i'll get up and go on Dory Previn On My Way to Where [1971].I Can't Go On Adrienne Rich 1929- I want this to be yours in the sense that if you find it and read it it will be there in you already and the leaflet then merely something to leave behind, a little leaf in the drawer of a sublet room. Adrienne Rich Leaflets [1971] My visionary anger cleansing my sight. Adrienne Rich The Stranger [1973] I am the androgyne. Adrienne Rich The Stranger [1973] There is a ladder. The ladder is always there hanging innocently close to the side of the schooner. Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck [1973] I came to explore the wreck. Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck [1973] I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail. Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck [1973] I stroke the beam of my lamp slowly along the flank of something more permanent than fish or weed. Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck [1973] There is a cop who is both prowler and father. Adrienne Rich Rape [1973] Robert Sommer 1929- Personal space refers to an area with invisible boundaries surrounding a person's body into which intruders may not come. 1 Robert Sommer Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design [1969] 1 See Auden Neil Alden Armstrong 1930- Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. Neil Alden Armstrong On reaching the moon [July 20, 1969] That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Alden Armstrong On first stepping on the moon [July 20, 1969] Wilfrid Sheed 1930- If God had died in the blare of the twentieth century and in houses too new and cheap to be haunted, one must seek him in the old quiet places, where he might still live on in retirement. Wilfrid Sheed The Good Word [1978], pt.I, ch.12 Suicide . . . is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets. Wilfrid Sheed The Good Word [1978], pt.I, ch.15 The odds on any intelligent person having an unhappy childhood are better than fair, and the odds on a sad ending are practically off the board. Wilfrid Sheed The Good Word [1978], pt.I, ch.33 [Published] letters by a living man are a bit like a stately home with the owner around-one isn't sure how much one can touch. Wilfrid Sheed The Good Word [1978], pt.II, ch. 12 Stephen Sondheim 1930- Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star. Stephen Sondheim West Side Story [1957]. Tonight Derek Walcott 1930- I who am poisoned with the blood of both, Where shall I turn, divided to the vein? I who have cursed The drunken officer of British rule, how choose Between this Africa and the English tongue I love? Derek Walcott A Far Cry from Africa [1962] To change your language you must change your life. Derek Walcott Codicil [1965] John Le Carre David John Moore Cornwell 1931- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. John Le Carre Title of novel [1963] Tom Thomas Kennerly WolfeJr. 1931- The Life-that feeling-The Life-the late 1940s early 1950s American Teenage Drive-In Life. Tom Thomas Kennerly WolfeJr. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 1 [1968], ch. 4 1 See Kesey A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon Renaissance-And the myths that actually touched you at that time-not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas-but Superman, Captain Marvel, Batman. Tom Thomas Kennerly WolfeJr. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 1 [1968], ch. 4 Radical Chic. Tom Thomas Kennerly WolfeJr. Title of book [1970] The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening. Tom Thomas Kennerly WolfeJr. Title of essay [1976] Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. Then, at the rim of vision, it gathered itself, and in one sweeping tide, rushed me to sleep. Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar [1963] A living doll, everywhere you look. It can sew, it can cook, It can talk, talk, talk. . . . My boy, it's your last resort. Will you marry it, marry it, marry it. Sylvia Plath The Applicant [1966] I have done it again. Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus [1966],st. 1 Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus [1966],st. 15 Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air. Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus [1966],last stanza What a thrill- My thumb instead of an onion. Sylvia Plath Cut [1966] White Godiva, I unpeel- Dead hands dead stringencies. Sylvia Plath Ariel [1966] And now I Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas. Sylvia Plath Ariel [1966] You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Sylvia Plath Daddy [1966],st. 1 I have always been scared of you, With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo. And your neat moustache And your Aryan eye, bright blue. Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You- Sylvia Plath Daddy [1966],st. 9 Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you. Sylvia Plath Daddy [1966],st. 10 Francois Truffaut 1932-  Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece. Francois Truffaut Bed and Board [1972] John Updike 1932- You climb up through the little grades and then get to the top and everybody cheers; with the sweat in your eyebrows you can't see very well and the noise swirls around you and lifts you up, and then you're out, not forgotten at first, just out, and it feels good and cool and free. You're out, and sort of melt, and keep lifting, until you become like to these kids just one more piece of the sky of adults that hangs over them in the town, a piece that for some queer reason has clouded and visited them. John Updike Rabbit, Run [1960] We walk through volumes of the unexpressed and like snails leave behind a faint thread excreted out of ourselves. John Updike The Blessed Man of Boston Vine Victor DeloriaJr. 1933-  Tribalism is the strongest force at work in the world today. Vine Victor DeloriaJr. Custer Died for Your Sins [1969], ch. 11 Religion cannot be kept within the bounds of sermons and scriptures. It is a force in itself and it calls for the integration of lands and peoples in harmonious unity. The lands [of the planet] wait for those who can discern their rhythms. The peculiar genius of each continent, each river valley, the rugged mountains, the placid lakes, all call for relief from the constant burden of exploitation. Vine Victor DeloriaJr. God Is Red [1973], ch. 16 The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things. Vine Victor DeloriaJr. God Is Red [1973], ch. 16 As the long-forgotten peoples of the respective continents rise and begin to reclaim their ancient heritage, they will discover the meaning of the lands of their ancestors. Vine Victor DeloriaJr. God Is Red [1973], ch. 16 Theodore Roszak 1933- The Making of a Counter Culture. Theodore Roszak Title of book [1969] Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky 1933- I am Goya of the bare field, by the enemy's beak gouged till the craters of my eyes gape I am griefI am the tongue of war, the embers of cities on the snows of the year 1941 I am hunger Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky I Am Goya [1960], st. 1, 2 They carried him not to bury him: They carried him down to crown him. . . . The poet flourished here, disheveled, Who would not bow before votive lamps But to the common spade. Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky Leaves and Roots [1960] The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man. Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky Hunting a Hare [1964], st. 5 Along a parabola life like a rocket flies, Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow. Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky Parabolic Ballad [1960] ÿ Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko Evgeni Evtushenko 1933- There is no Jewish blood in my veins, But I am hated with a scabby hatred By all the anti-Semites, like a Jew. And therefore I am a true Russian. Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko Babi Yar [1961] Amiri Baraka LeRoi Jones 1934- Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelops me Each time I go out to walk the dog. Amiri Baraka Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note [1961] And then last night I tiptoed up To my daughter's room and heard her Talking to someone, and when I opened The door, there was no one there . . . Only she on her knees, peeking intoHer own clasped hands. Amiri Baraka Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note [1961] Saturday mornings we listened to Red Lantern [amp ] his undersea folk. At 11, Let's Pretend/[amp ] we did/[amp ] I, the poet, still do, Thank God! Amiri Baraka In Memory of Radio [1961] Walk it slow where you go walk it slow . . . We in the world Poor as dirt Don't get some rhythm Somebody'll get hurt the world is black the world is green the world is red, yellow, brown the world is mean Amiri Baraka 3rd World Blues [1979] James Brown 1934- Say It Loud: "I'm Black and I'm Proud." James Brown Title of song [1968] Joan Didion 1934- Writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem [1968], preface Carl Sagan 1934- We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. Carl Sagan Broca's Brain [1979], ch. 2 Mark Strand 1934- Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. Mark Strand Eating Poetry [1968] Leroy Eldridge Cleaver 1935- You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. Leroy Eldridge Cleaver Attributed [c. 1968] Ken Kesey 1935- A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care any more about anything but himself and his dying. Ken Kesey One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest [1962], pt. IV There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place-then it won't make a damn. Ken Kesey Quoted by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [1968], 1 ch. 6 1 See Wolfe John McGahern 1935- Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan. John McGahern The Leavetaking [1974], pt. II Barbara C. Jordan 1936-  "We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in "We, the people." Barbara C. Jordan Statement at Debate on Articles of Impeachment, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress [July 25, 1974] Kris Kristofferson 1936- Fred Foster Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose, And nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free. Fred Foster Me and Bobby McGee [1969] Woody Allen 1937-  Play It Again, Sam. Woody Allen Title of film [1969] If my film makes one more person feel miserable I'll feel I've done my job. Woody Allen Interview by Time [April 30, 1979] Thomas Pynchon 1937- Yet who can presume to say what the war wants, so vast and aloof it is . . . so absentee. Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow [1973] Gail Sheehy 1937- If women had wives to keep house for them, to stay home with vomiting children, to get the car fixed, fight with the painters, run to the supermarket, reconcile the bank statements, listen to everyone's problems, cater the dinner parties, and nourish the spirit each night, just imagine the possibilities for expansion-the number of books that would be written, companies started, professorships filled, political offices that would be held, by women. 1 Gail Sheehy Passages [1976], ch. 11 1 See Friedan Tom Stoppard 1937- I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you're either a revolutionary or you're not, and if you're not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can't be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary . . . I forget the third thing. Tom Stoppard Travesties [1975], last lines Liv Johanne Ullmann 1938- To be a woman is to have the same needs and longings as a man. We need love and we wish to give it. If only we all could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex. Whatever the life we have chosen to live. Liv Johanne Ullmann Changing [1976].Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for. Liv Johanne Ullmann Changing [1976].Masks James Rado 1939- Gerome Ragni 1942- When the moon is in the seventh house And Jupiter aligns with Mars, Then peace will guide the planets, And love will steer the stars; This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, The age of Aquarius. Gerome Ragni Hair [1966]. Aquarius John Ono Lennon 1940-1980 Paul McCartney 1942- I'll tell you something I think you'll understand, Then I'll say that something, I want to hold your hand. Paul McCartney I Want to Hold Your Hand [1963] There's a shadow hanging over me, Oh yesterday came suddenly. Paul McCartney Yesterday [1965] All the lonely people, where do they all belong? Paul McCartney Eleanor Rigby [1966] I get by with a little help from my friends. Paul McCartney A Little Help from My Friends [1967] How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? Paul McCartney Baby You're a Rich Man [1967] Give Peace a Chance. Paul McCartney Title of song [1969] Let It Be. Paul McCartney Title of song [1970] Stokely Carmichael Kwame Toure 1941- Charles V ernon Hamilton 1929-  Black power . . . is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize theirheritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to begin to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations and to support those organizations. It is a call to reject the racist institutions and values of this society. Charles V ernon Hamilton Black Power! [1967], ch. 2 Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. Charles V ernon Hamilton Black Power! [1967], ch. 2 Bob Dylan Robert Zimmerman 1941- How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? Bob Dylan Blowin' in the Wind [1962] The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. Bob Dylan Blowin' in the Wind [1962] A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall. Bob Dylan Title of song [1963] The order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last 1 For the times they are a-changin'. Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' [1963] 1 See Matthew 19:30 How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone? Bob Dylan Like a Rolling Stone [1965] You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Bob Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues [1965] Robin Morgan 1941- Sisterhood Is Powerful. Robin Morgan Title of book [1970] Helen Reddy 1941- If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman. Helen Reddy I Am Woman [1972] Muhammad Ali Cassius Marcellus ClayJr. 1942-  I am the greatest. Muhammad Ali Slogan, inspired by wrestler Gorgeous George Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Muhammad Ali Boxing credo, devised by aide Drew "Bundini" Brown Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. Muhammad Ali Statement [December 1962] Keep asking me no matter how long- On the war in Vietnam I sing this song- I ain't got no quarrel with the Viet Cong. Muhammad Ali On the draft [February 1966] Paul Simon 1942- And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson, Jesus loves you more than you will know. God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson, Heaven holds a place for those who pray. Paul Simon Mrs. Robinson [1968] Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down. Paul Simon Bridge over Troubled Water [1969] Rap Hubert Gerold Brown 1943- Violence is necessary; it is as American as cherry pie. Rap Hubert Gerold Brown Remark [c. 1966] R obert Crumb 1943- Keep on truckin'. R obert Crumb Slogan of cartoon character Nikki Giovanni 1943- His headstone said free at last, free at last But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence. Nikki Giovanni The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. [1968] show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person Nikki Giovanni Poem for a Lady Whose Voice I Like [1970], last line I really hope no white person ever has cause to write about me because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy. Nikki Giovanni Nikki-Rosa [1970] and if ever i touched a life i hope that life knows that i know that touching was and still is and always will be the true revolution Nikki Giovanni When I Die [1972] Janis Joplin 1943-1970 Down on me, down on me, Looks like everybody in this whole round world Is down on me. Janis Joplin Down on Me [1967] Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz, My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. Janis Joplin Mercedes-Benz [1970] Joni Mitchell 1943- They paved paradise And put up a parking lot. Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi [1969] We are stardust, We are golden, And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden. Joni Mitchell Woodstock [1969] Mick Michael Philip Jagger 1944- Keith Richards 1944- Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste. I've been around for long, long years, Stolen many a man's soul and faith. Keith Richards Sympathy for the Devil [1968] Well, we all need someone we can lean on, And if you want it, well, you can lean on me. Keith Richards Let It Bleed [1969] War, children, is just a shot away, it's just a shot away. Keith Richards Gimme Shelter [1969] Steve Stephen Bantu Biko 1946-1977 Even today, we are still accused of racism. This is a mistake. We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior. Steve Stephen Bantu Biko Statement quoted in the Boston Globe [October 25, 1977] The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. Steve Stephen Bantu Biko Statement as witness [May 3, 1976] Stevie Wonder Steveland Judkins Hardaway 1950- You are the sunshine of my life, That's why I'll always stay around. Stevie Wonder You Are the Sunshine of My Life [1972] Anonymous Summer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu- Sing cuccu! 1 2 Anonymous Cuckoo Song [c. 1250] 1 See Vogelweide 2 See Pound A new broom sweeps clean. Anonymous Saying [13th century] Ich am of Irlonde Ant of the holy lande Of Irlonde. Gode sire, pray ich the, For of saynte charite, Come ant dance wyth me In Irlonde. Anonymous Ich Am of Irlonde [14th century] When Adam delved and Eve span Who was then a gentleman? Anonymous Text used by John Ball for his speech at Blackheath to the men in Wat Tyler's Rebellion [1381] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye. Anonymous Proverb [14th century] I sing of a maiden That is makeless; King of all kings To her son she ches. Anonymous Carol. I Sing of a Maiden [15th century] For in my mind, of all mankind I love but you alone. Anonymous The Nut-Brown Maid [15th century], refrain For I must to the greenwood go, Alone, a banished man. Anonymous The Nut-Brown Maid [15th century], refrain No burial this pretty pair Of any man receives, Till Robin Redbreast piously Did cover them with leaves. Anonymous The Children in the Wood, st. 16 Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with him. Anonymous Proverb A fool's paradise. Anonymous Paston Letters [1462], no. 457 Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide, In thy most need to go by thy side. Anonymous Everyman [before 1500], act I, l. 522 O Western wind, when wilt thou blow, That the small rain down can rain? Christ, that my love were in my arms And I in my bed again! Anonymous O Western Wind [c. 1530] Crabbed age and youth cannot live together. Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care. Anonymous The Passionate Pilgrim [1599] Love me little, love me long, Is the burden of my song. 1 2 Anonymous Love Me Little [1569-1570], refrain 1 See Shakespeare 2 See Herrick Multiplication is vexation, Division is as bad; The rule of three doth puzzle me, And practice drives me mad. Anonymous Elizabethan MS [1570] Alas, my Love! ye do me wrong To cast me off discourteously: And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company. Anonymous From A Handful of Pleasant Delights [1584],st. 1 Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight; Greensleeves was my heart of gold, And who but Lady Greensleeves. Anonymous From A Handful of Pleasant Delights [1584],refrain Shall I bid her go? What, and if I do? Shall I bid her go, and spare not? O no, no, no, I dare not. Anonymous Corydon's Farewell to Phillis, st. 2 Where griping griefs the heart would wound And doleful dumps the mind oppress, There music with her silver sound With speed is wont to send redress. Anonymous A Song to the Lute in Musicke, st. 1 The blinded boy that shoots so trim, 1 From heaven down did hie. Anonymous King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, st. 2 1 See Shakespeare It was a friar of orders gray 1 Walked forth to tell his beads. Anonymous The Friar of Orders Gray,st. 1 1 See Shakespeare Our joys as winged dreams do fly; Why then should sorrow last? Since grief but aggravates thy loss, Grieve not for what is past. Anonymous The Friar of Orders Gray,st. 13 King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown. Anonymous Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee, st. 7 It's pride that puts this country down; Man, take thine old cloak about thee. Anonymous Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee, st. 7 A fool and his money are soon parted. Anonymous English proverb April is in my mistress' face, And July in her eyes hath place, Within her bosom is September, But in her heart a cold December. Anonymous From Thomas Morley, Madrigals to Four Voices [1594]  Hobson's choice. Anonymous Phrase for no choice Lo here a new Aurora! Anonymous From Thomas Morley, The First Book of Canzonets to Two Voices [1595] Kill then, and bliss me, But first come kiss me. Anonymous From Thomas Morley, The First Book of Ballets to Five Voices [1595] Shoot, false Love, I care not. Spend thy shafts and spare not. Anonymous From Thomas Morley, The First Book of Ballets to Five Voices [1595] I was more true to Love than Love to me. Anonymous From John Dowland, The First Book of Songs or Airs [1597] Jerusalem, my happy home, When shall I come to thee? When shall my sorrows have an end? Thy joys when shall I see? Anonymous The Song of Mary [1601] What poor astronomers are they Take women's eyes for stars! Anonymous From John Dowland, The Third Book of Songs or Airs [1603] Oh, what a plague is love! How shall I bear it? She will inconstant prove, I greatly fear it. Anonymous Phillida Flouts Me, st. 1 And let all women strive to be As constant as Penelope. Anonymous Constant Penelope, st. 18 Fain would I change that note To which fond Love hath charmed me. Anonymous From Tobias Hume, Musical Humors [1605] Turn again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. Anonymous Refrain of Bow Bells heard by Dick Whittington [c. 1605] From the hag and hungry goblin That into rags would rend ye, And the spirit that stands by the naked man In the book of Moons defend ye! Anonymous Tom o' Bedlam [17th century],st. 1 With an host of furious fancies Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear, and a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander. By a knight of ghosts and shadows I summoned am to tourney Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end. Methinks it is no journey. Anonymous Tom o' Bedlam [17th century],st. 8 The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. Anonymous From Edward Potts Cheyney, Social and Industrial History of England [1901], introduction There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die. Anonymous From Thomas Ford, Music of Sundry Kinds [1607],st. 1 Cupid is winged and doth range, Her country so my love doth change; But change she earth, or change she sky, Yet will I love her till I die. Anonymous From Thomas Ford, Music of Sundry Kinds [1607],st. 6 Love not me for comely grace, For my pleasing eye or face, Nor for any outward part, No, nor for a constant heart. Anonymous From John Wilbye, Second Set of Madrigals [1609] The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: 1 2 3 Farewell, all joys; O death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise. Anonymous From Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts [1612], I 1 See Plato 2 See Shakespeare 3 See Byron Stay, O sweet, and do not rise! The light that shines comes from thine eyes; The day breaks not: it is my heart, Because that you and I must part. Stay, or else my joys will die, And perish in their infancy. Anonymous From John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace [1612] We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing; He chastens and hastens his will to make known; The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing: 1 Sing praises to his Name; he forgets not his own. Anonymous Hymn [1625] 1 See Job 3:17 If there is a paradise on the face of the earth, It is this, oh! it is this, oh! it is this. Anonymous Mogul Inscription in the Red Fort at Delhi [1640] Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Anonymous Legend related to the "Three Wise Monkeys" carved over door of Sacred Stable, Nikko, Japan [17th century] Over the mountains and over the waves, Under the fountains and under the graves; Under floods that are deepest, which Neptune obey, Over rocks that are steepest, Love will find out the way. Anonymous Love Will Find Out the Way, st. 1 Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me! Begone, dull Care! Thou and I shall never agree. Anonymous From John Playford, Musical Companion [1687] Though little, I'll work as hard as a Turk, If you'll give me employ, To plow and sow, and reap and mow, And be a farmer's boy. Anonymous The Farmer's Boy [before 1689], st. 2 Carriages without horses shall go, And accidents fill the world with woe. Anonymous Attributed to Mother Shipton Around the world thoughts shall fly In the twinkling of an eye. Anonymous Attributed to Mother Shipton Under water men shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, and talk; In the air men shall be seen In white, in black, and in green. Anonymous Attributed to Mother Shipton Iron in the water shall float As easy as a wooden boat. Anonymous Attributed to Mother Shipton A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. Anonymous Old English proverb When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window. Anonymous Saying [17th century] Please to remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot. Anonymous Guy Fawkes rhyme [17th century] A zealous locksmith died of late, And did arrive at heaven gate, He stood without and would not knock, Because he meant to pick the lock. Anonymous Epitaph upon a Puritanical Locksmith; fromWilliam Camden , Remains Concerning Britain [1637] All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous. Anonymous From the inscription on the tomb of the Duchess of Newcastle in Westminster Abbey [1673] It is so soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for. Anonymous For a child aged three weeks, Cheltenham Churchyard Live and let live. Anonymous Scottish proverb When I rest I rust [Rast ich, so rost ich]. Anonymous German proverb  Coming through the rye. Anonymous The Bob-tailed Lass, refrain Sabina has a thousand charms To captivate my heart; Her lovely eyes are Cupid's arms, And every look a dart: But when the beauteous idiot speaks, She cures me of my pain; Her tongue the servile fetters breaks And frees her slave again. Anonymous From Amphion Anglicus [1700] God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay; Remember Christ our Savior, Was born on Christmas Day. Anonymous Carol The holly and the ivy, When they are both full grown, Of all the trees that are in the wood, The holly bears the crown: The rising of the sun And the running of the deer, The playing of the merry organ, Sweet singing in the choir. Anonymous Carol Sister Anne, do you see anyone coming? Anonymous Bluebeard; the cry of Fatima Rain cats and dogs. Anonymous Saying Who will change old lamps for new? Anonymous The Arabian Nights (A Thousand and One Nights).The History of Aladdin Open sesame! Anonymous The Arabian Nights (A Thousand and One Nights).The History of Ali Baba Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament. Anonymous Credited to Sir Stephen Rice [1637-1715], Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by Macaulay in History of England [1849-1861], ch. 12 The Campbells are comin', oho, oho. Anonymous Song [c. 1715] And when with envy Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Anonymous Winifreda [1726], st. 8 Fools' names, like fools' faces, Are often seen in public places. Anonymous Saying And this is law, I will maintain, Unto my dying day, sir, That whatsoever king shall reign, I will be the Vicar of Bray, sir! Anonymous The Vicar of Bray [1734], chorus The Girl I Left Behind Me. Anonymous Title of song [1759] The united voice of all His Majesty's free and loyal subjects in America-liberty and property, and no stamps. Anonymous Motto of various American colonial newspapers [1765-1766] Yankee Doodle came to town Riding on a pony, He stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni.Yankee Doodle, keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy. Anonymous Yankee Doodle, st. 1 and chorus It's all in the day's work. Anonymous Current since the 18th century Man may work from sun to sun, But woman's work is never done. Anonymous Saying Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done. Anonymous Saying Don't tread on me. Anonymous Motto of the first official American flag; first raised by Lieutenant John Paul Jones in Commodore Esek Hopkins's flagship Alfred [December 3, 1775]  Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Anonymous Motto on Thomas Jefferson's seal [c. 1776] Lost is our old simplicity of times, The world abounds with laws, and teems with crimes. Anonymous On the Proceedings Against America, st. 1 Our cargoes of meat, drink, and clothes beat the Dutch. Anonymous Siege of Boston [1775] There were three gypsies a-come to my door, And downstairs ran this lady, O! One sang high and another sang low, And the other sang bonny, bonny Biscay, O! Anonymous The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies, O!st. 1 She's gone with the wraggle-taggle gypsies, O! Anonymous The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies, O!st. 2 Down in the valley, the valley so low, Hang your head over, hear the wind blow. Anonymous Down in the Valley  The goose hangs high. Anonymous Saying O Paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round? The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground! No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen, For there's a cruel law agin the wearin' o' the Green! Anonymous The Wearing o' the Green [c. 1795] For they're hangin' men an' women there for wearin' o' the Green. Anonymous The Wearing o' the Green [c. 1795] With drums and guns, and guns and drums The enemy nearly slew ye. My darling dear, you look so queer, Oh, Johnny, I hardly knew ye. Anonymous Irish folk song, st. 1 Here we are on Tom Tiddler's ground Picking up gold and silver. Anonymous Children's game Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, Please to put a penny in the old man's hat; If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do, If you haven't got a ha'penny, God bless you! Anonymous Beggar's rhyme From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! Anonymous Cornish prayer Rest and be thankful. Anonymous Inscription on stone seat in the Scottish Highlands, nand title of one of Wordsworth's poems The wisdom of many and the wit of one. Anonymous Definition of a proverb Don't cross the bridge until you come to it. Anonymous Proverb It's gude to be merry and wise, It's gude to be honest and true; It's gude to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. Anonymous Rhyme Oh, ye'll tak' the high road an' I'll tak' the low road, An' I'll be in Scotland before ye; But me and my true love will never meet again, On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond. Anonymous Loch Lomond, refrain The woods are full of them. Anonymous Quoted by Alexander Wilson, American Ornithology [1808], preface I wooed her in the wintertime And in the summer too; And the only, only thing I did that was wrong Was to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew. Anonymous The Foggy, Foggy Dew, st. 1 Turkey in the straw, turkey in the hay, Roll 'em up and twist 'em up a high tuckahaw, And hit 'em up a tune called Turkey in the Straw. Anonymous Turkey in the Straw,st. 1 and refrain Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn, I never was so happy since the hour I was born. Anonymous Turkey in the Straw,st. 6 Jimmie crack corn and I don't care, Old Massa's gone away. Anonymous The Blue-tail Fly, chorus Give me that old-time religion, It's good enough for me. Anonymous Hymn It was good for Paul and Silas And it's good enough for me. Anonymous Hymn I've been working on the railroad All the livelong day, I've been working on the railroad To pass the time away. Don't you hear the whistle blowing? Rise up so early in the morn. Don't you hear the captain shouting, "Dinah blow your horn." Anonymous I've Been Working on the Railroad When [or Since] Hector was a pup. 1 Anonymous American saying 1 See Ogden Nash OK. Anonymous Secret name for New York Democratic clubs in the 1840 presidential campaign; derived from Old Kinderhook, the home of Martin Van Buren Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight, And dance by the light of the moon? Anonymous Buffalo Gals Women and children first. Anonymous The Birkenhead Dril [February 26, 1852] Up and down the City Road, In and out the Eagle, That's the way the money goes- Pop goes the weasel! Anonymous Pop Goes the Weasel [c. 1853]  Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont. Anonymous Republican party rallying cry [1856]  Muscular Christianity. Anonymous Popular term for Christian social reform in England It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell. Anonymous The Chicago Times [1861] Dirty work at the crossroads. Anonymous Attributed toWalter Melville's melodrama The Girl Who Took the Wrong Turning; or, No Wedding Bells for Him The man on horseback. Anonymous Popular term for General Georges Ernest Boulanger [1837-1891]  All I want of you is a little seevility, and that of the commonest goddamnedest kind. Anonymous The New Bedford Classic, as reported inZephaniah W. Pease, The History of New Bedford [1918]. Supposed to be said by the mate of a whaler to his ill-humored captain John Henry told his captain, Says, "A man ain't nothin' but a man, And before I'd let your steam drill beat me down, Lord, I'd die with this hammer in my hand. Anonymous John Henry You-all means a race or section, Family, party, tribe, or clan; You-all means the whole connection Of the individual man. Anonymous You-All; from the Richmond Times-Dispatch Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules; Of Hector, and Lysander, and such great names as these; But of all the world's brave heroes, there's none that can compare With a tow, row, row, row, row, row for the British Grenadier. Anonymous The British Grenadiers From the halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli, We fight our country's battles On the land as on the sea. Anonymous The Marines' Hymn [1847], 1 st. 1 1 See Anonymous There is a tavern in the town, And there my true love sits him down, And drinks his wine with laughter and with glee, And never, never thinks of me. Anonymous There Is a Tavern in the Town, st. 1 Adieu, adieu, kind friends, adieu, adieu, adieu, I can no longer stay with you. I'll hang my harp on a weeping willow-tree, 1 And may the world go well with thee. Anonymous lb. refrain 1 See Psalm 137:2 I belong to that highly respectable tribe Which is known as the Shabby Genteel . . . Too proud to beg, too honest to steal. 1 Anonymous The Shabby Genteel; sung by Sol Smith Russell [1848-1901] in A Poor Relation 1 See Luke 16:3 The sons of the prophet are brave men and bold, And quite unaccustomed to fear, But the bravest by far in the ranks of the Shah Was Abdullah Bulbul Amir. Anonymous Abdullah Bulbul Amir,st. 1 Now the heroes were plenty and well known to fame In the troops that were led by the Czar, And the bravest of these was a man by the name Of Ivan Petrofski Skevar. Anonymous Abdullah Bulbul Amir,st. 3 Is that Mr. Reilly, can anyone tell? Is that Mr. Reilly that owns the hotel? Well, if that's Mr. Reilly, they speak of so highly, Upon me soul, Reilly, you're doin' quite well. Anonymous Is That Mr. Reilly? [1882], chorus Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. Anonymous Quoted by Samuel Smiles [1812-1904], in Life and Labor [1887] Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. Anonymous Practice sentence used in typewriting The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Anonymous Practice sentence used in typewriting(using whole alphabet)  As Maine goes, so goes the nation. Anonymous American political maxim [c. 1888] Slide, Kelly, Slide. Anonymous Title of song by J. W. Kelly [1889] Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one! Anonymous Rhyme popular after the murder trial of Lizzie Borden, Fall River, Massachusetts [June 1893] Out in the fields with God! Anonymous Out in the Fields  Remember the Maine! Anonymous Slogan in the Spanish-American War [1898] Frankie and Johnny were lovers, my gawd, how they could love, Swore to be true to each other, true as the stars above; He was her man, but he done her wrong. Anonymous Frankie and Johnny, st. 1 The halls of fame are open wide And they are always full; Some go in by the door called "push," And some by the door called "pull." Anonymous Quoted by Stanley Baldwin [1867-1947] in a speech in the House of Commons The codfish lays ten thousand eggs, The homely hen lays one. The codfish never cackles To tell you what she's done. And so we scorn the codfish, While the humble hen we prize, Which only goes to show you That it pays to advertise. Anonymous It Pays to Advertise One white foot-try him, Two white feet-buy him, Three white feet-look well about him; Four white feet-go without him. Anonymous Rhyme for a horse-buyer An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Anonymous Current since the 19th century Time is of the essence. Anonymous Saying All the world is queer save me and thee; and sometimes I think thee is a little queer. Anonymous Attributed to a Quaker, speaking to his wife Everyone has at least one sermon in him. Anonymous Saying You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much. Anonymous Attributed to James Barnes [1866-1936] I seen my duty and I done it. Anonymous Current since the 19th century Keeping up with the Joneses. Anonymous Popular saying  Paying through the nose. Anonymous Popular phrase for excessive payment  Doesn't amount to Hannah Cook. Anonymous Saying common in Maine and on Cape Cod Hit's a lot worse to be soul-hungry than to be body-hungry. Anonymous A Kentucky mountain woman asking for her granddaughter to be admitted to Berea College high school [c. 1900]. Quoted byCarl R. Woodward in The Wonderful World of Books, edited by Alfred Stefferud [1953]  Anyone who has to ask the cost can't afford it. Anonymous Saying [1900s] There ain't no such animal. Anonymous Caption for cartoon of a farmer at the circus looking at a dromedary. From Life [November 7, 1907], credited to Everybody's Magazine How old is Ann? Anonymous Popular phrase for "who knows?" [early 20th century] The Pyramids first, which in Egypt were laid; Next Babylon's Garden, for Amytis made; Then Mausolos' Tomb of affection and guilt; Fourth, the Temple of Dian in Ephesus built; The Colossus of Rhodes, cast in brass, to the Sun; Sixth, Jupiter's Statue, by Phidias done; The Pharos of Egypt comes last, we are told, Or the Palace of Cyrus, cemented with gold. Anonymous Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Use it up, wear it out; Make it do, or do without. Anonymous New England maxim Earned a precarious living by taking in one another's washing. Anonymous Saying Something old, something new, Something borrowed, something blue, And a lucky sixpence in her shoe. Anonymous Wedding rhyme God looks after fools, drunkards, and the United States. Anonymous Epigram Oh, why don't you work Like other men do? How the hell can I work When there's no work to do? Anonymous Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [c. 1907] Old soldiers never die; They only fade away! 1 Anonymous British Army song [c. 1915] 1 See MacArthur She was poor but she was honest, 1 And her parents was the same, Till she met a city feller, And she lost her honest name. Anonymous Song [c. 1915] 1 See Shakespeare It's the same the whole world over, It's the poor wot gets the blame, It's the rich wot gets the pleasure, Ain't it all a bloomin' shame? Anonymous Song [c. 1915]chorus  Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong. Anonymous Saying popular with American soldiers during World War I [1917-1918] Say it ain't so, Joe. Anonymous Small boy to "Shoeless Joe" Jackson of the Chicago White Sox, as he emerged from a grand jury session [1920] on corruption in the 1919 World Series  Don't sell America short. Anonymous Saying [c. 1925] Lord, through this hour Be Thou our Guide, So by Thy power No foot shall slide. Anonymous Westminster Chimes Climb high Climb far Your goal the sky Your aim the star. Anonymous Inscription on Hopkins Memorial Steps, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter: Hang your clothes on a hickory limb And don't go near the water. Anonymous Rhyme See the happy moron, He doesn't give a damn. I wish I were a moron- My God, perhaps I am! Anonymous Rhyme The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. Anonymous Slogan of United States Army Service Forces Kilroy was here. 1 Anonymous Army saying, World War II 1 See Faulkner SNAFU (Situation Normal All Fouled Up). Anonymous Army saying, World War II G.I. Joe. Anonymous World War II term for infantryman And when he goes to heaven To Saint Peter he will tell: Another Marine reporting, sir; I've served my time in hell! Anonymous Epitaph on grave of Pfc. Cameron of the Marine Corps, Guadalcanal [1942] Stay with me, God. The night is dark, The night is cold: my little spark Of courage dies. The night is long; Be with me, God, and make me strong. Anonymous A Soldier-His Prayer, st. 1 We sure liberated the hell out of this place. Anonymous American soldier in the ruins of a French village [1944]; quoted by Max Miller, The Far Shore [1945] Spartan simplicity must be observed. Nothing will be done merely because it contributes to beauty, convenience, comfort, or prestige. Anonymous From the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army [May 29, 1945] Education is what you have left over after you have forgotten everything you have learned. Anonymous Saying  Time is a river without banks. Anonymous Saying Till Hell freezes over. Anonymous Saying One man, one vote. Anonymous Civil rights slogan We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome some day Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day. Anonymous Adapted [1960s] for the civil rights movement from an old religious song This is the grave of Mike O'Day Who died maintaining his right of way. His right was clear, his will was strong, But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong. Anonymous Rhyme [20th century] Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate. Anonymous Instructions on punch cards and computer cards [c. 1930s] That's the way the cookie crumbles. Anonymous Saying [1950s] Garbage in, garbage out (gigo). Anonymous Computerists' aphorism [1950s] Black is beautiful. 1 Anonymous Slogan [1960s] 1 See Hughes Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. Anonymous Saying, often attributed to Vince Lombardi  Eyeball to eyeball. Anonymous Common expression America, love it or leave it. Anonymous Slogan [1960s] It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it. Anonymous Attributed to an American officer firing on Ben Tre, Vietnam [February 8, 1968] Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Anonymous Wall slogan [1970s] Expletive deleted. Anonymous White House transcripts [published 1974] Anonymous In the time when Dendid created all things, He created the sun, And the sun is born, and dies, and comes again. Anonymous, African Old Song (Dinka) He created man, And man is born, and dies, and does not come again. Anonymous, African Old Song (Dinka) Somewhere the Sky touches the Earth, and the name of that place is the End. Anonymous, African Saying (Wakamba) All animals of the forest are alike, though we eat some and not others, because we the Dorobo and the animals all live side by side in the forest. Anonymous, African From a Dorobo Everything has an end. Anonymous, African Saying (Masai) When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. Anonymous, African Proverb (Kikuyu) Haste, haste, has no blessing. Anonymous, African Proverb (Swahili) To the person who seizes two things, one always slips from his grasp! Anonymous, African Proverb (Swahili) The lie has seven endings. Anonymous, African Proverb (Swahili) Goodness sold itself, badness flaunted itself about. Anonymous, African Proverb (Swahili) Speak silver, reply gold. Anonymous, African Proverb (Swahili) The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken. Anonymous, African Proverb (Swahili) Wisdom is not bought. Anonymous, African Proverb (Akan) Not even God is wise enough. Anonymous, African Proverb (Yoruba) Leave a log in the water as long as you like: it will never be a crocodile. Anonymous, African Proverb (Guinea-Bissau) Anonymous The king sits in Dunfermline town Drinking the blude-red wine. Anonymous, Ballads Sir Patrick Spens,st. 1 To Noroway, to Noroway, To Noroway o'er the faem; The king's daughter o' Noroway, 'Tis thou must bring her hame. Anonymous, Ballads Sir Patrick Spens,st. 4 I saw the new moon late yestreen Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm. Anonymous, Ballads Sir Patrick Spens,st. 10 O laith, laith were our gude Scots lords To wet their cork-heel'd shoon; But lang or a' the play was play'd They wat their hats aboon. Anonymous, Ballads Sir Patrick Spens,st. 15 Half owre, half owre to Aberdour, 'Tis fifty fathoms deep; And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens, Wi' the Scots lords at his feet! Anonymous, Ballads Sir Patrick Spens,st. 19 "And what will ye leave to your ain mither dear, Edward, Edward?" Anonymous, Ballads Edward, Edward, st. 7 "The curse of hell frae me sall ye bear, Sic counsels ye give to me, O!" Anonymous, Ballads Edward, Edward, st. 7 Fight on, my merry men all; For why, my life is at an end. Anonymous, Ballads Chevy Chase A fairer lady there never was seen Than the blind beggar's daughter of Bethnal Green. Anonymous, Ballads The Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green, st. 33 When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt, Did march to the siege of the city of Gaunt, They mustered their soldiers by two and by three, And the foremost in battle was Mary Ambree. Anonymous, Ballads Mary Ambree, st. 1 "I'll rest," said he, "but thou shalt walk"; So doth this wandering Jew From place to place, but cannot rest For seeing countries new. Anonymous, Ballads The Wandering Jew, st. 9 Glasgerion swore a full great oath, By oak, and ash and thorn. 1 Anonymous, Ballads Glasgerion, st. 19 1 See Kipling In Scarlet town, where I was born, There was a fair maid dwellin', Made every youth cry Well-a-way! Her name was Barbara Allen.All in the merry month of May, When green buds they were swellin', Young Jemmy Grove on his deathbed lay, For love of Barbara Allen. Anonymous, Ballads Barbara Allen's Cruelty,st. 1, 2 So slowly, slowly rase she up, And slowly she came nigh him, And when she drew the curtain by- "Young man, I think you're dyin'." Anonymous, Ballads Barbara Allen's Cruelty,st. 4 True Thomas lay on Huntlie Bank; A ferlie he spied wi' his e'e; And there he saw a lady bright Come riding down by the Eildon Tree. Anonymous, Ballads Thomas the Rhymer, st. 1 "A bed, a bed," Clerk Saunders said, "A bed for you and me!" "Fye na, fye na," said may Margaret, "Till anes we married be!" Anonymous, Ballads Clerk Saunders, st. 2 There were twa sisters sat in a bour; Binnorie, O Binnorie! There came a knight to be their wooer, By the bonnie milldams o' Binnorie. Anonymous, Ballads Binnorie, st. 1 There were three ravens sat on a tree, They were as black as they might be.The one of them said to his mate, "Where shall we our breakfast take?" Anonymous, Ballads The Three Ravens,st. 1, 2 Down there came a fallow doe As great with young as she might go. Anonymous, Ballads The Three Ravens,st. 6 She buried him before the prime, She was dead herself ere evensong time.God send every gentleman Such hounds, such hawks, and such leman. Anonymous, Ballads The Three Ravens,st. 9, 10 Mony a one for him maks mane, But nane sall ken where he is gane: O'er his white banes, when they are bare, The wind sall blaw for evermair. Anonymous, Ballads The Twa Corbies, st. 5 Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands, O where hae ye been? They hae slain the Earl of Murray, And laid him on the green. Anonymous, Ballads The Bonny Earl of Murray, st. 1 O waly, waly, up the bank, And waly, waly, doun the brae, And waly, waly, yon burnside, Where I and my Love wont to gae! Anonymous, Ballads Waly, Waly, st. 1 "What gat ye to your dinner, Lord Randal, my son? What gat ye to your dinner, my handsome young man?" "I gat eels boil'd in broo'; mother, make my bed soon, For I'm weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down." Anonymous, Ballads Lord Randal Anonymous As I was a-walking one morning for pleasure, I spied a cowpuncher a-riding along. Anonymous, Cowboy Songs Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along, Little Dogies Whoopee ti yi yo, git along, little dogies, It's your misfortune and none of my own, Whoopee ti yi yo, git along, little dogies, For you know Wyoming will be your new home. Anonymous, Cowboy Songs Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along, Little Dogies My foot in the stirrup, my pony won't stand, Good-bye, Old Paint, I'm a-leavin' Cheyenne. Anonymous, Cowboy Songs Good-bye Old Paint Foot in the stirrup and hand on the horn, Best damned cowboy ever was born. Come-a ti yi youpy, youpy yea, youpy yea, Come-a ti yi youpy, youpy yea. Anonymous, Cowboy Songs The Old Chisholm Trail Last night as I lay on the prairie, And looked at the stars in the sky, I wondered if ever a cowboy Would drift to that sweet bye-and-bye. Anonymous, Cowboy Songs The Cowboy's Dream As I walked out in the streets of Laredo, As I walked out in Laredo one day, I spied a poor cowboy wrapped up in white linen, Wrapped up in white linen as cold as the clay. Anonymous, Cowboy Songs The Cowboy's Lament,st. 1 Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly, Play the Dead March as you carry me along; Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod o'er me, For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong. Anonymous, Cowboy Songs The Cowboy's Lament,refrain Oh bury me not on the lone prairie Where the wild coyotes will howl o'er me. Anonymous, Cowboy Songs The Dying Cowboy Oh, bury me out on the prairie, Where the coyotes may howl o'er my grave. Anonymous, Cowboy Songs Bury Me Out on the Prairie Remember the Red River Valley And the cowboy that loves you so true. Anonymous, Cowboy Songs Red River Valley Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day. Anonymous, Cowboy Songs Home on the Range [1873] Anonymous Revenons a nos moutons [Let us return to our sheep-i.e., subject]. Anonymous, French Ma[icirc ]tre Pathelin (15th-century farce) Il ne faut pas [ecirc ]tre plus royaliste que le roi [One must not be more royalist than the king]. Anonymous, French Saying from the time of Louis XVI [Ccedil]a ira, ca tiendra [That will be, that will last]. Anonymous, French Revolutionary song, based on a phrase of Benjamin Franklin's Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite! [Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!] Anonymous, French Phrase from before the French Revolution, officially adopted in 1793 Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse [Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls]. Anonymous, French Proverb Ah, les bons vieux temps o[ugrave] nous etions si malheureux! [Oh, the good old times when we were so unhappy!] Anonymous, French Saying L'amour, l'amour fait tourner le monde [It's love, it's love that makes the world go round]. 1 Anonymous, French Song 1 See Gilbert On ne saurait faire une omelette sans casser des oeufs [You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs]. Anonymous, French Proverb Ami, entends-tu Le vol noir-des corbeaux-sur nos plaines . . . Ami, entends-tu Les cris sourds-du pays-qu'on enchaine. Anonymous, French Song of the Partisans [1940s] Au clair de la lune, Mon ami Pierrot, Pr[ecirc ]te-moi ta plume Pour ecrire un mot. Anonymous, French Au Clair de la Lune Anonymous Screaming the night away With his great wing feathers Swooping the darkness up; I hear the Eagle bird Pulling the blanket back Off from the eastern sky. Anonymous, North American Indian Invitation Song (Iroquois) Holy Mother Earth, the trees and all nature, are witnesses of your thoughts and deeds. Anonymous, North American Indian Saying (Winnebago) A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. Anonymous, North American Indian Saying (Sioux) Out of the earth I sing for them a Horse nation . . . I sing for them the animals. Anonymous, North American Indian I Sing for the Animals (Teton Sioux) O our Mother the Earth, O our Father the Sky, Your children are we, and with tired backs We bring you gifts. Anonymous, North American Indian Song of the Sky Loom (Tewa) May the warp be the white light of morning, May the weft be the red light of evening, May the fringes be the falling rain, May the border be the standing rainbow. Thus weave for us a garment of brightness. Anonymous, North American Indian Song of the Sky Loom (Tewa) Lovely! See the cloud, the cloud appear! Lovely! See the rain, the rain draw near! Who spoke? It was the little corn ear High on the tip of the stalk. Anonymous, North American Indian Corn-grinding Song (Zuni) Big Blue Mountain Spirit, The home made of blue clouds . . . I am grateful for that mode of goodness there. Anonymous, North American Indian Chant (Apache) The black turkey gobbler, the tips of his beautiful tail; above us the dawn becomes yellow. The sunbeams stream forward. Anonymous, North American Indian Black Turkey Gobbler Chant (Apache) House made of dawn, House made of evening light, House made of the dark cloud. . . . Dark cloud is at the house's door, The trail out of it is dark cloud, The zigzag lightning stands high upon it. Anonymous, North American Indian Night Chant (Navaho) Happily may I walk. May it be beautiful before me. May it be beautiful behind me. May it be beautiful below me. May it be beautiful above me. May it be beautiful all around me. In beauty it is finished. Anonymous, North American Indian Night Chant (Navaho) Lo, the Turquoise Horse of Johano-ai . . . There he spurneth dust of glittering grains- How joyous his neigh. Anonymous, North American Indian Song of the Horse (Navaho) Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return. Anonymous, North American Indian War Chant (Navaho) The ancient folk with evil spells, dashed to earth, plowed under! Anonymous, North American Indian War Chant (Navaho) Quarry mine, blessed am I In the luck of the chase. Comes the deer to my singing. Anonymous, North American Indian Hunting Song (Navaho) Idlers and cowards are here at home now, But the youth I love is gone to war, far hence. Weary, lonely, for me he longs. Anonymous, North American Indian Wind Song (Kiowa) In the beginning God gave to every people a cup of clay, and from this cup they drank their life. Anonymous, North American Indian Proverb (Northern Paiute) As long as the moon shall rise, As long as the rivers shall flow, As long as the sun shall shine, As long as the grass shall grow. Anonymous, North American Indian Expression for term of a treaty It ended . . . With his body changed to light, A star that burns forever in that sky. Anonymous, North American Indian The Flight of Quetzalcoatl (Aztec) I was out in my kayak . . . and the seal came gently toward me. Why didn't I harpoon him? Was I sorry for him? Was it the day, the spring day, the seal playing in the sun like me? Anonymous, North American Indian Spring Fjord (Eskimo) Anonymous A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes A Man of Words and Not of Deeds It's like a lion at the door; And when the door begins to crack, It's like a stick across your back; And when your back begins to smart, It's like a penknife in your heart; And when your heart begins to bleed, You're dead, and dead, and dead, indeed. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes A Man of Words and Not of Deeds Cock a doodle doo! My dame has lost her shoe; My master's lost his fiddle stick, And knows not what to do. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Cock a Doodle Doo Three blind mice, see how they run! They all ran after the farmer's wife, She cut off their tails with a carving knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three blind mice? Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Three Blind Mice A frog he would a-wooing go. Sing heigh-ho says Rowley. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go With a rowley powley gammon and spinach, Heigh-ho says Anthony Rowley. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes A Frog He Would A-Wooing Gochorus Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he, He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Old King Cole The King of France went up the hill With forty thousand men; The King of France came down the hill And ne'er went up again. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes The King of France Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean; And so betwixt them both, They licked the platter clean. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Jack Sprat Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Rain, Rain Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man, Bake me a cake as fast as you can; Pat it and prick it, and mark it with B, Put it in the oven for baby and me. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Pat-a-Cake The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown; The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown; Some gave them plum cake, And sent them out of town. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes The Lion and the Unicorn Little Jack Horner sat in the corner, Eating a Christmas pie. He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!" Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Little Jack Horner London Bridge is broken down, My fair lady. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes London Bridge Tell tale tit, Your tongue shall be slit, And all the dogs in our town Shall have a bit. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Tell Tale Tit As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives? Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes As I Was Going to St. Ives The man in the wilderness asked of me How many strawberries grew in the sea. I answered him as I thought good, "As many as red herrings grow in the wood." Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes The Man in the Wilderness Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home, Your house is on fire, and your children will burn. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Ladybug, Ladybug Hickory dickory dock, The mouse ran up the clock, The clock struck one, The mouse ran down; Hickory dickory dock. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Hickory Dickory Dock Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes, sir, yes, sir, Three bags full: One for my master, And one for my dame, And one for the little boy Who lives down the lane. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockleshells, And pretty maids all in a row. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement's. You owe me five farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's. When will you pay me? Say the bells of Old Bailey. When I grow rich, Say the bells of Shoreditch. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Oranges and Lemons Here comes a candle to light you to bed, Here comes a chopper to chop off your head. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Oranges and Lemons "Who killed Cock Robin?" "I," said the sparrow, "With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin." 1 Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Who Killed Cock Robin? 1 See Byron "Who saw him die?" "I," said the fly, "With my little eye, I saw him die." Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Who Killed Cock Robin? This little pig went to market; This little pig stayed home; This little pig had roast beef; This little pig had none; And this little pig cried, Wee, wee, wee! All the way home. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes This Little Pig Little boy blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn; But where is the boy who looks after the sheep? He's under the haystack fast asleep. Will you wake him? No, not I, For if I do, he'll be sure to cry. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Little Boy Blue Simple Simon met a pieman Going to the fair: Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware." Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Simple Simon Ding dong bell, Pussy's in the well. Who put her in? Little Johnny Green. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Ding Dong Bell Little Tom Tucker Sings for his supper; What shall he eat? White bread and butter. How will he cut it Without e'er a knife? How will he be married Without e'er a wife? Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Little Tom Tucker Crosspatch, draw the latch, Set by the fire and spin: Take a cup and drink it up, Then call your neighbors in. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Crosspatch High diddle diddle The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such craft And the dish ran away with the spoon. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes High Diddle Diddle Three wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl: And if the bowl had been stronger, My song had been longer. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Three Wise Men of Gotham Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Jack and Jill Seesaw, Margery Daw, Jacky shall have a new master; Jacky must have but a penny a day, Because he can work no faster. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Seesaw, Margery Daw Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief; Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef. I went to Taffy's house, Taffy wasn't in; Taffy came to my house and stole a marrowbone. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Taffy Was a Welshman The Queen of Hearts She made some tarts, All on a summer's day; The Knave of Hearts He stole the tarts, And took them clean away. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes The Queen of Hearts Bye baby bunting, Daddy's gone a-hunting. Gone to get a rabbit skin To wrap the baby bunting in. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Bye Baby Bunting Come, let's to bed, Says Sleepyhead; Tarry awhile, says Slow; Put on the pot, Says Greedy-gut, We'll sup before we go. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Let's to Bed Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail, The best man among them durst not touch her tail. She put out her horns like a little Kyloe cow, Run, tailors, run, or she'll kill you all e'en now. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Four and Twenty Tailors Goosey goosey gander, Whither shall I wander? Upstairs and downstairs, And in my lady's chamber; There I met an old man who wouldn't say his prayers; I took him by the left leg And threw him down the stairs. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Goosey Goosey Gander Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie; When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before a king?The king was in his countinghouse Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor Eating bread and honey; The maid was in the garden Hanging out the clothes, Along came a blackbird, And snipped off her nose. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Sing a Song of Sixpence There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do; She gave them some broth without any bread, She whipped them all soundly and put them to bed. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes There Was an Old Woman Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross, To see a fine lady upon a white horse; Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, She shall have music wherever she goes. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Ride a Cockhorse Tom, Tom, the piper's son, He learned to play when he was young. But all the tune that he could play Was "Over the hills and far away." 1 2 Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son 1 See Gay 2 See Tennyson Tom, Tom, the piper's son, Stole a pig, and away he run; The pig was eat, and Tom was beat, And Tom went howling down the street. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son "Where are you going to, my pretty maid?" "I'm going a-milking, sir," she said. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Where Are You Going To, My Pretty Maid? "My face is my fortune, sir," she said. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Where Are You Going To, My Pretty Maid? "Nobody asked you, sir," she said. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Where Are You Going To, My Pretty Maid? One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns; If you have no daughters, give them to your sons. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Hot Cross Buns Pease-porridge hot, pease-porridge cold, Pease-porridge in the pot, nine days old. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Pease-Porridge Hot Curlylocks, Curlylocks, Wilt thou be mine? Thou shalt not wash dishes Nor yet feed the swine, But sit on a cushion And sew a fine seam, And feed upon strawberries, Sugar and cream. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Curlylocks I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear; The king of Spain's daughter came to visit me, And all for the sake of my little nut tree. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes I Had a Little Nut Tree Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king's horses And all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Humpty Dumpty Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And cannot tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Little Bo-peep Little Polly Flinders Sat among the cinders, Warming her pretty little toes. Her mother came and caught her, And whipped her little daughter For spoiling her nice new clothes. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Little Polly Flinders There was an old woman tossed in a blanket, Seventeen times as high as the moon; But where she was going no mortal could tell, For under her arm she carried a broom. Old woman, old woman, old woman, said I, Whither, ah whither, ah whither so high? To sweep the cobwebs from the sky, And I'll be with you by and by. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes There Was an Old Woman The north wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor robin do then, Poor thing? He'll sit in a barn, To keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, Poor thing! Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes The North Wind Doth Blow Old mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To fetch her poor dog a bone; But when she came there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Old Mother Hubbard Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been? I've been to London to look at the queen. Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there? I frightened a little mouse under the chair. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Pussy Cat Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers; A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Peter Piper Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child has to work for its living, But a child that's born on the Sabbath day Is fair and wise and good and gay. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Monday's Child Is Fair of Face Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday: This is the end Of Solomon Grundy. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Solomon Grundy What are little boys made of? Snips and snails, and puppy dogs' tails; That's what little boys are made of. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes What Are Little Boys Made Of? What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, and everything nice; That's what little girls are made of. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes What Are Little Boys Made Of? Hickety pickety, my black hen, She lays eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day To see what my black hen doth lay. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Hickety Pickety Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating some curds and whey. Along came a spider, And sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Little Miss Muffet Peter, Peter Pumpkin-Eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her. He put her in a pumpkin shell, And there he kept her very well. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Peter, Peter Pumpkin-Eater Jack, be nimble, Jack, be quick, Jack, jump over the candlestick. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Jack Be Nimble There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes There Was a Crooked Man Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John, He went to bed with his stockings on; One shoe off, one shoe on; Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Diddle Diddle Dumpling Rub-a-dub-dub, Three men in a tub, And who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, The candlestick-maker; Turn 'em out, knaves all three! Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Rub-a-Dub-Dub I saw three ships come sailing by, Come sailing by, come sailing by, I saw three ships come sailing by, On New Year's Day in the morning. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes I Saw Three Ships In fir tar is, In oak none is. In mud eel is, In clay none is. Goats eat ivy. Mares eat oats. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes In Fir Tar Is Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it; There was not a penny in it, But a ribbon round it. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Lucy Locket There were three jolly huntsmen, As I have heard them say, And they would go a-hunting Upon St. David's Day. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes There Were Three Jolly Huntsmen All day they hunted, And nothing did they find, But a ship a-sailing, A-sailing with the wind. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes There Were Three Jolly Huntsmen O do you know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man, O do you know the muffin man, That lives in Drury Lane? Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes The Muffin Man To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, Home again, home again, jiggety-jig. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes To Market, To Market Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle, up to his middle, And never went there again. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Doctor Foster There was an old woman Lived under a hill; And if she's not gone, She lives there still. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes There Was an Old Woman There was a little man, and he had a little gun, And his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead; He went to the brook, and saw a little duck, And shot it through the head, head, head. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes There Was a Little Man Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green; When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Lavender's Blue A dillar, a dollar, A ten o'clock scholar, What makes you come so soon? You used to come at ten o'clock, And now you come at noon. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes A Dillar, a Dollar One flew east, one flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes One Flew East I had a little pony, His name was Dapple Gray; I lent him to a lady To ride a mile away. She whipped him, she slashed him, She rode him through the mire; I would not lend my pony now For all the lady's hire. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes I Had a Little Pony Polly, put the kettle on, We'll all have tea. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Polly, Put the Kettle On, st. 1 Sukey, take it off again, They've all gone away. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Polly, Put the Kettle On, st. 1 Little Tommy Tittlemouse Lived in a little house; He caught fishes In other men's ditches. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Little Tommy Tittlemouse The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell, Heigho! the derry oh, the farmer in the dell. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes The Farmer in the Dell Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town; Some in rags, some in tags, And some in velvet gowns. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Hark! Hark! Ten little Indians standing in a line- One went home, and then there were nine. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Ten Little Indians When good King Arthur ruled this land, He was a goodly king, He bought three pecks of barley meal, To make a bag pudding. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Good King Arthur One misty, moisty morning, When cloudy was the weather, I chanced to meet an old man Clothed all in leather; He began to compliment, And I began to grin- "How do you do?" and "How do you do?" And "How do you do?" again! Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes One Misty, Moisty Morning Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea, Silver buckles on his knee; He'll come back and marry me, Pretty Bobby Shaftoe. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Bobby Shaftoe Fe fi fo fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman; Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Fe Fi Fo Fum Sing, sing! What shall I sing? The cat's run away with the pudding-bag string. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Sing, Sing! What Shall I Sing? Shoe the horse, shoe the mare, But let the little colt go bare. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Shoe the Horse There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise; He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes There Was a Man in Our Town There were two blackbirds, Sitting on a hill, The one named Jack, The other named Jill; Fly away, Jack! Fly away, Jill! Come again, Jack! Come again, Jill! Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes Two Blackbirds This is the farmer sowing the corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. Anonymous, Nursery Rhymes The House That Jack Built Anonymous Let the woman into Paradise, she'll bring her cow along. Anonymous, Russian Proverb An egg is dear on Easter Day. Anonymous, Russian Proverb To live a life through is not like crossing a field. 1 Anonymous, Russian Proverb 1 See Pasternak The eggs do not teach the hen. Anonymous, Russian Proverb Without a shepherd sheep are not a flock. Anonymous, Russian Proverb Live with wolves, howl like a wolf. Anonymous, Russian Proverb Anonymous Whiskey is the life of man, Whiskey, Johnny! Oh, I'll drink whiskey while I can, Whiskey for my Johnny! Anonymous, Shanties Whiskey Johnny Oh, blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down! To me way-aye, blow the man down. Oh, blow the man down, bullies, blow him right down! Give me some time to blow the man down! Anonymous, Shanties Blow the Man Down What shall we do with the drunken sailor, Early in the morning? Anonymous, Shanties The Drunken Sailor Hooray and up she rises Early in the morning. Anonymous, Shanties The Drunken Sailorchorus Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Way-hay, you rolling river! Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Ha-ha, we're bound away, 'Cross the wide Missouri! Anonymous, Shanties Shenandoah A-roving, a-roving, Since roving's been my ru-i-in, I'll go no more a-roving With you, fair maid! Anonymous, Shanties A-Roving Glos'ter girls they have no combs, Heave away, heave away! They comb their hair with codfish bones. Anonymous, Shanties The Codfish Shanty Oh, you New York girls, can't you dance the polka? Anonymous, Shanties Can't You Dance the Polka? Good-bye, fare you well! We're homeward bound for New York town, Hurrah, my boys, we're homeward bound! Anonymous, Shanties Good-bye, Fare You Well Oh, the times are hard and the wages low; Leave her, Johnny, leave her! I'll pack my bag and go below. It's time for us to leave her! Anonymous, Shanties Leave Her, Johnny There were two lofty ships, from old England they set sail, Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we! . . . Cruising down along the shores of High Barbaree! Anonymous, Shanties High Barbaree There was a ship came from the north country, And the name of the ship was the Golden Vanity. And they feared she might be taken by the Turkish enemy, That sails upon the Lowland, Lowland, Lowland, That sails upon the Lowland sea. Anonymous, Shanties The Golden Vanity Then blow ye winds, heigh-ho! A-roving I will go, I'll stay no more on England's shore, To hear the music play. I'm off on the morning train To cross the raging main, I'm taking a trip on a Government ship, Ten thousand miles away! Anonymous, Shanties Ten Thousand Miles Away There is a flash packet, flash packet of fame, She hails from New York and the Dreadnought's her name. Anonymous, Shanties The Dreadnought She's the Liverpool packet-O Lord, let her go! Anonymous, Shanties The Dreadnought Anonymous A enemigo que huye puente de plata [If your enemy turns to flee, give him a silver bridge]. Anonymous, Spanish Proverb Al que madruga Dios le ayuda [God helps those who get up early]. Anonymous, Spanish Proverb Con pan y vino se anda el camino [With bread and wine you can walk your road]. Anonymous, Spanish Proverb El pez muere por la boca [The fish dies because he opens his mouth]. Anonymous, Spanish Proverb El que se sienta en la puerta de su casa vera pasar el cadaver de su enemigo [He who sits at the door of his house will watch his enemy's corpse go by]. Anonymous, Spanish Proverb En boca cerrada no entran moscas [The close mouth swallows no flies]. Anonymous, Spanish Proverb En casa del lenero cuchillo de palo [In the woodsman's house the knives are of wood]. Anonymous, Spanish Proverb No por mucho madrugar amanece mas temprano [Dawn comes no sooner for the early riser]. Anonymous, Spanish Proverb Quien bien te quiere te hara llorar [Whoever really loves you will make you cry]. Anonymous, Spanish Proverb El oro y amores eran malos de encubrir [Gold and love affairs are difficult to hide]. 1 Anonymous, Spanish Proverb 1 See George Herbert Dios te tenga en su santa mano [God keep you in his holy hand]. Anonymous, Spanish A farewell Anonymous Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, Nobody knows but Jesus. Anonymous, Spirituals Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, And the walls come tumbling down. 1 Anonymous, Spirituals Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho 1 See Joshua 6:20 Go down, Moses, Way down in Egypt land, Tell old Pharaoh, Let my people go. 1 Anonymous, Spirituals Go Down, Moses 1 See Exodus 5:1 Free at last, free at last, Thank God Almighty, we're free at last. Anonymous, Spirituals Free at Last I looked over Jordan, and what did I see? . . . A band of angels coming after me, Coming for to carry me home. Anonymous, Spirituals Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,st. 1 Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home. Anonymous, Spirituals Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,refrain Michael row the boat ashore, Hallelujah! Anonymous, Spirituals Michael Row the Boat Ashore Rise and shine 1 and give God the glory For the year of Jubilee. 2 Anonymous, Spirituals Rise and Shine 1 See Isaiah 60:1 2 See Leviticus 25:10 My Lord, what a morning, When the stars begin to fall. Anonymous, Spirituals My Lord, What a Morning You'll hear the trumpet sound, To wake the nations underground, Look in my God's right hand, When the stars begin to fall. Anonymous, Spirituals My Lord, What a Morning One more river, And that's the river of Jordan, One more river, There's one more river to cross. Anonymous, Spirituals One More River Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom over me! And before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave, And go home to my Lord and be free. Anonymous, Spirituals Oh, Freedom! Get on board, little children, There's room for many a more. Anonymous, Spirituals Get on Board, Little Children The Gospel train's a-coming. Anonymous, Spirituals Get on Board, Little Children Just like a tree that's standing by the water, 1 We shall not be moved. 2 Anonymous, Spirituals We Shall Not Be Moved 1 See Psalm 1:3 2 See Psalm 46:5 O Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Anonymous, Spirituals When the Saints Go Marching In