If a man would allot half an hour every night for self-conversation, and recapitulate with himself whatever he has done, right or ...wrong, in the course of the day, he would be both the better and the wiser for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recogni...zed it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought... Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,... Where ignorant armies clash by night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,... And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form,... The luster of the eye? Is it for beauty to forego her wreath? MYes, but not this alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »