For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own... sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For not many men, the proverb saith, Can love a friend whom fortune prospereth... Unenvying; and about the envious brain Cold poison clings, and doubles all the pain Life brings him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of h...is writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Marriage is the highest state of friendship: If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our... pleasures by mutual participation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We dreamed that a great painter had been born To cold Clare rock and Galway rock and thorn,... To that stern colour and that delicate line That are our secret discipline Wherein the gazing heart doubles her might....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »