Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb-of-grace.... Rue even for ruth here shortly shall be seen In the remembrance of a weeping queen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days;... But life becomes eventful--then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can assimilate and organize into a ...basis for action; give them more and it may become injurious. One knows people who are as heavy and stupid from undigested learning as other are from over-fulness of meat and drink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies each her parents' ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth:... Yet, all heaven's gifts, being heaven's due, It makes the father, less, to rue. At six months' end, she parted hence With safety of her innocence; Whose soul heaven's Queen, (whose name she bears) In comfort of her mother's tears, Hath placed amongst her virgin-train: Where, while that severed doth remain, This grave partakes the fleshly birth. Which cover lightly, gentle earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »