Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the ...speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts. The one esteems nature as rooted and fast; ...the other, as fluid, and impresses his being thereon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is of great use to the sailor, to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. It ...is well he knows, that it is long enough to reach the bottom, at such places as are necessary to direct his voyage, and caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him. Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct. If we can find out those measures, whereby a rational creature, put in that state in which man is in this world, may and ought to govern his opinions, and actions depending thereon, we need not to be troubled that some other things escape our knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You that would judge me do not judge alone This book or that, come to this hallowed place... Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But when his horse had put its hoof Into a rabbit hole... He dropped upon his head and died. His lady saw it all And dropped and died thereon, for she Loved him with her soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although the summer sunlight gild Cloudy leafage of the sky,... Or wintry moonlight sink the field In storm-scattered intricacy, I cannot look thereon, Responsibility so weighs me down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou stately stream that with the swelling tide 'Gainst London walls incessantly dost beat,... Thou Thames, I say, where barge and boat doth ride, And snow-white swans do fish for needful meat:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »