A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used ins...tead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thy blood and virtue Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness... Share with thy birthright! 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven. The fated sky... Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended,... That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon;... Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier,... Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire: I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moones sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometimes like a bear or lion,... A towered citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't that nod unto the world And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,... That life, a very rebel to my will, May hang no longer on me. Throw my heart Against the flint and hardness of my fault, Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony, Nobler than my revolt is infamous, Forgive me in thine own particular, But let the world rank me in register A master-leaver and a fugitive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.... Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair And such a twain can do 't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »