(86 quotes found)
“Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.”
George William Curtis
“Happiness lies, first of all, in health.”
“The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.”
“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.”
“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”
“A bird sang sweet and strongIn the top of the highest tree,He said, "I pour out my heart in songFor the summer that soon shall be."But deep in the shady wood,Another bird sang, "I pourMy heart on the solemn solitudeFor the springs that return no more."”
“Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.”
“Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see”
George William Russell
“Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.”
“I walked beside the evening sea and dreamed a dream that could not be; the waves that plunged along the shore said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!”
