(640 quotes found)
“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel”
William Shakespeare
“O true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”
“So live that when thy summons comes to joinThe innumerable caravan that movesTo that mysterious realm, where each shall takeHis chamber in the silent halls of death,Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothedBy an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one who wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”
William Cullen Bryant
“O thou undaunted daughter of desires! / By all thy dower of lights and fires; / By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; / By all thy lives and deaths of love; / By thy large draughts of intellectual day.”
Richard Crashaw
“No more thy pains for others' welfare spend, Nor think by service to attach a friend: All are ungrateful - love goes slighted still - Nor merely so, but is repaid by ill; Witness myself, house bitterest foe is he, Who never had a friend on earth bu”
Catullus
“Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.”
Bible
“O happy dagger!This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”
“Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity”
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that”
