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Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise”
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“If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devoted flame, thou say'st I speak too boldly”
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“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
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“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
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“What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine”
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“Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.”
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“Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.”
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“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”
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“He travels best that knows when to return.”
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“A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.”
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The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing”
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“An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”
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“To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life”
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“An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a”
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“Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power”
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“Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot”
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“Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still”
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“Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound”
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“Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal”
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“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”
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Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.”
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“I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.”
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“Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the best of all ways / To lengthen our days / Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!”
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“By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.”
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“No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream”
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“Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.”
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“Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.”
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“Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”
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“'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone”
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“She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, / And lovers are round her, sighing:/ But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, / For her heart in his grave is lying.”
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You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”
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“This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven”
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“There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams”
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“Is not this house [the Tower of London] as nigh heaven as my own?”
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“Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.”
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“Oh! blame not the bard.”
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“. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.”
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“The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close”
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“Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.”
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“My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me”
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About Thomas More
§ “a man for all seasons”
--Whittington and Erasmus about Thomas More, 1520 and 1521
§ “I die the king’s good servant, and God’s first.”
--On the scaffold, July 6, 1535 (from the Paris Newsletter account)
On Truth
§ “time trieth truth.”
--Thomas More’s Supplication of Souls, CWM *, v. 7, p. 135
On Public Service:
§ “You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds….What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.”
--Utopia, CWM, v. 4, pp. 99, 101
§ “[If a leader allows weariness to so grip] the mind that its strength is sapped and reason gives up the reins, if a [leader] is so overcome by heavy-hearted sleep that he neglects to do what the duty of his office requires…--like the cowardly ship’s captain who is so disheartened by the furious din of the storm that he deserts the helm, hides away cowering in some cranny, and abandons the ship to the waves—if a [leader] does this, I would certainly not hesitate to juxtapose and compare his sadness with the sadness that leads as [Paul] says, to hell….”
--On the Sadness of Christ, CWM, v. 14, pp. 263, 265
On Law:
§ “Were it my father on the one side and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have his right.”
--Life of Thomas More by William Roper
On Conscience:
§ “The clearness of my conscience has made my heart hop for joy.”
--“Letter to Margaret Roper,” from the Tower, 1534, Selected Letters #60, p. 235.
§ “My case was such in this matter through the clearness of my own conscience that thought I might have pain I could not have harm, for a man may in such a case lose his head and not have harm.”
-- “Letter to Margaret Roper,” from the Tower, June 3, 1535
§ “Thus being so well and quietly settled in conscience, the security and uprightness of the same so eased and diminished all the griefs and pains of his imprisonment and all his other adversity, that no token or signification of lamenting or sorrow appeared in him, but that in his communication with his daughter, with the Lieutenant and others, he held on his old merry, pleasant talk whosoever occasion served.”
--Life of Thomas More by William Roper
§ “I never intend, God being my good Lord, to pin my soul to another man’s back, not even the best man that I know this day living: for I know not where he may hap to carry it.”
-- Dialogue on Conscience, to his daughter, in prison, August 1534
On Education:
§ “The whole fruit of their [educational] endeavors should consist in the testimony of God and a good conscience. Thus they will be inwardly calm and at peace and neither stirred by praise of flatterers nor stung by the follies of unlearned mockers of learning.”
--“Letter to William Gonell,” his children’s tutor, May 22, 1518
§ “Reason is by study, labor, and exercise of logic, philosophy, and other liberal arts corroborate [i.e., strengthened] and quickened; and the judgment both in them and also in orators, laws, and stories [is] much ripened. And although poets are with many men taken but for painted words, yet do they much help the judgment, and make a man among other things well furnished in one special thing, without which all learning is half lame…a good mother wit.”
-- The Dialogue of Sir Thomas More, CWM, v.6, p. 132
On Self-Government:
§ I would have people in time of silence take good heed that their minds be occupied with good thoughts, for unoccupied they will never be.
--The Four Last Things, CWM, v.1, p. 138
§ I think that if any good thing shall go forward, something must be adventured.
--The Dialogue of Sir Thomas More CWM, v. 6, p. 339
§ In the things of the soul, knowledge without remembrance profits little.
--The Four Last Things, CWM, v.1, p. 138
On Suffering:
§ We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
--Life of Thomas More by William Roper; More to his children, c. 1510
§ Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
--Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, CWM, v. 12, p. 23
On Pride:
§ “But no matter how high in the clouds this arrow of pride may fly, and no matter how exuberant one may feel while being carried up so high, let us remember that the lightest of these arrows still has a heavy iron head. High as it may fly, therefore, it inevitably has to come down and hit the ground. And sometimes it lands in a not very clean place.”
-- Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, CWM, v.12, pp. 157-8
§ “I will simply counsel every man and woman to beware of even the very least speck of [pride], which seems to me to be the mere delight and liking of ourselves for anything whatsoever that either is in us or outwardly belongs to us.”
-- The Treatise Upon the Passion, CWM, v.13, p. 9
§ Aesop says in a fable that everyone carries a double wallet on his shoulders, and into the one that hangs at his breast he puts other folk’s faults and he looks and pores over it often. In the other he puts all his own and swings it at his back, which he never likes to look in, although others that come behind him cast an eye into it sometimes.
-- The Dialogue of Sir Thomas More, CWM, v.6, pp. 295-6
§ As Boethius says: For one man to be proud that he has rule over other men is much like one mouse being proud to have rule over other mice in a barn.
--"Dialogue on Conscience," pp. 519-20
§ On glory: He who sets his delight on the blast of another man’s mouth feeds himself but with wind, wherein, be he never so full, he has little substance therein.
-- Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, CWM, v.12, p. 212
§ I never saw fool yet who thought himself other than wise…If a fool perceives himself a fool, that point is not folly, but a little spark of wit.
-- Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, CWM, v.12, p. 287
Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known thee then,
Our souls had not been slow to meet!
But oh! this weary heart hath run
So many a time the rounds of pain,
Not even for thee, thou lovely one!
Would I endure such pangs again.
Sir Thomas More
Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should be an eye,
To wander o'er thy beauties here.
Sir Thomas More
This hath not offended the king.
Sir Thomas More, As he drew his beard aside upon placing his head on the block, From Bacon
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
Sir Thomas More, Utopia
A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Thomas Moore
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas Moore
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Thomas Moore
Eyes of most unholy blue!
Thomas Moore
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Thomas Moore
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Thomas Moore
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Thomas Moore
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Thomas Moore
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Thomas Moore
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
Thomas Moore
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Thomas Moore
Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.
Thomas Moore
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
Thomas Moore
On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me?
Thomas Moore
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
Thomas Moore
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Thomas Moore
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore
The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas Moore
There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.
Thomas Moore
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
Thomas Moore
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Thomas Moore
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Thomas Moore
To Greece we give our shining blades.
Thomas Moore
To live with them is far less sweet, than to remember thee!
Thomas Moore
True change takes place in the imagination.
Thomas Moore
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
Thomas Moore
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Thomas Moore
Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?
Thomas Moore
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
Topic: Absence
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!
Topic: Apples
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers (l. 1018)
Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
Topic: Autumn
Source: Spring and Autumn
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
Topic: Bells
Source: Those Evening Bells
Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood; And those that under Araby's soft sun Build their high nests of budding cinnamon.
Topic: Birds of Paradise
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
Topic: Blushes
Source: Evenings in Greece (Evening, II, Song)
Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time, Soon as the woods on shore dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn; Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Topic: Boating
Source: Canadian Boat Song
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Topic: Chastity
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss, Than be the Christian of a faith like this, Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway, And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.
Topic: Christianity
Source: Intolerance (l. 68)
Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain. [Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.]
Topic: Christianity
Source: Intolerance (l. 68)
Dear creature!--you'd swear When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round, That her steps are of light, that her home is the air, And she only par complaisance touches the ground.
Topic: Dancing
Source: Fudge Family in Paris (letter V, l. 50)
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off.
Topic: Dissension
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Light of the Harem (l. 183)
Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar with me? From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly, To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss? No! perish the hearts, and the laws that try Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this!
Topic: Doctrine
Source: Irish Melodies--Come Send Round the Wine
Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart, Which rank corruption destines for their heart!
Topic: Eagles
Source: Corruption
How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night, When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, And far away, o'er lawns and lakes, Goes answering light.
Topic: Echo
Source: Echo
This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities!
Topic: Eternity
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (st. 42)
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Topic: Eternity
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (st. 42)
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night.
Topic: Evening
Source: Fly Not Yet
Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red; Gradual tints, as when there glows In snowy milk the bashful rose.
Topic: Faces
Source: Odes of Anacreon--Ode XV (l. 27)
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Topic: Flags
Source: To the Lord Viscount Forbes
Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?
Topic: France
Source: Fudge Family (8)
Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me.
Topic: Glory
Source: Go Where Glory Waits Thee
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Topic: Glory
Source: Go Where Glory Waits Thee
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Topic: Gold
Source: Irish Melodies--Rich and Rare were the Gems She Wore
To Greece we give our shining blades.
Topic: Greece
Source: Evenings in Greece--First Evening
Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Topic: Humility
Source: Loves of the Angels--Third Angel's Story (st. 11)
On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me?
Topic: Ivy
Source: Odes of Anacreon (ode XLVIII)
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Topic: Jewels
Source: Irish Melodies--Rich and Rare were the Gems She Wore
There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angel's pen, Ere Mercy weeps them out again.
Topic: Judgment
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (st. 28)
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Topic: Love
Source: None
The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.
Topic: Love
Source: None
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Topic: Meeting
Source: Meeting of the Ships
I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages, And two in fifty scarce agree On what is pure morality.
Topic: Morality
Source: Morality
There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.
Topic: Morality
Source: Morality
I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
Topic: Morality
Source: Morality
One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.
Topic: Paradise
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri
Find me next a Poppy posy, Type of his harangues so dozy.
Topic: Poppies
Source: Wreaths for the Ministers
Good-bye--my paper's out so nearly, I've only room for, Yours sincerely.
Topic: Post
Source: The Fudge Family in Paris (letter VI)
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Topic: Printing
Source: The Fudge Family in England (letter III)
Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart, Which rank corruption destines for their heart!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Corruption
To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: I Saw Thy Form in Youthful Prime
How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone! When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Lalla Rookh--Fire Worshippers (st. 52)
All that's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: National Airs--All That's Bright Must Fade
One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins, Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast.
Topic: Revenge
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Topic: Revenge
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way, He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say "mew;" Nae birdie maun whistle, nae lambie maun play, An' Phoebus himsel' could na travel that day, As he'd find a new Joshua in Andie Agnew.
Topic: Sabbath
Source: Sunday Ethics (st. 3)
It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd Fast to the spot such root she took, And--like a sunflower by a brook, With face upturn'd--so still remain'd!
Topic: Sensibility
Source: Loves of the Angels--First Angel's Story (l. 33)
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Topic: Sensibility
Source: O Think Not My Spirits
O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf OF Bard and Chief, Old Erin's native Shamrock.
Topic: Shamrocks
Source: Oh, the Shamrock
Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity.
Topic: Ships
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Light of the Harem
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
Topic: Sin
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
In Adam's fall-- We sinned all.
Topic: Sin
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly.
Topic: Sin
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Topic: Slavery
Source: To the Lord Viscount Forbes, written from the City of Washington
Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day, Like a tired monarch fann'd to rest, 'Mid the cool airs of Evening lay; While round his couch's golden rim The gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept-- Struggling each other's light to dim, And catch his last smile e'er he slept.
Topic: Sunset
Source: The Summer Fete (st. 22)
There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angel's pen, Ere Mercy weeps them out again.
Topic: Swearing
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (st. 28)
To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.
Topic: Tomorrow
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Light of the Harem--Song
Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, Is that congealing pang which seizes The trusting bosom, when betray'd.
Topic: Treachery
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers
Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
Topic: Treachery
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers
Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Victory made Whose wings right o'er us hover!
Topic: Victory
Source: Battle Song
Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth? Hath the violet less brightness For growing near earth?
Topic: Violets
Source: Desmond's Song
Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.
Topic: Violets
Source: Lalla Rookh--Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.
Topic: Wishes
Source: Remember Thee
I am nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim, Man's noblest works must have one common end, And nothing crown the tablet of his name.
Topic: Work
Source: Ode upon Nothing, appeared in "Saturday Magazine" about 1836, but not in collected works
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Topic: Work
Source: Ode upon Nothing, appeared in "Saturday Magazine" about 1836, but not in collected works
Together kneeling, night and day, Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine, And I--at any God's for thine.
Topic: Worship
Source: Lalla Rookh--Fire Worshippers (fourth division, l. 309)
Thomas Moore
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down.
Rene Descartes
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
Everything is self-evident.
Rene Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes
I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)
Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Rene Descartes, 'Meditations'
“Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.
(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)”
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“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”
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“A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed”
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“I think therefore I exist.”
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“I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.”
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“When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?”
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“The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.”
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“Everything is self-evident.”
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“I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.”
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“If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.”
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“Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.”
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“If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we”
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“I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.”
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Cogito, ergo sum.
Translation from Latin: I think, therefore I am.
Variant: I think therefore I exist.
Principia philosophiae
Ex nihilo nihil fit.
Translation: Nothing comes out of nothing.
Principia philosophiae
Dubium sapientiae initium.
Translation: Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
Meditationes de prima philosophiae
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Le Discours de la Méthode (1637)
The Discourse on Method
Je pense, donc je suis.
Translation from French: I think, therefore I am.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.
Variants: Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Variant: There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
Everything is self-evident.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Variant: If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
It is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us.
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.** In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
With me everything turns into mathematics.
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
The long concatenations of simple and easy reasoning which geometricians use in achieving their most difficult demonstrations gave me occasion to imagine that all matters which may enter the human mind were interrelated in the same fashion.
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Variant: The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
To do is to be.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Rene Descartes Quotes
No. Quotation Subject
1 Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. Common Sense
2 A state is better governed which has but few laws, and those laws strictly observed. Order
3 The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. Passion
4 The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. Prejudice
5 Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. Thoughts
6 When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. Truth
7 And it is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us. Trust
8 Je pense, donc je suis. Translation: I think, therefore I am. Source: Discours de la méthode Thoughts
9 Cogito, ergo sum. Translation: I think, therefore I am. Source: Principia philosophiae Thoughts
10 Ex nihilo nihil fit. Translation: Nothing comes out of nothing. Source: Principia philosophiae
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Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise”
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Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.”
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You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”
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About Thomas More
§ “a man for all seasons”
--Whittington and Erasmus about Thomas More, 1520 and 1521
§ “I die the king’s good servant, and God’s first.”
--On the scaffold, July 6, 1535 (from the Paris Newsletter account)
On Truth
§ “time trieth truth.”
--Thomas More’s Supplication of Souls, CWM *, v. 7, p. 135
On Public Service:
§ “You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds….What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.”
--Utopia, CWM, v. 4, pp. 99, 101
§ “[If a leader allows weariness to so grip] the mind that its strength is sapped and reason gives up the reins, if a [leader] is so overcome by heavy-hearted sleep that he neglects to do what the duty of his office requires…--like the cowardly ship’s captain who is so disheartened by the furious din of the storm that he deserts the helm, hides away cowering in some cranny, and abandons the ship to the waves—if a [leader] does this, I would certainly not hesitate to juxtapose and compare his sadness with the sadness that leads as [Paul] says, to hell….”
--On the Sadness of Christ, CWM, v. 14, pp. 263, 265
On Law:
§ “Were it my father on the one side and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have his right.”
--Life of Thomas More by William Roper
On Conscience:
§ “The clearness of my conscience has made my heart hop for joy.”
--“Letter to Margaret Roper,” from the Tower, 1534, Selected Letters #60, p. 235.
§ “My case was such in this matter through the clearness of my own conscience that thought I might have pain I could not have harm, for a man may in such a case lose his head and not have harm.”
-- “Letter to Margaret Roper,” from the Tower, June 3, 1535
§ “Thus being so well and quietly settled in conscience, the security and uprightness of the same so eased and diminished all the griefs and pains of his imprisonment and all his other adversity, that no token or signification of lamenting or sorrow appeared in him, but that in his communication with his daughter, with the Lieutenant and others, he held on his old merry, pleasant talk whosoever occasion served.”
--Life of Thomas More by William Roper
§ “I never intend, God being my good Lord, to pin my soul to another man’s back, not even the best man that I know this day living: for I know not where he may hap to carry it.”
-- Dialogue on Conscience, to his daughter, in prison, August 1534
On Education:
§ “The whole fruit of their [educational] endeavors should consist in the testimony of God and a good conscience. Thus they will be inwardly calm and at peace and neither stirred by praise of flatterers nor stung by the follies of unlearned mockers of learning.”
--“Letter to William Gonell,” his children’s tutor, May 22, 1518
§ “Reason is by study, labor, and exercise of logic, philosophy, and other liberal arts corroborate [i.e., strengthened] and quickened; and the judgment both in them and also in orators, laws, and stories [is] much ripened. And although poets are with many men taken but for painted words, yet do they much help the judgment, and make a man among other things well furnished in one special thing, without which all learning is half lame…a good mother wit.”
-- The Dialogue of Sir Thomas More, CWM, v.6, p. 132
On Self-Government:
§ I would have people in time of silence take good heed that their minds be occupied with good thoughts, for unoccupied they will never be.
--The Four Last Things, CWM, v.1, p. 138
§ I think that if any good thing shall go forward, something must be adventured.
--The Dialogue of Sir Thomas More CWM, v. 6, p. 339
§ In the things of the soul, knowledge without remembrance profits little.
--The Four Last Things, CWM, v.1, p. 138
On Suffering:
§ We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
--Life of Thomas More by William Roper; More to his children, c. 1510
§ Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
--Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, CWM, v. 12, p. 23
On Pride:
§ “But no matter how high in the clouds this arrow of pride may fly, and no matter how exuberant one may feel while being carried up so high, let us remember that the lightest of these arrows still has a heavy iron head. High as it may fly, therefore, it inevitably has to come down and hit the ground. And sometimes it lands in a not very clean place.”
-- Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, CWM, v.12, pp. 157-8
§ “I will simply counsel every man and woman to beware of even the very least speck of [pride], which seems to me to be the mere delight and liking of ourselves for anything whatsoever that either is in us or outwardly belongs to us.”
-- The Treatise Upon the Passion, CWM, v.13, p. 9
§ Aesop says in a fable that everyone carries a double wallet on his shoulders, and into the one that hangs at his breast he puts other folk’s faults and he looks and pores over it often. In the other he puts all his own and swings it at his back, which he never likes to look in, although others that come behind him cast an eye into it sometimes.
-- The Dialogue of Sir Thomas More, CWM, v.6, pp. 295-6
§ As Boethius says: For one man to be proud that he has rule over other men is much like one mouse being proud to have rule over other mice in a barn.
--"Dialogue on Conscience," pp. 519-20
§ On glory: He who sets his delight on the blast of another man’s mouth feeds himself but with wind, wherein, be he never so full, he has little substance therein.
-- Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, CWM, v.12, p. 212
§ I never saw fool yet who thought himself other than wise…If a fool perceives himself a fool, that point is not folly, but a little spark of wit.
-- Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, CWM, v.12, p. 287
Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known thee then,
Our souls had not been slow to meet!
But oh! this weary heart hath run
So many a time the rounds of pain,
Not even for thee, thou lovely one!
Would I endure such pangs again.
Sir Thomas More
Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should be an eye,
To wander o'er thy beauties here.
Sir Thomas More
This hath not offended the king.
Sir Thomas More, As he drew his beard aside upon placing his head on the block, From Bacon
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
Sir Thomas More, Utopia
A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
Sir Thomas More, Works
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Thomas Moore
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas Moore
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Thomas Moore
Eyes of most unholy blue!
Thomas Moore
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Thomas Moore
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Thomas Moore
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Thomas Moore
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Thomas Moore
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Thomas Moore
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
Thomas Moore
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Thomas Moore
Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.
Thomas Moore
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
Thomas Moore
On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me?
Thomas Moore
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
Thomas Moore
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Thomas Moore
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore
The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas Moore
There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.
Thomas Moore
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
Thomas Moore
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Thomas Moore
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Thomas Moore
To Greece we give our shining blades.
Thomas Moore
To live with them is far less sweet, than to remember thee!
Thomas Moore
True change takes place in the imagination.
Thomas Moore
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
Thomas Moore
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Thomas Moore
Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?
Thomas Moore
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
Topic: Absence
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!
Topic: Apples
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers (l. 1018)
Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
Topic: Autumn
Source: Spring and Autumn
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
Topic: Bells
Source: Those Evening Bells
Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood; And those that under Araby's soft sun Build their high nests of budding cinnamon.
Topic: Birds of Paradise
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
Topic: Blushes
Source: Evenings in Greece (Evening, II, Song)
Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time, Soon as the woods on shore dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn; Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Topic: Boating
Source: Canadian Boat Song
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Topic: Chastity
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss, Than be the Christian of a faith like this, Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway, And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.
Topic: Christianity
Source: Intolerance (l. 68)
Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain. [Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.]
Topic: Christianity
Source: Intolerance (l. 68)
Dear creature!--you'd swear When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round, That her steps are of light, that her home is the air, And she only par complaisance touches the ground.
Topic: Dancing
Source: Fudge Family in Paris (letter V, l. 50)
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off.
Topic: Dissension
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Light of the Harem (l. 183)
Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar with me? From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly, To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss? No! perish the hearts, and the laws that try Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this!
Topic: Doctrine
Source: Irish Melodies--Come Send Round the Wine
Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart, Which rank corruption destines for their heart!
Topic: Eagles
Source: Corruption
How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night, When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, And far away, o'er lawns and lakes, Goes answering light.
Topic: Echo
Source: Echo
This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities!
Topic: Eternity
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (st. 42)
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Topic: Eternity
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (st. 42)
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night.
Topic: Evening
Source: Fly Not Yet
Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red; Gradual tints, as when there glows In snowy milk the bashful rose.
Topic: Faces
Source: Odes of Anacreon--Ode XV (l. 27)
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Topic: Flags
Source: To the Lord Viscount Forbes
Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?
Topic: France
Source: Fudge Family (8)
Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me.
Topic: Glory
Source: Go Where Glory Waits Thee
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Topic: Glory
Source: Go Where Glory Waits Thee
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Topic: Gold
Source: Irish Melodies--Rich and Rare were the Gems She Wore
To Greece we give our shining blades.
Topic: Greece
Source: Evenings in Greece--First Evening
Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Topic: Humility
Source: Loves of the Angels--Third Angel's Story (st. 11)
On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me?
Topic: Ivy
Source: Odes of Anacreon (ode XLVIII)
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Topic: Jewels
Source: Irish Melodies--Rich and Rare were the Gems She Wore
There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angel's pen, Ere Mercy weeps them out again.
Topic: Judgment
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (st. 28)
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Topic: Love
Source: None
The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.
Topic: Love
Source: None
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Topic: Meeting
Source: Meeting of the Ships
I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages, And two in fifty scarce agree On what is pure morality.
Topic: Morality
Source: Morality
There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.
Topic: Morality
Source: Morality
I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
Topic: Morality
Source: Morality
One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.
Topic: Paradise
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri
Find me next a Poppy posy, Type of his harangues so dozy.
Topic: Poppies
Source: Wreaths for the Ministers
Good-bye--my paper's out so nearly, I've only room for, Yours sincerely.
Topic: Post
Source: The Fudge Family in Paris (letter VI)
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Topic: Printing
Source: The Fudge Family in England (letter III)
Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart, Which rank corruption destines for their heart!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Corruption
To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: I Saw Thy Form in Youthful Prime
How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone! When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Lalla Rookh--Fire Worshippers (st. 52)
All that's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: National Airs--All That's Bright Must Fade
One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins, Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast.
Topic: Revenge
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Topic: Revenge
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way, He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say "mew;" Nae birdie maun whistle, nae lambie maun play, An' Phoebus himsel' could na travel that day, As he'd find a new Joshua in Andie Agnew.
Topic: Sabbath
Source: Sunday Ethics (st. 3)
It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd Fast to the spot such root she took, And--like a sunflower by a brook, With face upturn'd--so still remain'd!
Topic: Sensibility
Source: Loves of the Angels--First Angel's Story (l. 33)
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Topic: Sensibility
Source: O Think Not My Spirits
O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf OF Bard and Chief, Old Erin's native Shamrock.
Topic: Shamrocks
Source: Oh, the Shamrock
Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity.
Topic: Ships
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Light of the Harem
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
Topic: Sin
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
In Adam's fall-- We sinned all.
Topic: Sin
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly.
Topic: Sin
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Topic: Slavery
Source: To the Lord Viscount Forbes, written from the City of Washington
Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day, Like a tired monarch fann'd to rest, 'Mid the cool airs of Evening lay; While round his couch's golden rim The gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept-- Struggling each other's light to dim, And catch his last smile e'er he slept.
Topic: Sunset
Source: The Summer Fete (st. 22)
There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angel's pen, Ere Mercy weeps them out again.
Topic: Swearing
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (st. 28)
To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.
Topic: Tomorrow
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Light of the Harem--Song
Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, Is that congealing pang which seizes The trusting bosom, when betray'd.
Topic: Treachery
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers
Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
Topic: Treachery
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers
Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Victory made Whose wings right o'er us hover!
Topic: Victory
Source: Battle Song
Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth? Hath the violet less brightness For growing near earth?
Topic: Violets
Source: Desmond's Song
Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.
Topic: Violets
Source: Lalla Rookh--Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.
Topic: Wishes
Source: Remember Thee
I am nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim, Man's noblest works must have one common end, And nothing crown the tablet of his name.
Topic: Work
Source: Ode upon Nothing, appeared in "Saturday Magazine" about 1836, but not in collected works
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Topic: Work
Source: Ode upon Nothing, appeared in "Saturday Magazine" about 1836, but not in collected works
Together kneeling, night and day, Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine, And I--at any God's for thine.
Topic: Worship
Source: Lalla Rookh--Fire Worshippers (fourth division, l. 309)
Thomas Moore
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down.
Rene Descartes
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
Everything is self-evident.
Rene Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes
I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)
Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Rene Descartes, 'Meditations'
“Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.
(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)”
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“I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.”
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Cogito, ergo sum.
Translation from Latin: I think, therefore I am.
Variant: I think therefore I exist.
Principia philosophiae
Ex nihilo nihil fit.
Translation: Nothing comes out of nothing.
Principia philosophiae
Dubium sapientiae initium.
Translation: Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
Meditationes de prima philosophiae
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Le Discours de la Méthode (1637)
The Discourse on Method
Je pense, donc je suis.
Translation from French: I think, therefore I am.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.
Variants: Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Variant: There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
Everything is self-evident.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Variant: If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
It is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us.
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.** In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
With me everything turns into mathematics.
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
The long concatenations of simple and easy reasoning which geometricians use in achieving their most difficult demonstrations gave me occasion to imagine that all matters which may enter the human mind were interrelated in the same fashion.
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Variant: The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
To do is to be.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Topic: Behavior
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Rene Descartes Quotes
No. Quotation Subject
1 Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. Common Sense
2 A state is better governed which has but few laws, and those laws strictly observed. Order
3 The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. Passion
4 The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. Prejudice
5 Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. Thoughts
6 When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. Truth
7 And it is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us. Trust
8 Je pense, donc je suis. Translation: I think, therefore I am. Source: Discours de la méthode Thoughts
9 Cogito, ergo sum. Translation: I think, therefore I am. Source: Principia philosophiae Thoughts
10 Ex nihilo nihil fit. Translation: Nothing comes out of nothing. Source: Principia philosophiae
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