The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
On the bare upland pasture there had spread O'ernight 'twixt mullein stalksa wheel of thread And straining cables wet withsilver dew. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I don't know what effect thesemen will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me. — Arthur Wellesley Wellington 1st Duke Copy Share Image
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power isthe love of ourselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Master of the universe but notof myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; whenwe… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The time is out of jointO cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
God of justice, save the people From the clash of race and creed, From the strife of class and faction, Make our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O, when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder of all highdesigns, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Only the fact of her husband& four other people kept me from springing on her — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Gays are not liberated yet. Their struggle is just beginning in an American culture that is still essentially fearful about homosexuality. But… — Liz Smith Copy Share Image
If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The rain fell, the floods came,and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In men we various ruling passions find, In women, two almost divide the kind; Those, only fixed, they first orlast obey, The… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Puritanism prolonged in America the medieval Christian view of the world and of human destiny. It taught men to distrust their natural… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
For thousands the world is a freak show, the images flickerpast and disappear, the impressions remain flat and disconnected in the soul.… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
So, Anactoria, go you away With what calm carelessness of sorrow! Your gleaming footstep and your grace, When comes another morrow, Much… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I thank you for your letter. I was very glad to get it; and I am glad again to write to you.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so proneto give, that he… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Before we shall again behold In his diurnal race the world'sgreat eye, We may as silent be and cold As are the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
