"O human beauty, what a dream art thou,……" — Bryan Procter
"O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!"
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18 Quotes by Bryan Procter
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I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue…
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The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
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Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
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Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.
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I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
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The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
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Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
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I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That…
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Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
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Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst…
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