Ere Quotes
141 quotes by 86 authors
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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most…
— William James
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...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it…
— Heinrich Heine
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Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
— Dante Alighieri
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I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.
— William Shakespeare
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Love that well which thou must leave ere long.
— William Shakespeare
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Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named…
— Ovid
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Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.
— William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed…
— William C. Bryant
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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
— James Russell Lowell
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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over,…
— Oscar Wilde
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For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but…
— William Cowper
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought…
— Alexander Pope
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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