"pity me that the heart is slow to……" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
"pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn."
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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160 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay has 160 quotes on this site.
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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned,…
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see…
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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep,…
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Life is a quest and love a quarrel
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Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass…
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I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient…
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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death…
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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us…
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Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.
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There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
— Saint Basil
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They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.
— William Shakespeare
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What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
— Ovid
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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with…
— John Dryden
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The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the…
— Saadi
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
— Plotinus
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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain…
— Gautama Buddha
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In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His…
— Arthur W. Pink
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No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds…
— Samuel Johnson
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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it…
— Rene Descartes
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One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with…
— Wallace Stevens
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