"The heart grows weary after a little Of……" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while."
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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161 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay has 161 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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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain…
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of…
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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in…
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The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible…
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There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the…
— Ted Simon
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Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We…
— Winston Churchill
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few…
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