Angry Quote by George Herbert

“Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou…

— George Herbert

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

— Emily Bronte

If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou…

— John Vance Cheney

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Thou must hasten therefore; not only because thou art every day nearer unto death than other, but also because that intellective faculty in thee,…

— Marcus Aurelius

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of…

— Oscar Wilde

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere;…

— Edmund Spenser

“Having heard so often, and so believably, John Donne’s bell tolling softly that “Thou must die,” one turns more sharply to life, with an…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the…

— Anonymous

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.

— Jean Sibelius

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson