Amusement Quote by Henry Kirke White

“Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.” quote by Henry Kirke White — Download Open image

“Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.”

Henry Kirke White

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I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.

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And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

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Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.

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The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

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Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.

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Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

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So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman…

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Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?

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Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

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Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

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