"Day and night my thoughts incline To the……" — Richard Henry Stoddard
"Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink."
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Richard Henry Stoddard
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7 Quotes by Richard Henry Stoddard
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We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.
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Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.
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Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.
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We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
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There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs,…
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There is no death-the thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life, Which is itself an…
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When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
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