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Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.
I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng
O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.
Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.