Scarcely a tear to shed;Hardly a word to say;The end of a Summer's day;Sweet Love is dead.
William Allingham
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-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II
this is my letter to a young ...
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When it is said,
Some say.
I sa...
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods,
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,
...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Autumn's the mellow time.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight
Through our green metropolis.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / W...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Before a day was over,Home comes the rover,For mother's kissâ€â€Âsweete...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poor Paddy of all Christian men I thinkOn basest food pours down the vilest drink.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Robin's here in coat of brown,And scarlet breast-knot gay.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM But this is not my little bed;That time is far away;With strangers now I live instead,From dreary da...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful - then, His b...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Alas! in winter, dead and dark,Where can poor Robin go?
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their b...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM I believe in Success,And in Comfort no lessI believe all the rest is but patter.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one:I hope that man and womankind will do the same by ...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Before a day was over,Home comes the rover,For mother's kiss—sweeter thisThan any other thing!
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Autumn's the mellow time.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the ...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woodsAnd day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Oh, bring again my heart's content,Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM [Politeness costs nothing.]. . . . Nothing, that is to him that shows it; but it often costs the wor...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a hunting For fear of little men
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impr...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
MARGERY ALLINGHAM Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something perm...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by t...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something perm...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see ...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock...
HENRY ALLINGHAM In original discussions, we were talking about an elevated system. They are not huge adjustments but...
DOUG ALLINGHAM We have concluded it is possible.
DOUG ALLINGHAM This appears to be a very viable solution.
DOUG ALLINGHAM We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with.
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MARGERY ALLINGHAM once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more im...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of c...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope t...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
MARGERY ALLINGHAM In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he ...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more im...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM When I was born, the speed limit was two miles an hour. They'd only just repealed the law where ...
HENRY ALLINGHAM If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
MARGERY ALLINGHAM When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivi...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
MARGERY ALLINGHAM Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
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WILLIAM Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Faith is a passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE