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There was still an hour or two of daylight - even though clouds admitted only a greyish light upon the world, and his Uncle Timothy's house was by nature friendly to gloom.

("Out Of The Deep")


Walter de la Mare

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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is p...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous with...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Few people know how to be old.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad exam...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's pr...
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high sc...
MATT DE LA PENA The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortu...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant afte...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-b...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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