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With more capacity for love than earth
Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,
His early read more
With more capacity for love than earth
Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,
His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth,
And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.
What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
A great unrecognized incapacity.
[Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.]
A great unrecognized incapacity.
[Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.]
If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions read more
If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.
So well she acted all and every part
By turns--with that vivacious versatility,
Which many people take read more
So well she acted all and every part
By turns--with that vivacious versatility,
Which many people take for want of heart.
They err--'tis merely what is call'd mobility,
A thing of temperament and not of art,
Though seeming so, from its supposed facility;
And false--though true; for surely they're sincerest
Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is read more
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block
itself.
He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block
itself.
