Real pain can alone cure us of...

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enought to feel misery.

I love being superior to mysel...

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

Joy is the sweet voice, joy th...

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

If men could learn from histor...

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Oh worse than everything, is k...

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Poor little Foal of an oppress...

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

'Tis a month before the month ...

'Tis a month before the month of May,
And the spring comes slowly up this way.

As it must not, so genius cann...

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Hence, viper thoughts, that co...

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

Is duty a mere sport, or an em...

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

To be beloved is all I need,

To be beloved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed.

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A State, in idea, is the oppos...

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

Ah! from the soul itself must ...

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth
A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud
Enveloping the Earth.

Life went a-maying
With N...

Life went a-maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,
When I was young!

But oh! each visitation
S...

But oh! each visitation
Suspends what nature gave me any my birth,
My shaping spirit of Imagination.

The definition of good prose i...

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

Genius must have talent as its...

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

Iambics march from short to lo...

Iambics march from short to long;--
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

A great mind must be androgyno...

A great mind must be androgynous.

Women have their heads in thei...

Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.