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A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

A great mind must be androgynous.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!

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

Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss?

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

All nature seems at work.

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Ancestral voices prophesying war.

And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.