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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")
you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!
That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?