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3818 English Quotes

Shadow owes its birth to light

Shadow Birth Light
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Pride is increased by ignorance; those who assume the most know the least.
Pride Ignorance Assume Least
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He, who would free from malice pass his days, must live obscure, and never merit praise.

Free Malice Live Praise
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If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

Heart Man Depressed Woman
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Thing Beauty Joy
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Poetry Earth Dead
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Time, that aged nurse, rocked me to patience.

Time Aged Patience
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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Love Believe You Liked
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Life is divine Chaos. It's messy, and it's supposed to be that way.

Life Chaos Messy Way
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us

Pleasure Visitant Pain Cruelly
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

Heard Melodies Sweet
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination

Holiness Heart's Truth Imagination
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
Beauty Truth Earth Need
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Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit

Life Fragile Perilious Summit
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Touch has a memory.

Touch Memory
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I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

Reason Content God Read
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

Love Selfish Breathe You
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Nothing Stable Uproar Music
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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Means Intellect Mind Thoughts
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I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest

Afraid Failure Greatest
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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Read Feel Steps Author
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
Excellence Art Intensity
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If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all

Poetry Naturally Tree Better
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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...

Conceive You I Die
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

I Wish Faith Strike
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

Wish Believe Immortality Live
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O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

Life Sensations Thoughts
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

Real Experienced Proverb Life
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject

Poetry Great Soul Amaze
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Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer

Scenery Finer Human nature
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance

Poetry Reader Thoughts
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Love is my religion--I could die for it.

Love Religion Die
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Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?

Death Sleep Life Dream
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Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

Knowledge God
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Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

Real Dreams Pleasures Immortal
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I must choose between despair and energy – I choose the latter.

Choose Despair Energy Latter
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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

Farewell Hope Fear
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And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained?

Faith Love Virtue Help
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A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?

Grateful Mind Indebted Burden
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But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself
Destroy Good book Kills Reason
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Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

Soul Seek Claim Half
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Mind Place Heaven Hell
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Solitude sometimes is best society.

Solitude Best Society
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Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

Freely Serve Will Love
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What hath night to do with sleep?

What Night Sleep
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

Awake Arise
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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

Lost Will Revenge Hate
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Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

Way Hard Hell Light
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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost
Innocence Lost Regaines Darkness
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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

Accusers Silence Apology Honest deeds
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