Quotes 41 till 60 of 67.
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Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
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Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.
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Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...
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The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
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There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
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Those who love not their fellowbeings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
Alastor -
Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
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