Quotes by Poets - Page 53

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.
Johann von Goethe
I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other.
Erica Jong
Every man is the son of his own works.
Cervantes
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Sir Walter Scott
If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Silence is not certain token That no secret grief is there Sorrow which is never spoken Is the heaviest load to bear.
Frances Ridley Havergal
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.
Arthur Christopher Benson
The hearts that never lean must fall.
Emily Dickinson
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
Sir Philip Sidney
We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.
William Ellery Channing
What we frankly give forever is our own.
George Granville
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
A.E. Housman
Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right there is no love. There is only masked fear.
Bonaro Overstreet
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?
Claudian
When one is frank one's very presence is a compliment.
Marianne Moore
Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
Alexander Pope
In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity.
Alexander Pope
Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Give if thou can an alms if not a sweet and gentle word.
Robert Herrick
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana
Sons branch out but one woman leads to another.
Margaret Atwood
Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.
Phyllis McGinley
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
Sa'di
With every deed you are sowing a seed though the harvest you may not see.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A child is fed with milk and praise.
Mary Lamb
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark
The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.
Adrienne Rich
Youth condemns maturity condones.
Josephine Preston Peabody
Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
Margaret Deland
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
Dante Alighieri
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
George E. Woodberry
Knowing sorrow well I learn to succor the distressed.
Virgil
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Johann von Goethe
If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the aching Or cool one pain Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others
Alice Duer Miller
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
Gertrude Stein
Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.
William Blake
In this world we must help one another.
Jean de La Fontaine
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
Nikki Giovanni
Everyone needs help from everyone.
Bertolt Brecht
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
Susan Griffin
All hell broke loose.
John Milton
Light is the task when many share the toil.
Homer
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.
Lord Byron
Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
P. J. Bailey
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
Robert Southey
The cunning livery of hell.
William Shakespeare
Help me Cassius or I sink!
William Shakespeare
Art thou lonely O my brother? Share thy little with another! Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.
John Oxenham
Hell is indefinite.
Charles Williams
A heaven on earth.
John Milton
When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.
Omar Khayyám
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
George Moore
Lips that taste of tears they say are the best for kissing.
Dorothy Parker