Quotes by Poets - Page 65

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Edward Dowden
In a great mistake.
Nathalia Crane
He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.
Herman Melville
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To err is human to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
Man errs as long as he struggles.
Johann von Goethe
But to him who tries and fails and dies I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare
Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine.
Ben Jonson
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul see where it flies! -
Christopher Marlowe
He had a face like a benediction.
Miguel de Cervantes
The worst of faces still is human.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Strange how few After all's said and done the things that are Of moment.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Alfred de Musset
Let weakness learn meekness.
A. C. Swinburne
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
William Stafford
The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As sure as God is good so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
Robert Southey
Some call it Evolution And others call it God.
W. H. Carruth
The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse - As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.
William Shakespeare
Evil often triumphs but never conquers.
Joseph Roux
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Thomas Campbell
Laughter is ever young whereas tragedy except the very highest of all quickly becomes haggard.
Margaret Sackville
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman
Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it - the meaning it has in his emotional economy the way it affects his self-image.
Bonaro Overstreet
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.
George Moore
He who having lost one ideal refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.
Constance Naden
Noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don't fight with the pillow but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
Edmund Vance Cooke
Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is a delicious moment certainly that of being well-nestled in bed and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come not past the limbs are tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful the labor of the day is gone.
Leigh Hunt
Sleep ... peace of the soul who put-test care to flight.
Ovid
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep the certain knot of peace The baiting-place of wit the balm of woe The poor man's wealth the prisoner's release The indifferent judge between the high and low.
Sir Philip Sidney
O bed! O bed! Delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head!
Thomas Hood
Sleep Silence's child sweet father of soft rest Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.
William Drummond
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd slave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast.
William Shakespeare
Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep still thank Him that you live to lie awake.
John Oxenham
Sleep: The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker
One by one the flowers close Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon.
Christina G. Rossetti
Sum up at night what thou has done by day.
Edward Herbert
Put off thy cares with thy clothes so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
Francis Quarles
Each morning sees some task begin each evening sees it close Something attempted something done has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea The ploughman homeward plods his weary way And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Thomas Gray
All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.
Louis Simpson
Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.
J. C. F. von Schiller