Quotes by Poets - Page 73

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.
Robert Browning
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
Eleanor Farjeon
A child's a plaything for an hour.
Mary Lamb
It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.
John Milton
Do ye hear the children weeping O my brothers?
E. B. Browning
There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead When she was good she was very very good When she was bad she was horrid.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
Homer
A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.
Lord Byron
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood When fond recollection presents them to view.
Samuel Woodworth
Our charity begins at home And mostly ends where it begins.
Horace Smith
Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
James Russell Lowell
Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.
John Boyle O'Reilly
That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity.
Ulrich von Hutton
He who sings frightens away his ills.
Miguel de Cervantes
Not in the clamor of the crowded street Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two where God has not.
Joaquin Miller
Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known.
Owen Meredith
O Douglas O Douglas! Tender and true.
Sir Richard Holland
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
Joseph Addison
Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
The great hope of society is individual character.
William Ellery Channing
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
Phaedrus
Character is perfectly educated will.
Novalis
Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.
Cervantes
If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.
Ezra Pound
It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever.
Walt Whitman
Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
William Butler Yeats
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up
William Shakespeare
Good but not religious-good.
Thomas Hardy
He was not of an age but for all time.
Ben Jonson
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado
The absurd man is he who never changes.
Auguste Barthelemy
Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
All things must change To something new to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am not now That which I have been.
Lord Byron
The old order changeth yielding place to new.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions and you change all.
Vachel Lindsay
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Let a man turn to his own childhood-no further-if he will renew his sense of remoteness and of the mystery of change.
Alice Meynell
We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.
Johann von Goethe
Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Where the old tracks are lost new country is revealed with its wonders.
Rabindranath Tagore
Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable changeless state it were a cause indeed to weep.
William Cullen Bryant
Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb and to seek the mountain view.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
George Santayana
In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.
Francis Thompson
The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.
James Russell Lowell
None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.
Kathleen Norris
Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann von Goethe
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn
O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.
James Russell Lowell
All things change nothing is extinguished.
Ovid
Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.
Pindar
Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
Wherever we are it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else and whatever we do however well we do it it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
Robert Louis Stevenson
When you get there there isn't any there there.
Gertrude Stein
What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.
T.S Eliot