“Ah! love and song are but a dream, / A flower's faint shade on life's dark stream.”
Quotes for When You Need Hope · Page 52
Quotes to nurture your hope and remind you that better days are ahead.
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“Though many a flower may win my praise, / The violet has my love;”
“Fame to a woman is indeed but a royal mourning in purple for happiness.”
“But youth is as a flowing stream, on whose current the shadow may rest but not remain.”
“Can loveliness lose its power ? Ah, yes ! when love can lose its truth.”
“Hope deferred is sickness to the heart — and she was now suffering that sickness, at its worst.”
“The world is as the sea, in whose salt waves, / Like streams, we lose the freshness of our youth.”
“The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.”
“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”
“So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.”
“If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.”
“Wert thou more fickle than the restless sea, / Still should I love thee, knowing thee for such.”
“Now such an one for daughter Creon had / As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.”
“Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, / Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?”
“Unheard-of wealth, unheard-of love is near, / If thou hast heart a little dread to bear.”
“Trust not too much to that enchanting face; Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.”
“Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws, Thro' known effects can trace the secret cause.”
“Some day, perhaps, remembering even this will be a pleasure.”