“Though many a flower may win my praise, / The violet has my love;”
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“Nothing discourages a child so much as the impossibility of pleasing.”
“Fame to a woman is indeed but a royal mourning in purple for happiness.”
“Time is the great leveller, but he is also the sanctifier and the beautifier.”
“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.”
“Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell.”
“Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world.”
“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?”