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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Idylls of the King--Launcelot and Elaine (l. 1109)
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Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam, pt. VI
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And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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As many men, so many opinions.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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Deception follows on the heels of deception.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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Give place to your superiors.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of
indifference to me.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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I give not gold for mere expectations.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a
Tartar.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, than by fear.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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Look you! I myself am nearest to myself.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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The net is not spread for the hawk or the kite.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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The quarrels of lovers lead but to the renewal of love.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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This is the reward of my folly.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great
profit.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: In Memoriam (XVIII, st. 1)
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Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
Topic: Rainbows
Source: Idylls of the King--The Coming of Arthur (l. 401)
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In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Idylls of the King--Dedication (l. 26)
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Broad-based upon her people's will,
And compassed by the inviolate sea.
Topic: Royalty
Source: To the Queen (st. 9)
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Red ruin and the breaking-up of all.
Topic: Ruin
Source: Idylls of the King--Guinevere
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The sabbaths of Eternity.
One sabbath deep and wide.
Topic: Sabbath
Source: St. Agnes' Eve (st. 3)
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Ah! well away!
Seasons flower and fade.
Topic: Seasons
Source: Every Day hath its Night
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Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with
might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of
sight.
Topic: Self-examination
Source: Locksley Hall (l. 33)
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Like Hezekiah's, backward runs
The shadow of my days.
Topic: Shadows
Source: Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue, (ed. 1842)
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And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill.
Topic: Ships
Source: Break, Break, Break (st. 3)
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An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said
it wur draains,
For she hedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er
paains.
Topic: Sickness
Source: Village Wife
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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Topic: Smile
Source: None
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And lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mould a mighty state's decrees,
And shape the whisper of the throne.
Topic: Statesmanship
Source: In Memoriam (pt. LXIII)
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And statesmen at her council met
Who knew the seasons when to take
Occasion by the hand, and make
The bounds of freedom wider yet.
Topic: Statesmanship
Source: To the Queen (st. 8)
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In after-dinner talk,
Across the walnuts and the wine.
Topic: Story Telling
Source: The Miller's Daughter
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The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul
Of that waste place with joy
Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear
The warble was low, and full and clear.
Topic: Swans
Source: The Dying Swan
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Some full-breasted swan
That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,
Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood
With swarthy webs.
Topic: Swans
Source: Passing of Arthur
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Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all,
For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine.
Topic: Thieving
Source: The Foresters (act III, sc. 1)
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When rosy plumelets tuft the larch,
And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.
Topic: Thrushes
Source: In Memoriam (pt. XCI)
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First pledge our Queen this solemn night,
Then drink to England, every guest;
That man's the best Cosmopolite
Who knows his native country best.
Topic: Toasts
Source: Hands All Round
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Their meetings made December June.
Their every parting was to die.
Topic: Unity
Source: In Memoriam (XCVII)
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And rolling far along the gloomy shores
The voice of days of old and days to be.
Topic: Voice
Source: The Passing of Arthur
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Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's
pain--
Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain.
Topic: Weakness
Source: Locksley Hall (st. 75)
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Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Topic: Will
Source: In Memoriam--Introduction (st. 4)
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All
Life needs for life is possible to will.
Topic: Will
Source: Love and Duty (l. 82)
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