Great Throughts Treasury

"Enough! Or too much."

"Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and its last."

"Every harlot was a virgin once."

"Every morn and every night some to misery are born. Every morn and every night some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night."

"Every mortal loss is an immortal gain. The ruins of time build mansions in eternity."

"Every night and every morn some to misery are born. Every morn and every night some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night."

"Every tear from every eye becomes a babe in eternity."

"Every wolf's and lion's howl raises from hell a human soul."

"Every year we are growing by leaps and bounds."

"Everything that lives Lives not alone nor for itself."

"Everything to be imagined is an image of truth."

"Farewell green fields and happy groves, where flocks have took delight."

"Father! Father! Where are you going? O do not walk so fast. Speak, father, speak to your little boy, or else I shall be lost."

"Father, O father! What do we here in this land of unbelief and fear? The Land of Dreams is better far, above the light of the morning star."

"Fiery the angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of orc."

"Folly is the cloak of knavery."

"For a tear is an intellectual thing; and a sigh is the sword of an angel-king; and the bitter groan of a martyr's woe is an arrow from the Almighty's bow."

"For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me."

"For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away."

"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life"

"For he hears the lambs innocent call. And he hears the ewes tender reply. He is watchful while they are in peace. For they know when their shepherd is nigh."

"For I dance and drink and sing, till some blind hand shall brush my wing. If thought is life and strength and breath and the want of thought is death then am I a happy fly if I live or if I die"

"For light doth seize my brain with frantic pain."

"For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."

"For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine: and peace the human dress. Songs of innocence, cruelty has a human heart and jealousy a human face, terror the human form divine, and secrecy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, the human form a fiery forge, the human face a furnace seal'd, the human heart its hungry gorge."

"For the eye altering alters all; the senses roll themselves in fear and the flat earth becomes a ball."

"For washed in life's river, my bright mane forever shall shine like the gold as I guard o'er the fold."

"For where'er the sun does shine, and where'er the rain does fall, babe can never hunger there, nor poverty the mind appall."

"Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance."

"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth."

"General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, flatterer."

"God appears and God is light to those poor souls who dwell in night but does a human form display to those who dwell in realms of day"

"God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!"

"Good is heaven. Evil is hell."

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street"

"Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven, I oft have wished for hell for ease from heaven."

"Harmony of coloring is destructive of art... it is like the smile of a fool."

"'He is called by thy name, for he calls himself a lamb, he is meek, and he is mild; he became a little child. I a child, and thou a lamb, we are called by his name."

"He is meek, and he is mild; he became a little child. I a child, and thou a lamb, we are callèd by his name. Little lamb, God bless thee!"

"He loves to sit and hear me sing, then, laughing, sports and plays with me; then stretches out my golden wing, and mocks my loss of liberty."

"He who bends to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy but he who kisses life as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise."

"He who doubts from what he sees will ne'er believe, do what you please. If the sun and moon should doubt they'd immediately go out."

"He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you."

"He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise."

"He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant."

"He who mocks the infant's faith shall be mock'd in age and death. He who shall teach the child to doubt the rotting grave shall ne'er get out. He who respects the infant's faith triumphs over hell and death. The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of the two seasons…"

"He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter."

"He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out."

"He who shall hurt the little wren shall never be beloved by men."

"He who shall teach the child to doubt the rotting grave shall ne'er get out."