Great Throughts Treasury

"Above me are the alps, the palaces of nature, whose vast walls have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, and thron'd eternity in icy halls of cold sublimity, where forms and falls the avalanche--the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appalls, gather round these summits, as to show how earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below."

"Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, it lives all passionless and pure: an age shall fleet like earthly year; its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, o'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; a nameless and eternal thing, forgetting what it was to die."

"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

"A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods for a magazine."

"Absence - that common cure of love."

"Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him."

"Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear."

"Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue."

"Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!"

"Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."

"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid."

"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight."

"Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer."

"Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is."

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."

"Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon."

"Agree to a short armistice with truth."

"Ah! surely nothing dies but something mourns!"

"Ah! Were I sever'd from thy side, where were thy friend and who my guide? Years have not seen, time shall not see the hour that tears my soul from thee."

"Alas! They were so young, so beautiful, so lonely, loving, helpless, and the hour was that in which the heart is always full, and, having o'er itself no further power, prompts deeds eternity cannot annul."

"Ah, Vice! how soft are thy voluptuous ways! While boyish blood is mantling, who can 'scape The fascination of thy magic gaze?"

"All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise."

"All farewells should be sudden, when forever."

"Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!"

"Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns."

"Alas! the breast that inly bleeds has nought to fear from outward blow."

"Alas! the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing."

"Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!"

"Alas! our young affections run to waste, or water but the desert."

"Alas! there is no instinct like the heart!"

"All is to be feared where all is to be lost"

"All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most."

"All human history attests that happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- since eve ate apples, much depends on dinner."

"All I saw farther, in the last confusion, was, that King George slipped into heaven for one; and when the tumult dwindled to a calm, I left him practicing the hundredth psalm."

"All men are intrinsical rascals, and I am only sorry that not being a dog I can’t bite them."

"All that I know is, that the facts I state Are true as truth has ever been of late."

"All is gentle; nought stirs rudely; but congenial with the night, whatever walks is gliding like a spirit."

"All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy"

"All our advantages are those of fortune; birth, wealth, health, beauty, are her accidents; and when we cry out against fate, it were well we should remember fortune can take naught save what she gave."

"All is concentred in a life intense, where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, but hath a part of being."

"Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine."

"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."

"All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies are ended by a marriage; the future states of both are left to faith."

"All was prepared--the fire, the sword, the men To wield them in their terrible array. The army, like a lion from his den, March'd forth with nerves and sinews bent to slay-- A human Hydra, issuing from its fen To breathe destruction on its winding way, Whose heads were heroes, which cut off in vain, Immediately in others grew again."

"All that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes."

"All that the mind would shrink from, of excesses; All that the body perpetrates, of bad; All that we read, hear, dream, of man's distresses; All that the devil would do, if run stark mad; All that defies the worst which pen expresses All by which hell is peopled, or is sad As hell--mere mortals who their power abuse-- Was here (as heretofore and since) let loose."

"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity."

"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."