To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.
An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I’m sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.
Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.
Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!
Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.
One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.
Triumphal arch, that fill’st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.
Beauty’s witching sway is now to me a star that’s fallen-a dream that’s passed away.
The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger’s troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.
Tomorrow let us do or die!
Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life’s else bitter cup distilled.
Who hath not own’d, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.
Our land, the first garden of liberty’s tree – It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.
Love’s a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel.
For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom’d each rustic tomb.
Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you’re doing In my cheek’s pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.
Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.