She was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all.
Lord Byron
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
life
She was a form of life and light That seen, became a part of sight, And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning-star of memory! Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Alla given, To lift from earth our low desire.
life light
She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Which makes life itself a lie, Flattering dust with eternity.
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
truth
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Bring forth the horse! - the horse was brought; In truth, he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs.
speed truth
No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong.
wrongs power
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
power
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
nature
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die, in molding Sheridan.
man nature
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
business
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
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