Emotions and Feelings

A still small voice spake unto me, “Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?”

 

She said, “I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!”

 

Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. 1

 

Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. 1

 

End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That’s all I say.

 

And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.

 

Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day?

 

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.

 

This feat of Tell, the archer, will be told While yonder mountains stand upon their base. By heaven! The apple’s cleft right through the core.

 

Never less alone than when alone.

 

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

 

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

 

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

 

I am better than my reputation.

 

Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

 

The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my own dominions never sets. 3

 

Great souls suffer in silence.

 

What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return.

 

There are three lessons I would write, Three words as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men.

 

Joy, thou spark from Heav’n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are. 1

 

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

 

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?

 

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?

 

Foolish men who accuse a woman mindlessly— you cannot even see you cause what you abuse.