“But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”
2 likes
Author detail
This author page remains available for legacy URL compatibility, including alias-backed slug support.
Quotes
Showing 1-17 of 17
“But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”
2 likes
“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
0 likes
“Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.”
0 likes
“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”
0 likes
“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”
0 likes
“Adoration isn't love.”
0 likes
“It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures!”
0 likes
“She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.”
0 likes
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
0 likes
“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”
0 likes
“A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her k...”
0 likes
“I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.”
0 likes
“No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.”
0 likes
“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power...”
0 likes
“Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that...”
0 likes
“All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become yo...”
0 likes
“Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.”
0 likes