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All plum'd like estridges, that with the wind; baited like eagles having lately bath'd; glittering in golden coats, like images; as full of spirit as the month of May, and gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, his cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm’d, rise from the ground like feather’d Mercury, and vaulted with such ease into his seat, as if an angel dropp’d down from the clouds, to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus. King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.
And where two raging fires meet together; they do consume the thing that feeds their fury. Though little fire grows great with little wind, yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. Taming of the Shrew, Act ii, Scene 1
Gentleness | Pity | Will | Forgive |
Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end. But now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
But yet,-- I do not like but yet, it does allay the good precedence; fye upon but yet; but yet is as a gaoler to bring forth some monstrous malefactor.
Pity |
But mistress, know yourself; down on your knees, and thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love: for I must tell you friendly in your ear, — Sell while you can; you are not for all markets. As You Like It, Act iii, Scene 5
Daniel Gilbert, fully Daniel Todd Gilbert, aka Professor Happiness
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
Cause | Experience | Pleasure |
William Hamilton, fully Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
In the philosophy of mind, subjective denotes what is to be referred to the thinking subject, the ego; objective what belongs to the object of thought, the non ego. Philosophy being the essence of knowledge, and the science of knowledge supposing, in its most fundamental and thorough-going analysis, the distinction of the subject and object of knowledge, it is evident that to philosophy the subject of knowledge would be by pre-eminence the subject, and the object of knowledge the object. It was therefore natural that the object and objective, the subject and subjective, should be employed by philosophers as simple terms, compendiously to denote the grand discrimination about which philosophy was constantly employed, and which no others could be found so precisely and promptly to express.
Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell: fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death: and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them, and the life that is in it, that shall live on and on forever, and each one of you part of it, while many a man's life upon the earth from the earth shall wane.
O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts. Possess them not with fear. Take from them now the sense of reckoning, ere th' opposed numbers pluck their hearts from them.
Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.
O here will I set of my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world wearied flesh eyes look your last arms take your last embrace and lips all you the doors of breath seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death.
Now I will believe that there are unicorns; that in Arabia there is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one Phoenix at this hour reigning there.
O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Science has been arranging, classifying, methodizing, simplifying, everything except itself. It has made possible the tremendous modern development of power of organization which has so multiplied the effective power of human effort as to make the differences from the past seem to be of kind rather than of degree. It has organized itself very imperfectly. Scientific men are only recently realizing that the principles which apply to success on a large scale in transportation and manufacture and general staff work to apply them; that the difference between a mob and an army does not depend upon occupation or purpose but upon human nature; that the effective power of a great number of scientific men may be increased by organization just as the effective power of a great number of laborers may be increased by military discipline.
Art | Opinion | Order | Patience | People | Skill | Study | Sympathy | Will | Wishes | Art | Learn |
She dying, as it must be so maintained, Upon the instant that she was accused, Shall be lamented, pitied, and excused Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.