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James Sheridan Knowles

James Sheridan Knowles (12 May 1784 – 30 November 1862) was an Irish dramatist and actor.

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Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

Extremes, Neighbor, Neighbors, Step, Steps

The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not proportion to Eternity; Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean! There is the time of man--his proper time, Looking at which this life is but a gust, A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!

Broad, Eternity, Men, Ocean, Race

Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.

Heart, Hearts, Ifs, Joins, Wedlock

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

Earth, Errors, Heart, Weed, Wherein

The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.

Call, Herald, Items, Kings, Men, Running

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.

Life, Lives, Silence, Sound, Twixt

Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!

Brother, Children, Choice, Cleave, Marriage, Part

What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!

Air, Burden, Earth, Fire, Sports, Touch

Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.

Act, Domesticity, House, Knows, Part, Women

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