Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.
Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!
I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.
For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.
Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.
I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.