“Every moment of his life he’s forming you, telling you what’s charming or amusing or ladylike, telling you what a man thinks womanly; and you, you of all women, listen to his voice instead of to your own.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“Life’ wrote a friend of mine, ‘is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“Peril as a possession ’T is good to bear, Danger disintegrates satiety; There’s Basis there Begets an awe, That searches Human Nature’s creases As clean as Fire.”
― Collected Poems
― Collected Poems
“Presumption said, Every fat must stand upon his own bottom.”
― Pilgrim's Progress: One Man's Search for Eternal Life
― Pilgrim's Progress: One Man's Search for Eternal Life
“To pile like Thunder to its close, Then crumble grand away, While everything created hid — This would be Poetry: Or Love, — the two coeval came — We both and neither prove, Experience either, and consume — For none see God and live.”
― Collected Poems
― Collected Poems
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