“Dispose thy Soul to all good and necessary things!”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“Break free, my soul, good manners are thy tomb!”
"Reason Enough", line 18; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 75.
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British playwright, poet and artist 1870–1944Related quotes
“Order thyself so, that thy Soul may always be in good estate; whatsoever become of thy body.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“Break my hard heart,
Jesus my Lord;
In the inmost part
Hide Thy sweet word.”
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843) British writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 449.
“The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.”
Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Life Without and Life Within (1859), A Greeting
“The tomb of him who would have made
The world too glad and free.”
Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859) British poet and critic
The Devil's Progress (1849)
“So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray
Old love is born anew.”
Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) French writer
Remembrance.
Context: As all the perfumes of the vanished day
Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew
So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray
Old love is born anew.
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 309–310 (tr. G. M. Cookson)