Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VIII, p. 286
Self-Question, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Give what Thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 905.
One Word is Too Often Profaned http://www.readprint.com/work-1370/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1821), st. 1
“Poor indeed must thou be, if around thee
Thou no ray of light and joy canst throw”
Why thus longing? reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Du sollst dir kein Ideal machen, weder eines Engels im Himmel, noch eines Helden aus einem Gedicht oder Roman, noch eines selbstgeträumten oder fantasirten; sondern du sollst einen Mann lieben, wie er ist.
Philosophical Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Athenaeum Fragments,” § 364
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
“O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
That shut'st, and no man opens — Thee we wait!”
"April", in Poems (1859)
Context: p>The irrevocable Hand
That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
The portals of our earthly destinies;
We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
Close after us, for ever.Pause, my soul,
On these strange words — for ever — whose large sound
Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise
Our human moans make on the shores of Time.
O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
That shut'st, and no man opens — Thee we wait!</p
St. 8
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
