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ea80aba Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,--but far above the great. Thomas Gray
f9d2ea1 Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the wat'ry glade. Thomas Gray
47d15ee Ah, tell them they are men! Thomas Gray
7a110c5 Grim-visaged comfortless Despair. Thomas Gray
2de7886 And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. Thomas Gray
8d7d23b We uphold Unitarian Universalism
e33aa32 What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish? Thomas Gray
bb416ec Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain. Thomas Gray
92dbbb2 Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Thomas Gray
ef6957e Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. Thomas Gray
bc60af5 Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Thomas Gray
76909ce And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. Thomas Gray
8d87d85 E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our Ashes live their wonted Fires. Thomas Gray
ef2f981 Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. Thomas Gray
5fdb1dc To high-born Hoel's harp, or soft Llewellyn's lay. Thomas Gray
90081b1 Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes; Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. Thomas Gray
c77fac0 Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed. Thomas Gray
f094199 Visions of glory, spare my aching sight, Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! Thomas Gray
9ec54e0 These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. Thomas Hardy
740f7f9 To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience Thomas Hardy
0b3dfd3 Good, but not religious-good. Thomas Hardy
9133b2a Work hard and be poor, do nothing and get more. Thomas Hardy
35c0f6a Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Thomas Hardy
10beaa8 Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. Thomas Hardy
02deadf You calculated how to be uncalculating, and are natural by art! Thomas Hardy
ef5c0c6 See what deceits love sows in honest minds! Thomas Hardy
716eaf3 To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet. Thomas Hardy
94f2f7f Ah, no; the years, the years; Down their carved names the raindrop plows. Thomas Hardy
27cf9fa This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I. Thomas Hardy
2c20956 Ah," she said to herself, "want of an object to live for--that's all is the matter with me!" Thomas Hardy
133295b How bewitched I was! How could there be any good in a woman that everybody spoke ill of? Thomas Hardy
5ff2077 Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I be in Somebody's hand! Thomas Hardy
04639bf All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands. Thomas Hardy
ccad261 'Twas a little one-eyed, blinking sort o' place. Thomas Hardy
c53496b Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. Thomas Hardy
18fcd32 Done because we are too menny. Thomas Hardy
fe956b3 Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons! Thomas Hardy
cf0c1a1 It works unconsciously, as heretofore, Eternal artistries in Circumstance. Thomas Hardy
608abc6 Why doth IT so and so, and ever so, voiceless Turner of the Wheel? Thomas Hardy
bb88d4b A local cult, called Christianity. Thomas Hardy
89570ad Aggressive Fancy working spells Upon a mind o'erwrought. Thomas Hardy
40615a3 Ere systemed suns were globed and lit The slaughters of the race were writ. Thomas Hardy
35515c4 My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. Thomas Hardy
575e044 I'd be a butterfly born in a bower,Where roses and lilies and violets meet. Thomas Haynes Bayly