Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die. |
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure. |
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. |
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. |
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. |
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. |
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. |
Love is the only gold. |
Better not be at all than not be noble. |
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. |
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. |
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself. |
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. |
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. |
O earth, what changes hast thou seen! |
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. |
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man. |
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. |
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. |
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last. |