William Wetmore Story famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.
-- William Wetmore Story

#Pain #Cold #Gray
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
-- William Wetmore Story

#Expression #Silence #Noble
The shadows of twilight grow, And the tigerâ€™s ancient fierceness In my veins begins to flow.
-- William Wetmore Story

#Twilight #Shadow #Veins
They only the victory win, Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within; Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high; Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight -- if need be, to die.
-- William Wetmore Story

#Fighting #Winning #Suffering
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
-- William Wetmore Story

#Memories #Spring #Keys
I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife....The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.
-- William Wetmore Story

#Humble #Heart #Hymns
The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.
-- William Wetmore Story

#Poet #Intimate #Smallest

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well.
Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.
To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.
Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.
A cold realisation washed over me. From now on, my master would not always be there to protect and counsel me. 'This is big. Too big,' I said. 'What do I do?' 'You follow your destiny,' Ryoko said. 'As we all do. With honour and courage.
I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.
Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.
I love the gray area between right and wrong.
It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.
The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

William Wetmore Story famous quotes

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