William Cartwright famous quotes

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps still.
-- William Cartwright

#Love #Age #Chill

Those who are the hardest for me to love are probably those who need my love the most.
-- William Cartwright

#Love #Needs #Hardest

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!
-- William Cartwright

#Smile #Wings #Joy

There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
-- William Cartwright

#Two #Light #Soul

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
-- William Cartwright

#Wise #Fool

Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.
-- William Cartwright

#Courage #Brave #Mind

Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think hath been a cure. For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force Of mere imagination.
-- William Cartwright

#Thinking #Imagination #Done

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

To kill nothing, that is love.

Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.