Quotes
Quotes about Art
Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
Philologists, who chase
A panting syllable through time and space,
Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark
To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.
The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
Transforms old print
To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes
Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
With spots quadrangular of diamond form,
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,
And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
It seems the part of wisdom.
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
How soft the music of those village bells
Falling at intervals upon the ear
In cadence sweet!
Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And Learning wiser grow without his books.
An honest man, close-button'd to the chin,
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Life! we 've been long together
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'T is hard to part when friends are dear,--
Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear;
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time;
Say not "Good night," but in some brighter clime
Bid me "Good morning."
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,--entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigour, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;...freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected,--these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
His form was of the manliest beauty,
His heart was kind and soft;
Faithful below he did his duty,
But now he's gone aloft.
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,
Whose accents flow with artless ease,
Like orient pearls at random strung.
As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
Sheer necessity,--the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
Had I a heart for falsehood framed,
I ne'er could injure you.
Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd;
Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd;
The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd,
And ease of heart her every look convey'd.
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Perhaps Dundee's wild-warbling measures rise,
Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name.
What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.
