The black serpent, leaving his filthy cave, Has finally suffered by your hand so sure and brave The end of its venomous existence so despised! From the tiger's guts, from his homicidal teeth You came and drew what he'd devoured from...Quote by Joseph Chénier about poetry, victims, blood, existence, magic, end
Virtue alone is free. Honor of our history, Our immortal shame we live beside your glory.Quote by Joseph Chénier about poetry, immortality, shame, glory, virtue, history
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.Quote by Joseph Campbell about joy, pain
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.Quote by Rudyard Kipling about philosophy
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.Quote by Joseph Addison about politics, influence, day
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.Quote by Joseph Addison about mind, world, man
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.Quote by Joseph Addison about modesty, talent, man
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.Quote by Joseph Addison about people, virtue, truth, man
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.Quote by Joseph Addison about marriage, clothes, advice, woman
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.Quote by Joseph Addison about admiration
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.Quote by Joseph Addison about admiration
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.Quote by Joseph Addison about talking, people, man
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Quote by Joseph Addison about animals, wisdom, man
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.Quote by Joseph Addison about genius, books
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.Quote by Joseph Addison about body, mind
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.Quote by Joseph Addison about courage, duty, common sense, sense, man
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.Quote by Joseph Addison about curiosity, pleasure, imagination, idea, soul