more quotes, both POETRY and WISDOMS: broken hearts, deceit, love, lies, cowards, mothers, and more

POETRY by HW Longfellow: (exerpt) All was ended now, the hope, the fear and sorrow, all the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, all the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience.



Of all the agonies of life, that which is the most poignant and harrowing - that which for the time annhilates reason and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart - is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love. - Bulwer



The seal of truth is on thy gallant form, For none but cowards lie. - Murphy



Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. - Holmes



Love is not in our choice, but in our fate. - Dryden (tho i'm unsure if i believe this, or not. )



Love is a pearl of purest hue, But stormy waves are round it;

And dearly may a woman rue, the hour that she first found it. - unknown



To her love was like the air of heaven - invisible, intangible; it yet encircled her soul, and she knew it; for in it was her life - unknown



God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. - Unknown (HA!)



A Mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. - Coleridge



He who is the most slow in making a promise, is the most faithful in the performance of it. - unknown



The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils; The notions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections are dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.

-unknown



All other goods by Fortune's hand are given; a wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.

- unknown



O woman, lovely woman! nature made thee to temper man: we had been brutes without you! - Otway



Woman's natural mission is to love, to love but one, and to love always. - Michelet



O woman! in our hours of ease,

Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,

And variable as the shade,

By the light quivering aspen made;

When pain and anguish wring the brow,

A ministering angel thou! - Scott



Talking is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books. A full mind must have talk, or it will grow dispeptic. - unknown



Who would choose torture to delay death?

Be swift, please;

If it must come, bring it quickly.

If there is any care in you for anything,

finish this, one way or another -

take my heart or throw it away -

but stop dangling it on a string. - Mine (Cheryl Butler) {if for some odd reason you wanna use this, it's fine with me as long as it is not for profit, and please credit me; if it's used for profit, I'd need a percentage, ideally, if i could prove it. Don't really see that happening tho, but it is a strange world. Just be nice and be fair ; ) } {PS, if using this to say to your lover because you find self in same situation, of course i expect no credit. Again, not like I'd know, but anyhow, feel free to use it in a relationship situation to help get your point across if you think it'll help. Didn't with me, tho - I had to finally, after years of on-off bullshit, quit him}

QUOTES, on: God and peace, face of Nature, admitting you're wrong, hypocrisy, more

(I will not slam anyone for religion, but hypocrisy is not a religion, and the religion that hypocrites use is but an excuse. Nor will I attack anyone on a lack of religion. It's not my business as long as my beliefs are respected in return. That said, the first quote does deride atheist. I include it because the rest is comparing atheist to hypocrites, with hypocrites coming out worst. Who can a hypocrite hate and judge more than an atheist - maybe to the same degree, but not more. Thus the comparison is very useful when pointing this out to a hypocrite - its like saying, "you think atheists are bad, well look at yourself", and it is part of the quote, so I'm using it, but adding this disclaimer too.)
HYPOCRISY: An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety; but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to good action. - Pope [as in the surname, not the catholic leader]
THE PEACE OF GOD: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. - unknown {by me anyhow - I did know, I think, but I forgot who said it}
THE FACE OF NATURE: The ignorant man gazeth upon the face of Nature, and it is to him darkness of darkness. But the initiated and illumined man gazeth thereon and seeth the features of God. - W.E. Butler
MOTIVES: We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if only the world saw the motives which caused them. - La Rouchefoucauld
BALANCE: Run, if you like, but try to keep your breath; Work like a man, but don't be worked to death. - Holmes
THE NOBLE FEMALE: God often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms - oftenest, God bless her! In female breasts. - Dickens
ADMITTING YOU'RE WRONG: A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. - Unknown
ALWAYS BEING RIGHT: None but a fool is always right. - Hare
THE IGNORANT: The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant. - Shaftesbury