Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.