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Áh! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889Spring and Fall (1880)In context
- Age
What’s gone and what’s past help,
Should be past grief.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Winter’s Tale (c. 1611), Act III, Scene II, spoken by PaulinaIn context
- Wisdom
You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard II (c. 1595), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by King RichardIn context
- Power
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
George Eliot1819–1880Silas Marner (1861), Part I, Chapter XIIIn context
These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book First: Boy and Girl, Chapter VIn context
- Children
There’s enough sorrow in the world, isn’t there, without trying to invent it.
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Room with a View (1908), Part One, Chapter IIIn context
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world. It is valiant enough to bear the burden, but where is the courage that would cast it off?
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Lord Jim (1900), Chapter 34In context
- Courage
Your tears come easy, when you’re young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you’re old, and leaving it.
Wilkie Collins1824–1889The Moonstone (1868), First Period: The Loss of the Diamond (1848), Chapter XIXIn context
- Age
- Youth
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellant man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Sign of the Four (1890), Chapter IIIn context
- Character
- Thinking
Moral wounds have this peculiarity,⁠—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Four, Chapter 86In context
I know not how it was⁠—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)In context
I do things differently, because I don’t go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that’s got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.
Diana, Princess of Wales1961–1997Interview with Martin Bashir on BBC Panorama (20 November 1995)
- Leadership