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Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Remember (1862)In context
- Advice
- Happiness
Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Much Madness is divinest Sense (1890)In context
- Thinking
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936If— (1910)In context
- Advice
- Character
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Down by the Salley Gardens (1889)In context
- Advice
- Youth
Good fences make good neighbours.
Robert Frost1874–1963Mending Wall (1914)In context
- Friendship
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.
Charles Kingsley1819–1875A Farewell (1858)In context
- Advice
- Virtue
As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 4In context
- Advice
- Fear
I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 2In context
- Advice
- Good & Evil
Alas, alas, what misery to be wise
When wisdom profits nothing!
Sophocles496–406 BCOedipus the King (c. 429 BC), spoken by TeiresiasIn context
For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him,
That he alone can speak or think aright,
Such oracles are empty breath when tried.
The wisest man will let himself be swayed
By others’ wisdom and relax in time.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by HaemonIn context
See how the trees beside a stream in flood
Save, if they yield to force, each spray unharmed,
But by resisting perish root and branch.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by HaemonIn context
- Advice
- Nature
To err is common
To all men, but the man who having erred
Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks
The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by TeiresiasIn context
- Failure
Of happiness the chiefest part
Is a wise heart
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Happiness
Swelling words of high-flown might
Mightily the gods do smite.
Chastisement for errors past
Wisdom brings to age at last.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Age
- Pride
I’ve studied now Philosophy
And Jurisprudence, Medicine,⁠—
And even, alas! Theology,⁠—
From end to end, with labor keen;
And here, poor fool! with all my lore
I stand, no wiser than before:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene I, spoken by FaustIn context
- Knowledge