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Knowledge.

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01c. 1806 AD

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?

Lord Byron / quote

02c. 1806 AD

'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home; 'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Lord Byron / quote

03c. 1828 AD

Come to the bridal chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke! Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm! Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet song, and dance, and wine! And thou art terrible!—the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know or dream or fear Of agony are thine.

Fitz-Greene Halleck / quote

04c. 1808 AD

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Keats / quote

05c. 1808 AD

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats / quote

06c. 1821 AD

I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I 'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

Thomas Hood / quote

07c. 1829 AD

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas B. Macaulay / quote

08c. 1829 AD

We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.

Thomas B. Macaulay / quote

09c. 1830 AD

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Douglas Jerrold / quote

10c. 1842 AD

Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

11c. 1842 AD

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

12c. 1843 AD

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,—and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,—the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) / quote

13c. 1843 AD

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) / quote

14c. 1843 AD

You know who critics are?—the men who have failed in literature and art.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) / quote

15c. 1844 AD

Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know erelong,— Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.

Henry W. Longfellow / quote

16c. 1807 AD

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

John G. Whittier / quote

17c. 1835 AD

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning / quote

18c. 1809 AD

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,— These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

19c. 1809 AD

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

20c. 1809 AD

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

21c. 1809 AD

Let knowledge grow from more to more.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

22c. 1809 AD

I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!

Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote

23c. 1809 AD

Knowledge and timber should n't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote

24c. 1851 AD

Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,—not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.

Robert Browning / quote