“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.” KnowsHas BeensSoulHomeSeemsEyeLeftAmbitionBirdFilledWingsAffectionFlightDeniedDaringAmbitiousAshesRefugeThirstSovereigntyBosomsGrasping Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?” KnowsShouldMindHas BeensSeaSubjectsPoetMoonContemplationSailingBarkSoothingAzure Author:William Gilmore Simms
“What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.” KnowsMayVirtueMinesStonesVicesNeighborContemplationDiamondCrudeUncompromisingPrecious Stones Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
