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“The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.”

Men Desire Graves

Book:Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

“Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.”

Desire Time Wise Fool Ambition Graves Dread Cradle Counselor

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think

“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source: The decline of the West

“Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.”

Heart Desire Flower Graves Ease

Author:William Rounseville Alger

“There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.”

Men Two Earth Form Desire Special He Man Ambition Connections Complaining Graves Contentment Discontent Restlessness Meek Meekness

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation