“Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.” WantPainSimpleLaughingFireFailingReadyPressesStrangerTalesPitySpotsLuxuryEveningPlentyChairsRetiringGuestsCrownsPausesToilSighCheerfulHospitalityDoing GoodJestAbodePranksBashful Book:Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author Source: Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author
“Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenRealReasonPainPastFacesMemoriesPleasureClearChildhoodVictoryComfortExcuseUnhappyTalesFormerWorriedNo ReasonUsualTrustedHappy Memories Author:Lillian Hellman
“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.” EyePainSoundEarsLipsTongueMoodTalesPaleAccentsPathwaysGrandeur Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.” ThinkingShouldHumansHeartPainSportsParentEmotionCompassionDyingYouthTearsOughtTreatsAffectionSelfishTalesCrueltyEaseHuman LifeEnjoymentAshamedContractsPermitSolitaryDistressWoeInsectsAmusementWrapsWeepingIndulgenceOrphanCottagesWanton Author:Hugh Blair