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“My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.”

Heart Soul Lasts Night Grief Influence Sweet Broken Lovers My Heart Army Extraordinary Ill Senses My Soul Thee Ease Waking Portraits Remembrance Last Night Repose Delirium Incomparable

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go seek for ease in hell, Or sprightly nectar from the mouths of asps. The world's a hive, From whence thou canst derive No good, but what thy soul's vexation brings: But case thou meet Some petty-petty sweet, Each drop is guarded with a thousand stings.”

World Wells May Children Soul Cases Hell Sweet Thousand Mouths Ease Honey Alas Petty Nests Guarded Hives Nectar Vexation Wasps

Book:Emblems divine and moral

Source: Emblems divine and moral

“Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.”

Soul Action Strong Sun Fire Strive Breathe Ease Anguish Hearted

Book:The Spanish gypsy

Source: The Spanish gypsy

“Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.”

Wells Long Doe Soul Sea Please Quiet Graves Ease Port Paine

Book:Spenser: Book II of the Faery Queen

Source: Spenser: Book II of the Faery Queen

“Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.”

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“What, my soul, was thy errand here? Was it mirth or ease, Or heaping up dust from year to year? "Nay, none of these!" Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight, Whose eye looks still And steadily on thee through the night; "To do His will!”

Years Looks Stills Soul Eye Night Speak Holy Sight Dust My Soul Thee Ease Mirth Errands

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.”

Soul Lying Energy Path Duty Obstacles Ease Acquire Chastity Abode

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert