Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

We all boil at different degrees

We all boil at different degrees

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Over the brink of it
Picture it--think of it,
Dissolute man.
Lave in it--drink read more

Over the brink of it
Picture it--think of it,
Dissolute man.
Lave in it--drink of it
Then, if you can.

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or read more

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the read more

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.

I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.

Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.