Memory, in widow’s weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
—Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Memories
Power’s footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
—Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Power
Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
—Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Prejudice
This span of life was lent for lofty duties, not for selfishness; not to be whiled away in aimless dreams, but to improve ourselves and serve mankind.
—Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Duty
Grief should be like joy, majestic, sedate, confirming, cleansing, equable, making free, strong to consume small troubles, to command great thoughts, grave thoughts, thoughts lasting to the end.
—Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Grief
Man should be ever better than he seem; and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven.
—Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Man
There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
—Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Idleness
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