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There was something wrong about the house in Eastfield Terrace. Something unpleasant.
Sour taste of obligation postponed,
O blessed bounty, giving ail content!
The only fautress of all noble arts
That lend'st success to every good intent.
A grace that rests in the most godlike hearts,
By heav'n to none but happy souls infus'd
Pity it is, that e'er thou wast abus'd.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Thanks to men
Of noble minds, is honorable meed.
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
This is the end of our sentence
My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
Don't worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well.
It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene.
Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.
Honourable is right.
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
All the untidy activity continues,
awful but cheerful.
I have trespassed upon your time too long. I will take my departure with a thousand thanks for your amibility.
Not at all. I wish you would have had a bannana.
You are most amiable
If by chance I have omitted anything more or less proper or necessary, I beg forgiveness, since there is no one who is without fault and circumspect in all matters.
TO THE LADY JESSICA-
May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
My kindest wishes,
MARGOT LADY FENRING
Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.
Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.
Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.
And the honour you did me, no man could have been more sensible of; I am ignorant, therefore, how I have been so unfortunate as to forfeit it:-but, at present, all is changed! you fly me,-your averted eye shuns to meet mine, and you sedulously avoid my conversation.
Thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth I have of late - but wherefore I know not - lost all my mirth So
silence is golden
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
...but I desire i may no further be harassed, and i recommend it to you to retire to your chamber, and to endeavour to adopt a more retional conduct, than that yielding to fancies, and to a sensibility, which, to call it by the gentlest name, is only a weakness.
In sooth, thy life sounds passing strange and shitty.
Now that your speech impediment has been rectified, perhaps you might say something. It would be best if it were humorous. I enjoy a good jest.'
'You are dreadfully rude,' I said to him.
He sighed. 'That wasn't the slightest bit funny.
Ser Arys was pleasant company abed, but wit and he were strangers. (Arianne Martell)
The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good.
The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you, Mr. Haines. You're not living up to your part of the bargain.
The dear Archdeacon is getting so absent-minded. He read a list of box-holders for the opera as the First Lesson the other Sunday, instead of the families and lots of the tribes of Israel that entered Canaan. Fortunately no one noticed the mistake.
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
All is well that ends wellEnds-- Emily Rodda
Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
unfavorable feeling,
Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.
What e'er thou art, act well thy part.
I have the feeling I've been -
unpleasant.
May my silences become more accurate.
Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
For Amy is the victim of today's common malaise - too much self analysis; while I, finding myself remarkably uninteresting, am only too pleased to observe others and the natural objects around me. Thus I am
looked upon as misfortunes, which must be
I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world.
And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
Silent. This was
No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.
I give you warning. You and your false god cannot stand against the power of Alseiass! Leave now or suffer the consequences! If I call on Alseiass, you will know pain such as you have never felt." "Well, priest, if I take my blade to your fat hide, you'll know some pain yourself!
we are quiet tonight, but in the same
silence
Silence is only commendable
In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.
My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.
wholly satisfactory,
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.
She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.
So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in stronds afar remote.
I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
I have concluded, after consultation with my friends and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights.
For naught so vile on the Earth doth live, but to the Earth some special good doth give
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.
The enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream. Still
M'lord," Janos Slynt reminded him. "You'll address me-"
"I'll go, my lord. But you are making a mistake, my lord. You are sending the wrong man, my lord. Just the sight of me is going to anger Mance ...
Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.
The matter with us is you.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.
O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.
My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - "
"I am NOT naming our child Buford ...
Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,
if you be out, sir, I can mend you.
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.
That's all folks!
Your Abnegation is showing,
Excuse me, pray. Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
All shall be well, all shall be well, all manner of things shall be well. Julian of Norwich
But all's well as ends well;
If even this stranger had smiled and been good-humoured to me when I addressed him; if he had put off my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries: but the frown, the roughness of the traveller, set me at my ease
strangely ambivalent about
if we do not venture somebody else will;
I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.
Thou art relieved of thy duties!
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.
For everyone I meet with your name
I'm sorry.
All is well, tho' faith and form
Be sunder'd in the night of fear.
What-e're thou art,
Act well thy part.
89th: Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
Been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm
Bad spellers of the world untie!
Writing now makes me feel as if I had lost at least one of my senses. I can't hear you or see you and I wonder if you hear me. One thing is quite sure. I love you. Yours, George.
I await the revises, and promise you not to 'make my quietus with a bare bodkin' till I have returned them. After that, I think of retiring. But first I would like to dine with you here. To leave life as one leaves a feast is not merely philosophy but romance.
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: - I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a passer by.
The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.
Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.
Everything is wrong.
I am alive.