1824 · Skopia

Showing 7 quotes from 1824

How little do we know that which we are! How less what we may be!

Don Juan · 1824

★ 7.5

I am ashes where once I was fire.

1824

★ 7.1

The groves were God's first temples.

William Cullen Bryant

A Forest Hymn · 1824

★ 5.3

Letter · Political writing

Speeches measured by the hour, die with the hour.

Thomas Jefferson

1824

★ 4.7

I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples · 1824

★ 3.6

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples · 1824

★ 1.9

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse... It is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Washington Irving

1824

★ 1.9