Alfred Austin quotes - page 3

Once learn how Nature gardens for herself, and you will be able to spare yourself a good deal of trouble. (Alfred Austin)
[...] there is no love, That merits such high christening, but is built Firm upon some foundation out of sight; God, country, virtue, something not ourself, To which ourself is nothing, save the proof Of its invisible sureness. View quote
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Goodnight! Now dwindle wan and low The embers of the afterglow, And slowly over leaf and lawn Is twilight's dewy curtain drawn. View quote
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Who loves his country never forfeits heaven. View quote
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Never fear to weep; For tears are summer showers to the soul, To keep it fresh and green. View quote
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A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest autobiography. Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like. View quote
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It is always delightful to have one's feelings expressed by some one else in language of enthusiasm one might oneself be afraid to employ. View quote
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Doth logic in the lily hide, And where's the reason in the rose? View quote
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Then, without toil, by vale and mountain side, Men found their few and simple wants supplied; Plenty, like dew, dropped subtle from the air, And Earth's fair gifts rose prodigal as prayer. Love, with no charms except its own to lure, Was swiftly answered by a love as pure. No need for wealth; each glittering fruit and flower, Each star, each streamlet, made the maiden's dower. View quote
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O thou sophist, Man! Reason by reason proved unreasonable Continues reasoning still! Confronted close, What is this reason? Like the peacock's tail, Just useful for a flourish, nothing more; And when 'tis down, the world goes on the same. View quote
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A writer cannot take his occupation too seriously. He cannot take himself too lightly. (Alfred Austin)
To homes pervaded by charm, as to works of Art that approach perfection, the more happily constituted minds say 'Yes' without any qualification. The proper homage due to them is absolute assent. View quote
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[T]he Caesars of this world act sagaciously, perhaps, in making as much of their purple as possible. The world is largely governed by tailors and upholsterers. View quote
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One can put up with, indeed more than put up with, a certain amount of technical carelessness in Poetry, provided it be in other respects of a very high order, as not unoften, for instance, in Shakespeare and Byron. But similar blemishes in a picture would be all but fatal to it in the estimation of connoisseurs, since it would be the first thing that struck them in it. View quote
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Women are more frequently charming than men, because they are less self-conscious. View quote
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