Anchorite, who didst dwell
With all the world for cell! [ Francis Thompson ]
Shall I, like an hermit, dwell
On a rock or in a cell? [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
Souls dwell in printer's type. [ Joseph Ames ]
Soon for me the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee. [ Doane ]
What would not I give to wander
Where my old companions dwell?
Absence makes the heart grow fonder:
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! [ T. H. Bayly, Isle of Beauty ]
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell! [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell.
And may be found too in an oyster shell. [ Bunyan ]
Divines and dying men may talk of hell,
But in my heart her several torments dwell. [ William Shakespeare ]
And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell.
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel. [ Homer ]
Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one. [ Herrick ]
To dwell alone is the fate of all great souls. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with it. [ William Shakespeare ]
Innocence and mystery never dwell long together. [ Madame Necker ]
In conversation dwell not too long on a weak side. [ Proverb ]
The heart of man is the place the devils dwell in. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Human hearts should be temples where angels dwell. [ T. L. Harris ]
Whenever he speaks, Heaven, how the listening throng
Dwell on the melting music of his tongue!
His arguments are emblems of his mien,
Mild but not faint, and forcing, though serene:
And when the power of eloquence he'd try,
Here lightning strikes you, there soft breezes sigh. [ Garth ]
Better dwell with a dragon than with a wicked woman. [ Proverb ]
A gentleman ought to travel abroad but dwell at home. [ Proverb ]
Oh, that deceit should dwell in sucb a gorgeous palace! [ William Shakespeare ]
Alas that we must dwell, my heart and I, so far asunder! [ Christina G. Rossetti ]
Ye who dwell at home, ye do not know the terrors of the main. [ Southey ]
Folly and learning (such as it is) often dwell in the same person. [ Proverb ]
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell. [ Gotthold ]
Two souls, alas! dwell in my breast; the one struggles to separate itself from the other. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust." ]
Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. [ Bible ]
There are some places that we admire; others that attract us, and where we would like to dwell. [ La Bruyere ]
Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty. [ Emerson ]
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. [ Alex. Dumas ]
Blessed is he that continueth where he is; here let us rest and lay out seed-fields; here let us learn to dwell. [ Carlyle ]
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell. [ Plato ]
There are men who dwell on the defects of their enemies. I always have regard to the merits of mine, and derive profit therefrom. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The wretch that would wish the poetry of life and feeling to be extinct, let him forever dwell in flame, in frost, in ever-during night. [ Dante ]
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us. [ Voltaire ]
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as possible on the dark and the base. [ Cecil ]
He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is. [ Goethe ]
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief; in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. [ Richter ]
The grave is a sacred workshop of nature! a chamber for the figure of the body; death and life dwell here together as man and wife. They are one body, they are in union; God has joined them together, and what God hath joined together let no man put asunder. [ Hippel ]
The tending of flowers has ever appeared to me a fitting care for the young and beautiful; they then dwell, as it were, among their own emblems, and many a voice of wisdom breathes on their ear from those brief blossoms, to which they apportion the dew and the sunbeam. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the skeptic sees an abyss in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist - I stand fast. [ Miller ]
Under the influence of music we are all deluded in some way; we imagine that the performers must dwell in the regions to which they lift their hearers; we are reluctant to admit that a man may blow the most soul-animating strains from his trumpet and yet be a coward; or melt an audience to tears with his violin, and yet be a heartless profligate. [ H. W. Hillard ]
If flowers have souls,
said Undine, the bees, whose nurses they are, must seem to them darling children at the breast. I once fancied a paradise for the spirits of departed flowers.
They go,
answered I, not into paradise, but into a middle state; the souls of lilies enter into maidens' foreheads, those of hyacinths and forget-me-nots dwell in their eyes, and those of roses in their lips.
[ Richter ]
This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]