William Wetmore Story Quotes

What looks like swindling with a petty sum,
Is on a grand and speculative scale
Honest enough, so it be large enough. - William Wetmore Story

We live as much in all that we have lost
As what we own. - William Wetmore Story

Those black eyes I once so praised
Now are hard and sharp and cold;
Where's the love that through them blazed?
Where's the tenderness of old? - William Wetmore Story

The rain keeps constantly raining,
And the sky is cold and gray,
And the wind in the trees keeps complaining
That summer has passed away; -- - William Wetmore Story

The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,
Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part. - William Wetmore Story

Speak, History! Who are life's victors? Unroll thy long annals and say:
Are they those whom the world calls the victors, who won the success of a day? - William Wetmore Story

On the broken stem of dreams
Only disappointments grow. - William Wetmore Story

Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed. - William Wetmore Story

Nothing can be sour and sharp
As a love that has decayed --
On the loose strings of the harp
Only discord can be made. - William Wetmore Story

Mosquito critics with a poisonous sting. - William Wetmore Story

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