Burton
Burton
believe light lamps
For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.
doctors
When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?
thee manhood
Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
three moral portions
All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.
knowledge knows
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
art past done
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
fun men shining
Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?
ambition liberty slave
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
faith believe mirrors
All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
disappointment giving mind
How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.
sea wings islands
One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
girl fall long
If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh well than try to turn me on with long, silent, soulful, secret looks. If you can laugh with a woman, everything else falls into place.
inspirational travel journey
Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.
life men law
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.