Will Martin

Will Martin
Will Martinis a New Zealand-born classical crossover singer...
pride sea soul
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.
errors surface seeming
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
love country kings
Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!
wings eagles imagination
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
children ambition son
A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.
chance wands mines
The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.
ignorance ease stranger
Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.
brother men speech
Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.
wisdom rocks giving
Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.
wisdom errors fool
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.
thinking evil foe
If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.
confidence heart men
Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.
art littles awareness
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
memories idiot volume
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?