#oseo quote

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

I had amongst my scholars several farmers' daughters: young women grown, almost. These could already read, write, and sew; and-to them I taught the elements of grammar, geography, history, and the finer kinds of needlework. I found estimable characters amongst them—characters desirous of information, and disposed for improvement—with whom I passed many a pleasant evening hour in their own homes.

'Well, have you ever stopped to consider', I asked, 'how generous the creator of the senses was when he created the domain of seeing and being seen?

Time, the devourer, and the jealous years With long corruption ruin all the world And waste all things in slow mortality.

I sought, and soon discovered, the three head-stones on the slope next the moor—the middle one grey, and half buried in heath—Edgar Linton's only harmonized by the turf, and moss creeping up its foot—Heathcliff's still bare. I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Your first thought, girls, should be for your behaviour; A face will please when character is fine. Love lasts for character: age ruins beauty And looks that charmed are ploughed with many a line.

A Poet's Cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks to which she might retire.