We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Quote by Richard Le Gallienne

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In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame...

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every...

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every...

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a...

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a...

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live...

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live...

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Now, bring me that horizon.

Now, bring me that horizon.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat...

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat...