My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
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Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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