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Idleness
Idleness: Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
Ignorance
Ignorance: How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. C.
Imagination
Imagination: Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng.
Immortality
Immortality: It must be so-Plato, thou reasonest well!- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?…
Impatience
Impatience: Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.
Impossibility
Impossibility: A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
Independence
Independence: Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Inconstancy
Inconstancy: I hate inconstancy-I loathe, detest, Abhor, condemn, abjure the mortal made Of such quicksilver clay that in his breast No…
Indifference
Indifference: I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me.
Influence
Influence: For witnesses, like watches, go Just as they're set, too fast or slow; And, where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd, 'Tis ten…
Ingratitude
Ingratitude: Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace.
Inheritance
Inheritance: And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
Injustice
Injustice: Injustice swift, erect and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.
Innocence
Innocence: E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give, When its resistless accents flow To bid affection live.
Insanity
Insanity: Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
Insects-Bee
Insects-Bee: Bee. The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er, To gather in his fragrant winter…
Insects-Flea
Insects-Flea: And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Insects-Katydid
Insects-Katydid: Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A moving radiance twinkles.
Insects-Louse
Insects-Louse: Louse. Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crawlin' ferlie? Your impudence protects you sairly; I canna say but ye strunt rarely Owre…
Instruction
Instruction: I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still…
Instinct
Instinct: But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
Intellect
Intellect: The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
Intemperance
Intemperance: Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquebae, we'll…
Invention
Invention: I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me, I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop…
Investigation
Investigation: Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy…
Islands
Islands: From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.
Iii
Iii: She is no better than she should be. jj.
Imitation
Imitation: Pindarum quisquis studet æmulari, Iule ceratis ope Dædaleâ Nititur pennis, vitreo daturus Nomina ponto. He who studies to…
Inclination
Inclination: Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod gaudias. If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by…
Indolence
Indolence: Vitanda est improba syren-desidia. That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Injury
Injury: Prohibetur ne quis faciat in suo, quod nocere possit in alieno. It is forbidden that any man should do that on his own property…
Inquisitiveness
Inquisitiveness: Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est. Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
Insult
Insult: I demens! et sævas curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias. Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may…
Insolence
Insolence: Qui se laisse outrager, mérite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage. He who allows himself to be insulted…
Izaak
Izaak: CHAMFORT, S. R. N., littérateur. FRANCE, 1741-1794 775 785 CHANDLER, ELIZABETH M., poet and philanthropist, UNITED STATES, 1807-1834…