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There comes a pause, for human strength
Will not endure to dance without cessation;
And everyone must reach the point at length
Of absolute prostration.
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics – it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.
I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true.
As large as life, and twice as natural.
"No, no!" said the Queen. Sentence first—verdict afterwards.
To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author.
Of course you know what a Snark is? If you do, please tell me: for I haven't an idea what it is like.
But surely you trust God! Do you think He would let you come to harm? To be afraid is to distrust.
Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.
I mark this day with a white stone.
Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x2+7x+53
=11/3.
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
I wasn't asleep! said Bruno, in a deeply-injured tone. "When I shuts mine eyes, it's to show that I'm awake!"
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893)
Not as in rest she bowed,
But large hot tears were coursing down her cheek.
And her low-panted sobs broke awefully
Upon the sleeping echoes of the night.
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
The dying crimson of the West
That faintly tinged his haggard cheek,
Fell on her as she stood, and shed
A glory round the patient head.
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
There is an insect that people avoid
(Whence is derived the verb 'to flee').
Where have you been by it most annoyed?
In lodgings by the Sea.
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
And as to being in a fright,
Allow me to remark
That Ghosts have just as good a right
In every way, to fear the light,
As Men to fear the dark.
Phantasmagoria (1869)
All too soon will Childhood gay
Realise Life's sober sadness.
Let's be merry while we may,
Innocent and happy Fay!
Elves were made for gladness!
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends"
The Hunting of the Snark (1874)
He is immensely fat, and so
Well suits the occupation:
In point of fact, if you must know,
We used to call him years ago,
THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION!
Phantasmagoria (1869)