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Tag Name "Selfsame" (8)

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One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
Pietro Metastasio
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Seneca the Younger
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
Bayard Taylor
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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
George Henry Borrow
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-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.
Jack Kerouac
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The laws of light and of heat translate each other-so do the laws of sound and colour and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson