At college, in spite of all my advantages of birth, fortune, health, and intellectual acquirements, I had many things besides the one enemy of remorse to corrode my tranquillity of mind.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I say, as I thus sat joying in my own happy condition, and pitying this poor rich man that owned this and many other pleasant groves and meadows about me, I did then thankfully remember what my Saviour said, that the meek possess the earth-or, rather, they enjoy what the others possess and enjoy not; for anglers and meek-spirited men are free from those high, those restless thoughts,-which corrode the sweets of life; and they, and they only, can say, as the poet has happily expressed it- 'Hail, blest estate of lowliness!
"Marriage"
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Mere pangs corrode and consume, Dead when life dies in the brain; In the infinite spirit is room For the pulse of an infinite pain.
"Poems & Ballads (First Series)"
Algernon Charles Swinburne