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... Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss , But cheerly seek how to redress their harms . Shakespeare : 3 Henry VI . Sweet are the uses of adversity , Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ...
... Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss , But cheerly seek how to redress their harms . Shakespeare : 3 Henry VI . Sweet are the uses of adversity , Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ...
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... wise to learn ; ' tis god - like to create ! J. G. Saxe : The Library . Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes , And pause awhile from letters to be wise , There mark what ills the scholar's life assail , Toil The Handbook of ...
... wise to learn ; ' tis god - like to create ! J. G. Saxe : The Library . Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes , And pause awhile from letters to be wise , There mark what ills the scholar's life assail , Toil The Handbook of ...
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... wise , and meanly just , To buried merit raise the tardy bust . Dr. Johnson : Vanity of Human Wishes . In every work regard the writer's end , Since none can compass more than they intend . Pope : Essay on Criticism . An author ! ' tis ...
... wise , and meanly just , To buried merit raise the tardy bust . Dr. Johnson : Vanity of Human Wishes . In every work regard the writer's end , Since none can compass more than they intend . Pope : Essay on Criticism . An author ! ' tis ...
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... Wise men have said , are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly , and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior , Uncertain and unsettled still remains- Deep versed in books , and shallow in himself . Milton ...
... Wise men have said , are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly , and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior , Uncertain and unsettled still remains- Deep versed in books , and shallow in himself . Milton ...
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... ! Experience . Cowper . Montgomery : Farewell to a Missionary . ' Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours , And ask them what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news . 66 The Handbook of Quotations.
... ! Experience . Cowper . Montgomery : Farewell to a Missionary . ' Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours , And ask them what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news . 66 The Handbook of Quotations.
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Page 130 - Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Page 54 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 174 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation ; we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 55 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 13 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 53 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
Page 61 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe, From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Page 150 - Let me play the Fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Page 177 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Page 64 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...