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" Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. "
Poems - Page 126
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850
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Christian Singers of Germany, Issue 39

Catherine Winkworth - Biography & Autobiography - 1869 - 388 pages
...him we owe those sayings which Mr. Longfellow has made familiar to us, especially that profound one : RETRIBUTION. Though the mills of God grind slowly,...patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. SIN. Manlike is it to fall into sin ; Fiendlike is it to dwell therein ; Christlike is it for sin to...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...smiting it But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. Tht Golden Legend. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they . grind...patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. Retribution. From the Sinngedichte of Friedrich Von Logau. Sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union,...
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American Bastile: A History of the Illegal Arrests and Imprisonment of ...

John A. Marshall - Martial law - 1869 - 754 pages
...behalf he was doing the cruel wrong. The wheel was turning which was to drag General Porter down. " Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small." The same evening of his arrest, Mr. Douglas was hurried on to Berlin, below Harper's Ferry. Here, in...
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The poetical works of Henry W. Longfellow, ed. with a critical ..., Issue 151

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pages
...Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined ; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. RETRIBUTION. Though the mills of God grind slowly,...torch's fire, Ha ! how soon they all are silent ! Thus truth silences the liar. RHYMES. If perhaps these rhymes of mine should sound not well in strangers'...
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Letter and Spirit: Winchester Lectures

Richard Metcalf - Unitarianism - 1870 - 204 pages
...any more in all the universe, and yet we must suffer the inevitable punishment of our iniquities. " Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind...he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all." Nothing in all nature or revelation is more certain than this, that for every sinning soul there is...
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The military chest, tr. from the Germ. of Horan by J. Henderson: and other ...

Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 276 pages
...circumstances of life the proverb which Franz and Severin, Braun and Malleville, proved to be so true : " The mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding...He stands waiting, With exactness grinds He all." THE LITTLE MERMAID. TTAR out at sea the water is as blue as the sky above it, and as clear as the purest...
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No appeal, Volume 3

No appeal - 1870 - 378 pages
...NO? 343 XX. A NEW MAN 352 XXI. WHAT A PARSON CAN DO ... 362 NO APPEAL. CHAPTEK I. AN ARMED TRUCE. " Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small." THE next day was Sunday, and the divine peace of the day fell, in some degree, even upon the distracted...
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 55

1897 - 1166 pages
...quotation as thus given is from Herbert's "Jacula Prudentum." In a foot-note Bartlett says : " • Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small'— F. von Logau (1614-1655): Retribution (translation)." Please state how it was that Peter and John could...
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The poetical works of Henry W. Longfellow, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 pages
...TACT. Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. RETRIBUTION. Though the mills of God grind slowly,...the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire, I la ! how soon they all are silent ! Thus truth silences the liar. RHYMES. If perhaps these rhymes...
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Our Poetical Favorites: A Selection from the Best Minor Poems of the English ...

Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...fji>\o ("The milla of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.") GRKKK POET. THE ABOVE PARAPHRASED. THOUGH the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind...patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Careless seems the Great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple...
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