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... -Tennyson . Words are things ; and a small drop of ink , falling like dew upon a thought , produces that which makes thousands , perhaps millions , think . -Byron . When anger rushes , unrestrained , to action , Like ( 7 )
... -Tennyson . Words are things ; and a small drop of ink , falling like dew upon a thought , produces that which makes thousands , perhaps millions , think . -Byron . When anger rushes , unrestrained , to action , Like ( 7 )
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... things most Will be much apter to despond than boast . -Roscommon . The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts . -Boice . They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts . -Sir Philip Sidney . True dignity abides ...
... things most Will be much apter to despond than boast . -Roscommon . The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts . -Boice . They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts . -Sir Philip Sidney . True dignity abides ...
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... thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger , and which can teach us to bear the in- juries of fortune itself with moderation , and which shows us all the ways which lead to tran- quillity and peace ...
... thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger , and which can teach us to bear the in- juries of fortune itself with moderation , and which shows us all the ways which lead to tran- quillity and peace ...
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... things at random : naught they knew about brick - built houses , sun - ward , nor the rafted roof ; but , like tiny ants , they dwelt in the excavated earth , in sunless depths of caves . They had no certain sign of winter , or flower ...
... things at random : naught they knew about brick - built houses , sun - ward , nor the rafted roof ; but , like tiny ants , they dwelt in the excavated earth , in sunless depths of caves . They had no certain sign of winter , or flower ...
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... things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her . Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left ... thing worst which men do most refuse ; But fittest is , that all contented rest With that they hold : each hath his ...
... things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her . Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left ... thing worst which men do most refuse ; But fittest is , that all contented rest With that they hold : each hath his ...
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Page 45 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 264 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 278 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 274 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 90 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
Page 288 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Page 51 - Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words...
Page 273 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 215 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 152 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —