Essence of wisdom, distilled from the flowers of ancient and modern literature, by A. Walker1873 |
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... death ( a parting blast ) Blasts his fair flower , and makes him earth at last : So strong is man , that with a gasping breath He totters , and bequeaths his strength to death : So wise is man , that if with death he strive , His wisdom ...
... death ( a parting blast ) Blasts his fair flower , and makes him earth at last : So strong is man , that with a gasping breath He totters , and bequeaths his strength to death : So wise is man , that if with death he strive , His wisdom ...
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... death be the only thing to enforce goodness of heart , for this is the height of meanness , be- cause well knowing that your whole life has been such as to leave no hope of mercy , you attempt at the last moment to be good and religious ...
... death be the only thing to enforce goodness of heart , for this is the height of meanness , be- cause well knowing that your whole life has been such as to leave no hope of mercy , you attempt at the last moment to be good and religious ...
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... Death , should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind . Dean Swift . Why give you me this shame ? Think you I can resolution fetch From flowery tenderness ? If I must die , I will encounter darkness as a bride , And ...
... Death , should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind . Dean Swift . Why give you me this shame ? Think you I can resolution fetch From flowery tenderness ? If I must die , I will encounter darkness as a bride , And ...
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... death . Shakespeare . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to me most strange that men should fear : Seeing that death , a necessary ...
... death . Shakespeare . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to me most strange that men should fear : Seeing that death , a necessary ...
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... death , there is life . Be like the good servant , and even at midnight be waking , lest when death cometh , and stealeth upon you like a thief in the night , you , with the evil servant , be found sleeping , and lest , for lack of oil ...
... death , there is life . Be like the good servant , and even at midnight be waking , lest when death cometh , and stealeth upon you like a thief in the night , you , with the evil servant , be found sleeping , and lest , for lack of oil ...
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Էջ 110 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; "Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Էջ 13 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do: Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Էջ 88 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Էջ 90 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection ; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all...
Էջ 151 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land...
Էջ 148 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Էջ 168 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder.
Էջ 132 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Էջ 117 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Էջ 9 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.