Excellent Quotations for Home and School ...Lee and Shepard, 1890 - 329 pages |
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... friendship's laws are by this rule expressed , Welcome the coming , speed the parting guest . HESIOD ( ABOUT 850 B.C. ) Pope's Odyssey Fools ! not to know how better , for the soul , An honest half , than an ill - gotten whole : How ...
... friendship's laws are by this rule expressed , Welcome the coming , speed the parting guest . HESIOD ( ABOUT 850 B.C. ) Pope's Odyssey Fools ! not to know how better , for the soul , An honest half , than an ill - gotten whole : How ...
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... friend ) , impartial Fate Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate ; Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years : Night soon will seize , and you must quickly go To storied ghosts and ...
... friend ) , impartial Fate Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate ; Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years : Night soon will seize , and you must quickly go To storied ghosts and ...
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... friend , is all . Nature and wisdom never are at strife . PLUTARCH ( ABOUT 49-120 ) Anger turns the mind out of doors , and bolts the entrance . To be ignorant of the lives of the most cele- brated men of antiquity , is to continue in a ...
... friend , is all . Nature and wisdom never are at strife . PLUTARCH ( ABOUT 49-120 ) Anger turns the mind out of doors , and bolts the entrance . To be ignorant of the lives of the most cele- brated men of antiquity , is to continue in a ...
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... friendship ; and he who plants kindness , gath- ers love . CLAUDIAN ( 365-408 ) The best manners are stained by the addition of pride . MOHAMMED ( 571 ? -632 ) The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr . ST ...
... friendship ; and he who plants kindness , gath- ers love . CLAUDIAN ( 365-408 ) The best manners are stained by the addition of pride . MOHAMMED ( 571 ? -632 ) The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr . ST ...
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... friend , loses more ; but he that loses his courage , loses all . Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth . Whoever is ignorant is vulgar . There is nothing costs less than civility . Health and ...
... friend , loses more ; but he that loses his courage , loses all . Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth . Whoever is ignorant is vulgar . There is nothing costs less than civility . Health and ...
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Page 167 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there! She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land!
Page 75 - 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 128 - And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows ? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet ?— God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo God!
Page 136 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 78 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Page 44 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which 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 162 - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Page 50 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page xii - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.