"And hence one master passion in the breast,Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest."
--Pope, Essay on Man.
"Sweet peace, conduct his soulto the bosom of good old Abraham."
--Shakespeare, Richard II 4:1.
"Thou wilt not let her wash thy dainty feetWith such salt thing as tears or with rude hairDry them."
--Lowell, A Legend of Brittany.
"Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace,East, west, north and south let the long quarrel cease:Sing the song of great joy that the angels began,Sing of glory to God and of good will to man!"
--Whittier, A Christmas Carmen.
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"Bestows on her too parsimonious lord,An infant for the apple of his eye."
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"Once said a Man--and wise was He--Never shalt thou the heavens see,Save as a little child thou be."
--Sidney Lanier, The Symphony.
"Look before you ere you leap;For as you sow y' are like to reap."
--Butler, Hudibras.
"In vain a fresher mould we seek,Can all the varied phrases tellWhat Babel's wandering children speak,How thrushes sing or lilacs smell?"
--Holmes, To My Readers.
"Thou hand'st sweet Socrates his hemlock sour;Thou sav'st Barabbas in that hideous hour,And stabb'st the good."
--Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance.
"Perhaps like him of Cana in Holy WritOur Arthur kept his best until the last."
--Tennyson, The Holy Grail.
"So Judas kiss'd his master,And cried, 'all hail!' whenas he meant, all harm."
--Shakespeare, III Henry VI 5:7.
"The Gospel has the only branch thatsweetens waters of a bitter popular discontent."
--Anonymous.
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"I do not suppose that your troops are to bebeaten in actual conflict with the foe, or thatthey will be driven into the sea; but I am certainthat many homes in England in which there nowexists a fond hope that the distant one mayreturn, many such homes may be rendered desolatewhen the next mail shall arrive. There is no oneto sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our doors, that the Angel of Death mayspare and pass on."
--John Bright.
"The Power . . . .May hear well pleased the language of the soul,And in His Book of Life the inmates poor enroll."
--Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night.
"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!"
--Shakespeare, II Henry VI 3:2.
"For long years," writes Teufelsdrockh, "had thepoor Hebrew, in this Egypt of anAuscultatorship, painfully toiled, baking brickswithout stubble, before ever the question oncestruck him with entire force: For What?"
--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 5.
"He (the genius) becomes obstinate in hiserrors, no less than in his virtues, and thearrows of his aims are blunted, as the reeds ofhis trust are broken."
--Ruskin, A Joy For Ever.
"In wonder-workings, or some bush aflame,Men look for God, and fancy him concealed,But in earth's common things he stands revealed,While grass and flowers and stars spell out his name."
--Minot J. Savage.
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"Be it floor or blood the path that's trod,All the same it leads to God.Be it furnace fire voluminousOne like God's Son will walk with us."
--Christina G. Rossetti.
"If the tree be known by the fruitand fruit by the tree."
--Shakespeare, I Henry IV 2:4.
"Samson, master: . . . he carried thetown gates on his back like a porter."
--Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 1:2.
"They are now casting lots,Ay, with that gesture quaint and cry uncouth,For the coat of One murdered an hour ago."
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"What of Adam cast out of Eden?(Alas the hour)Lo! with care like a shadow shakenHe tills the hard earth whence he was taken."
--Rossetti, Eden Bower.
"Feasted the woman wisest then,in halls of Lebanonian cedar."
--Tennyson, The Princess.
"As he, whose wrongsThe bears avenged, at its departure sawElijah's chariot, when the steeds erectRaised their steep flight for heaven; his eyes, meanwhile,Straining pursued them, till the flame alone,Upsoaring like a misty speck, he kenned."
--Dante, Divine Comedy.
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"I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be anhumble instrument in the hands of the Almighty,and of this, his almost chosen people, forperpetuating the object of that great struggle."
--Lincoln, Speech to the Senate of New Jersey.
"He came who was the Holy Spirit's vessel;Barefoot and lean."
--Dante, Divine Comedy.
"He is only a cloud and a smokewho was once a pillar of fire."
--Tennyson, Despair.
"And from that song-cloud shaped as a man's handThere comes the sound as of abundant rain."
--Rossetti, The House of Life.
"It is thus . . . that the Wise Man stands everencompassed, and spiritually embraced, by acloud of witnesses and brothers."
--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book III, Chapter 7.
"Not without meaning was the love of Israel tohis chosen son expressed by the coat of manycolors."
--Ruskin, The Stones of Venice.
"There had been a confusion of tongues in thenarrow streets for many days."
--Henry Van Dyke, The Other Wise Man.
"He who stills the raven's clam'rous nestAnd decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride,Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,For them and for their little ones provide."
--Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night.
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"At cool of day with God I walkMy garden's grateful shade;I hear his voice among the trees,And I am not afraid."
--C. A. Mason.
"And bright as Noah saw it, yetFor you the arching rainbow glows."
--Lowell, Ode.
"The lies that serve great parties well,While truths but give their Christ a cross."
--Sidney Lanier, To Beethoven.
"How was I worthy so divine a loss,Deepening my midnights, kindling all my morns?Why waste such precious wood to make my cross,Such far-sought roses for my crown of thorns?"
--Lowell, Das Ewig Weibliche.
"The curse of CainLight on his head who pierced thy innocent breast,And seared the angel soul that was its guest."
--Shelley, Adonais.
"Tune, to please a peasant's ear,The harp a king had loved to hear."
--Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
"Deep calling unto deep."
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
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"An American child who is allowed to grow upwithout a knowledge of the Bible is defrauded ofhis birthright."
--Youth's Companion.
"What makes a church a den of thieves?A dean and chapter, and white sleeves."
--Butler, Hudibras.
"Bass. If it please you to dine with us!Shy. Yes, to smell pork, to eat of thehabitation which your prophet,the Nazarite, conjured the devil into."
--Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 1:3.
"Conceits himself as God that he can makeFigs out of thistles."
--Tennyson, The Last Tournament.
"Dust to dust! but the pure spirit shall flowBack to the burning fountain whence it came."
--Shelley, Adonais.
"All the angels that inhabit this temple of thebody appear at the windows, and all the gnomesand vices also."
--Emerson, Essay on Love.
"It is as hard to come as for a camelTo thread through the postern of a needle's eye."
--Shakespeare, Richard II 5:5.
"I built myself a lordly pleasure house,Wherein at ease for aye to dwell;I said, 'O soul, make merry and carouse,Dear soul, for all is well.'"
--Tennyson, The Palace of Art.
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"He who is wearied of his village plainMay roam the Edens of the world in vain."
--Holmes, Poetry.
"Not a hard 'taskmaster,' ever on the watch tosee that we are always at our brickmaking, but aDeliverer, who can bring us forth out of the'land of bondage' and lead us through thewilderness of difficulty onward to the PromisedLand."
--T. Campbell Finlayson.
"Changeless march the stars above,Changeless morn succeeds to even;And the everlasting hillsChangeless watch the changeless heaven."
--Kingsley, Saint's Tragedy.
"Wi' sappy unction, has he burkesThe hopes O' men that trust in works."
--Stevenson, A Lowden Sabbath Morn.
"Toppling down the walls of his own Jericho."
--Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia.
"Certain only that he has been, and is, aPilgrim and Traveler from a far Country; more orless footsore and travel-soiled; has parted withroad companions; fallen among thieves," etc.
--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Chapter II.
"One was the TishbiteWhom the ravens fed."
--Tennyson, The Palace of Art.
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"And judge all nature from her feet of clay."
--Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien.
"Well hast thou foughtThe better fight, who single hast maintain'dAgainst revolted multitudes the causeOf truth, in word mightier than they in arms."
--Milton, Paradise Lost.
"She went first to the best adviser, God--Whose finger unmistakably was feltIn all this retribution of the past."
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"The spacious firmament on highWith all the blue ethereal skyAnd spangled heavens, a shining frame,Their Great Original proclaim."
--Joseph Addison.
"I am in the garden of Gethsemane now and my cupof bitterness is full and overflowing."
--Abraham Lincoln, Conversation with Judge Gillespie.
"Get thee behind me, Satan. Oft unfurled,Thy perilous wings can beat and break like lathMuch mightiness of men to win thee praise."
--Rossetti, The House of Life.
"His storms came near, but never touched us;contrary to Gideon's miracle, while all aroundwere drenched, our fleece was dry."
--Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia.
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"When, crowned with joy, the camps of England ring,A thousand voices shout, 'God save the King.'"
--Holmes, Poetry.
"Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!Let the bell toll!--A saintly soul floats on the Stygian river."
--Poe, Lenore.
"Who steals my purse, steals trash,But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches himAnd makes me poor indeed."
--Shakespeare, Othello 3:3.
"Grim-hearted world, that look'st with Levite eyesOn those poor fallen by too much faith in man."
--Lowell, A Legend of Brittany.
"We too, who mock at Israel's golden calfAnd scoff at Egypt's sacred scarabee,Would have our amulets to clasp and kiss."
--Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts.
"The golden rule of Christwill bring the golden age to man."
--Frances Willard.
"'Tis not the weight of jewel or plateOr the fondle of silk and fur;'Tis the spirit in which the gift is richAs the gifts of the wise men were;And we are not told whose gift was goldOr whose the gift of myrrh."
--Edmund Vance Cooke.
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