"Having seen thine evil doomIn Golgotha and Khartoum."
--Stevenson, If This Were Faith.
"World-renowned far-working Institution; like agrain of right mustard-seed once cast into theright soil, and now stretching out strong boughsto the four winds, for the birds of the air tolodge in."
--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 10.
"Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repayBut the high faith that failed not by the way."
--James R. Lowell.
"In faith and hope the world will disagreeBut all mankind's concern is charity:All must be false that thwart this one great end;And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend."
--Pope, Essay on Man.
"A heart as rough as Esau's hand."
--Tennyson, Godiva.
"Unhappy if we are but Half-men, in whom thatdivine handwriting has never blazed forth,all-subduing, in true sun-splendour."
--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 9.
"O books, ye monuments of mind,concrete wisdom of the wisest;Sweet solaces of daily life,proofs and results of immortality;Trees yielding all fruits,whose leaves are for the healing of the nations."
--Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy of Reading.
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"The furnace-coals alike of public scorn,Private remorse, heaped glowing on his head."
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"Her children shall rise up to bless her name,And wish her harmless length of days,The mighty mother of a mighty brood."
--Lowell, An Ode for the Fourth of July.
"Perchance more careful whoso runs may read,Than erst when all, it seemed, could read who ran."
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"Let me have a child to whomHerod of Jewry may do homage."
--Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1:2.
"Will hang as high as Haman."
--Tennyson, The Foresters, Act IV, Scene 1.
"Honoured and even fair,Shines in the eye of the mindthe crown of the silver hair."
--Stevenson, In Memoriam E. H.
"'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'I believe this Government cannot endurepermanently, half slave and half free. I do notexpect the Union to be dissolved--I do not expectthe house to fall--but I do expect it will ceaseto be divided."
--Lincoln, Speech before the IllinoisState Convention, June 16, 1858.
"His holy places may not be of stone,Nor made with hands, yet fairer far than aughtBy artist feigned or pious ardor reared,Fit altars for who guards inviolateGod's chosen seat, the sacred form of man."
--Lowell, The Cathedral.
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"Sudden change is a house on sand;"
--Tennyson, Becket, Act III, Scene 3.
"How are the mighty fallen, Master Cranmer."
--Tennyson, Queen Mary, Act IV, Scene 2.
"The undiscovered country from whose bournNo traveler returns."
--Shakespeare, Hamlet.
"Shall not the heart which has received so much,trust the Power by which it lives?"
--Emerson, New England Reformers.
"In native worth and honor clad,With beauty, courage, strength adorned,Erect with front serene he stands,A man, the lord and king of nature all,--The soul, the breath and image of his God."
--Haydn's Creation.
"In a moment, in the twinkle of an eye."
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"A Jacob's ladder falls."
--Tennyson, Early Spring.
"That day whereof we keep record,When near thy city-gates the LordSheltered His Jonah with a gourd."
--Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh.
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"Joshua's moon in Ajalon."
--Tennyson, Locksley Hall.
"Arimathean Joseph."
--Tennyson, The Holy Grail.
. . . "Turn and seeIf, by one jot or tittle, I vary now!"
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"Wait for the morning:--it will come, indeed,As surely as the night hath given need."
--Riley.
"There walks Judas, he who soldYesterday his Lord for gold,Sold God's presence in his heartFor a proud step in the mart."
--Lowell, The Ghost-Seer.
"Death gives us more than was in Eden lost,This king of terrors is the prince of peace."
--Young, Night Thoughts.
"God shall be my hope,My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet."
--Shakespeare, II Henry VI 2:3.
"A land of promise flowing with the milkAnd honey of delicious memories."
--Tennyson, The Lover's Tale.
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"So when the last and dreadful hourThis crumbling pageant shall devour,The trumpet shall be heard on highThe dead shall live, the living die,And Music shall untune the sky."
--Dryden, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day.
"Let not thy left hand know what thy right handdoeth! Neither shalt thou prate even to thy ownheart of 'those secrets known to all.'"
--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus. Book III, Chapter 3.
"How far that little candle throws his beams.So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
--Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 5:1.
"Nor shall thy lips be touched with living fire,Who blow'st old altar-coals with sole desireTo weld anew the spirit's broken chains."
--Lowell, Bibliolaters.
"She might have served a painter to portrayThat heavenly child which in the latter daysShall walk between the lion and the lamb."
--Rossetti, A Last Confession.
"O fox whose home is 'mid the tender grape--"
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"What a piece of work is man! how noble inreason, how infinite in faculty, in form andmoving how express and admirable, in actionhow like an angel."
--Shakespeare, Hamlet 2:2.
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"In our wild Seer, shaggy, unkempt, like aBaptist living on locusts and wild honey, thereis an untutored energy, a silent, as it were,unconscious strength, which, except in thehigher walks of literature, must be rare."
--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Chapter 3.
"O Lord, how long, how long be unavenged?"
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"God is our fortress."
--Shakespeare, I Henry VI 2:-1.
"Deal between thee and me."
--Shakespeare, Macbeth 4:3.
"Stiff as Lot's wife."
--Tennyson, The Princess.
"Charity itself fulfills the lawAnd who can sever love from charity?"
--Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 4:3.
"Mammon is after him."
--Abraham Lincoln.
"O Saul, it shall beA Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me,Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like this handShall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!"
--Browning, Saul.
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"As manna on my wilderness."
--Tennyson, Supposed Confessions.
"Tennyson rising in a heavenly chariot out ofthe temple of song, forgot to cast his mantleupon some waiting Elisha, but carried the divinegarment into the realm beyond the clouds."
--Newell Dwight Hillis, Great Books as Life Teachers.
"He answered not but with a sudden handMade bare his branded and ensanguined brow,Which was like Cain's or Christ's--oh! that it should be so!"
--Shelley, Adonais.
"A hungry imposter practising for a mess of pottage."
--Carlyle.
"Once moreHe may put forth his hand 'gainst such, as driveTheir traffic in that sanctuary, whose wallsWith miracles and martyrdoms were built."
--Dante, Divine Comedy.
"The drawing . . . is . . . a thing which Ibelieve Gainsborough would have given one ofhis own pictures for--old-fashioned as red-tippeddaisies are . . . and more precious than rubies."
--Ruskin, Academy Notes.
"You found his mote; the king your mote did see.But I a beam do find in each of three."
--Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 4:3.
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"If not in word only, but in face of truth, heundoes the deed of Cain and becomes truly hisbrother's keeper."
--Ruskin, The Schools of Art in Florence.
"Through this concession my full cup runs o'er."
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
"Does Legion still lurk in him, thoughrepressed; or has he exorcised that Devil'sBrood?"
--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 8.
"Nobler is a limited commandGiven by the love of all your native land,Than a successive title, long and dark,Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark."
--Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel.
"We do not need Christ's visible presence tocope with the evils of our times any more thanthe father needed it for the cure of his boy."
--Wm. M. Taylor.
"I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crost the bar."
--Tennyson, Crossing the Bar.
"Is love a generation of vipers?"
--Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida 3:1.
"One final deluge to surprise the ArkCradled and sleeping on its mountain-top:Their outbreak-signal--what but the dove's coo,Back with the olive in her bill for newsSorrow was over?"
--Browning, The Ring and the Book.
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"He that of greatest works is finisherOft does them by the weakest minister:So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown."
--Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well 2:1.
"Behind her Death,Close following pace for pace, not mounted yetOn his pale horse."
--Milton, Paradise Lost.
"All things are fitly cared for and the LordWill watch as kindly o'er the exodusOf us his servants now, as in old time.We have no cloud or fire, and haply weMay not pass dry-shod through the ocean stream;But, saved or lost, all things are in his hand."
--Lowell, A Glance Behind the Curtain.
"There are prayers that will plead with thestorm when it raves, And whisper 'Be still!' tothe turbulent waves."
--Holmes, Farewell.
"I perceivedNear me as 'twere the waving of a wing,That fanned my face, and whispered: 'Blessed they,The peace-makers: they know not evil wrath."
--Dante, Divine Comedy.
"Hereafter thou, fulfilling PentecostMust learn to speak the tongues of all the world."
--Tennyson, Sir John Oldcastle.
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"Treble denial of the tongue of fleshLike Peter's when he fell."
--Tennyson, Harold, Act III, Scene 1.
"White as the great white sheet that Peter saw in his vision,By the four corners let down and descending out of the heavens."
--Longfellow, Elizabeth.