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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Religion

A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Quotations; Religious poetry

Man (ingenious to contrive his woe,
    And rob himself of all that makes this vale
    Of tears bloom comfort) cries, If God foresees
    Our future actings, then the objects known
    Must be determined, or the knowledge fail:
    Thus liberty’s destroyed, and all we do
    Or suffer, by a fatal thread is spun.
    Say, fool, with too much subtilty misled,
    Who reasonest but to err, does Prescience change
    The property of things? Is aught thou seest
    Caused by thy vision, not thy vision caused
    By forms that previously exist? To God
    This mode of seeing future deeds extends,
    And _freedom_ with foreknowledge may exist.
                                      _George Bally._


    In a service which Thy will appoints
      There are no bonds for me;
    For my inmost heart is taught “the truth”
      That makes thy children “_free_;”
    And a life of self-renouncing love
      Is a life of liberty.
                               _A. L. Waring._




                              FRIENDSHIP.


A _friend_ loveth at all times.--Proverbs, xvii. 17.

A man that hath _friends_ must shew himself _friendly_: and there is a
_friend_ that sticketh closer than a brother.--Proverbs, xviii. 24.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man
gluttonous, and a winebibber, a _friend_ of publicans and sinners. But
wisdom is justified of her children.--Matthew, xi. 19.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the _friendship_ of
the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a _friend_ of
the world is the enemy of God.--James, iv. 4.


    O world, thy slippery turns! _Friends_ now fast sworn,
    Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart;
    Whose hours, whose bed, whose meat, and exercise,
    Are still together; who twin, as ’t were, in love,
    Unseparable, shall within this hour,
    On a dissension of a doit, break out
    To bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes,
    Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep,
    To take the one the other, by some chance,
    Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear _friends_,
    And interjoin their issues.
                                                _Shakspere._


    Each _friend_ by fate snatched from us, is a plume
    Plucked from the wing of human vanity,
    Which makes us stoop from our aerial heights,
    And, damped with omen of our own decease,
    On drooping pinions of ambition lowered,
    Just skim earth’s surface, ere we break it up;
    O’er putrid earth to scratch a little dust,
    And save the world a nuisance.
                                               _Young._


    Heaven gives us _friends_ to bless the present scene;
    Resumes them to prepare us for the next.
                                                  _Young._

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Religion

A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Quotations; Religious poetry

Man (ingenious to contrive his woe,
    And rob himself of all that makes this vale
    Of tears bloom comfort) cries, If God foresees
    Our future actings, then the objects known
    Must be determined, or the knowledge fail:
    Thus liberty’s destroyed, and all we do
    Or suffer, by a fatal thread is spun.
    Say, fool, with too much subtilty misled,
    Who reasonest but to err, does Prescience change
    The property of things? Is aught thou seest
    Caused by thy vision, not thy vision caused
    By forms that previously exist? To God
    This mode of seeing future deeds extends,
    And _freedom_ with foreknowledge may exist.
                                      _George Bally._


    In a service which Thy will appoints
      There are no bonds for me;
    For my inmost heart is taught “the truth”
      That makes thy children “_free_;”
    And a life of self-renouncing love
      Is a life of liberty.
                               _A. L. Waring._




                              FRIENDSHIP.


A _friend_ loveth at all times.--Proverbs, xvii. 17.

A man that hath _friends_ must shew himself _friendly_: and there is a
_friend_ that sticketh closer than a brother.--Proverbs, xviii. 24.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man
gluttonous, and a winebibber, a _friend_ of publicans and sinners. But
wisdom is justified of her children.--Matthew, xi. 19.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the _friendship_ of
the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a _friend_ of
the world is the enemy of God.--James, iv. 4.


    O world, thy slippery turns! _Friends_ now fast sworn,
    Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart;
    Whose hours, whose bed, whose meat, and exercise,
    Are still together; who twin, as ’t were, in love,
    Unseparable, shall within this hour,
    On a dissension of a doit, break out
    To bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes,
    Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep,
    To take the one the other, by some chance,
    Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear _friends_,
    And interjoin their issues.
                                                _Shakspere._


    Each _friend_ by fate snatched from us, is a plume
    Plucked from the wing of human vanity,
    Which makes us stoop from our aerial heights,
    And, damped with omen of our own decease,
    On drooping pinions of ambition lowered,
    Just skim earth’s surface, ere we break it up;
    O’er putrid earth to scratch a little dust,
    And save the world a nuisance.
                                               _Young._


    Heaven gives us _friends_ to bless the present scene;
    Resumes them to prepare us for the next.
                                                  _Young._

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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