Life and Literature: Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers,; and classified in alphabetical orderRichardson, John Purver
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Life and Literature: Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers,; and classified in alphabetical order
Richardson, John Purver
Quotations
The summer day
Endures not ever: toil ye while ye may.
--_Hesiod, a Greek, 850 B. C._
1862
_Sun._--The glorious lamp of heaven; with one eye vieweth all the world.
--_Shakespeare._
1863
When the sun shines on you you see your friends.
1864
Sundays observe: think when the bells do chime,
'Tis angel's music; therefore come not late.
--_George Herbert._
1865
FOR LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS TO KNOW.
A boy of twelve, said to his little companion: "Do you know why Sunday
was instituted from the seventh to the first day of the week." "No, I
don't," replied the little boy, "I wish you would tell me." "Well, I
will, and I know it is true, for my father told me: It was instituted
from Saturday to Sunday in remembrance of Christ's resurrection from the
dead on the first day of the week."
--_Belhaven._
1866
The ways of superiors, are generally carried by inferiors, to excess.
1867
It is easy to swim when another holds up your head.
--_From the Danish._
1868
Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
--_S. Smith._
1869
A GOOD TEST.
A respectable merchant of London having become embarrassed in his
circumstances, and his misfortunes being one day the subject of
conversation in the Royal Exchange, several persons expressed the great
sympathy they felt for him; whereupon a foreigner who was present, said,
"I feel five hundred pounds for him; what do _you_ feel?"
1870
A clasp of hands will oft reveal
A sympathy that makes us feel
Ourselves again; we lose our care:
And in our heart's first glad rebound
At tender sympathy new found,
The world once more seems bright and fair.
1871
I LAY IN SORROW, DEEP DISTRESSED.
I lay in sorrow, deep distressed:
My grief a proud man heard;
His looks were cold, he gave me gold,
But not a kindly word.
My sorrow passed,--I paid him back
The gold he gave to me;
Then stood erect and spoke my thanks,
And blessed his charity.
I lay in want, in grief and pain:
A poor man passed my way;
He bound my head, he gave me bread,
He watched me night and day.
How shall I pay him back again,
For all he did to me?
Oh, gold is great, but greater far
Is Heavenly Sympathy.
--_Charles Mackay._
1872
The human heart sighs for sympathy and solace, in the dark hour of
suffering and sorrow.
--_Rev. Thos. M. McConnell._
1873
These two complain, but no one sympathizes with them:
He who lends money without witnesses;
And he who is lorded over by his wife.
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