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 All-Seeing Eye, whom the sun, moon and stars obey, and under whose
watchful care even comets perform their stupendous revolutions--pervades
the inmost recesses of the human heart, and will reward us according to
our merits.
860
There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.
861
To meet, to know, to love--and then to part,
Is the sad tale of many a human heart.
--_Coleridge._
862
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not
sufficient for a kite's (bird of the hawk kind) dinner, yet the whole
world is not sufficient for it.
--_Quarles._
863
MY HEART.
The heart resembles the ocean! has storm, and ebb and flow;
And many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.
--_Heine._
864
The turnpike-road to people's hearts, I find,
Lies through their mouths; or I mistake mankind.
--_Dr. Warton._
865
The merry heart goes all the day,
While a sad one tires in a mile-a.
--_Shakespeare._
866
DISSENSION BETWEEN HEARTS.
Alas! how slight a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love--
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied;
That stood the storm when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fell off,
Like ships that have gone down at sea,
When the ocean was all tranquility!
A something light as air--a look--
A word unkind or wrongly taken;
Oh, love that tempests never shook,
A breath--a touch like this hath shaken.
--_Thomas Moore._
867
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings; indeed nine times in ten it is so.
868
HEAVEN.
If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful, beyond compare,
Will Paradise be found!
--_Montgomery._
868a
Let others seek earth's honors; be it mine
One law to cherish, and to track one line--
Straight on towards heaven to press with single bent,
To know and love my God, and then to die content.
--_Newman._
869
Many a man who prides himself on doing a cash business, regards his
debts to Heaven with indifference.
870
THE DELIGHTS OF HEAVEN.
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