The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes ThereonA. C. Armstrong and Son, 1889 - 334 strán (strany) |
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Strana 325 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Strana 92 - Oh how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumber'd plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity.
Strana 152 - LITTLE drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land.
Strana 154 - Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.
Strana 165 - Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas...
Strana 249 - Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Strana 217 - He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
Strana 188 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Strana 15 - The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
Strana 116 - Earth to earth, and dust to dust! Here the evil and the just, Here the youthful and the old, Here the fearful and the bold, Here the matron and the maid, In one silent bed are laid; Here the vassal and the king Side by side lie withering; Here the sword and sceptre rust: "Earth to earth, and dust to dust!