Quotes by Poets - Page 22

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
George Meredith
Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.
George Herbert
We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.
Juvenal
We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
William Shakespeare
In Fellowship alone To God with Faith draw near Approach His Courts besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.
Charles Wesley
The simple heart that freely asks in love obtains.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire.
James Montgomery
Though smooth be the heartless prayer no ear in heaven will mind it And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling behind it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And help us this and every day to live more nearly as we pray.
John Keble
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands but he cannot lift up his face.
Thomas Watson
My words fly up my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
George Meredith
He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
Herman Melville
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.
Francis Quarles
Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag the other to pray.
Richard Crashaw
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
Robert Herrick
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.
William Shakespeare
The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that he can sleep.
Charles Baudelaire
To God your every Want In instant Prayer display Pray always Pray and never faint Pray without ceasing Pray.
Charles Wesley
He that will learn to pray let him to sea.
George Herbert
O thou by whom we come to God The Life the Truth the Way The path of prayer Thyself hast trod- Lord teach us how to pray.
James Montgomery
He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.
John Greenleaf Whittier
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
William Blake
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
Alexander Pope
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean de La Fontaine
Patience and gentleness is power.
Leigh Hunt
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Thomas Edward Brown
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
Rabindranath Tagore
O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.
William Shakespeare
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
T.S Eliot
Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.
Charles Péguy
Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.
Will Carleton
Hunger is insolent and will be fed.
Alexander Pope
Go little letter apace apace Fly Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot?
Omar Khayyám
As to posterity I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?
Thomas Gray
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
William Drummond
Love me love my dog.
John Heywood
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.
Edith Sitwell
Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.
Marge Piercy
If you want to be a big company tomorrow you have to start acting like one today.
Thomas Watson
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann von Goethe
Doubt breeds doubt.
Franz Grillparzer
To make the world a friendly place one must show it a friendly face.
James Whitcomb Riley
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap The year grows rich as it groweth old And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
Julia Dorr
1 Give to the world the best you have I and the best will come back to you.
Madeline Bridges
A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles