Quotes by Poets - Page 33

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods and know nothing about accomplishments!
Joanna Baillie
In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes Men would be angels angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
They are proud in humility proud in that they are not proud.
Henry Burton
In durance vile here must I wake and weep And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
James Drummond Burns
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
James Russell Lowell
Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.
Richard Lovelace
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor a fast flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
William Knox
You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.
W.S. Gilbert
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have taught you my dear flock for above thirty years how to live and I will show you in a very short time how to die.
George Sandys
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
William Shakespeare
But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!
Alexander Pope
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!
James Drummond Burns
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
John Masefield
Do as we say and not as we do.
Giovanni Boccaccio
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 one to anther.
Robert Louis Stevenson
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith
Restraining prayer we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
William Cowper
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith
Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John Donne
Lord till I reach that blissful shore No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.
Charlotte Elliott
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
James Russell Lowell
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
Thomas Watson
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Jean Ingelow
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
Thomas Watson
We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.
William Shakespeare
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.
George Meredith
A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
Sa'di
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Jean de La Fontaine
God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah G. Holland
Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
George Santayana
Take my will and make it Thine It shall be no longer mine Take my heart it is Thine own It shall be Thy royal throne.
Frances Ridley Havergal
What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior still our refuge Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit O what needless pain we bear All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!
Joseph Scriven
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
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