Quotes by Poets - Page 57

And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Alexander Pope
No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.
Hesiod
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
Ogden Nash
The goose gabbles amid the melodious swans.
Virgil
For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.
René Char
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
Bertolt Brecht
For the cause that lacks assistance The wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.
George Linnaeus Banks
We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W.H. Auden
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.
Homer
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb
General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.
William Blake
Gifts are hooks.
Martial
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.
Joseph Addison
Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
Abraham Cowley
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory let us now commit it to life.
Edwin Markham
Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.
Homer
Good-humor is goodness and wisdom combined.
Owen Meredith
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow hard and cold
Thomas Hood
Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?
Virgil
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khat-mandu There's a little marble cross below the town There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew And die yellow god forever gazes down.
J. Milton Hayes
Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!
James Russell Lowell
I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled And made me in these Christian days A happy Christian child.
Jane Taylor
Before me even as behind God is and all is well.
John Greenleaf Whittier
God has not promised skies always blue flower-strewn pathways all our lives through God has not promised sun without rain joy without sorrow peace without pain. But God has promised strength for the day rest for the labor light for the way Grace for the trials help from above unfailing sympathy undying love.
Annie Johnson Flint
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.
Joseph Addison
Whom the heart of man shuts out Sometimes the heart of God takes in.
James Russell Lowell
Yet in the maddening maze of things And tossed by storm and flood To one fixed trust my spirit clings I know that God is good!
John Greenleaf Whittier
I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
Whoever falls from God's right hand is caught into His left.
Edwin Markham
Pardon not wrath is God's best attribute.
Bayard Taylor
My debt to you Beloved Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.
Jessie Rittenhouse
Walk boldly and wisely. ... There is a hand above that will help you on.
Philip James Bailey
One unquestioned text we read All doubt beyond all fear above Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
In the faces of men and women I see God.
Walt Whitman
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
A comprehended God is no God at all.
Gerhard Tersteegen
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.
John Greenleaf Whittier
God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts who best Bear His mild yoke they serve Him best His state Is kingly thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve who only stand and wait.
John Milton
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.
William Cowper
We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
Archibald MacLeish
By night an atheist half-believes in God.
Edward Young
God'll send the bill to you.
James Russell Lowell
Man appoints and God disappoints.
Cervantes
Though the mills of God grind slowly yet they grind exceeding small Though with patience He stands waiting with exactness grinds he all.
Friedrich von Logau
In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass I find letters from God dropt in the street and every one is signed by God's name and I leave them where they are for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.
Walt Whitman
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
Dante Alighieri
Reach high for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr
Life's objective is life itself.
Johann von Goethe
Happy the man who knows his duties!
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.
Kathleen Norris
Not failure but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.
Propertius
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norris
Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
Edward Young
Your world is as big as you make it.
Georgia Douglas Johnson
The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson
If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow