58 quotes found
“Variety's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavour.”
“Such stuff the world is made of.”
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
“God made the country and man made the town.”
“What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife When Friendship love and peace combine To stamp the marriage bond divine?”
“The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.”
“A moral sensible and well-bred man Will not affront me and no other can.”
“God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.”
“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
“Happiness depends as Nature shows Less on exterior things than most suppose.”
“Beware of desp'rate steps the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away.”
“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.”
“Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.”
“Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.”
“A glory gilds the sacred page Majestic like the sun It gives a light to every age It gives but borrows none.”
“We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.”
“I praise the Frenchman his remark was shrewd - "How sweet how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.”
