All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. KING RICHARD II. i. 3. I PITY the man that can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'tis all barren-and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. STERNE. NATURE, so far as in her lies, To every land beneath the skies, Counts nothing that she meets with base, TENNYSON. Here's a few flowers; but 'bout midnight, more: The herbs that have on them cold dew o' the night. CYMBELINE iv. 2. OVED ones are taken away, and the boy, the LOVED girl, will not speak of them, as if that made the conqueror's triumph the less. In time the fire in the breast burns low, and then in the last glow of the embers, it is sweeter to hold to what has been than to think of what may be. J. M. BARRIE. THERE scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. GRAY. To this I am most constant Though destiny say no. WINTER'S TALE iv. 4. AND the past, and its dear histories, and youth and its hopes and passions, and tones and looks, for ever echoing in the heart and present in the memory-these, no doubt, poor Clive saw and heard as he looked across the great gulf of time and parting and grief, and beheld the woman he had loved for many years. THACKERAY. THOUGH seas and land betwixt us both, Our faith and troth (Like separated souls) All time and space controls: Above the highest sphere we meet Unseen, unknown, and greet as Angels greet. LOVELACE. Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune. AS YOU LIKE IT ii. 7. MEN of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. COLERIDGE. FOOLS, they are the only nation All they speak or do is sterling, Your fool he is your great man's darling, BEN JONSON. |