| 1884 - 566 страница
...Association. MB. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN: •• 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them what report they bore to heaven; And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their answers form what men experience call. If wisdom's friend, her best; if not , worst foe." — Young's... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1885 - 420 страница
...CHAPTER IV. A LIFK OF UNSELFISH LOVE AND DUTY. " T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." WHATEVER is shallow is turbulent. The profound, the very deep, is tranquil. If you want to be miserably... | |
| 1886 - 588 страница
...such a way that we shall say regretfully : " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, Auil ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome new*." Perform every duty deliberately, carefully and honestly. Be kind, be good, be true, and strive... | |
| Edgar Perry - 1886 - 160 страница
...are true — " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they've borne to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news ; Their answers form what men experience call." Youth and prophecy have their eyes on the to-morrows of life-age... | |
| Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 406 страница
...walks with nature, and her paths are peace. *Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, Ami ask them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their answers form what men experience call; If wisdom's friend her best, if not, worst foe. THE MAN WHOSE... | |
| 1892 - 812 страница
...past ; for time, like tide, stays for no man. " "Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news." Let 118 then summon our past days, and ask what they have to say. First, concerning the world. Mrs.... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 страница
...metaphysic, it is my "physic. — Montaigne. It is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven, and how they might have borne more welcome news. — Young. It is easy to look down on others ; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. — Landor.... | |
| 1896 - 1224 страница
...feast. o. WORDSWORTH — The Excursion. Bk. IV. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask p. Yot-NO— Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 376. SELFISHNESS. It is difficult to persuade mankind that... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 страница
...past help, Should be past grief. SHAKSPEARE. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news. YOUNG: Night Thoughts. PATIENCE. Patience in cowards is tame, hopeless fear; But in brave minds, a... | |
| Edwin Hartley Pratt - 1898 - 598 страница
...is quite natural, on an anniversary occasion, like the present, to talk with our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven, and how they might have borne more welcome news, and since the healing art is of all the most progressive, it is seldom a body of physicians fails to... | |
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