Quotes
Quotes about End
Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn,
And Pan to Moses lends his pagan horn.
And truths divine came mended from that tongue.
And love the offender, yet detest the offence.
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O grave! where is thy victory?
O death! where is thy sting?
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage,
But wise through time, and narrative with age,
In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,--
A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
He held his seat,--a friend to human race.
Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.
In death a hero, as in life a friend!
'T is fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above
With ease can save each object of his love;
Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Let him, oraculous, the end, the way,
The turns of all thy future fate display.
Oh woman, woman! when to ill thy mind
Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.
True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,--
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
But he whose inborn worth his acts commend,
Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
So ends the bloody business of the day.
From wine what sudden friendship springs!
God bless the King,--I mean the faith's defender!
God bless--no harm in blessing--the Pretender!
But who pretender is, or who is king,--
God bless us all!--that's quite another thing.
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweetener of life! and solder of society!
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.
