Quotes
Quotes about End
? John Bartlett, compNo man can feel himself alone
The while he bravely stands
Between the best friends ever known
His two good, honest hands.
? John Bartlett, compEverything has an ending: there will be
An ending one sad day for you and me,
And ending of the days we had together,
The good companionship, all kinds of weather.
The people blossoms armies and puts forth
The splendid summer of its noiseless might.
The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend
As a man and a woman that plight
Their troth in the warm spring night.
Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,
Who gives and asks no payment.
Land of Heart's Desire,
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, Time an endless song.
Yea, howso we dream,
Or how bravely we do;
The end is the same,
Be we traitor or true:
And after the bloom
And the passion is past
Death comes at last.
We are young
And we are friends of time.
In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested.
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,
The queen of the world and child of the skies!
Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold,
While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.
We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
To look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in, and
To lend a hand.
The last link is broken
That bound me to thee,
And the words thou hast spoken
Have render'd me free.
A Distich, according to Zwingler, on a Lady of the Dalburg Family who saw her descendants to the sixth generation.
Note 15.In the Preface to Mr. Nichols's work on Autographs, among other albums noticed by him as being in the British Museum is that of David Krieg, with James Bobart's autograph (Dec. 8, 1697) and the verses,--
Virtus sui gloria.
"Think that day lost whose descending sun
Views from thy hand no noble action done."
Bobart died about 1726. He was a son of the celebrated botanist of that name. The verses are given as an early instance of their use.
Note 19.See Clarendon, Quotation 1.
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.
At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late. Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.... I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Try first thyself, and after call in God;
For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
Many a time,... from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
