Quotes
Quotes about Sin
He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute,
In Provence call'd "La belle dame sans mercy."
At the piping of all hands,
When the judgment-signal's spread--
When the islands and the lands
And the seas give up their dead,
And the South and North shall come;
When the sinner is dismayed,
And the just man is afraid,
Then Heaven be thy aid,
Poor Tom.
I saw two clouds at morning,
Tinged with the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on,
And mingled into one.
I thought that morning cloud was blest,
It moved so sweetly to the West.
On this hapless earth
There's small sincerity of mirth,
And laughter oft is but an art
To drown the outcry of the heart.
The rose that all are praising
Is not the rose for me.
I 'm saddest when I sing.
Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far,
Was pinned with a single star.
Thus she stood amid the stooks,
Praising God with sweetest looks.
'T was Slander filled her mouth with lying words,
Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!--To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!
It [the antagonism between freedom and slavery] is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I 'll protect it now.
When, like the rising day,
Eileen aroon!
Love sends his early ray,
Eileen aroon!
What makes his dawning glow
Changeless through joy and woe?
Only the constant know!--
Eileen aroon!
The hand that rounded Peter's dome,
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad sincerity;
Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew:
The conscious stone to beauty grew.
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
A sweet content
Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.
Alone!--that worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
I am in earnest. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard!
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
I have heard the mavis singing
Its love-song to the morn;
I 've seen the dew-drop clinging
To the rose just newly born.
