Isaac McLellan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower, That Time upon her angel brow should set His crooked autograph, and mar the jet Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green, The ***** frost and the canker worm destroy. Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.
-- Isaac McLellan

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Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.
-- Isaac McLellan

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On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.
-- Isaac McLellan

#Change #Looks #Decay
The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.
-- Isaac McLellan

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Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.
-- Isaac McLellan

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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and in its mirror you will see your image. You will knowthat when you hid from Nature, you hid from yourselfWe who have been turned away from Nature - if we desire life, we must establish a new relationship with Nature.
Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.
The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.
Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.

Isaac McLellan famous quotes

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