Richard Barnfield famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
-- Richard Barnfield

#Heart #Love Is #Dying
He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.
-- Richard Barnfield

#Best Friend #Grief #Heart
Gold is a deep-persuading orator.
-- Richard Barnfield

#Gold #Persuading
As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.
-- Richard Barnfield

#Sitting #May #Shade
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
-- Richard Barnfield

#Queens #Fighting #Soldier
Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell
-- Richard Barnfield

#Pain #Love Is #Fire
Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.
-- Richard Barnfield

#Friendship #Wind #Faithful
If it be sin to love a lovely lad Oh there sin I.
-- Richard Barnfield

#Lovely #Sin #Lad
Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.
-- Richard Barnfield

#Certain #Fortune #Inconstancy

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Richard Barnfield famous quotes

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