James Gates Percival famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
-- James Gates Percival

#Memorial Day #Pyramids #Green
Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.
-- James Gates Percival

#Wings #Lightning #Way
Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll; The temple of the Power whom all obey, That is the mark we tend to, for the soul Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.
-- James Gates Percival

#Play #Goal #Car
O rose! the sweetest blossom, Of spring the fairest flower, O rose! the joy of heaven. The god of love, with roses His yellow locks adorning, Dances with the hours and graces.
-- James Gates Percival

#Spring #Flower #Yellow
Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.
-- James Gates Percival

#Sweet #Heart #Peaceful
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.
-- James Gates Percival

#Flower #Garden #Land
Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.
-- James Gates Percival

#Sweet #Flower #Heart
Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.
-- James Gates Percival

#Farewell #Night #Shade
The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.
-- James Gates Percival

#Cheer #Years #Darkness
There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.
-- James Gates Percival

#Affection #Constancy
How awful is that hour when con, science stings.
-- James Gates Percival

#Awful #Hours #Conscience
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.
-- James Gates Percival

#Father #Mean #Fool
There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
-- James Gates Percival

#Never Forget #Moments #Stealing
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
-- James Gates Percival

#Air #World #Brightness
The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
-- James Gates Percival

#Dark #Years #Voice
Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by.
-- James Gates Percival

#Light #Rose #Vision

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