William Somervile famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.
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Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money makes the man.
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Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.
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Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.
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Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.
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The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.
-- William Somervile
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Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
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Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Take time for all things.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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