Isaac Bickerstaffe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
-- Isaac Bickerstaffe

#Hope #Nurse #Desire
How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.
-- Isaac Bickerstaffe

#Home #Land #Wife
Young fellows will be young fellows.
-- Isaac Bickerstaffe

#Young
But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.
-- Isaac Bickerstaffe

#Littles #Enough
Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.
-- Isaac Bickerstaffe

#Goes On #Folks
Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.
-- Isaac Bickerstaffe

#Bird #Fine #Feathers
There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, "I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.
-- Isaac Bickerstaffe

#Song #Night #Rivers
The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.
-- Isaac Bickerstaffe

#Kings #Greatness #Men

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.
One of the things that's troubling is that people see Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, hey look, you know, we're having children. We're not married, but we are having these children and they're doing just fine. And I think it gives a distorted image that, yes, not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses.
The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

Isaac Bickerstaffe famous quotes

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