A noisy man is always in the right. |
A patriot's blood, Well spent in such a strife, may earn indeed, And for a time ensure to his loved land, The sweets of liberty and equal laws; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim -- Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. |
A self-made man? Yes - and worships his creator |
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair |
Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. |
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. |
All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil. |
All learned, and all drunk! |
All thy threads with magic art / Have wound themselves about this heart. |
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. |
Always, ere he mounted, kissed his horse. |
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting |
An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin,/ Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. |
An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands |
And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where |