 It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns the First, 60 Though a wide compass round be fetched;...  The Metaphysical Magazine - Page 2341905Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 288 pages
...thing to extinguish lust! It 's wiser being good than bad ; It 's safer being meek than fierce : It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest clond earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched;... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...purifying." But, " 'Tis a man's immense mistake Who fashioned to use feet and walk, deigns crawl." " It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's better being sane than mad; My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched... | |
 | William Wilberforce Newton - 1879 - 278 pages
...apparent failure: — " It 's wiser being good than bad ; It 's safer being meek than fierce ; It 's fitter being sane than mad : My own hope is, a sun...Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what begins best can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once — prove accurs'd." XI. THE NARROWNESS OF BREADTH.... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1880 - 340 pages
...modern poetry, of hoping that "good will be the final goal of ill, " in these words : My own hope as a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched,...compass round be fetched, That what began best can't be worst, And what God blest once prove accurst. JMN.— AD 1813. The great Brooklyn divine has often... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
..."I thought, and think, their sin's atoned." and concludes, « My own hope igj a gun „¡ц p¡eroe The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after...Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round bo fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst." Thoroughly... | |
 | Mary Cecil Hay - 1882 - 316 pages
...now. But even yet she could not fit that new expression to him, try as she would. 260 CHAPTER XV. " It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being...is a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretch'd." llf R. PUGH, looking paler and more weary -^ '•*• even than his wont, lay back among... | |
 | William Wilberforce Newton - 1883 - 848 pages
...of his mother, Heloisa, the Abbess of the Paraclete. CHAPTER XXII. ONE IN DEATH. " My own hope Ls, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;...Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what begins best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once prove accurst." ROBERT BROWNING.— The Morgue... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...extinguish lust ! VII It 's wiser being good than bad ; It 's safer being meek than fierce : It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun...the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; PRO SPICE. FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin,... | |
 | William Wilberforce Newton - 1885 - 254 pages
...the dead body in the morgue at Paris, that picture of life's apparent failure: — " My own hope as a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched...Though a wide compass round be fetched, That what begins best can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once prove accurst." % „ t There are times when... | |
 | Robert Browning, Hiram Corson - 1886 - 408 pages
...couch and one clear nice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust 1 It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being...the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched j That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst RABBI BEN EZRA. /'... | |
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