 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, Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began best can't end worst,...  Opportunity - ˹éÒ 277â´Â Andrew Wheatley Edson, Mary Elizabeth Laing - 1914 - 384 ˹éÒÁØÁÁͧ·Ñé§àÅèÁ - à¡ÕèÂǡѺ˹ѧÊ×ÍàÅèÁ¹Õé
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 270 ˹éÒ
...squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust! 7. It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce : It's fitter being...end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. EPILOGUE. r EPILOGUE. FIRST SPEAKER, «S David. 1. On the first of the Feast of Feasts, The Dedication... | |
 | 1865 - 550 ˹éÒ
...the world sweep by without a wish to guide or change its course. " It's wiser being good than bad, It's safer being meek than fierce, It's fitter being sane than mad." i There is the beginning and end of bis teaching ; while Euripides is wholly eaten np by the question,... | |
 | 1867 - 590 ˹éÒ
...each, utters his trust that all is not over, his belief that the failure is not irretrievable :— " My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst." The same feeling finds utterance in yet more noble words in the prayer of " lîabbi Ben Ezra : "—... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 ˹éÒ
...of each, utters his trust that all is not over, his belief that the failure is not irretrievable : " My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, cau't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst." The same feeling finds utterance in yet... | |
 | Charles Marshall (novelist.) - 1867 - 322 ˹éÒ
...devotion to Eight. CHAPTER XX. " It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being meek than fierce ; It*H fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce Thu thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, TIio' a wide compass round... | |
 | mrs. M C Despard - 1874 - 322 ˹éÒ
...of her own free will." CHAPTER XVIII. THE LADY OF THE BLACK GONDOLA. It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's fitter being...can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accursed. AND now two more weeks have passed. We have been assisted by the politely incredulous Consul,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 288 ˹éÒ
...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...end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. THE BASTILLE. Robert Browning. A DAY of driving sleet, with hail and rain That hissed and splashed,... | |
 | 1877 - 336 ˹éÒ
...squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust! It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being...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;... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1880 - 340 ˹éÒ
...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. |«4»I.—AD 1813. The great Brooklyn divine has... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1881 - 1006 ˹éÒ
...Paris, and, gazing on three suicidal corpses, to say, " I thought and think their sin's atoned " ? " My own hope is a sun will pierce The thickest cloud...worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst." * ' " Action, 'tis a trick of the senses."—Ibid. ' Essay on Character. Sardella, p. 104 ; R. Ben... | |
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