THE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS. ABSENCE. 1. THOUGH absent, present in desires they be; 2. Absence not long enough to root out quite All love, increases love at second sight. I'm from thy sight, the heart within my bosom Whose nurse has left it. DRAYTON. T. MAY. 4. OTWAY'S Venice Preserved. There's not an hour Of day or dreaming nights but I am with thee: Of thee. PROCTOR'S Mirandola. 5. What tender strains of passion can impart The pangs of absence to an amorous heart! Souls paired like ours, like ours to union wrought, PATTISON. 6. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair! 7. Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, 8. Think'st thou that I could bear to part COWPER. THOMSON. BYRON's Bride of Abydos.. 9. Far I go where fate may lead me, 10. Tho' fate, my girl, may bid us part, The soul it cannot, cannot sever; 11. And canst thou think, because we part 12. 'Tis hard to be parted from those With whom we for ever could dwell; T. MOORE. When perhaps we are saying farewell—forever! MRS. OPIE. 13. When absent from her whom my soul holds most dear, In this bosom what anguish, what hope, and what fear, BRAHAM. We must part awhile; A few short months-tho' short, they will be long We must endure it, and our love will be JAMES G. PERCIVAL. 16. Oh Absence! by thy stern decree, Is fill'd with doubts and fears! Thy days like tedious weeks do seem, J. T. WATSON. ACTION. 1. Whilst timorous knowledge stands considering, DANIEL. 2. Good actions crown themselves with lasting bays; Who well deserves needs not another's praise. HEATH. 3. If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade,-the joy remains. G. HERBERT. 16 ACTIVITY- ENTERPRISE. 4. The body sins not; 't is the will That makes the action good or ill. HERRICK. 5. Our unsteady actions cannot be Manag'd by rules of strict philosophy. SIR R. HOWARD. ACTIVITY- ENTERPRISE. 1. If it were done, when 't is done, then, 't is well That it were done quickly. SHAKSPEARE. 2. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, SHAKSPEARE. 3. Let's take the instant by the forward top; 4. 5. How slow the time To the warm soul, that, in the very instant The keen spirit SHAKSPEARE. Seizes the prompt occasion,-makes the thoughts 6. My days, though few, have pass'd below THOMSON. HANNAH MORE. BYRON'S Giaour. |