Frasi di William R. Alger

William R. Alger era scrittore, teologo.

✵ 1822 – 1905   •   Altri nomi William Rounseville Alger
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William R. Alger: Frasi in inglese

“The moon is a silver pin-head vast,
That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.”

"The Use of the Moon", p. 178.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition

“When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.”

Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 460.

“Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.”

Reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315.

“Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.”

Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 23.

“To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it.”

p. 180 http://books.google.com/books?id=n6xIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA180
"The Utility and Futility of Aphorisms," 1863

“With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne,
And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.”

"Mussud's Praise of the Camel", p. 257.
Poetry of the Orient, 1893 edition

“As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,
O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.”

"The Brief Chance Encounter", p. 196.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition

“God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.”

"Delayed Retribution", p. 123.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition

“Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.”

"Wine Song of Kaitmas", p. 161.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition

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