Henry Kirke White quotes
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“To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time.”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Henry Kirke White (1834). “The Life and Remains of Henry Kirke White, Etc”, p.92
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“The past is dead, and has no resurrection.”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1541, Delphi Classics
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“So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down.”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Henry Kirke White (1829). “The complete works of Henry Kirke White: with an account of his life”, p.131
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“I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe.”
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“And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey, John Todd (1854). “The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White: Also Containing His Melancholy Hours”, p.241
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“Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Henry Kirke White (1829). “The complete works of Henry Kirke White: with an account of his life”, p.413
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“When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Henry Kirke White (1824). “The prose remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's College, Cambridge, containing his letters, essays, and some account of his life”, p.117
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“We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Letter his White's aunt, January 6, 1800.
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“Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.”
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“I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey (1822). “The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge”, p.73
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“Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1841). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.490
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“Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey (1823). “The remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's college, Cambridge: with an account of his life”, p.148
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“Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.”
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“Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Henry Kirke White (1834). “The Life and Remains of Henry Kirke White, Etc”, p.95
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“Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?”
-- Henry Kirke WhiteSource : Henry Kirke White (1842). “The Works of Henry Kirke White: Containing His Life, Poems, and Melancholy Hours”, p.204
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