“Be sure that God
Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.”
Part 1.
Paracelsus (1835)
“Over my head his arm he flung
Against the world.”
Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics: Count Gismond (1842), xix.
“I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.”
In a Balcony.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat.”
The lost Leader, i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Inn Album, iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Every joy is gain
And gain is gain, however small.”
Part 4.
Paracelsus (1835)
Dis aliter visum; or, Le Byron de nos Jours.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It is so horrible,
I dare at times imagine to my need
Some future state revealed to us by Zeus”
From Cleon; regarding death and afterlife
“He who did well in war just earns the right
To begin doing well in peace.”
Luria, Act ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Abt Vogler, ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Sing, riding's a joy! For me I ride.”
Men and Women (1855), The last Ride together, vii.
Book III : The Other Half-Rome, line 88.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
“When is man strong until he feels alone?”
Act III.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)
“That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.”
Part 1.
Paracelsus (1835)
Book X: The Pope, line 1185.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
“In the great right of an excessive wrong.”
Book III: The Other Half-Rome, line 1055.
Source: The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
"Apollo and the Fates", line 210 (1887).
Book XII: The Book and the Ring, line 842.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)