“It is thy very energy of thought
Which keeps thee from thy God.”
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal
The Dream of Gerontius http://www.ccel.org/n/newman/gerontius/gerontius.htm, Pt. III (1866).
“It is thy very energy of thought
Which keeps thee from thy God.”
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal
The Dream of Gerontius http://www.ccel.org/n/newman/gerontius/gerontius.htm, Pt. III (1866).
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“1817. Keep thy eyes wide open before Marriage; and half shut afterward.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1738) : Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879) British poet and hymn-writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.
“Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
No. LXIV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: Here's ivy! — take them, as I used to do
Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.
Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
“Knight, keep well thy head, for thou shalt have a buffet for the slaying of my horse.”
Thomas Malory book Le Morte d'Arthur
Book III, ch. 12
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)