“Break my hard heart,
Jesus my Lord;
In the inmost part
Hide Thy sweet word.”
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843) British writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 449.
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
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Epigraph, Ch. 1 : Mount Shasta; this appears as "To Mount Shasta" in In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890), p. 126
Variant: I saw the lightning's gleaming rod
Reach forth and write upon the sky
The awful autograph of God.
This variant was cited as being in The Ship in the Desert in the 10th edition of Familiar Quotations (1919) by John Bartlett, but this appears to be an incorrect citation of a misquotation first found in The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1910), edited by Elizabeth Bislande, p. 161.
Shadows of Shasta (1881)
Context: Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt
I knew thee, in thy glorious youth,
And loved thy vast face, white as truth;
I stood where thunderbolts were wont
To smite thy Titan-fashioned front,
And heard dark mountains rock and roll;
I saw the lightning's gleaming rod
Reach forth and write on heaven's scroll
The awful autograph of God!
“Silence is a deadly poison when you have no words.”
Anastacia (1968) American singer-songwriter
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Heavy Rotation (2008)
“Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.”
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"When Your Husband's Affection Cools" in Good Housekeeping (May 1972)
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The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Context: It was the warrior within
Who called 'Awake, prepare for fight:
Yet lose not memory in the din:
Make of thy gentleness thy might:
'Make of thy silence words to shake
The long-enthroned kings of earth:
Make of thy will the force to break
Their towers of wantonness and mirth.
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 86.
