“In man's most dark extremity
Oft succour dawns from Heaven.”
Canto I, stanza 20.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771–1832Related quotes

Grown Old in Love
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!”
Bk. XI, l. 108.
Source: The Prelude (1799-1805)

The Shepherd's Calendar: "July" (second version) http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/clare/july2.html
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

“Greatest fools are oft most satisfied.”
Le plus fou souvent est le plus satisfait.
Satire 4, l. 128
Satires (1716)

Representative American Negroes, an essay from The Negro Problem, a collection of essays written in 1903 by leading African Americans.

“Prayed for so oft, the dawn of fight is come.
No more entreat the gods: with sword in hand
Seize on our fates; and Caesar in your deeds
This day is great or little.”
Nil opus est uotis, iam fatum accersite ferro.
in manibus uestris, quantus sit Caesar, habetis.
Book VII, line 252 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia