“Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Closing line.
The Temple of Fame (1711)
“Grant me grace, O God! that I
My life may mend, sith I must die.”
Source: Upon the Image of Death, Line 53; p. 138.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Grant me grace, O God! that I
My life may mend, sith I must die." by Robert Southwell?
Robert Southwell20
English Jesuit 1561–1595Related quotes
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!”
Eugene O'Neill The Great God Brown
Act 4, Scene 1
The Great God Brown (1926)
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Henry IV of France (1553–1610) first French monarch of the House of Bourbon
Si Dieu me donne encore de la vie je ferai qu’il n’y aura point de laboureur en mon Royaume qui n’ait moyen d’avoir une poule dans son pot. <br class="br">As quoted by Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont in Histoire du roy Henry le Grand http://books.google.com/books?id=_Azvfrm9tcQC&q=%22Si+Dieu+me+donne+encore+de+la+vie+je%22+%22qu'il+n+y+aura%22+%22de+laboureur+en+mon+Royaume+qui+n'ait+moyen+d'auoir%22+%22poule+dans+son%22&pg=PA549#v=onepage (1661).
Benedict Arnold (1741–1801) Continental and later British Army general during the American Revolutionary War
Unverified, but reportedly said by Arnold on his deathbed in 1801, requesting to wear the uniform of the Colonial Army from before his defection to the British, as quoted in The Picturesque Hudson http://www.kellscraft.com/PicturesqueHudson/PicturesqueHudson08.html (1915) by Clifton Johnson
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet
No Coward Soul Is Mine (1846)
Context: p>No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven's glories shine,
And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.O God within my breast,
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life — that in me has rest,
As I — undying Life — have power in Thee!Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main...</p
“God grant that I may never live to be useless!”
John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian
Source: How To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer
James Montgomery (1771–1854) British editor, hymn writer, and poet
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 173.
Other
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
In a letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, 19 Nov. 1877; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 113), p. 18 <br class="br">as student, in Amsterdam, staying in the house of his uncle <br class="br">1870s
Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576) Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer
The Book of My Life (1930)