Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
The Crisis No. II.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
“For to be yong I wald not, for my wis
Off all this warld to mak me lord et king:
The more of age the nerar hevynnis blis.”
"The Praise of Age", line 6
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"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
A Gift from a Flower to a Garden (1967)
Context: Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more that
I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven
Wear my love like
Wear my love like heaven.
“I am an organ of the Lord, and sweetly... do I glorify the King, all atremble before Him.”
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 397.
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Source: Blessed Miguel Pro Juarez https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/blessed-miguel-pro-juarez-397 (November 23, 1927)
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But it is, of course, a constant source of consolation and pleasure to me. And, I may say, a piece of singular good fortune, much envied by some of my contemporaries. Wonderful people still buy the book, and to a man 'retired' that is both grateful and comforting.
No. 165: To Houghton Mifflin Co. (30 June, 1955); also quoted in 'Tolkien on Tolkien' in Diplomat magazine (October 1966).
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
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Quoted by Mark Bonham Carter in his Introduction to the 1962 edition of The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962) p. xxxv.