Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 613
Of Good in Things Evil.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 613
Kunti character from Indian epic Mahabharata
Kunti to Madri
The Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section CXXIV
William Jones (1746–1794) Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
From the Persian, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Báb (1819–1850) Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated in the Bahá'í Faith
Tablet to ‘Him Who Will Be Made Manifest’
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer
De visione Dei (On The Vision of God) (1453)
“O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
That shut'st, and no man opens — Thee we wait!”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
"April", in Poems (1859)
Context: p>The irrevocable Hand
That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
The portals of our earthly destinies;
We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
Close after us, for ever.Pause, my soul,
On these strange words — for ever — whose large sound
Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise
Our human moans make on the shores of Time.
O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
That shut'st, and no man opens — Thee we wait!</p
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
As quoted in Gems of Thought (1888) edited by Charles Northend
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Source: The Temple (1633), The Elixir, Lines 1-4