Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 263.
“Let not this weak, unknowing hand
Presume Thy bolts to throw,
And deal damnation round the land
On each I judge Thy foe.”
Stanza 7.
The Universal Prayer (1738)
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The Voyage of Life, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 51.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 370.
I Kings 8:41-43 on the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88.
St. 9
Rugby Chapel (1867)