
(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830
From Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Marcia.html (trans. J. W. Basore)
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(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830
Faith is better than feeling.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 244.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 521
“Words that weep and tears that speak.”
The Prophet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn", Thomas Gray, Progress of Poesy, iii. 3, 4.
“Never fear to weep;
For tears are summer showers to the soul,
To keep it fresh and green.”
Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act IV, sc. iv; p. 264.