“Poor indeed must thou be, if around thee
Thou no ray of light and joy canst throw”
Harriet Winslow Sewall (1819–1889) American poet
Why thus longing? reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Thou living ray of intellectual fire.”
Canto I, line 104.
The Shipwreck (1762)
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
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"The Rainbow".
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Context: I will on thee as on a comet look,
A comet, the sad world's ill-boding book;
Thy light as luctual and stain'd with woes
I'll judge, where penal flames sit mixt and close.
But though some think thou shin'st but to restrain
Bold storms, and simply dost attend on rain;
Yet I know well, and so our sins require,
Thou dost but court cold rain, till rain turns fire.
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Source: Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
“Count not that thou hast lived that day, in which thou hast not lived with God.”
Richard Fuller (minister) (1804–1876) United States Baptist minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 117.
“Thou fill'st from the wingèd chalice of the soul
Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-wingèd to its goal.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
Mnemosyne, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet