“In this world with starry dome,
Floored with gemlike plains and seas,
Shall I never feel at home,
Never wholly be at ease?”
World-Strangeness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“I have never ceased to feel that I owe help to the plain people who were my friends. If this book”
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Introduction, p.xv
Context: I have written this book to discharge a debt. For eleven years I was pastor among the working people on the West Side of New York City.... I have never ceased to feel that I owe help to the plain people who were my friends. If this book in some far-off way helps to ease the pressure that bears them down and increases the forces that bear them up, I shall meet the Master of my life with better confidence.
“I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.”
Ye Gentlemen of England, (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Contemplations, Book VI, "The Veil of Moses". Compare: "Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear", Thomas Gray, Elegy, stanza 14.
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The Little Cloud.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I hope i shall never hav so much reputashun that i shan't feel obliged to be alwus civil.”
Source: Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)