“Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.”
Reported in Julia B. Hoitt, Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890), p. 115.
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Anglo-American temperance orator 1817–1886Related quotes
“The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's winding sheet.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 115
“A Lady that was drown'd at Sea, and had a wave for her Winding sheet.”
Bayes, Act IV, sc, i
The Rehearsal (1671)
“Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,
An old man in a draughty house
Under a windy knob.”
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
“Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds, or the written music of water written in river-lines?”
August 1875, page 220
John of the Mountains, 1938
“And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?”
No. 54, preached to the King at Whitehall, April 5, 1628
LXXX Sermons (1640)
Original: (it) Ogni giorno è un foglio bianco su cui scrivere note di musica, note provenienti dal profondo dell’anima. Un foglio su cui soffiare un sorriso, per donargli vita.
Source: prevale.net
“On the pavement
of my trampled soul
the steps of madmen
weave the prints of rude crude words.”
"1" (1913); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) p. 53
"Written at Mauve Garden: Pine Wind Terrace" (tr. Y. N. Chang and Lewis C. Walmsley), in Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, eds. Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo (1975), p. 477; also in The Luminous Landscape: Chinese Art and Poetry, ed. Richard Lewis (1981), p. 57.