Poem: "The Wit" In: A.E. Currie. New Zealand Verse, (1906), p. 198
“As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.”
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Melodies No. 3
Useful and Instructive Poetry (1845)

His wishes, the pitifulest whipster's, are to be fulfilled for him; his days, the pitifulest whipster's, are to flow on in an ever-gentle current of enjoyment, impossible even for the gods. The prophets preach to us, Thou shalt be happy; thou shalt love pleasant things, and find them. The people clamor, Why have we not found pleasant things? ...God's Laws are become a Greatest Happiness Principle. There is no religion; there is no God; man has lost his soul.
Bk. III, ch. 4.
1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag," she said.”
Barbara Frietchie (1863); reported in Diane Ravitch, The American Reader: words that moved a nation (2000), p. 259. The lines are based on an folkloric account of the real Barbara Fritchie, said to have made a similar challenge to Confederate invaders of Maryland during the American Civil War.

“Rise in the presence of a gray head.”
Vor einem grauen Haupte sollst du aufstehen!
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch