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God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
God is best known in not knowing him.
[Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]
God is best known in not knowing him.
[Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]
States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall
bodies.
States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall
bodies.
So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.
So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing
misfortune to another.
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing
misfortune to another.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.