MY SELECTED QUOTES ----PART 3

 

MY SELECTED QUOTES ----PART  3

1.     Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time; footprints, that perhaps another, sailing o’er life’s solemn main, a forlorn and shipwrecked brother, seeing, shall take heart again. ----American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

2.     Ring out false pride in place and blood, the civic slander and the spite; ring in the love of truth and right, ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, ring out the narrowing lust of gold; ring out the thousand wars of old, ring in the thousand years of peace. -----English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.

3.     Ah, love, let us be true to one another ! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help, nor pains; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and fight, where ignorant armies clash by night. ------English poet Matthew Arnold.

4.     The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, the man’s the gowd (gold) for a ‘that. What tho’ on ham-ely (homely) fare we dine, wear hoddin-gray (coarse woolens), and a ‘that? Gie (give) fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man’s a man for a ‘that.  For a ‘that, and a ‘that. Their tinsel show, and a ‘that. The honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor, Is king o’men for a ‘that. ---- Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns.      

5.     The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and God fulfils himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world, -------English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.

G.R.Kanwal

26 July 2024