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Rest is sweet after strife. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Lucile. Pt. I. Canto VI. St. 25. Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 6. L. 38.
Who, with a body filled and vacant mind, Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread.— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 286.
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.— SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. I. Canto IX. St. 40.
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.— BAYARD TAYLOR — Temptation of Hassan Ben Khaled. St. 4.
Now is done thy long day's work; Fold thy palms across thy breast, Fold thine arms, turn to thy rest. Let them rave. S.— TENNYSON — A Dirge.
Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.— WILLIAM WATSON — Wordsworth's Grave. II. St. 3.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.— ADDISON — Cato. Act V. Sc. 4.
The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted-they have torn me and I bleed! I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 10.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.— CARLYLE — Essays. Characteristics.
O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud!— COLERIDGE — Dejection. An Ode. IV.
From little spark may burst a mighty flame.— DANTE — Paradise. Canto I. L. 34.
The remedy is worse than the disease.— DRYDEN — Sixteenth Satire of Juvenal. L. 31.
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before-consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.— GEORGE ELIOT — Adam Bede. Ch. XVI.
A bad ending follows a bad beginning.— EURIPIDES — Frag. Melanip. (Stob.)
So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.— GAY — What D'ye Call't? Act II. Sc. 9.
That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.— HERBERT — The Temple. Artillerie.
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.— POPE — Rape of the Lock. Canto I.
The end must justify the means.— PRIOR — Hans Carvel.
Great floods have flown From simple sources.— Shakespeare — All's Well That Ends Well. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 142.
Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 85.
O most lame and impotent conclusion!— Shakespeare — Othello. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 162.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 369.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 55.
The evening shows the day, and death crowns life.— JOHN WEBSTER — A Monumental
Column. Last line. The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.— YOUNG — The Revenge. Act V.
Guter Wille ist höher als aller Erfolg. Good-will is of more value than the result that follows.— GOETHE — Stella. V.