Conqueror Quotes by Henry Kirke White

When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure…

— Henry Kirke White

I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.

— Henry Kirke White

I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious…

— Henry Kirke White

We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities…

— Henry Kirke White

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

— Henry Kirke White

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a…

— Henry Kirke White

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the…

— Henry Kirke White

Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.

— Henry Kirke White

The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

— Henry Kirke White

Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.

— Henry Kirke White

Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

— Henry Kirke White

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman…

— Henry Kirke White