Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time. — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
