Ere Quotes

141 quotes by 86 authors

The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O. — Coventry Patmore
The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere… — John Muir
Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not the strong in… — Khalil Gibran
Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy;… — Hunter S. Thompson
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was… — John Dryden
Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden… — John Keats
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. — Benjamin Franklin
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. — Jean Paul
I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward,… — Kenneth Grahame
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallÃ¨d eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With… — William Shakespeare
She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence â€“ â€œSurely,… — Jane Austen
But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood… — Lord Byron
So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed. — Mercedes Lackey
Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus… — William Shakespeare

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