Graves Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Download Open image “Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.” — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Graves Happiness Light Pleasant Poetry Severe Steers Verses
Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“We are inflamed, by Thy Gift we are kindled; and are carried upwards; we glow inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that be in our heart, and sing a song of degrees; we glow inwardly with Thy fire, with Thy good fire, and we go; because we go upwards to the peace of Jerusalem: for gladdened was I… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice... — George Herbert Copy Share Image
As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing,… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
“You and I cannot really expect to glide through life . . . naively petitioning, 'Lord, give me experience but not grief, a deeper… — Neal maxwell Copy Share Image
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“As long as you live, you will be subject to change, whether you will it or not - now glad, now sorrowful; now pleased, now displeased; now devout, now undevout; now vigorous, now slothful; now gloomy, now merry. But a wise man who is well taught in spiritual labor stands unshaken in all such things, and heeds little what he… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share
Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share
And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back.… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are luckier than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it! — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image