 | Julia B. Hoitt - Quotations, English - 1890 - 426 pages
...WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670-1729) Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. RICHARD STEELE (1671-1729) We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 252 pages
...The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. Wordsworth. For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. W. Congrene. Like birds, whose beauties languish, half concealed, Till mounted on the wing, their glossy... | |
 | Kindergarten - 1917 - 590 pages
...Central Park. No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. — C. Simmons. Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. — Congreve. A POSSIBLE PROGRAM OUTLINE BY WEEKS (Continued from page 273.) (6) Folding. A plow. A... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Education - 1888 - 1180 pages
...meaning of each of the following : 1. Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor, and to wait. 2. Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late a sure reward succeeds. 3. Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...misery Thus Congreve concludes the tragedy of The Mourning Bride with the following foolish couplet : ' For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though...entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he rose f'rum his distress, but we are inevitably induced to cherish the sublime idea that a day of future... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...Bride ' with the following foolish couplet : ' For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, thougli a late, a sure reward succeeds.' "When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, ).nnall у sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more... | |
 | Charles Northend - Maxims - 1890 - 224 pages
...of living does not consist in length of days, but in the right employment of them. —Montaigne. 99. For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. — Congreve. 100. No man is a better merchant than he who pays out his time upon God, and his money... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 pages
...literary merit, and had not the remotest reference to his retirement from official life. CHAPTER XI. ' For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ' — Congrevt. Southey dies (March 21, 1843) — Wordsworth is appointed Poet Laureate — Jeffrey's... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...thread. /•>. and It. Гг. For behaviour, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another. Bacon, For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, / And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. Congrrre. For Brutus is an honourable man, / So are they all, all honourable men. Jul. C<rs., ш. a.... | |
 | Irish literature - 1893 - 386 pages
...innocence survive, Still in the paths of honour persevere, And not from past or present ills despair; For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds; And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. TTJRLOUGH O'CAROLAN. BORN 1670 — DIED 1733. [Turlough Carolan, or O'Carolan as he is more properly... | |
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When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he... 
