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The Soul Aspiring Pants Its Source To Mount, As Streams Meander Level With Their Fount.
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The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,
As streams meander level with their fount.
-- Robert Montgomery (1807-1855)
-- The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part i
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And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
-- Robert Montgomery (1807-1855) -- The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part i...
As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, i...
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetener of life!
and solder of society! -- Robert Blair (1699-1747) -- The Grave, Part i, Line 88...
Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, Stanza 82...
One claim for the value of the British monarchy is that its existence precludes anyone from aspiring to absolute rule.
I have a theory that the American presidency serves a similar purpose, precluding anyone from managing the government....
The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder'd its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.
-- Robert Montgomery (1807-1855) -- Luther, Man's Need and God's Supply...
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory?
O death! where is thy sting? -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dying Christian to his Soul...
Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 10...
FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests.
It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children....