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Tag Archives: British Poets

“Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!” — Richard Crashaw

“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow”. –Nahum Tate

“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength”. –Charles Lamb

“For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day”. –Charles Dibdin

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

“When all candels be out, all cats be grey”. –John Heywood

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture”. –Matthew Arnold

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it”. –James Allen

“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends”. –Francis Quarles

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens