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Let us live then, and be glad While young life's before us After youthful pastime had, After old age had and sad, Earth will slumber over us. [Lat., Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus Post pucundam juventutem. Post molestam senectutem. Nos habetit humus.] - (John Addington Symonds' translation) [Life] Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety. - epigraph from Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs [Life] Live ye, he says, I flee. - on Bishop Atterbury's sun dial [Sun Dial Mottoes] Mind your P's and Q's. - possibly from the old custom of hanging a slate in a tavern with P and Q (for pints and quarts) under which were written customers names and ticks for the number of P's and Q's [Proverbs] Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.) - inscribed over a 14th century mural painting once at Battle Church, Sussex [Death] No boy is well prepared for rough climbing, unless he is well shod with Christian principles. - [Youth] O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me. - attributed to a soldier by William King in "Anecdotes of his own time", p. 7 (ed. 1818) [Prayer] O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The shrine of each patriot's devotion, A world offers homage to them. - a adaptation of Shaw's "Britannia" [America] Odd instances of strange coincidence. - Queen Caroline's Advocate in the House of Lords, on her association with Bergami [Circumstance] Our country, however bounded. - toast founded on the speech of Winthrop [Patriotism : Toasts] Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul. - on a slab in Bishop Joceline's crypt in Glasgow cathedral [Influence] Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul; Death the horizon, when our sun is set, Which will through Christ a resurrection get. - a sun dial inscription once on the south wall of Glasgow Cathedral [Sun Dial Mottoes] Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. - inscription on the Liberty Bell from Bibles's Leviticus 25:10 [Liberty] Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. - inscription on cannon near ashes of John Bradshaw on top of hill near Martha Bay, Jamaica, it is also the motto on Jefferson's seal [Mottoes : Rebellion] Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. [Lat., Memoriae sacrum Typographia Ars artium omnium Conservatrix Hic primum inventa Circa annum mccccxl. - inscription on the facade of the house once occupied by Laurent Koster at Harlem [Printing] Sancta Maria ad Nives. - name of the basilica dedicated to Our Lady, now known as Santa Maria Maggiora [Snow] Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee? Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine. - in "Greek Anthology" [Gods] Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right; But if to-morrow never came, No end were of "to-night." The fact is this, time flies so fast, That e'er we've time to say "To-morrow's come," presto! behold! "To-morrow" proves "To-day." - from "Notes and Queries", fourth series, vol. XII [Tomorrow] Speak to living ears as you will wish you had spoken when they are dead. - [Sentiment] Temperament is wax before the human will and God. Natural traits are powerless before moral decisions. - [Temperament] "Ten acres and a mule." - American phrase indicating the expectations of emancipated slaves [Agriculture] That blessed word Mesopotamia. - see Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" [Words] The advantage to be derived from virtue is so evident that the wicked practise it from sinister motives. - [Virtue] The asses' bridge. [Lat., Pons Asinorum.] - applied to Proposition 5 of the first book of Euclid [Proverbial Phrases] The boy who uses vulgar words will be shunned by all right-minded boys. - [Sentiment] Displaying page 3 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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