He lives twice who can at once employ
The present well and e'en the past enjoy.[ Pope ]
E'en like the passage of an angel's tear
That falls through the clear ether silently.[ Keats ]
Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field.
Still on their dinner turn -
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.[ Joanna Baillie ]
A single grateful thought towards fiea%-en is the most perfect prayer.[ Lessing ]
They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.[ Cowper ]