We cannot pass our guardian angel's bound,
Resign'd or sullen, he will hear our sighs. [ Keble ]
Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend,
And round his dwelling guardian saints attend. [ Goldsmith ]
A guardian angel over his life presiding.
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. [ Samuel Rogers ]
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [ Cicero ]
Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl's virtue. [ Mme. de Genlis ]
Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages. [ Lamartine ]
Ugliness, after virtue, is the best guardian of a young woman. [ Mme. de Genlis ]
The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us. [ Feltham ]
The guardian angel of life sometimes flies so high that man cannot see it; but he always is looking down upon us, and will soon hover nearer to us. [ Richter ]
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like the column that guided Israel in the desert, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, and a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. [ Colton ]
How oft my guardian angel gently cried, Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How he persists to knock and wait for thee!
And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow, Tomorrow we will open,
I replied. And when the morrow came I answered still, Tomorrow.
[ Tome Burguillos ]
What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertainties! the glory and the shame of the universe! [ Pascal ]