Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay,
while resignation gently slopes the way. [ Goldsmith ]
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave. [ Homer ]
On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe,
Wrapt in a gown, for sickness and for show. [ Pope ]
Gradual sinks the breeze,
Into a perfect calm; that not a breath
I heard to quiver thro' the closing woods,
Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves,
Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods diffused?
In glassy breadth, seen through delusive lapse
Forgetful of their course. 'Tis silence all.
And pleasing expectation. [ Thomson ]
But on he moves to meet his latter end,
Angels around befriending virtue's friend;
Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And all his prospects bright'ning to the last,
His heaven commences, ere the world be past! [ Goldsmith ]
Without a genius, learning soars in vain;
And, without learning, genius sinks again;
Their force united, crowns the sprightly reign. [ Elphinston ]
Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
My languid numbers have forgot to flow, and fancy sinks beneath a weight of woe. [ Pope ]
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it. [ Arsene Houssaye ]
A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain. [ Ovid ]
Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. [ Coleridge ]
Misfortune, when we look upon it with our eyes, is smaller than when our imagination sinks the evil down into the recesses of the soul. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament, - the unhappy man who sinks under the sense of his dishonor, or him who survives it. [ Junius ]
Whoever sinks his vessel by overloading it, though it be with gold, and silver, and precious stones, will give his owner but an ill account of his voyage. [ Locke ]
A weak mind sinks under prosperity as well as under adversity. A strong and deep one has two highest tides, when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. [ Hare ]
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. [ Addison ]
How dear the sure counsel of a present friend, whose heavenly power failing, the lonely one sinks in silence; for earnest thought and resolution, locked within his breast, are slowly ripened; the presence of the loved one soon warms them into being. [ Goethe ]
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. lie that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. [ Dr. Johnson ]
A phlegmatic insensibility is as different from patience as a pool from a harbor; into the one, indolence naturally sinks us; but if we arrive at the other, it is by encountering many an adverse wind and rough wave, with a more skillful pilot at the helm than self, and a company under better command than the passions. [ L. W. Dilwyn ]