He that hath thriven
May lie till seven. [ Proverb ]

Till death all is life. [ Proverb ]

Keep some till more come. [ Proverb ]

Blots are no blots till hit. [ Proverb ]

The fire in the flint
Shows not till it be struck. [ William Shakespeare ]

Farewell till we meet again. [ French ]

Not a single shaft can hit
Till the God of love sees fit. [ Ryland ]

Love is a secret no man knows
Till it within his bosom glows. [ Proverb ]

Till one is utterly sick of it.

Man's work lasts till set of sun;
Woman's work is never done. [ Proverb ]

Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song;
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste;
Still I would not have thee cold,
Not too backward or too bold;
Love that lasteth till 'tis old
Fadeth not in haste. [ Old Ballad ]

A friend is never known till needed. [ Proverb ]

Bad is never good till worse befall. [ Danish Proverb ]

Men may bear till their backs break. [ Proverb ]

Sins are not known till they be acted. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One tale is good till another is told. [ Proverb ]

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise,
Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. [ William Congreve ]

I have seen corruption boil and bubble
'Till it overrun the stew. [ William Shakespeare ]

The sluggard makes his night till noon. [ Proverb ]

In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till bewildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies.
The angels with us unawares. [ Gerald Massey ]

Say no ill of the year till it be past. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You can't tell a nut till you crack it. [ Proverb ]

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved.
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved. [ Wordsworth ]

Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine - no distant date;
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight
Shall be thy doom. [ Burns ]

Like a hog, he does no good till he dies. [ Proverb ]

The Present, the Present is all thou hast
For thy sure possessing;
Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
Till it gives its blessing. [ Whittier ]

Health is not valued till sickness comes. [ Proverb ]

Don't cross the bridge till you come to it
Is a proverb old, and of excellent wit. [ Longfellow ]

Set not your loaf in till the oven is hot. [ Proverb ]

The darkest day
Lives till tomorrow will have passed away. [ Cowper ]

How sweetly did they float upon the wings
Of silence through the empty-vaulted night.
At every fall smoothing the raven down
Of darkness till it smiled! [ Milton ]

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till tomorrow, will have pass'd away. [ Cowper ]

Praise not the ford till you are safe over. [ Proverb ]

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive. [ Montgomery ]

The ape hugs her darling till she kills it. [ Proverb ]

Till sorrow seemed to wear one common face. [ Congreve ]

Be wise to-day! 'tis madness to defer;
Next day, the fatal precedent will plead;
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life.
Procrastination is the thief of time. [ Edward Young ]

A hog upon trust grunts till he is paid for. [ Proverb ]

Blessings are not valued till they are gone. [ Proverb ]

Procrastination is the thief of time,
Year after year it steals, till all are fled
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concourse of an eternal scene. [ Young ]

Not to understand a treasure's worth,
Till time has stolen away the slightest good,
Is cause of half the poverty we feel,
And makes the world the wilderness it is. [ Cowper ]

We begin not to live, till we are fit to die. [ Proverb ]

Hail, blooming Youth!
May all your virtues with your years improve,
Till in consummate worth you shine the pride,
Of these our days, and succeeding times,
A bright example. [ Wm. Somerville ]

Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

His praise is lost who waits till all commend. [ Pope ]

Merry is the company till the reckoning comes. [ Proverb ]

No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
Till half mankind were like himself possessed. [ Cowper ]

Call me not an olive till thou see me gathered. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

O magic sleep! O comfortable bird
That broodest over the troubled sea of the mind
Till it is hushed and smooth! [ Keats ]

Sleep, the fresh dew of languid love, the rain
Whose drops quench kisses till they burn again. [ Shelley ]

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought. [ William Shakespeare ]

Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water's worth:
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,
Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth,
Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,
You'd wish yourself where truth is - in a well. [ Byron ]

Stay till you have sheep before you shear them. [ Proverb ]

The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]

We are never like angels till our passion dies. [ Thomas Dekker ]

Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]

Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass. [ William Shakespeare ]

When your name is up you may lie abed till noon. [ Proverb ]

As this auspicious day began the race
Of every virtue join'd with every grace;
May you, who own them, welcome its return,
Till excellence, like yours, again is born.
The years we wish, will half your charms impair;
The years we wish the better half will spare;
The victims of your eyes will bleed no more,
But all the beauties of your mind adore. [ Jeffrey ]

The world was sad! - the garden was a wild!
And man, the hermit, sighed - till woman smiled. [ Campbell ]

The fire in the flint shows not till it's struck. [ Proverb ]

A lie begets a lie till they come to generations. [ Proverb ]

I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked. [ William Shakespeare ]

His eloquence is classic in its style,
Not brilliant with explosive coruscations
Of heterogeneous thoughts, at random caught.
And scattered like a shower of shooting stars,
That end in darkness: no; - his noble mind
Is clear, and full, and stately, and serene.
His earnest and undazzled eye he keeps
Fixed on the sun of Truth, and breathes his words
As easily as eagles cleave the air,
And never pauses till the height is won;
And all who listen follow where he leads. [ Mrs. Hale ]

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined!
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet.
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]

First on thy friend deliberate with thyself;
Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice;
Nor jealous of the chosen; fixing, fix;
Judge before friendship, then confide till death. [ Young ]

Till vice gets an habit, there is a remedy for it. [ Proverb ]

Sleeping all the morning makes it night till noon. [ Proverb ]

No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

There is a strength
Deep-bedded in our hearts, of which we reck
But little, till the shafts of heaven have pierced
Its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent
Before her gems are found? [ Mrs. Hemans ]

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop
Into thy mother's lap. [ Milton ]

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. [ William Shakespeare ]

Money, like manure, does no good till it is spread.

The nurse is valued till the child be done sucking. [ Proverb ]

Drive not a second nail till the first be clinched. [ Proverb ]

He'll eat till he sweats, and work till he freezes. [ Proverb ]

All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. [ William Shakespeare ]

All of heaven and hell is not known till hereafter. [ Proverb ]

He lives long that lives till all are weary of him. [ Proverb ]

Don't cast out your foul water till you have clean. [ Proverb ]

Seek till you find, and you'll not lose your labour. [ Proverb ]

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. [ William Shakespeare ]

Never seek a wife till you know what to do with her. [ Proverb ]

Good-night, good-night; parting is such sweet sorrow
That I will say good-night till it be tomorrow. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain. [ Moore ]

All are presumed good till they are found in a fault. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No one knows how far his powers go till he has tried. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last.
Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

We never know the worth of water, till the well is dry. [ Proverb ]

My son is my son till he have got him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. [ Proverb ]

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. [ Proverb ]

You will not believe him bald, till you see his brains. [ Proverb ]

The fowler's pipe sounds sweet, till the bird is caught. [ Proverb ]

He'll never have enough till his mouth is full of mould. [ Proverb ]

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. [ Proverb ]

You cannot judge of a man till you know his whole story. [ Proverb ]

Wait till night before saying that the day has been fine. [ French Proverb ]

Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]

No man knows himself till he hath tasted of both fortunes. [ Proverb ]

There can be no dew till it is disenchanted of earthliness. [ Dr. Pulsford ]

If you be a jester, keep your wit till you have use for it. [ Proverb ]

You may keep wool till it is dirt, and flax till it is silk. [ Proverb ]

A covetous man does nothing that he should do, till he dies. [ Proverb ]

Hate furroweth the brow, and a man may frown till he hateth. [ Tupper ]

The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

How many deaths must he die, that lives till he desires to die! [ Proverb ]

He's like a bagpipe, you never hear him till his belly is full. [ Proverb ]

Trust your dog to the end; a woman - till the first opportunity. [ Proverb ]

Gold and silver were mingled with dirt till avarice parted them. [ Proverb ]

You will not believe a man is dead, till you see his brains out. [ Proverb ]

The credit that is got by a lie only lasts till the truth is out. [ Proverb ]

Every one can keep house better than her mother, till she trieth. [ Proverb ]

We bachelors grin, but you marred men laugh till your hearts ache. [ Proverb ]

Mourning only lasts till morning with the children of the morning. [ Saying ]

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

We'll never know the worth of the water till the well has gone dry. [ Proverb ]

A real grief I never can find till thou provest perjured or unkind. [ Prior ]

I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled till I have a good hand. [ Swift ]

Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. [ William Shakespeare ]

Without justice society is sick, and will continue sick till it dies. [ Froude ]

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. [ Dr. Watts ]

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. [ Proverb ]

I shall ne'er beware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 4 ]

He shall be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault. [ Fuller ]

It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. [ Longfellow ]

Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! [ William Shakespeare ]

Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. [ Shakespeare ]

Stay till the lane messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men.
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen. [ Bryant ]

He that will not sail till he have a full fair wind, will lose many a voyage. [ Proverb ]

If you sleep till noon, you have no right to complain that the days are short. [ Proverb ]

Once more for pity, that I may keep the flavor upon my lips till we meet again. [ Dryden ]

The credit that is got by a lie, lasts no longer than till the truth comes out. [ Proverb ]

He on whom Heaven bestows a sceptre knows not the weight of it till he bears it. [ Corneille ]

Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. [ Crabbe ]

Till their own dreams at length deceive them, And oft repeating, they believe them. [ Prior ]

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. [ Proverb ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them. [ Goldsmith ]

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot. [ Sharp ]

Not till a new thing sprouts up does a man ever enjoy intelligently that which is old. [ Rückert ]

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's. [ Alcott ]

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee. [ St. Augustine ]

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, His praise is lost who waits till all commend. [ Pope ]

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it [ Carlyle ]

My son is my son till he get a wife, my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life. [ Proverb ]

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them? [ Lessing ]

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. [ Johnson ]

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer. [ Bishop Hall ]

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please. [ Johnson ]

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it. [ Hawthorne ]

There's some ill planet reigns; I must be patient till the heavens look with an aspect favorable. [ William Shakespeare ]

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. [ Charles Lamb ]

It is characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone. [ Alexander Smith ]

He who prorogues the honesty of today till tomorrow, will probably prorogue his tomorrows to eternity. [ Lavater ]

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them. [ L'Estrange ]

Men very rarely put off the trappings of pride till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet. [ Clarendon ]

If you are going to do a good thing, do it now; if you are going to do a mean thing, wait till tomorrow.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left. [ George Eliot ]

Still on it creeps, each little moment at another's heels, till hours, days, years, and ages are made up. [ Joanna Baillie ]

No evil is felt till it comes, and when it comes no counsel helps. Wisdom is always too early and too late. [ Rückert ]

Trust no man till you have eaten a peck of salt with him, (i.e. known him so long as you might have done so. [ Proverb ]

Surely the best way is to meet the enemy in the field, and not wait till he plunders us in our very bed-chamber. [ Goldsmith ]

The poet's heart is an unlighted torch, which gives no help to his footsteps till love has touched it with flame. [ Lowell ]

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? [ Tillotson ]

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean. [ Cowper ]

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. [ Young ]

All day the rain bathed the dark hyacinths in vain; the flood may pour from morn till night, nor wash the pretty Indian white. [ Hafiz ]

Many people take no care of their money till they have come nearly to an end of it, and others do just the same with their time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. [ John Dryden ]

Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheathed their light, and, canopied in darkness, sweetly lay, till they might open to adorn the day. [ William Shakespeare ]

Praise follows Truth afar off; and only overtakes her at the grave; Plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then. [ Lowell ]

Mr. Bettenham said that virtuous men were like some herbs and spices, that give not out their sweet smell till they be broken or crushed. [ Bacon ]

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. [ Horace ]

There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood. [ Aaron Hill ]

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five and twenty. [ Dryden ]

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. [ Goldsmith ]

Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to bit ourselves at last. [ William Penn ]

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. [ Johnson ]

The law of perseverance is among the deepest in man; by nature he hates change; seldom will he quit his old house till it has actually fallen about his ears. [ Carlyle ]

Jealousy is said to be the offspring of love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. [ Rev. T. Jones ]

Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Is it not strange, the way in which good angels seem to take up the thread of our dropped hopes and endeavors, and wind them up for us, we know not how, till it is all done? [ Miss Muloch ]

The female heart is just like a new india-rubber shoe; you may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long; and then let go, and it will fly right back to its old shape. [ Judge Haliburton ]

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour; but friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadow, till the sun of life sets. [ Herder ]

Gratitude is never conferred but where there have been previous endeavours to excite it; we consider it as a debt, and our spirits wear a load till we have discharged the obligation. [ Goldsmith ]

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 ]

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found? [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Virginity of the heart, alas! so soon ravished! sweet dreams! expectations of happiness' and of love! fresh illusions of the morning of life! why do you not last till the end of the day! [ Gavarni ]

A friend is a rare book, of which but one copy is made. We read a page of it every day, till some woman snatches it from our hands, who sometimes peruses it, but more frequently tears it.

A good name is properly that reputation of virtue that every man may challenge as his right and due in the opinions of others, till he has made forfeit of it by the viciousness of his actions. [ South ]

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others. [ Colton ]

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Man is placed in this world as a spectator; when he is tired with wondering at all the novelties about him, and not till then, does he desire to be made acquainted with the causes that create those wonders. [ Goldsmith ]

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence. [ Quarles ]

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it. [ Lowell ]

Of permanent griefs there are none, for they are but clouds. The swifter they move through the sky. the more follow after them; and even the immovable ones are absorbed by the other, and become smaller till they vanish. [ Richter ]

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket. [ Goldsmith ]

He hazards much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. [ Roger Ascham ]

Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business - all who have got a task to do, a work to finish - bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose - till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned. [ James Hamilton ]

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, per aspera ad astra, over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, "per aspera ad astra", over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]

Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]

Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. [ Rogers ]

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]

When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together; and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]

Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]