 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1835 - 382 pages
...or three of his illustrations, but they are not the most remarkable. To these two fine lines — " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past Hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven ;" he has given the illustration of one sitting and with an earnest countenance conversing with a small,... | |
 | Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - History - 1889 - 322 pages
...puts to sea, his prayer is, "Keep me, my God, for my boat is so small and Thy ocean is so wide." 15. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. 16. The happiest man is he who, being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 966 pages
...what is common with individuals ? Nothing is more common and nothing is more wise than to look back to our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven. And how does a man become •wiser as he grows older, but by looking back upon the past and by learning from... | |
 | Charles Northend - Maxims - 1890 - 224 pages
...death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart.—Bryant 80. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, A.nd ask them what report they bore to heaven. — Young. 21 81. Leaves have their time to fall, [breath, And flowers to wither at the North wind's... | |
 | 1890 - 648 pages
...Lebanon NY Center K;oi ,il y . THE poet lias said, and many have repeated it after him, that "It is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven." May we so spend them, as they come to us in rotation, that the review will be a pleasure and not a... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...death: He walks with nature, and her paths are peace. *Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, Ami ask them what report they bore to heaven, And how...news. Their answers form what men experience call; If wisdom's friend her best, if not, worst foe. THE MAN WHOSE THOUGHTS ARK NOT OF THIS WORLD. Some... | |
 | Charles Aldrich - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 582 pages
...their habits. and constant in their religious observances. Some one has said truly. " 'Tis pleasant to talk with our past hours. And ask them what report they bring for heaven." Memory calls up a thousand recollections of those early days when I was a student... | |
 | Bible - 1892 - 812 pages
...of future responsibility. We have to reckon on days past ; for time, like tide, stays for no man. " "Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And...And how they might have borne more welcome news." Let 118 then summon our past days, and ask what they have to say. First, concerning the world. Mrs.... | |
 | Welsh - 1892 - 828 pages
...site. Death ! great proprietor of all, 'tis thine To tread out empire and to quench the stars. 'Tie greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time Bat from its loss; to give it then a tongue Is wise in... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...study myself more than any other subject ; it is my metaphysic, it is my "physic. — Montaigne. It is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask...heaven, and how they might have borne more welcome news. — Young. It is easy to look down on others ; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. — Landor.... | |
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Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news. 
