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" And truest friends, through error, wound our rest Without misfortune, what calamities! And what hostilities, without a foe! Nor are foes wanting to the best on earth. But endless is the list of human ills, And sighs might sooner fail than cause to sigh. "
Brighton in an Uproar: Comprising Anecdotes ... A Novel, Founded on Facts - Page 198
by Henrietta Maria Moriarty - 1811
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...fear, and ills on ills attend, Till life and sorrow meet one common end. YOUNG : Force of Religion. The smoothest course of nature has its pains ; And...truest friends, through error, wound our rest: Without misfortunes, what calamities ! And what hostilities, without a foe ! YOUNG: Night Thoughts. SOUL. It...
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A Guide to English Composition

Ebenezer Coloham Brewer - 1878 - 476 pages
...sky, So man was born to misery. — Pope 3f Job, v. 7. Man never is but always to be blest. — Pope, Endless is the list of human ills, And sighs might sooner fail than cause to sigh. Dr. Young. There is no happiness on this side of the grave. There is a poison-drop in man's purest...
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The poetical works of sir Thomas Wyatt. The text ed. by C.C. Clarke

Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1879 - 624 pages
...us not our wish. How distant oft the thing we doat on most, From that for which we doat, felicity ! The smoothest 'course of nature has its pains ; And...wound our rest. Without misfortune, what calamities ! 280> And what hostilities, without a foe ! Nor are foes wanting to the best on earth. But endless...
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Homiletical Commentary on the Book of Exodus, Volume 221

Joseph Samuel Exell - 1879 - 632 pages
...that the saper^'¡ lions onlookers ever saw moreof the maiden юг her lover. • But сп.Пс.-ч is the list of human ills, And sighs might sooner fail than canse to sign." — Young. Idol-Sacrifices! Ter. 20. Idolaters and their sacnliccs, says Dr. Chapín...
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London Society, Volume 63

1893 - 678 pages
...as I felt sure I should be treated with wondering respect and silent awe. CHAPTER II. AUNT ADDIE. " But endless is the list of human ills, And sighs might sooner fail than cause to sigh." — Young. " SHUT the door, Josephine ; the draught is something dreadful," whimpered Aunt Addie, drawing...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious ..., Volume 1873

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...fear, and ills on ills attend, Till life and sorrow meet one common end. YOUNG : Force of Religion. The smoothest course of nature has its pains ; And...truest friends, through error, wound our rest: Without misfortunes, what calamities! And what hostilities, without a foe ! YOUNG: Night Thoughts. SOUL. It...
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Dictionary of Quotations: (English)

Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
..." The smoke ascends To heaven as lightly from the cottage-hearth, As from the haughtiest palace." " The smoothest course of nature has its pains, And truest friends, through error, wound our rest." YOUNG. Night Thoughts, Night I., line 278. "The snowy banded, dilettante, Delicate handed priest. "...
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The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from ..., Volume 8

Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pages
...which we dote, felicity ! The smoothest course of nature has its pains ; And truest friends, thro' error, wound our rest. Without misfortune, what calamities...ills, And sighs might sooner fail, than cause to sigh. A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man! the rest a waste, Rocks, deserts, frozen...
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William Blake, Mystic: A Study

Adeline M. Butterworth - 1911 - 104 pages
...us not our wish : How distant oft the thing we doat on most. From that for which we doat, felicity ! The smoothest course of nature has its pains ; And...ills, And sighs might sooner fail, than cause to sigh. A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man ! the rest a waste ; Rocks, deserts, frozen...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...not our wish. How distant oft the thing we dote on most, 275 From that for which we dote, felicity! The smoothest course of nature has its pains; And truest friends, through error, wound our rest. 554 555 But endless is the list of human ills, And sighs might sooner fail, than cause to sigh. A part...
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