Samuel Rogers quotes

When a new book is published, read an old one. (Samuel Rogers)
To know her was to love her. View quote
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Think nothing done while aught remains to do. View quote
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I lived to write, and wrote to live. View quote
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else. View quote
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Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. View quote
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To vanish in the chinks that Time has made. View quote
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Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay. View quote
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Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. View quote
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Then, never less alone than when alone. View quote
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Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. (Samuel Rogers)
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. View quote
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The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before! View quote
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That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. View quote
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Oh! she was good as she was fair. None-none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are, To know her was to love her. View quote
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A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. View quote
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Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him. View quote
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The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. View quote
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Thou first, best friend that Heav'n assigns below To sooth and sweeten all the cares we know. View quote
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Hence, to the realms of Night, dire Demon, hence! Thy chain of adamant can bind That little world, the human mind, And sink its noblest powers to impotence. View quote
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Lo, steel-clad War his gorgeous standard rears ! The red-cross squadrons madly rage, And mow thro' infancy and age. (Samuel Rogers)

Samuel Rogers

Samuel Rogers - Image
Occupation: English Poet
Born: July 30, 1763
Died: December 18, 1855
Quotes count: 21
Wikipedia: Samuel Rogers

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