 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 250 strani
...couch and one clear nice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust! 7. It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns... | |
 | 1865
...whole, he stands calmly watching the world sweep by without a wish to guide or change its course. " It's wiser being good than bad, It's safer being meek than fierce, It's fitter being sane than mad." i There is the beginning and end of bis teaching ; while Euripides is wholly eaten np by the question,... | |
 | Charles Marshall (novelist.) - 1867
...obscurity and namelessness and friendlessness,—and Duty, and eternal devotion to Eight. CHAPTER XX. " It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being meek than fierce ; It*H fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce Thu thickest cloud earth ever... | |
 | mrs. M C Despard - 1874
...know if she has done this thing of her own free will." CHAPTER XVIII. THE LADY OF THE BLACK GONDOLA. It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last, returns... | |
 | 1877
...copper couch and one clear nice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust! It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest clond earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns... | |
 | Mary Cecil Hay - 1882
...did now. But even yet she could not fit that new expression to him, try as she would. CHAPTER XV. " It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad, My own hope is a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever Btretch'd." llfR. PUGH, looking paler... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1882
...copper couch and one clear nice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust! It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce : [t 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever... | |
 | English poets - 1883 - 19 strani
...copper couch and one clear nice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust! It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being...meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns... | |
 | E.M Abdy-Williams - 1884
...his thought. "Surely you did not write that?" she exclaimed, suddenly startled out of her dream. " It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched. ***** That what began best,... | |
 | 1888
...little poem on " Apparent Failures." Its closing stanza reveals the poet's philosophy of failure : "It's wiser being good than bad, It's safer being meek than fierce, It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched, That after Last, returns... | |
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It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's fitter being sane than mad. 
