 | Sarah Barnwell Elliott - 1893 - 444 strani
...first attack of homesickness," she went on, seating herself near the fire. " I knew it must come." X. " It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being...meek than fierce ; It's fitter being sane than mad." BEATRICE'S mortification over her breakdown -U was very great, and she was thankful that the interview... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1893 - 404 strani
...wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear, Nowhere, Lives a woman true and fair. 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 sin will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That after Last returns... | |
 | 1894 - 678 strani
...done unto you. Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: so shall ye be My disciples." 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... | |
 | 1893 - 676 strani
...there, and hears once more the pathetic voice that to the last had only promise and cheer for all alike. 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... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 504 strani
...low, passion-driven blackguard. Not a very interesting trio! but upon them is based the conclusion— 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 the... | |
 | Brother Azarias - 1896 - 268 strani
...poem the poet thus expresses the hope that what is seemingly beyond repair shall be finally mended; " It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane thnn mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That after Last... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 500 strani
...low, passion-driven blackguard. Not a very interesting trio! but upon them is based the conclusion— It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce 1 It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 strani
...rank ; It's no in wealth like Lon'on Bank, To purchase peace and rest." BURNS. Epistle to Davie. " 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 stretch'd ; That, after Last, returns... | |
 | Church congress - 1897 - 550 strani
...boys assembled, "Boys.be dood boys." God made the world on right lines. The confusion is our own. " It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being...meek than fierce; It's fitter being sane than mad." And much of our suffering is God's way of enforcing this necessary lesson. How important, then, are... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1897 - 334 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. The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass... | |
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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. 
