 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1897 - 592 strani
...which must not be ! — The Ring and the Book. And in his poem entitled "Apparent Failure," we read : 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... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1897 - 566 strani
...which must not be! — The Ring and the Book. And in his poem entitled “Apparent Failure,” we read: 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... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1898 - 358 strani
...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... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1898 - 358 strani
...couch and one clear nice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust ! VII. 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... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1898 - 264 strani
...of me, one gaze and gape, Nothing eludes me, everything's a hint, Handle and help. 407 Mr. Sludge. 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... | |
 | 1899 - 704 strani
...brought to 'em. Geprge ¡-.iu>:. К It's too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rocks. Pr. 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... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1908 - 582 strani
...GEORGE EI.IOT. Adam Bede (Adam Bcdc), Bk. VI., Ch. LIU. 136 IT'S WISER BEING GOOD—JOY IS THE BEST. " 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... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1899 - 196 strani
..."Apparent Failure," closing with the expressive teaching: What I aspire to be, And was not, comforts me. 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... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1899 - 502 strani
...cards and dice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust! VII. It 'a 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... | |
 | Lillian Kimball Stewart - 1900 - 268 strani
...when we were the most afraid to laugh, we saw the most comical things to laugh at. — Beecher. 35. It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's fitter being sane than mad. 36. To be sure, eyes are not so common as people think, or poets would be plentier. — Lowell. 37.... | |
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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. 
