 | Lillian Gertrude Kimball - 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.... | |
 | Amory Howe Bradford - 1900 - 326 strani
...poem " Apparent Failure," and in " The Ring and the Book." From the first I quote as follows: — " 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... | |
 | J. Scott. [from old catalog] Clarg - 1900 - 886 strani
...helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul!" " It's wiser being good than bad ; —Rabbi Ben Ezra. 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... | |
 | Brother Azarias - 1901 - 252 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 than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That after Last returns... | |
 | 1898 - 538 strani
...of communism upon the earth would be the dawn of the kingdom of heaven upon earth. Creiiaf Judaut I 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... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1902 - 294 strani
...he be with moumfulness, yet this strong and living hope does not leave him, and he still can write: 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, the sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1902 - 776 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... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1902 - 292 strani
...he be with mournfulness, yet this strong and living hope does not leave him, and he still can write: 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, the sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1902 - 294 strani
...he be with mournfulness, yet this strong and living hope does not leave him, and he still can write: 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, the sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns... | |
 | Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 244 strani
...promise brave from birth to grave Life's boon may beggar in an hour ! All's Well. DAVID ATWOOD WASSOS. 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. 
