 | Frank Crane - 1915 - 268 strani
...shall have subsided. It takes a deal of sheer faith nowadays to be able to repeat Browning's creed: "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." Tuesday, January 19, 1914.... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1915 - 414 strani
...couch and one clear nice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust 1 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... | |
 | Edward A. G. Hermann - 1916 - 72 strani
...in God. This faith in the ultimate triumph of good over evil is summed up in " Apparent 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... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1917 - 324 strani
...infinitely better than war; that virtue is better than vice; that, in Browning's words: — " It '• wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being meek than fierce ; It's fitter being sane than mad." In all these declarations we must be cordially and thoroughly of one mind. All that I desire to do is... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1918 - 48 strani
...despair? This; — 'tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do! __________ SAUL. It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce i It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever... | |
 | Charles Edward Locke - 1919 - 228 strani
...lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought but silence implying sound." "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 that will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns... | |
 | Charles Edward Locke - 1919 - 228 strani
...lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought but silence implying sound." "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 that will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns... | |
 | James Agate - 1919 - 366 strani
...cry like a good 'un over Hetty Sorrel and Jeanie Deans. But then I'ma civilised cove and not a satyr. It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being...meek than fierce ; It's fitter being sane than mad, etc., etc. Why not a novel in which goodness is made interesting ? You will say that it can't be done... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 strani
...Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. Prospice. 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... | |
 | 1906 - 612 strani
...state in congress; (3) permission of importation of slaves until 1808 with a tax on such importation. 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. 
