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“Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.”

Sleep Blessing Thee Afternoon Makest

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.”

Ifs Trying Women Contrary Statements Goeth Makest

Author:Gelett Burgess

“Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.”

Wells Life Is Lord Land Speech Skins Tongue Rising Majesty Thyself Distinguished Underworld Nile Makest

Author:Akhenaton

“Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.”

Men Whole He Man Sorrow Gold Crucible Makest

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.”

Heart Divine Jealousy Dread Hateful Foul Languish Makest

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shall thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience and his second shall be what thou wilt.”

Firsts May Children Understanding Lessons Seasons Obedience Vessel April Frost Vigilant Twigs Makest

Author:Francis Quarles

“Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so.”

Ifs Thinking Long Self Use Justice Secret Friends Worthy Faithful Deliberate Bosoms Impart Makest Impartial Justice

Author:Francis Quarles

“Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And fruitful lands- for all of living things Through thee alone are evermore conceived, Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, For thee waters of the unvexed deep Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky Glow with diffused radiance for thee!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

“Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!”

Heart Soul Care Strong Peace Sleep Disappear Employment Gentle Divinity Labour Makest

Author:Ovid