46 Quotes by Samuel Rogers

Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

Oh! she was good as she was fair. None-none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are, To know her was to love her.

Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.