„The moon is a silver pin-head vast,
That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.“
— William R. Alger
"The Use of the Moon", p. 178.
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Data urodzenia: 1822
Data zgonu: 1905
Natępne imiona:William Rounseville Alger
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William Rounseville Alger was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His works included The Poetry of the East and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life .
Cytaty William R. Alger
„The moon is a silver pin-head vast,
„The best aphorisms are pointed expressions of the results of observation, experience, and reflection. They are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.“
— William R. Alger
p. 178.
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„When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.“
— William R. Alger
Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 460.
„Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.“
— William R. Alger
Reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315.
„An Arab, by his earnest gaze,
Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
A smile within his eyelids plays
And into words his longing gushes.“
— William R. Alger
"Love Sowing and Reaping Roses", p. 295.
„Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.“
— William R. Alger
Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 23.
„To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it.“
— William R. Alger
[http://books.google.com/books?id=n6xIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA180 p. 180]
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„With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne,
And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.“
— William R. Alger
"Mussud's Praise of the Camel", p. 257.
„God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.“
— William R. Alger
"Delayed Retribution", p. 123.
„As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,
O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.“
— William R. Alger
"The Brief Chance Encounter", p. 196.
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„Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.“
— William R. Alger
"Wine Song of Kaitmas", p. 161.
