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William R. Alger

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 .

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Cytaty William R. Alger

„A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown one;
Turn full upon me thy eye,—
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one.“

— William R. Alger
"Mirtsa Schaffy on Eyes", p. 228.

„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.

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„God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.“

— William R. Alger
"Delayed Retribution", p. 123.

„Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings,
But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.“

— William R. Alger
"Elbow Room", p. 188.

„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.

„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.

„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
p. 180 http://books.google.com/books?id=n6xIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA180

„In the nine heavens are eight Paradises;
Where is the ninth one? In the human breast.
Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises,
But blessedness dwells in the human breast.“

— William R. Alger
"The Ninth Paradise", p. 223.

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„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.

„Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation
Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,
And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication
Which is more sober far than all sobriety.“

— William R. Alger
"The Sober Drunkenness", p. 167.

„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.

„In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease:
Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace
Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.“

— William R. Alger
"A Leader to Repose", p. 101.

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„A thousand years a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap he snatched,
It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?“

— William R. Alger
"Swift Opportunity", p. 281.

„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.

„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.