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Quotes from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed — James Montgomery

1771–1854 Scotland

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Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

'T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed,—
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Night is the time to weep,
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory where sleep
The joys of other years.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Once, in the flight of ages past,
There lived a man.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Nor sink those stars in empty night:
They hide themselves in heaven's own light.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Who that hath ever been
Could bear to be no more?
Yet who would tread again the scene
He trod through life before?

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Gashed with honourable scars,
Low in Glory's lap they lie;
Though they fell, they fell like stars,
Streaming splendour through the sky.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Friend after friend departs;
Who hath not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an end.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Bliss in possession will not last;
Remembered joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea,
They were, they are, they yet shall be.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear,
The upward glancing of an eye
When none but God is near.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Return unto thy rest, my soul,
From all the wanderings of thy thought,
From sickness unto death made whole,
Safe through a thousand perils brought.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Montgomery (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.