14. 'Tis a fearful thing in winter 15. Wah-wah-taysee, little firefly, 16. -JAMES A. FIELDS. -LONGFELLOW. We hold these truths to be self-evident-that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi ness. -DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 17. The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide: But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide. -WORDSWORTH. 18. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song. -KINGSLEY. 19. Our band is few but true and tried, our leader frank and bold, The British soldier trembles when Marion's name is told. -BRYANT. 20. Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, This is my own, my native land; 21. Noon descends, and after noon 22. I love all that thou lovest, Spirit of Delight! The fresh Earth in new leaves dressed And the starry night: Autumn evening and the morn 23. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. 24. Oh many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. 25. If we sit down at set of sun, And count the things that we have done, And, counting, find One self-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him who heard, One glance most kind, That fell like sunshine where it went, Then we may count that day well spent. -SCOTT. -SHELLEY. SHELLEY. -BURNS. -SCOTT. Quotations Containing the Sounds of s and z 1. Who steals my purse steals trash: 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his and has been slave to thousands. 2. Within the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official. 3. Over the roofs of the pioneers Gathers the moss of a hundred years. -SHAKESPEARE. -WHITTIER. 4. And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives in the strength of its manhood, and full of its original spirit. -WEBSTER. 5. In peace and in war we must spend and be spent in the endless battle for right against wrong: deeds, not words alone shall save us. -ROOSEVELT. 6. Lord of the Universe! shield us and guide us, Trusting Thee always through shadow and sun! Thou hast united us, who shall divide us? Keep us, O keep us the many in one! 7. I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers; -HOLMES. -TENNYSON. 8. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. 9. Fair dewy roses brush against our faces, -SHELLEY. And flowering laurels spring from diamond vases. 10. O, softly on yon banks of haze Her rosy face the summer lays! -KEATS. 11. They made some rude answer to the sentinel. There was a dispute or perhaps a scuffle. Other soldiers heard the noise and ran hastily from the barracks to assist their comrades. 12. Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, 13. His steeds to water at those springs, On chaliced flowers that lies: And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: My lady sweet, arise; Arise, arise! It is twice blessed; -SHAKESPEARE. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. -SHAKESPEARE. 14. With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace. -WHITTIER, 15. As thus we sat in darkness, Each one busy with his prayers, Just the same as on the land?" 16. The year's at the spring The hillside's dew pearled; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven— All's right with the world. 17. Orpheus with his lute made trees -JAMES FIELDS. -BROWNING. There had made a lasting spring. SHAKESPEARE. 18. He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king. -MILTON. |