Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Epic, Water, Soul

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.195

• Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Believe, Men, Water

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.195

• And evermore the waters worship God;--
  And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres
  While listening to the music of the waves!

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Ocean, Water, Listening

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.388

• It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Oil, Water, Evil

• Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth
  The Sabbath resting comes,
  Gathering the sons of toil and care
  Back to their peaceful homes;
  And, like a portal to the skies,
  Opens the House of God,
  Where all who seek may come and learn
  The way the Saviour trod.
  But holier to the wanderer seems
  The Sabbath on the deep,
  When on, and on, in ceaseless course,
  The toiling bark must keep,
  And not a trace of man appears
  Amid the wilderness
  Of waters--then it comes like dove
  Direct from heaven to bless.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Home, Son, Men

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