Quotes about lamenting (16 Quotes)



    Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.



    It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.


    There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking.



    PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

    I know a lot's being said about Rex, the eulogy of the team given that Rex is out. I want to make sure our fans know we're not here lamenting over Rex Grossman. It's unfortunate. ... We have a lot of confidence in our quarterbacks and (offensive coordinator) Ron Turner.

    First, the baby loves mother's milk second, he learns of his mother and father third, his brothers, sisters and aunts fourth, the love of play awakens. Fifth, he runs after food and drink sixth, in his sexual desire, he does not respect social customs. Seventh, he gathers wealth and dwells in his house eighth, he becomes angry, and his body is consumed. Ninth, he turns grey, and his breathing becomes labored tenth, he is cremated, and turns to ashes. His companions send him off, crying out and lamenting. The swan of the soul takes flight, and asks which way to go.

    Lose this day loitering, twill be the same story Tomorrow, and the rest more dilatory Thus, indecision brings its own delays And days are lost lamenting over days, Are you in earnest Seize this very moment What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Courage has genius, power and magic in it Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin it and the work will be completed.




    Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.



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