Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds not on the cess of war.
Quotes about taint (16 Quotes)
Unkindness may do much,
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.
Hit look lak sparrer-grass, hit feel lak sparrer-grass, hit tas'e lak sparrer-grass, en I bless ef 'taint sparrer-grass.
Some day you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortala body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.
I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood.
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.
Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the Old Law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heav'n without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O, as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Genius has somewhat of the infantine But of the childish not a touch or taint.
We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint ... office parties, artificial ... Christmas trees ... but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence yes, and its beauty, too.
He paid some attention to the management of his collieries in the Midland counties, excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Yes, my good lord: a pure unspotted heart,
Never yet taint with love, I send the King.
With what Barry Bonds might accomplish this year, I think (the steroid allegations) taint it a little bit. How many would he have really hit now It's not going to improve his hand-eye coordination, but would the baseball have gone that far if he wouldn't have been using steroids.
'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.