Thou art mine, thou hast given thy word,
Close, close in my arms thou art clinging;
Alone for my ear thou art singing
A song which no stranger hath heard:
But afar from me yet, like a bird.
Thy soul in some region unstirr'd
On its mystical circuit is winging.
Casta ad virum matrona parendo imperat.
A virtuous wife when she obeys her husband obtains the command over him.
When choosing a wife look down the social
scale; when selecting a friend, look upwards.
A love still burning upward, giving light
To read those laws; an accent very low
In blandishment, but a most silver flow
Of subtle-paced counsel in distress.
Right to the heart and brain, tho' undescried,
Winning its way with extreme gentleness
Thro' all the outworks of suspicious pride;
A courage to endure and to obey:
A hate of gossip parlance and of sway,
Crown'd Isabel, thro' all her placid life,
The queen of marriage, a most perfect wife.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Isabel.
| author =
| work =
| place =
| note =
| topic = Wife
| page = 871
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 5
| text = A fat, fair and fifty card-playing resident of the Crescent.
Mrs. Trench—Letter. Feb. 18, 1816.
| seealso = (See also Scott)
| topic = Wife
| page = 871
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>The world well tried—the sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife.
N.P.Willis—Lady Jane. Canto II. St. 11.
My winsome marrow.
Wordsworth—Yarrow Revisited. Quoting from "Busk ye, busk ye, my winsome marrow," an old song, The Braes of Yarrow.
WILL
A willing heart adds feather to the heel,
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
Joanna Baillie—De Montfort. Act III.
Sc.2.
He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = AlsoinTAe
Loyal Garland. Song 28.
| note = <poem>The fool that will not when he may,
He shall not when he wold.
Blow the Winds, Heigho! Northumbrian ballad.
| seealso = (See also Rabelais)
| topic = Will
| page = 871
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto III. L.
, 547.
The commander of the forces of a large State
may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
Confucius—Analects. Bk. IX. Ch. XXV.
Barkis is willin'!
"When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a answer."
There is nothing gpod or evil save in the will.
Der Menseh kann was er soil; und wenn er
sagt er kann nicht, so will er nicht.
A man can do what he ought to do; and
when he says he cannot, it is because he will
not.
Fichte—Letter. (1791)
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Calvinism.
Aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt, der bildet die Welt sich.
He who is firm in will molds the world to
himself.
Goethe—Hermann und Dorothea. IX. 303.
The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.
J. C. and A. W. Hare—Guesses at Truth.
The readmesse of doing doth expresse
No other but the doer's willingnesse.
| author = Herrick
| work = Hesperides. Readinesse.
All theory is against the freedom of the will,
all experience for it.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswell's Life. (1778)
| topic =
| page = 871
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>The star of the unconquered will,
He rises in my breast,
Serene, and resolute, and still,
And calm, and self-possessed.
| author = Longfellow
| work = The Light of Stars. St. 7.
A boy's will is the wind's will.
| author = Longfellow
| work = M y Lost Youth.
*
Will without power is like children playing at
soldiers.
Quoted by Macaulay from The Rovers. Act
IV. Found in Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.
Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod gaudias.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
