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Comme, avec un grand bruit, le Rhône plein de rage,
Souleve' par les vents, et gross! par l'orage,
Vient, et traine avec soi mille flots courroucés,
L'onde flotte apres l'onde et de l'onde est suivie;
Ainsi passe la vie,
Ainsi coulent nos ans l'un sur l'autre entasses.
Sarrazin.
Souleve' par les vents, et gross! par l'orage,
Vient, et traine avec soi mille flots courroucés,
L'onde flotte apres l'onde et de l'onde est suivie;
Ainsi passe la vie,
Ainsi coulent nos ans l'un sur l'autre entasses.
Sarrazin.
Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb;
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles at the brim.
Byron.
Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb;
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles at the brim.
Byron.
There is an ultimate point of depression, as well as of exaltation, from which human affairs return in a contrary progress, and beyond which they never pass, either in their advancement or decline. Hume.
A Brave man knows no malice, but at once
Forgets in peace the injuries of war,
And gives his direst foe a friend's embrace.
Cowper.
Forgets in peace the injuries of war,
And gives his direst foe a friend's embrace.
Cowper.
In the struggle of contending interests, though peace is sometimes lost, intellectual energy is roused; and while the strife of emulation, and the restlessness of ambition disturb the quiet of society, they produce in their collision the genius that adorns it.
