Lengthening Quotes
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Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.
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More Lengthening Quotes
I look before me at my lighted candles, I don’t want to turn around and see with horror How quickly the dark line is lengthening, How quickly the candles multiply that have been put out.
constantine p. cavafy— "Candles" [?], as translated by Manolis, in Constantine P. Cavafy: Poems (2008) edited by George Amabile
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until their lengthening wings break into fire At either curve' d point,?what bitter wrong, Can the earth do to us, that we should not long Be here contented?
— 1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 22.
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Oliver Goldsmith— 1764 The Traveller, l.7-10.
So fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
Wolfgang Rudolph Schmitt— 1954 A Shocking Life, ch.9.
Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see,My heart untraveled fondly turns to thee;Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain,And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Oliver Goldsmith— Line 7.
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
charles haddon spurgeon— Faith's Checkbook entry for June 22.
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening wings break into fire At either curvèd point, :;what bitter wrong Can the earth do to us, that we should not long Be here contented?
— No. XXII (Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850))
Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
john dryden— Pt. I line 268.
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, my heart untraveled, fondly turns to thee. Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, and drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Oliver Goldsmith— The Traveller (1764), line 7.
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
Charles Lamb— (1838) Last essays of Elia. p. 10
The lengthening shadows wait The first pale stars of twilight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poems of the Class of '29, "Even Sang", St 6.
Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.
— Ayan al-Sh?‘ah, vol.1, p.316
