Sojourn Quotes
More Sojourn Quotes
Could we forbear dispute, and practice love,We should agree as angels do above.Where love presides, not vice alone does findNo entrance there, hut virtues stay behind:Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner trainOf mortal virtues, at the door remain.Love only enters as a native there,For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.
Edmund Waller— Canto III.
Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn: But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.
james beattie— James Beattie, The Minstrel (1771), Book I.
Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.
zygmunt bauman— [paraphrasing the view of Seneca], p. 34
...from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.)
mark twain— p. 46 (Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013))
The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states, and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any state of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property: and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.
— Article IV, Section 9, Constitution of the Confederate States of America (11 March 1861)
Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn: But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.
james beattie— James Beattie, The Minstrel (1771), Book I
