Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ; Let the dead past bury its dead ; Act, act in the living present, Heart within, and God o'erhead. A Blameless Woman - Page 36by John Strange Winter - 1895 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 1839 - 174 pages
...field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind... | |
| Theology - 1840 - 424 pages
...field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife. " Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead ! Act, act in the living Present ! Heart within and God o'erhead ! " Lives of great men all remind... | |
| George W. Burnap - Women - 1841 - 288 pages
...firmness, patience, and humanity to take our share in the good or ill of all. It should ever be our motto, "Trust no future howe'er pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead, Act, act in the living present, Heart within and God o'er head." LECTURE VI. ON THE MORAL USES OF POETRY.... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and GOD o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind... | |
| College students' writings, American - 1842 - 506 pages
...inculcates could not have been presented to the mind in a more enticing form. We quote but a portion : " Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead past bury its dead ! Aut, act in the living present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! " Lives of great men all remind... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and GOD o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind... | |
| Universalism - 1845 - 444 pages
...because she adopts for her characters, the rule that has been so earnestly expressed by our best poet ; "Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead Past bury its dead ; Act, — act, in the living Present, Heart within, and God o'erhead ;" and because she delights in... | |
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