 Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.  Poems - Page 126by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Maria Jane M'Intosh - 1853 - 316 pages
...public resort, he could neither see any traces nor hear any tidings of those he sought. CHAPTER XII. " Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small ; Though with patience stands he waiting, With exactness grinds he all." NAMES exercise over us a power which few of us would... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Alexandria (Egypt) - 1853 - 396 pages
...his Mahommedans appeared; and, whether they discovered the fact or not, they went to their own place Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small ; Though He stands and waits with patience, with exactness grinds He all. — And so found, in due time, the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 472 pages
...Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined ; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. RETRIBUTION. Though the mills of God grind slowly,...TRUTH. When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle bul a torch's fire, Ha ! how soon they all are silent ! Thus Truth silences the liar. RHYMES. If perhaps... | |
 | Daniel Ritchie - Convicts - 1854 - 298 pages
...for any iate : Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour, and to wait. LONOFELLOW. EDUCATION. When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire. Ha ! how soon they all are silent I Thus truth silences the liar. EDUCATION is the great social problem of the present age. Never before,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1854 - 452 pages
...infidels to God." * * Elizabeth B. Browning. THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS. " The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small ; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all." Frederick von Logatt. THE great impulse of the French revolution was not confined by geographical boundaries.... | |
 | 1854 - 642 pages
...his Mahommedans appeared; and, whether they discovered the fact or not, they went to their own place Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small ; Though He stands and waits with patience, with exactness grinds He all. — Vol. II. p. 364. As a fine contrast... | |
 | Mabel (Aunt.) - Christian life - 1854 - 338 pages
...upon the children of men,' to give to every man, sooner or later, the reward of his works ; that " Though the mills of GOD grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small ; Though He stands and waits with patience, with exactness grinds He all." " What was done with the property... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...golden room we find. RETRIBUTION. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small ; Though with patience he stands waiting, with...torch's fire, Ha ! how soon they all are silent ! Thus truth silences the liar. If perhaps these rhymes of mine should sound not well in strangers' 420 For... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined ; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. RETRIBUTION. Though the mills of God grind slowly,...stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. TRUTH. Whcu by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's tire, Ha ! how soon they all are silent... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined ; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. RETRIBUTION. Though the mills of God grind slowly,...small ; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exact ness grinds he all. TRUTH. When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's tire, Ha!... | |
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