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
| Jeremiah Lewis Diman - Fourth of July orations - 1866 - 726 pages
...see whether slavery (but for which secession had not been) is, on the whole, "profitable." Surely, though "The mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small." I doubt, if, to every human being who has toiled in slavery, fair wages had been paid through all those... | |
| Lancashire wedding - 1867 - 94 pages
...gradually worse, her death, strangely enough, seemed sudden. CHAPTER VI. OTHER SHEAVES IN THE HARVEST. " Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind...He stands waiting, With exactness grinds He all." LONGFELLOW. HENRY MARSDEN was thus left a widower with four young children on his hands, three of whom... | |
| Plutarch - 1867 - 190 pages
...gods grind late, but grind fine. Our poet, Longfellow, has put the striking aphorism into verse : " Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind...patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds ho all." IV. 1. (P. 17.) K$pov irpas avтov ôVror, and while I was absorbed in my own reflections.... | |
| Ulick Joseph Bourke - Irish language - 1867 - 406 pages
...Dr. MacHale : , rt)All A]3 cu]|tl^c bjo^AlcAf ceA] ?6f '3 A iroijtc bi|teAC, 'f ij| SAT) Lines 195-6. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small j Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all." — Longfellow's Poetic Aphorism.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...TACT, 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 hut a torch's fire, Ha ! how soon they all are silent ! Thus Truth silences the liar. RHYMES. If perhaps... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...learn ; Something with passion clasp or perish, And in itself to ashes burn. Motto, Hyperion. Book ii. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind...patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. Retribution. From the Sinngtdichte of Frutirvk von Logau. 1 'Oi/fe dfov /iOXoi oXcoufft TO \twTov oAfupov.... | |
| Treasury - 1868 - 148 pages
...well as to the heart ; to compose disturbed thoughts ; to assist and heighten devotion itsslf. Temple, TRUTH. When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle...fire — • Ha ! how soon they all are silent ! Thus truth silences the liar. - Longfellow. THE DANGER OF MARRIAGE. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs... | |
| Plutarch - 1868 - 192 pages
...gods grind late, but grind fine. Our poet, Longfellow, has put the striking aphorism into verse : " Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small ; Though with patience ho stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all." IV. 1. (P. 17.) KciioC тгроs avтоv Svros, and... | |
| 1868 - 650 pages
...decay. There is no escape. However long protracted, it is inexorable, unavoidable, and effectual, for " Though the mills of God grind slowly. Yet they grind exceeding small." ' (Гo be continued.} A MODEEN VENDETTA. BY. THB AUTHOR OF ' BARBARA'S HISTORY..' TES — I have seen... | |
| John Eyton B. Mayor - 1868 - 442 pages
...fools'. 8 Predicate; as we say 'grind small от fine', ie 'to powder'. Longfellow has turned this : ' Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small '. * ' when asked '. 10 'said he'. u ' The stripping off [ repl in vepiaip. denotes 'from around",... | |
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