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" 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 126
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850
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The Nation and the Constitution: An Oration Delivered Before the City ...

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...
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The Lancashire wedding; or, Darwin moralized, ed. [really written by] the ...

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...
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On the Delay of the Deity in Punishing the Wicked

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....
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Easy Lessons, Or, Self-instruction in Irish

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....
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The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Complete ed

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...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source : Passages ...

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....
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A Treasury of Table Talk

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...
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Plutarch on the delay of the Deity in punishing the wicked

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...
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London society, Volume 13

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...
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First Greek reader, ed. after K. Halm

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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