"Transiency" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cuts a straight furrow to the end in view, Cares not who oped the fountain by the way, But drinks to draw fresh courage for his journey. That was the lesson that Ignatius taught— The one I might have learned from him, but would not— That we are but stray atoms on the wind, A dancing transiency of summer eves, Till we become one with our purpose, merged In that vast effort of the race which ...
— Artemis to Actaeon and Other Worlds • Edith Wharton
... Yea, and the Resurrection and Uprise {215} To the right hand of the throne—what is it beside, When such truth, breaking bounds, o'erfloods my soul, And, as I saw the sin and death, even so See I the need yet transiency of both, The good and glory consummated thence? {220} I saw the Power; I see the Love, once weak, Resume the Power: and in this word 'I see', Lo, there is recognized the Spirit of both That moving ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson |
