Related quotes
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
- A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
- There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
- All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
- The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
- Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.