REGRET RELIGION
REGRET
Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel,
He nursed the pinion, which impell'd the steel.
Thou wilt lament
Hereafter, when the evil shall be done
And shall admit no cure.
No simple word
That shall be uttered at our mirthful board,
Shall make us sad next morning; or affright
The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night.
Ben Jonson—Epigram CI.
O lost days of delight, that are wasted in doubting and waiting!
lost hours and days in which we might have
been happy!
| author = Longfellow
| work = Tales of a Wayside Inn. Pt. III. The Theologian's Tale. Elizabeth.
For who, alas! has lived,
Nor in the watches of the night recalled
Words he has wished unsaid and deeds undone.
Sam'l Rogers—Reflections. L. 52.
could have better spar'd a better man.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 104.
RELIGION
Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye
Forever doth accompany mankind,
Hath look'd on no religion scornfully
That men did ever find.
Matthew Arnold—Progress. St. 10.
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did
so much magnify goodness, as the Christain religion doth.
Bacon—Essays. Of Goodness, and Goodness of
Nature.
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men,
is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
Bacon—Of Vicissitude of Things.
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| text = <poem>Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.
Religion brought forth riches, and the
daughter devoured the mother.
Saying of St. Bernard. Religio censum peperit, sed Alia matri caussa suae leti perniti
osa fuit. See Reusner's JEnigmatographia.
Ed. 2. 1602. Pt. I. Page 361. Heading
of an epigram ascribed to Henricus Meibomius.
Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des deVots?
Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout?
BorLEAtr—Lutrin. I. 12.
No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life
perfectly to keep the commandments.
Book of Common Prayer. Shorter Catechism.
Curva trahit mites, pars pungit acuta rebelles.
The crooked end obedient spirits draws,
The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws.
Bhoughton—Dictionary of all Religions.
(1756) The croisier is pointed at one end
and crooked at the other. "Curya trahit,
quos virga regit, pars ultima pungit" ; is the
Motto on the Episcopal staff said to be preserved at Toulouse.
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| text = <poem>Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant
religion.
Sir Thomas Browne—Religio Medici. XXV.
Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet
From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,
Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so
Who art not missed by any that entreat.
E. B. Browning—Comfort.
The body of all true religion consists, to be
sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign
of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Burke—Reflections on the Revolution in
But the religion most prevalent in our northern
colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the
protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Burke;—Speech on Conciliation with America.
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose
every system, are wisely careful never to set up
any of their own.
Burke—A Vindication of Natural Society.
Preface. Vol.1. P. 7.
People differ in their discourse and profession
about these matters, but men of sense are really
but of one religion. * * * "What religion?"
- * * the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."
Bishop Burnet—History of his Own Times.
Vol. I. Bk. I. Sec. 96. Footnote by Onslow, referring to Earl of Shaftesbury.
| seealso = (See also Disraeli, Emerson, Johnson,
Shaftesbury)
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| text = <poem>An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange
For Deity offended!
Burns—Epistle to a Young Friend.
G—knows I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be,
But twenty times I rather would be
An atheist clean,
Than under gospel colours hid be,
Just for a screen.
Burns—Epistle to Rev. John M'Math. St. 8.
One religion is as true as another.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = Bk. Ill
Sec. IV. Memb. 2. Subsec. 1.
As if Religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 205.
