Chapter PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT to PARSON of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

PARDON.—Pardon it; the phrase is to the matter.

Shakespeare. — Measure for Measure, Act V. Scene 1.

The offender never pardons.

Herbert.—Jacula Prudentum.

PARENT.—Honour thy parents to prolong thine end;
With them, though for a truth, do not contend:
Though all should truth defend, do thou lose rather
The truth awhile, than lose their love for ever:
Whoever makes his father’s heart to bleed,
Shall have a child that will revenge the deed.

Randolph.

With joy the parent loves to trace
Resemblance in his children’s face:
And as he forms their docile youth
To walk the steady paths of truth,
Observes them shooting into men,
And lives in them life o’er again.

Lloyd.—Arcadia, Scene 2.

While active sons, with eager flame,
Catch virtue at their father’s name;
When full of glory, full of age,
The parent quits this busy stage,
What in the sons we most admire,
Calls to new life the honour’d sire.

Lloyd.—Arcadia, Scene 2.

Vulgar parents cannot stamp their race,
With signatures of such majestic grace.

Pope.—The Odyssey, Book IV. Line 75.

PARSON.—A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

Goldsmith.—The Deserted Village, Line 141.

And (strange to tell) he practised what he preached.

Armstrong.—Art of Preserving Health, Book IV. Line 305.

PARSON.—At church with meek and unaffected grace,
His looks adorn’d the venerable place;
Truth from his lips prevail’d with double sway,
And fools who came to scoff remain’d to pray.

Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 177.

In duty prompt at every call,
He watch’d and wept, and pray’d, and felt, for all.

Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 165.

Refin’d himself to soul to curb the sense,
And made almost a sin of abstinence.
Yet, had his aspect nothing of severe,
But such a face as promis’d him sincere;
Nothing reserv’d or sullen was to see,
But sweet regards and pleasing sanctity.

Dryden.—Character of a good Parson.