Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5.

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure

For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them.

Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out,

There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,

Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5.

We figure to ourselves

The thing we like; and then we build it up,