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The works of ... lord Byron - Page 56
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821
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Sunbeams for all seasons; counsels, cautions, and precepts &c

Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...and with her, and for ever, All hopes and emotions they else had denied. From the German of Schiller. Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ! — A little word in kindness spoken, A motion or a tear, Has often heal'd the heart that's broken,...
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Speeches, Arguments, Addresses, and Letters of Clement L. Vallandigham

Clement Laird Vallandigham - 1864 - 586 pages
...garb. Its author well understood the philosophy of Mirabeau, and, after him, Byron. He knew that — " Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." But the motives and the results expected from it cannot be thus concealed ; and, in a court of law,...
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Life Lessons in the School of Christian Duty

Ezra Hall Gillett - 1864 - 422 pages
...louder than words." These last are mighty, but example is mightier. The poet has said of words : " Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Yet that word will die away on your ear ; that thought will vanish with the closed book. You may forget...
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Round about home in the spring-time. Village life

Holme Lee - 1865 - 278 pages
...of unexpressed ideas and lighting the way for other minds to deeper utterances than lie in them. " Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." It may be but a sentence dropt by chance on the wayside that lifts the soul to a higher level and gives...
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Die orthodoxe katholische Anschauung im Gegensatz zum Papstthum und ...

J Joseph Overbeck - 1865 - 178 pages
...ausgedehnteren Gebrauch davon zu machen. Und nun fahre denn mein Wort hinaus, und Gott segne es! Wonls are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling , like dew , upon a thought . produces That which makes Ihousands, perhaps millions, think. 31. März 1865. JJ Overbeck, 5, Prospect Terrace Reading (England)....
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...magic's in the place or air, That all perfection needs must centre there P Churchill, Rosciad, 201. Words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Thy words had such a melting flow, Byron, DJ And spoke of truth so sweetly well, They dropp'd, like...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, complete. (Pearl ed.).

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...but they are such liars, And take ail colours — like the hands of dyers. LXXXVIII. But words arc producrs That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ; 'T is strange, the shortest letter which...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 93

1867 - 894 pages
...rich and poor during the calamitous years of 1846—47-48 when she first began to teach and to preach. Words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, u^on a thought, produces Tlmt which m likes thousands, perhaps millions, think.' Those were days of...
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The poetical works of lord Byron. Repr. with notes, &c, Issue 35

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...others' feeling; but they are such liars, And take all colours— like the hands of dyers. LXXXVIII. But words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling,...think : 'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man tiscs Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages ; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man,...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 45

Henry Allon - 1867 - 614 pages
...the calamitous years of 1846-47-48 when she first began to teach and to preach. ' Words are tilings ; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.' Those were days of great trouble and upsetting both in the social and the political world. In Ireland...
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