Chapter FOOL to FOREFATHERS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

So light a foot
Will ne’er wear out the everlasting flint.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 6. (The Friar as Juliet enters.)

FOOTPRINTS.—Lives of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime;
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow.—Psalm of Life, Verse 7.

FOPS.—No place so sacred from such fops is barr’d,
Nor is Paul’s church more safe than Paul’s churchyard.

Pope.—Essay on Criticism, Part III. Line 623.

FORBEARANCE.—The kindest and the happiest pair
Will find occasion to forbear;
And something every day they live
To pity, and perhaps forgive.

Cowper.—Mutual Forbearance.

FOREFATHERS.—Could I trace back the time to a far distant date,
Since my forefathers toil’d in this field:
And the farm I now hold on your honour’s estate
Is the same that my grandfather till’d

A Song, “Ere around the huge oak.”

Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray.—Elegy, Verse 4.