John Dyer Quotes

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A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

John Dyer

Ever charming, ever new,
When will the landscape tire the view?

John Dyer

And he that will this health deny,
Down among the dead men let him lie.

John Dyer

The care of sheep, the labours of the loom,
And arts of trade, I sing.

John Dyer

But transient is the smile of fate:
A little rule, a little sway,
A sunbeam in a winter's day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.

John Dyer

Disparting towers
Trembling all precipitate down dash'd,
Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.

John Dyer

The town and village, dome and farm,
Each give each a double charm,
As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.

John Dyer

The pilgrim oft
At dead of night, mid his orison hears
Aghast the voice of Time, disparting tow'rs.

John Dyer

Industry,
Which dignifies the artist, lifts the swain,
And the straw cottage to a palace turns.

John Dyer

And there the poisonous adder breeds, Concealed in ruins, moss and weeds.

John Dyer

And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!

John Dyer