I lived to write, and wrote to live. Samuel Rogers More Quotes by Samuel Rogers More Quotes From Samuel Rogers Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. Samuel Rogers hours ease happiness Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head. Samuel Rogers understanding heart To vanish in the chinks that Time has made. Samuel Rogers chinks made time Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. Samuel Rogers time sweet memories Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, Samuel Rogers fire summer clouds Man to the last is but a froward child; Samuel Rogers childhood men children Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. Samuel Rogers regret heart father When a new book is published, read an old one. Samuel Rogers new-books book Gentle to others, to himself severe. Samuel Rogers severe gentle kindness The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd, Samuel Rogers eye mother children To know her was to love her. Samuel Rogers headstone short-love love It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else. Samuel Rogers marriage morning funny Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew. Samuel Rogers evening mountain shadow A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip. Samuel Rogers reading doe men That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. Samuel Rogers tears earth law Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men. Samuel Rogers example action men Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts. Samuel Rogers blank gentle littles Oh! she was good as she was fair. Samuel Rogers angel love life Long on the wave reflected lustres of play. Samuel Rogers sunset play long Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour Samuel Rogers thousand feelings heart