 | Sallie J. Hancock - Montana - 1866 - 334 pages
...reading it to me one evening when we sat under the cedars at Brightland — " ' For of all sad words of tongue or pen, . The saddest are these — ' It might have been. ' " " Whittier was wrong, Jennie. There are words sadder far than these — of fuller, more bitter significance —... | |
 | Frederic Hudson - American newspapers - 1873 - 814 pages
...of Pennacook," " New Wife and the Old," " Mary Garvin," " and Maud Muller." " For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : ' It might have been !'" Whittier still occasionally leaves the field of poetry to dabble in politics. It was not long since that he... | |
 | William Mathews - History - 1874 - 376 pages
...is with me now, to help me in my grasp of this art and its vision. — Ib. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been !" WHITTIER. The well-known, worn-out topics of consolation and of encouragement are become trite because they are... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1881 - 302 pages
...those things for which men plough, build, or sail obey virtue. — Sallust. 7. Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these : " It might have been." — Whittier. 8. I fear three newspapers more than a hundred-thousand bayonets. — Napoleon. 9. He that allows himself... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Bookbinding - 1880 - 686 pages
...disposition; but it is the narrow-minded, the illiterate, and the vulgar. " For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, ' It might have been.'" —WHITTIER. I|HERE is not a word in the English tongue which signifies more than the word regret. It expresses... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1882 - 404 pages
...is with me now, to . help me in my grasp of this art and its vision. — Ib. For of all sad words of tongue or pen. The saddest are these, " It might have been ! " WHITTIER. The well-known, worn-out topics of consolation and of encouragement are bacom* trite txeauu then art... | |
 | William Milford Giffin - Arithmetic - 1883 - 104 pages
...In everything save sin." (Centennial Hymn.) —JG WHITTIEE, Mass., 1808. " For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ' IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.' " —WHITTIER. " If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things... | |
 | William Milford Giffin - Arithmetic - 1883 - 64 pages
...In everything save sin." (Centennial Hymn.) — JG WHITTIER, Mass., 1808. " For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : ' IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.' " — WHITTIER. " If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1883 - 398 pages
...is with me now, to help me in my grasp of this art and its vision. — Ib. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been !" WHiTTIER. •"> . The well-known, worn-out topics of consolation and of encouragement are become -' trite beaiuM... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. — Congreve. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : It might have been. — Whittier. Procrastination is like the ivy round the oak, and ends by limiting, if it does not destroy, the power... | |
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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been ! 
