 | Conduct of life - 1871 - 784 pages
...silence deep, Grows with the growing hour, — and, — calm they sleep. ABOUT GIRLS. BY MARY ELLEN. " Seek to be good, but aim not to be great ; A woman's noblest station is retreat ; Her faintest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth, — that shows... | |
 | Mrs. Elizabeth Stone - Women - 1873 - 340 pages
...of the weaker sex. And, finally, we venture to address her in the words of Lord Lyttelton : — . " Seek to be good, but aim not to be great ; A woman's noblest station is retreat ; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight ; Domestic worth — that shuns... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, — Womanhood and childhood fleet. LONGFELLOW : Maidmhood. Seek to be good, but aim not to be great ; A woman's noblest station is retreat ; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight ; Domestic worth, — that shuns... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...sunned in the tropics, or chilled at the pole, If woman be there, there is happiness too. — МOOBR. Seek to be good, but aim not to be great, A WOMAN'S noblest station is retreat. Woman. — Shalt show us how divine a thing A WOMAN may be made. — WORDSWORTH,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...bliss, And sweeten all the toils of human life : This be the female dignity and praise. — ТЯаяип from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober noblest station is retreat ; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight ; Domestic worth, — that shuns... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, — Womanhood and childhood fleet. LONGFELLOW : Maidrnhood. Seek to be good, "but aim not to be great ; A woman's noblest station is retreat ; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight ; Domestic worth, — that shuns... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...Tia ugliness in its most frighlful form; Fiercely it elands, defying gods and men, As fiery monsters guard a giant's den. Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; A woman's noblest station i* retreat ; Her fairest virtue* fly from public sight, Domestic worth, that shuns... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...•I 6. LOWELL — Irene, A canning woman is a knavish fool. c. LOBD LITTLETON — Advice to a Lady. Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; A woman's noblest station is Retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight; Domestic worth — that shuns... | |
 | Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 pages
...rejoiceth her husband, and he shall fulfil the years of his life in peace. Ecclesiasticus , xxvi. 2. Seek to be good, but aim not to be great, A woman's noblest station is retreat. ^ - LORD LYTTELTON. Safe within a better home, where time and its titles... | |
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Seek to be good, but aim not to be great: A woman's noblest station is retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light. 
