Samuel Rogers > Quotes

“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, The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers. Illustrated with Engravings Executed by the First Artists, from Designs by Lawrence, R. A., Stothard, R. A., Turner, R. A., and Vasan

“It doesn’t much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.”
― Samuel Rogers

“Pleasures of Memory!—oh supremely blest,
And justly proud beyond a Poet's praise;
If the pure confines of thy tranquil breast
Contain, indeed, the subject of thy lays!
By me how envied!—for to me,
The herald still of misery,
Memory makes her influence known
By sighs, and tears, and grief alone:
I greet her as the fiend, to whom belong
The vulture's ravening beak, the raven's funeral song.
She tells of time mispent, of comfort lost,
Of fair occasions gone for ever by;
Of hopes too fondly nurs'd, too rudely cross'd,
Of many a cause to wish, yet fear to die;
For what, except th' instinctive fear
Lest she survive, detains me here,
When "all the life of life" is fled?—
What, but the deep inherent dread,
Lest she beyond the grave resume her reign,
And realize the hell that priests and beldams feign?”
― Samuel Rogers, Poems

“It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning that it was someone else.”
― Samuel Rogers