 Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small ; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.  Poems - Page 131by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853Full view - About this book
 | St. John Harley - 1876 - 292 pages
...drove straight to the railway, resting not till he found himself at Chesney. VOL. ni. 17 CHAPTER XXII. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind...patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. — LONGFELLOW. heat became more intense : such a hot summer had not been known to visit our northern... | |
 | Girls' friendly society - 1876 - 178 pages
...care and watchful eye of God are over all, and that no man can escape his due reward or punishment. ' Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small ; by over twenty mules, being conveyed up to a battery. There are big guns all about the Rock, and... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - Bible - 1876 - 492 pages
...that the present life is not all ; knows how " Deus est patiens, quia aeternus ,- " knows too that " though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small." The Jew believed the present world to be a state of rewards and punishments ; he therefore prayed for... | |
 | Franz Ahn - German language - 1876 - 194 pages
...father was a ferry-man, and I have followed the same business since I was strong enough to row a boat. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. When I awoke this morning, I saw the sun shining through the window. The snow was very deep last winter,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1891 - 540 pages
...marvels of science, of which the moral that seems perpetually to force itself upon the reader is that ' though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.' Among others we cannot refrain from noticing Sir R. Ball's incidental mention of the stupendous explosion... | |
 | Franz Ahn - German language - 1876 - 206 pages
...father was a ferry-man, and I have followed the same business since I was strong enough to row a boat. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. When I awoke this morning, I saw the sun shining through the window. The snow was very deep last winter,... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year 34 The muse, disgusted at an age and clime 105 Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. 293 There is no flock, however well attended 304 There sat an old man on a rock ; 245 There was a time... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1877 - 400 pages
...INTELLIGENCE and courtesynot always are combined ; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. EETEIBUTION. THOUGH the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind...patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. TEUTH. WHEN by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire, Ha I how soon they all are... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...bind, Banish the tranquil bliss which Heaven for man dcsign'd \-Mrt Tight. 2995. RETRIBUTION. Fact of hat h 00 — Longfellow. 3996. REUNION : above. IP yon bright stars, which gem the night, Be each a blissful... | |
 | Mansfield Tracy Walworth - 1877 - 480 pages
...her again. At the office he learned to his amazement that the party had already gone. Chapter 1LE. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind...patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. LONGFELLOW. A GROUP of ladies and gentlemen were standing upon the deck of an ocean steamer. Some were... | |
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