The wounds I might have healed ! The human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart... Prose and Verse - Page 209by Thomas Hood - 1845Full view - About this book
| 1871 - 970 pages
...wilful unkindness, much wrong — much fatal, irremediable wrong — is too often inflicted ; for — " Evil is wrought by want of thought. As well as want of heart." Injustice is a thing most strongly reprobated. The unjust monarch is ousted from his monarchy; if the... | |
| Great Britain - 1866 - 654 pages
...for their assistance. They do not dispute their obligations, but they lose sight of them ; and — " Evil is wrought By want of thought, As well as want of heart." Again, it may be objected that an ungracious spirit prevails in the preceding pages, and that there... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 pages
...I never remember'd the naked limbs That froze with winter's cold. " The wounds I might have heal'd! The human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was...want of Thought, As well as want of Heart ! " She clasp'd her fervent hands, And the tears began to stream ; Large, and bitter, and fast they fell, Kemorse... | |
| 1867 - 518 pages
...I never remember' d the naked limbs That froze with winter's cold. The wounds I might have heal'd ! The human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was...ill a part But evil is wrought by want of Thought [so Lear's " Oh, I have taken too little thought of this !"] As well as want of Heart ! She clasp'... | |
| John R. Vernon - Christian life - 1867 - 338 pages
...Such a result is commonly born of thoughtlessness more than of purpose. But that will not excuse it. "Evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart." But evil it still is, and must remain. Therefore grumbling at the weather appears to me to be something... | |
| f. d. richards - 1867 - 844 pages
...These things arise, I repeat, from want of self- reliance and vanity. Thoughtlessness is no excuse, for Evil is wrought By want of thought, As well as want of heart. There is in these cases sometimes too much self-reliance, which is another phase of vain-gloriousness.... | |
| English fiction - 1872 - 858 pages
...whom he would not consciously harm for any consideration. But the old lines are bitterly true, " that evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart." In justice to Alfred, I must not relate to you the nature of our conversation. I brought him into this... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1920 - 802 pages
...never remembered the naked limb That froze with winter's cold. 90 ' The wounds I might have heal'd ! The human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was...want of Thought, , As well as want of Heart ! ' She clasp'd her fervent hands, And the tears began to stream ; Large, and bitter, and fast they fell, Remorse... | |
| Boys - 1921 - 40 pages
...loitering over your wraps ; be ready when she is, and leave the building with her. DUTY TO YOUR HOSTESS But evil is wrought by want of thought. As well as want of heart. — Hood. 1) Before talking with others at a party greet your hostess; then the older people present;... | |
| Agnes Fry - Ambassadors - 1921 - 340 pages
...believe me, that fact will not exonerate you from the need of patient and laborious thought, for " Evil is wrought by want of thought As well as want of heart." Believe me, that any of you who will thoughtfully, carefully, and impartially study any one political... | |
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