202 Metaphors for end

The end I aim at is not joy; I crave excitement, agonizing bliss, Enamor'd hatred, quickening vexation.

If the great end be human happiness, Then nature deviates; and can man do less? As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine, as of man's desires; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men forever temperate, calm, and wise.

That day"he had referred to it so often that it had become an acknowledged division of time"that day when he made his speech not one arose to answer him; for the cunning of it was so simple one listened, fearing naught, until the end was reached; and the words of it were so few that the end was a surprise; and, lo!

So deeply was he disturbed that out of the dregs of his mind floated up old bits of the Scriptures that he was unaware of possessing: "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."

The horse will bellow, the horse will snort, And the gasping rider will pant for breath Let the way be long, or the way be short, It will have one end, and the end is death;

He begun nice and easy, but he worked up like a fiddler playin' a favourite piece, and the end was the rider lyin' on the ground.

All the provisions and other baggage, which they had carried for their journey, had been abandoned in the flight, end had become a rapid prey to the devouring flames.

The best minds that accept Christianity as a divinely inspired system, believe that the great end of the Gospel is not merely the saving but the educating of men's souls, the creating within them of holy dispositions, the subduing of egoistical pretensions, and the perpetual enhancing of the desire that the will of Goda will synonymous with goodness and truthmay be done on earth.

Perhaps some godly man may think, if the matter be so, and our work do not save us, to what end are so many precepts given us, and why doth God require that they be obeyed?

He told me "those who had taken me were no better than pirates, and their end would be the halter; but," he added, with peculiar emotion, "I will never be hung as a pirate," showing me a bottle of laudanum which he had found in my medicine chest, saying, "If we are taken, that shall cheat the hangman, before we are condemned."

Are only varied modes of endless being; Reflect, that life, like ev'ry other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone; Not for itself, but for a nobler end, Th' Eternal gave it, and that end is virtue.

To restrain this unnecessarily, is therefore to act in opposition to the laws of nature; and the end must be a certain injury to the child.

Women are taught, almost from the moment they come into the world, that their chief end in existence is to be, in some way or other, a "helpmeet" for man.

"But for you, and a few words carelessly spoken, I had never trod the path of ambition whose end has been the wreck of all my happiness!

" "Yes, and the worst of it is it will increase with age, and the end is so deplorableidiocy or madness, you know, invariably.

The end of the terror was inadequatea rush into the still, heavy outside air, only to find the servants in the garden giggling (the Japanese would giggle through the Day of Judgment) and to learn that the earthquake was over.

246, n. 5; 'The great end of comedy is to make an audience merry,' ii. 233. COMMONPLACES.

The true end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction.

While the million are so apt to be transported, when the drum of their ear is so roundly rattled; while they take the life of elocution to lie in the strength of the lungs, it is no wonder the actor, whose end is applause, should be so often tempted, at this easy rate, to excite it.

To accept it, we must warn you plainly, means refusing to go on with the manifest intentions of your present rulers, which are to launch you and your children and your children's children upon a career of struggle for war predominance, which may no doubt inflict untold deprivations and miseries upon the rest of mankind, but whose end in the long run, for Germany and things German, can be only Judgment and Death.

"The end of man," he wrote, "is an action, not a thought."

The opposite end of the box is a piece of board coated with a salt such as platino-barium cyanide.

"Only of that which lieth between; the end is triumph for Venice," Giustinian declared.

Such a declaration was worthy of later times, since the most intelligent now admit that the great end of all education is the formation of solid, useful, and virtuous character.

The end of all was the utter subversion of the Charter, and a new government of Maryland under a royal commission.

202 Metaphors for  end