He that thinks he sees another's estate in a pack of cards, or a box and dice, and ventures his own in the pursuit of it, should notrepine if he finds himself a beggar in the end.
So Providence ordains and why repine If this good work is doomed to be undone, C.
I dare not think sae high: I now repine At the unhappy chance, that made not me A gentle match, or still a herd kept thee.
Sometimes we hear both sexes repine at their change, relate the happiness of their earlier years, blame the folly and rashness of their own choice, and warn others against the infatuation.
Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity, when an all-knowing, all-wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?
Learn never to repine at your own misfortunes,= 40 =or to envy the happiness of another.
Having so many virtues incident to her condition, and enjoying such opportunities to do an amount of good, and of course to secure a degree of happiness, denied to those in married life, why should an individual repine at this lot?
Ought she to repine at the fruit of her own indiscretion and folly?
The less fortunate envy the enjoyments of others, and repineat their own inability to obtain the like.
Alas, is it possible that I have at last found out a place which will afford a private grave to this miserable body, whose load I so repine to bear?
Surely it would be sinful for a black man to repine and murmur, and impeach the wisdom and goodness of God, because he was made with a sable complexion; and dare I be guilty of such an impeachment, by persecuting him on account of his color?
Forgive me my God, that I have dared thus to repine and forget that Thy protecting care was over me!
To them who did repine to see thee live; What prince by goodness hath such kingdoms gain'd?
Before I saw the lightsome sun, This was appointed me;-- Shall mortal man repine or grudge What God ordains to be?
But whatever Care of the Church might so have fallen to my share, as I dare say it may be now in better Hands, I ought not to repine at my being otherwise disposed of.
Shall my Zoe repine at having imbibed the doctrines of a purer faith than that of Spain?
Shall I repine that I am enabled to perceive the dangers which beset my path?
If they have the power of imparting to his imagination any of the witching charms of the place, he will not repine at lingering with me for a season in the legendary halls of the Alhambra.
Forgive me, O my God; nor ever let me repine at any of Thy dispensations to a worm, loaded with benefits as I am.
Shall we weep or repine at the thought she is gone?
As you love me, don't repine at the will of heaven, however hard our trials may seem now to bear on us.
Would ye repine against his holy and just ways, were it not to charge God with iniquity?
When you repine at a little, shall it not be righteousness with God to exact more, and let you know your deserving better?
There is a secret reflection of our spirits upon his Majesty, as if his ways were not equal, whenever we repine against them, and when we do not take with our iniquity, and stop our mouths with dust.
I must not, I will not, therefore, repine at a thing which, in my cooler moments, I cannot but look upon as essential to your honour and convenience.
And by pioneer I mean the true pioneer who comes into the West to labor and to share the vicissitudes of new settlements; not the adventurer, who would repine at toil, and gather where he has not sown.
Nor need the lawyer repine that it is so, inasmuch as it is for his benefit, if he desires success in the profession, to discard the career of politics.
To repine against the nature of things, and against the great fundamental law of all society, because, in consequence of my own want of foresight, it happens to bear heavily on me, would be the basest and most absurd selfishness.
