The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

7.94 Gregory VII 1020-85
Dilexi iustitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.
I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
Bowden ‘Life’ bk. 3, ch. 20
7.95 Stephen Grellet 1773-1855
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any
kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
Attributed. John o’ London ‘Treasure Trove’ (1925) p. 48 for some of the many other claimants to authorship
7.96 Joyce Grenfell 1910-79
Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the Military Two-step, as in the days of yore.
‘Stately as a Galleon’ (1978)
7.97 Julian Grenfell 1888-1915
The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun’s kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze;
And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light
And a striving evermore for these;
And he is dead, who will not fight;
And who dies fighting has increase.
The fighting man shall from the sun
Take warmth, and life from the glowing earth.
Speed with the light-foot winds to run,
And with the trees to newer birth.
‘Into Battle’ in ‘The Times’ 28 May 1915
7.98 Frances Greville (nèe Macartney) c.1724-89
Far as distress the soul can wound
’Tis pain in each degree;
Bliss goes but to a certain bound,
Beyond is agony.
‘A Prayer for Indifference’ (1759)
Half-pleased, contented will I be,
Contented, half to please.