From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,—

Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Motto to the Rambler. No. 7.

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,

Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;

Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,

Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,

And recks not his own rede.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

Not once or twice in our rough-island story

The path of duty was the way to glory.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 8.

And when a damp

Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand

The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew

Soul-animating strains,—alas! too few.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Scorn not the Sonnet.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone,

Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

William Cowper (1731-1800): To an Afflicted Protestant Lady.

As half in shade and half in sun

This world along its path advances,

May that side the sun's upon

Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): Peace be around Thee.

It were a journey like the path to heaven,

To help you find them.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 303.

All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book xii. Line 31.

Shine by the side of every path we tread

With such a lustre, he that runs may read.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Tirocinium. Line 79.