Famous quotes containing the word fain:
“Staystay with us!restthou art
weary and worn!
And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay;
But sorrow returnd with the dawning of morn,
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.”
—Thomas Campbell (17741844)
“We would fain express our appreciation of the freedom and steady wisdom, so rare in the reformer, with which he declared that he was not born to abolish slavery, but to do right.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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