"Weal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that "almost if not every department of social progress and of public weal has felt the impulse of ...
— The Evolution Of Man Scientifically Disproved • William A. Williams
... hearer, letting his drum-stick fall with a crash upon the instrument he had been industriously practising. "I would as soon doubt my own honor as that of the little Mouse—my friend and companion through weal and woe. Impossible! You must have dreamt it, or ...
— Adventures in Toyland - What the Marionette Told Molly • Edith King Hall
... you shall have present witness How I 'll work peace between you. I will make Myself the author of your cursed vow; I have some cause to do it, you have none. Conceal it, I beseech you, for the weal Of both your dukedoms, that you wrought the means Of such a separation: let the fault Remain with my supposed jealousy, And think with what a piteous and rent heart I shall perform this sad ...
— The White Devil • John Webster
... not for a king alone! This was the people's king! His purple throne Was in their hearts. They shared it. Millions of swords Could not have shaken it! Sharers of this doom, This democratic doom which all men know, His Common-weal, in this great common woe, Veiling its head in the universal gloom, With that majestic grief which knows not words, Bows ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... American idea"—which I conceive to be Liberty under Law—has proved equal to all emergencies. The marvellous success with which American institutions have provided for the development of the Anglo-Saxon idea of individual independence, without endangering the common weal and rule, has been largely due to the arising of great and wise administrators of ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI • John Lord
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