"Death was past, life not come: so he waited."
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"That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were."
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"The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!"
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"Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last."
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"I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,-the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,-Nature's good And God's."
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"In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages."
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"They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store."
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"Other heights in other lives, God willing."
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"If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far."
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"And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable."
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"The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!"
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"How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change."
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"Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist."
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"Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike."
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"One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'."
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"Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled."
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"I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves The world; and, vainly favored, it repays The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze By no change of its large calm front of snow."
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"Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell."
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"A man in armor is his armor's slave."
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"Imperfection means perfection hid."
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