"He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace."
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"Love is energy of life."
"Love is the energy of life."
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."
"So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee."
"But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again."
"Good to forgive, Best to forget."
"There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without."
"I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists."
"There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter."
"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."
"The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false."
"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."
"T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft."
"Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth."
"Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you."
"grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made."
"I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time."
"And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!"