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"Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving; Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!"
"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"
"God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that."
"The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did."
"A pretty woman's worth some pains to see, Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure."
"I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two."
"Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world"
"The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head."
"I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me."
"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."
"Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again."
"Never brag, never bluster, never blush."
"Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!"
"I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on."
"Who knows most, doubts most."
"Graved inside of it, "Italy"."
"The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness."
"On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round."
"You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt."
"God is the perfect poet."