"Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done."
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"Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away."
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"And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again."
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"Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."
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"There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!"
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"Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each."
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"God smiles as He has always smiled; Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child; Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest; ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun."
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"Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love."
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"All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black."
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"All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first."
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"For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!"
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"Talent should minister to genius."
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"But there are times when patience proves at fault."
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"I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds All the world's loves in its unworldliness."
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"Be sure they sleep not whom God needs."
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"A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!"
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"When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?"
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"For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale."
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"Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware."
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"Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?"
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