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"A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep."
"Am I no a bonny fighter?"
"A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able."
"Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact."
"Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory."
"Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate."
"The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense."
"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
"But of works of art little can be said."
"This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still."
"Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self."
"Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort."
"In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel."
"If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation."
"Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips."
"Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it."
"The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room."
"There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign."
"It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger."
"They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener."