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Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.
He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.
All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.
All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.
Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst of thee.
What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.
England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!
It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.
Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.