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James Gates Percival quotes: Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

James Gates Percival quotes: The recollection of one upward hourHath more in it to tranquilize and cheerThe darkness of despondency, than yearsOf gayety and pleasure.

The recollection of one upward hour
Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer
The darkness of despondency, than years
Of gayety and pleasure.

James Gates Percival quotes: There is nothing but deathOur affections can sever,And till life's latest breathLove shall bind us for ever.

There is nothing but death
Our affections can sever,
And till life's latest breath
Love shall bind us for ever.

James Gates Percival quotes: Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

James Gates Percival quotes: Roses bloom, and then they wither;Cheeks are bright, then fade and die;Shapes of light are wafted hither,Then, like visions, hurry by.

Roses bloom, and then they wither;
Cheeks are bright, then fade and die;
Shapes of light are wafted hither,
Then, like visions, hurry by.

James Gates Percival quotes: There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

James Gates Percival quotes: Thought can wing its waySwifter than lightning-flashes or the beamThat hastens on the pinions of the morn.

Thought can wing its way
Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam
That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

James Gates Percival quotes: The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!

The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!

James Gates Percival quotes: How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

James Gates Percival quotes: The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.