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I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

We wish for more in life rather than more of it.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.

People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.

For hearts where wakened love doth lurk,
How fine, how blest a thing is work!
For work does good when reasons fail.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Children bring their own love with them when they come.

Tears are the showers that fertilize this world ...

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile:
So have all sages said, all poets sung.

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.

You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love
To long for, pureness to desire, a mount
Of consecration it were good to scale.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

Quoth the Ocean, Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

A birthday:-and now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife-
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life.

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

I am athirst for God, the living God.

And the guelder rose
In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped,
Her wealth about her feet.

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

Work is its own best earthly meed,
Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...