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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

Nature means Necessity.

The wind breathes not, and the wave
Walks softly as above a grave.

Doubt is the shadow of truth.

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

Hell is the wrath of God
His hate of sin.

Life is less than nothing without love.

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

He hath no power that hath not power to use.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.

The world is a great poem, and the world's
The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

Let us think less of men and more of God.

Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things
law and war.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Life's but a means unto an end, that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things
God.

None but the brave and beautiful can love.

I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts,
Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Evil then results from imperfection.

Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.

When pride thaws, look for floods.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.

Kindness is wisdom.

Life is as serious a thing as death.

Not a single path
Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

Thou art a woman,
And that is saying the best and worst of thee.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.

When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them
God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

The value of a thought cannot be told.

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

I have a heart with room for every joy .

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

Every believer is God's miracle.

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which
Men are and ought to be accountable,
If not to Thee, to those they influence.

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

Death is another life.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Walk boldly and wisely ... There is a hand above that will help you on.

The heart is its own Fate.

The temples perish, but the God still lives.

Joys
Are bubble-like
what makes them bursts them too.

It matters not how long we live but how.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

Life hath more awe than death.

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.

Love spends his all, and still hath store.

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

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!

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.

It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

Dreams are rudiments
Of the great state to come. We dream what is
About to happen.

Evil is limited. One cannot form
A scheme for universal evil.

Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

Error is worse than ignorance.

The strongest passion which I have is honor.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.

My favoured temple is an humble heart.