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Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do the best to climb, and get to him. - Paracelsus (last page) [Progress] In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird In his good time. - Paracelsus (pt. I) [Providence] That we devote ourselves to God is seen In living just as though no God there were. - Paracelsus (pt. I) [God] God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations. - Paracelsus (pt. II) [God] I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God. - Paracelsus (pt. V) [Obscurity] Progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet. - Paracelsus (pt. V) [Progress] Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay. - Paracelsus (sc. 1) [Autumn] But there are times when patience proves at fault. - Paracelsus (sc. 3) [Patience] Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. - Paracelsus (sc. 3) [Humanity] Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend; Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile! - Paracelsus (sc. 5) [Friends] God's in His Heaven-- All's right with the world! - Pippa Passes (pt. I) [God : Proverbs] All service is the same with God, With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first. - Pippa Passes (pt. IV) [God] Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. - Pippa Passes (sc. 1) [Sabbath] My star, God's glowworm. - Popularity [Glowworms] No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. - Prospice [Life] Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. - Rabbi Ben Ezra (st. 27) [Change] For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,-- Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. - Rabbi-Ben-Ezra (st. 7) [Paradoxes] Every one soon or late comes round by Rome. - Ring and the Book (V, 296) [Rome] Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life. - Saul (st. 7) [Friendship] 'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do. - Saul (XVIII) [Deeds] When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? - The Flight of the Duchess (XVI) [Drinking] Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. - The Inn Album (IV) [Success] Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote. - The Lost Leader, referring to Wordsworth when he turned Tory [Fortune] To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. - The Ring and the Book--Pompilia (l. 357) [Evening] It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. - The Ring and the Book--The Book and the Ring (l. 842) [Art] Displaying page 4 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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