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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve. - [Bravery] A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell. - [Conscience] A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. - [Memory] A single soul is richer than all the worlds. - [Soul] A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world. - [Twilight] An old novel has a history of its own. - [Fiction] And winter, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines. - [Trees] As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes, sees in sweet dreams a beaming youth of glory. - [Dreams] Caesar-like the sun Gathered his robes around him as he fell. - [Sunset] Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. - [Death] Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near! - [Eternity] Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it. - [Time] Everything is sweetened by risk. - [Risk] Fame,--next grandest word to God! - [Fame] God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur. - [Infinite] God is a worker: He has thickly strewn Infinity with grandeur: God is love: He shall wipe away creation's tears, And all the worlds shall summer in His smile. - [Creation] Good humor and generosity carry the day with the popular heart all the world over. - [Politics] Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over. - [Popularity] Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. - [Happiness] He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul, Is when it loses faith in God and woman, For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems, Though the world's throne stood open in my path, I would go wandering back into my childhood, Searching for them with tears. - [Proverbs] He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee. - [Proverbs] I clasp thy waist, I feel thy bosom's beat--oh, kiss me into faintness sweet and dim! - [Kisses] I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame. - [Fame] If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race. - [Egotism] If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death. - [Life] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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