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Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there. - [Remembrance] Eccentricity is developed monomania. - [Eccentricity] He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own. - [Experience] Labor, you know, is prayer. - [Prayer] Life lives only in success. - [Success] Love's humility is love's true pride. - [Humility] Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity. - [Taste] Next to ye both I love the palm, with his leaves of beauty, his fruit of balm. - [Trees] Not many but good books. - [Books] Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him. - [Opportunity] Pens carry further than rifled cannon. - [Pen] Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses. - [Kisses] Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee. - [Ocean] The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free. - [Storms] The glories of the possible are ours. - [Future] The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance. - [Sin] The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same. - [Perfection] The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool. - [Pedantry] The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes. - [Poets] The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible. - [Wisdom] Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. - [Perseverance] To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them. - [Observation] To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience. - [Experience] Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. - [Wooing] Yonder fly his scattered golden arrows, And smite the hills with day. - [Sunrise] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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