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Better be cheated to the last, Than lose the blessed hope of truth. - [Truth] Better trust all and be deceived, And weep that trust, and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that, if believed, Had blessed one's life with true believing. - [Belief] Carols of gladness ring from every tree. - [Birds] I know the very difference that lies 'twixt hallowed love and base unholy lust; I know the one is as a golden spur, urging the spirit to all noble aims; the other but a foul and miry pit, o'erthrowing it in midst of its career. - [Lust] Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being. - [Destiny] Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty. - [Modesty] The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. - [Drama] What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace? - Absence [Absence] A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win. - Lines to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Lennox Academy, Massachusetts [Life] His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet, His finger on all flowing waters sweet Forbidding lay--motion nor sound was there:-- Nature was frozen dead,--and still and slow, A winding sheet fell o'er her body fair, Flaky and soft, from his wide wings of snow. - Winter (l. 9) [Winter]
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