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I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first. - The Marquis of Lossie (ch. XXII) [Help] The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us. - The Marquis of Lossie (ch. XXVII) [Independence] You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word. - The Marquis of Lossie (ch. XXVII) [Influence] God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it. - The Marquis of Lossie (vol. II, ch. XVII) [Christ] Bountiful Primroses, With outspread heart that needs the rough leaves' care. - Wild Flowers [Primroses] Hang-head Bluebell, Bending like Moses' sister over Moses, Full of a secret that thou dar'st not tell! - Wild Flowers [Bluebells] Anemone, so well Named of the wind, to which thou art all free. - Wild Flowers (l. 9) [Anemones] Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song. - With and Without (pt. III, sc. 9, l. 30) [Heart] A voice in the wind I do not know; A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God. - Within and Without (pt. I, sc. 1) [God] And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay. - Within and Without (pt. I, sc. 3) [Growth] Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth. Upon the earth without a meet alloy. - Within and Without (pt. IV, sc. 3) [Beauty] Displaying page 5 of 5 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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