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Página 27 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Página 89 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Página 27 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Página 9 - How deep the Observer's share is herein, I leave it to his own conscience. This is certain, a man may keep his possession by force, but he that shall go about to thrust another out of his lawful possession, is the true author of the tumult ; and whatsoever he suffers, he can blame...
Página 61 - ... darkest shades a halo rich of shine, An element, that while the bleak wind bloweth, On the rich heart bestoweth Imbreathed draughts of wine; Heaven guide, the cup be not, as chance may be, To some vain mate given up as soon as tasted ! No, nor on thee be wasted, Thou trifler, Poesy ! Heaven grant the manlier heart, that timely, ere Youth fly, with life's real tempest would be coping; The fruit of dreamy hoping Is, waking, blank despair.
Página 51 - Every good and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Light.
Página 8 - I speak that which I know, and testify that I have seen" — this sort of argument would have weight : like truth herself, it is mighty, and will prevail.
Página 38 - Just as he was about to raise the glass to his lips he resolved to make a new start.