For Thought and for Remembrance1893 - 46 páginas |
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admiration anew ashes Aspire attempt to enjoy beautiful Beecher begun born bound break Browning canst CENTS character Christ Christmas clouds Conscience dark dawn deed divine dream dust earnest Emerson Fades fall fate feel fell flowers forgive gifts gives glad God's gorgeous grace green grieve grow old Hamilton Wright Mabie happiness Hath heaven Helen Hunt Jackson Henry Holmes Honor humanity inter John LIBRARY life's live Longfellow Lord man's moral morning never peace Phillips Brooks picture Pipe precious prize reed ring rose Ruskin scholar sense shining sight skies Sleep soil souls Sower speaks STAMPED stays the heart stoop struggle sunshine superior sweet T. W. Higginson tale thee thing thou art thought thy brother's thyself true truth UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vindicate Wake Washington Irving Women word worthy wrong yields Youth YULE CLUB
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Página 10 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Página 23 - Ah! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass in its brazen ring, Ever level and ever true To the toil and the task we have to do, We shall sail securely, and safely reach The Fortunate Isles, on whose shining beach The sights we see, and the sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear!
Página 18 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear,— believe the aged friend, — Is just our chance o...
Página 7 - And so I live, you see, Go through the world, try, prove, reject, Prefer, still struggling to effect My warfare ; happy that I can Be crossed and thwarted as a man, Not left in God's contempt apart, With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, fame in earth's paddock as her prize.
Página 8 - Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ! There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. Enter Musicians. Come, ho,...
Página 5 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break. Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, arc baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 7 - In Life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscles trained : know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes ? or when she '11 say to thee, ' I find thee worthy, do this thing for me ' ? " I have said that it was doubtful if Shakespeare had any conscious moral intention in his writings.
Página 12 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Página 4 - I find earth not gray but rosy, Heaven not grim but fair of hue. Do I stoop ? I pluck a posy. Do I stand and stare ? All's blue.
Página 21 - No man has come to true greatness who has not felt, in some degree, that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him He gives him for mankind.