“The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.”
Strength“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”
Faith“The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.”
Strength“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”
Art“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”
Faith“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”
Art“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”
Age“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”
Business“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
Love“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
Best“So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.”
Love“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.”
Business“Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.”
Alone“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”
Religion“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Best“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.”
Beauty“I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.”
Strength“What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.”
Age“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
Mothersday“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
Failure“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
Alone“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”
Age