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„Say not “a small event!”“
„Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas,Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno,Wrote one song—and in my brain I sing it;Drew one angel—borne, see, on my bosom!“
„When is man strong until he feels alone?“
„He who did well in war just earns the rightTo begin doing well in peace.“
„Every joy is gainAnd gain is gain, however small.“
„Be sure that GodNe’er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.“
„The body sprangAt once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,—no!“
„What’s come to perfection perishes.Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.“
„Wanting is—what?Summer redundant,Blueness abundant,Where is the blot?“
„In the morning of the world,When earth was nigher heaven than now.“
„The ultimate, angels’ law,Indulging every instinct of the soulThere where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!“
„Only I discernInfinite passion, and the painOf finite hearts that yearn.“
„Was never evening yetBut seemed far beautifuller than its day.“
„Good, to forgive;Best, to forget!Living, we fret;Dying, we live.“
„It’s wiser being good than bad;It’s safer being meek than fierce;It’s fitter being sane than mad.My own hope is, a sun will pierceThe thickest cloud earth ever stretched;That after Last returns the First,Though a wide compass round be fetched;That what began best can’t end worst,Nor what God blessed once prove accurst.“
„Error has no end.“
„That low man seeks a little thing to do,Sees it and does it.This high man, with a great thing to pursue,Dies ere he knows it.That low man goes on adding one to one,—His hundred’s soon hit;This high man, aiming at a million,Misses an unit.That has the world here—should he need the next,Let the world mind him!This throws himself on God, and unperplexedSeeking shall find him.“
„What I aspired to be,And was not, comforts me.“
„But how carve way i’ the life that lies before,If bent on groaning ever for the past?“
„Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.“
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