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A minute's success pays for the failure of years. - [Success] A pretty woman's worth some pains to see, Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure. - [Women] And gain is gain, however small. - [Gain] Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose. - [Roses] Be sure they sleep not whom God needs. - [Sleep] Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike. - [Fate] Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last; Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim. - [Dawn] Faultless to a fault. - [Faults] God is a perfect poet, Who in His person acts His own creations. - [God] God smiles as He has always smiled; Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child; Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest; ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun. - [Providence] I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves The world; and, vainly favored, it repays The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze By no change of its large calm front of snow. - [Mountains] I send my heart up to thee, all my heart In this my singing! For the stars help me, and the sea bear part. - [Singers] Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth. - [Lying] No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold. - [Thought] One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'. - [Judgment] Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain. - [Pleasure] Progress is the law of life,--man is not man as yet. - [Progress] So free we seem, so fettered fast we are. - [Freedom] So may a glory from defect arise. - [Glory] Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each. - [Sorrow] Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. - [Thought] Take away love and our earth is a tomb. - [Love] Talent should minister to genius. - [Genius] The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. - [Age] There are times when patience proves at fault. - [Patience] Displaying page 1 of 5 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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