Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.
The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.
All things human change.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Love is the only gold.
If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.
The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.
Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter’d with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.
A day may sink or save a realm.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.
And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long.