See how time makes all grief decay.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERI do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
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We always may be what we might have been.
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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
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Each man has some part to play.
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It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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Seated one day at the organ
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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new
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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be
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Do not look at life’s long sorrow; see how small each moment’s pain.
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Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us
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Lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
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I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.
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