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The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

Bliss Carman

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
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Art Long Song
Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
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Army Heart Sunshine
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
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Joy Men Nature
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
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Passion Perfection Successful
Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.
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Mind Pride Soul
I often wish… that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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Tyrants Wish World
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you’ll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
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Being Desire Eye Yourself
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
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Art Business Work
I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.
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Feet Ledges Untamed
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
BLISS CARMAN

Endurance Events Needs
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!
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Miracle Planning Writing
Indifference may not wreck a man’s life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
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Life Men Running
I heard the spring light whisper Above the dancing stream, The world is made forever in likeness of a dream.
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Dream Inspirational Life
It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.
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Friend Good Heart Men
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.
BLISS CARMAN

Autumn Blood Heart
On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.
BLISS CARMAN

Dawn Heaven Shining

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