Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERKinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.
More Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes
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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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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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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
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On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
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We always may be what we might have been.
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Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright,
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It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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For when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
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One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below
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True or false, that never dies
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And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret
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No star is lost once we have seen
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.
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One by one the sands are flowing
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Seated one day at the organ
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