Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERNo star is lost once we have seen
More Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes
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Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!
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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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No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
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One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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See how time makes all grief decay.
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I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys.
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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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It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new
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But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.
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With heaven’s light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit
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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
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Lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
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The stars can only shine In the dark night.
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