Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERI do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
More Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes
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One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
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Each man has some part to play.
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Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new
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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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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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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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No star is lost once we have seen
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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
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I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys.
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Seated one day at the organ
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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be
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For when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
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Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, ‘Grief will pass away.’
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One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below
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