Each man has some part to play.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERI do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
More Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes
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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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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.
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For when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
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On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
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True or false, that never dies
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Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, ‘Grief will pass away.’
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Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was.
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One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below
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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be
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One by one the sands are flowing
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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Lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
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One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
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Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.
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I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys.
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