Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.
BAYARD TAYLORLabor, you know, is prayer.
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We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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The loving are the daring.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
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Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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I know I am–that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
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The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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