Occupation: Poet Birth: August 5, 1809 Death: October 6, 1892
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within..
Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die..
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever..
Faith is believing what we cannot prove..
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..
God made thee good as thou art beautiful..
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power..
the shell must break before the bird can fly..
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of..
What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul..
Better not to be at all Than not to be noble..
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work th….
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions..
Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope, And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tale….
I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For….
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One e….
Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and….
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all..
We are all a part of every person we have ever met..
Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet..