Occupation: Poet Birth: August 5, 1809 Death: October 6, 1892
if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking..
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers..
If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance..
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever..
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….
What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul..
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..
Better not to be at all Than not to be noble..
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions..
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….
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power..
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within..
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all..
Faith is believing what we cannot prove..
We are all a part of every person we have ever met..
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of..
God made thee good as thou art beautiful..
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….
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….
Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet..