Occupation: Poet Birth: April 22, 1816 Death: September 6, 1902
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Co….
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show t….
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves..
Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on..
The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it..
I have a heart with room for every joy ..
Life is less than nothing without love..
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art..
It matters not how long we live but how..
Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more..
I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intelle….
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths..
Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all l….
Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes..
Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, come….
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence..
Evil then results from imperfection..
Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil..
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares..
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed..
Evil and good are God's right hand and left..