Occupation: Poet Birth: April 22, 1816 Death: September 6, 1902
The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it..
The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy..
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Large….
Evil then results from imperfection..
When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till….
The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven..
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures..
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed..
Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease..
Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God..
I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tire….
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves..
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….
Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on..
I have a heart with room for every joy ..
Life is less than nothing without love..
It matters not how long we live but how..
Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more..
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….
Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins..
Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too..