Occupation: Poet Birth: May 7, 1812 Death: December 12, 1889
Most progress is most failure..
We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom..
'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you..
Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done..
Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the presen….
For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall….
Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?.
Truth is truth howe'er it strike..
The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find….
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?.
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure..
I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his b….
The world and life's too big to pass for a dream.
Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop..
Praise is deeper than the lips.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!.
Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything..