All pains the immortal spirit ...

All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow,
Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.

Morality represents for everyb...

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

We must hold fast to the auste...

We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.

Now the great winds shoreward ...

Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

Truth illuminates and gives jo...

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

Who hesitate and falter life a...

Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

The grand stye arises in poetr...

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

It is a very great thing to be...

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

Philistinism! - We have not th...

Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

Years hence, perhaps, may dawn...

Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.

The future of poetry is immens...

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.

Good poetry does undoubtedly t...

Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.

The nice sense of measure is c...

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

It does not try to reach down ...

It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

Ah, love, let us be true
...

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another!

Religion--that voice of the de...

Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

Poetry interprets in two ways:...

Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.

Now, the whole world hears

Now, the whole world hears
Or shall hear,--surely shall hear, at the last,
Though men delay, and doubt, and faint, and fail,--
That promise faithful:--'Fear not, little flock!
It is your Father's will and joy, to give
To you, the Kingdom'!

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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs ...

Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
Like the wave;
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
Love tends life a little grace,
A few sad smiles; and then,
Both are laid in one cold place,
In the grave.

How many minds--almost all the...

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!