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"Round and round, like a dance of snow In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go Floating the women faded for ages, Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages."
Women and Roses.
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"How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change."
After.
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"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems, and new!"
Memorabilia. i.
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"He who did well in war just earns the right To begin doing well in peace."
Luria. Act ii.
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"And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,--comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable."
Luria. Act v.
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"A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all."
Luria. Act v.
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"I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on."
In a Balcony.
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"Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?"
Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de nos Jours.
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"There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round."
Abt Vogler. ix.
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"Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!"
Rabbi Ben Ezra.
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"What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me."
Rabbi Ben Ezra.
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"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."
Rabbi Ben Ezra.
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"For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is."
A Death in the Desert.
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"The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,--no!"
A Death in the Desert.
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"What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same."
A Death in the Desert.
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"For I say this is death and the sole death,-- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest."
A Death in the Desert.
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"Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts: God is, they are; Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be."
A Death in the Desert.
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"The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!"
A Death in the Desert.
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"How sad and bad and mad it was! But then, how it was sweet!"
Confessions. ix.
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"So may a glory from defect arise."
Deaf and Dumb.
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"This could but have happened once,-- And we missed it, lost it forever."
Youth and Art. xvii.
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"Fear death?--to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face. . . . . . . . No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old; Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold."
Prospice.
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"It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began best can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once prove accurst."
Apparent Failure. vii.
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"In the great right of an excessive wrong."
The Ring and the Book. The other Half-Rome. Line 1055.
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"Was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day."
The Ring and the Book. Pompilia. Line 357.
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"The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness."
The Ring and the Book. The Pope. Line 590.
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"Of what I call God, And fools call Nature."
The Ring and the Book. The Pope. Line 1073.
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"Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"
The Ring and the Book. The Pope. Line 1185.
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"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice."
The Ring and the Book. The Pope. Line 1236.
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"It is the glory and good of Art That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth,--to mouths like mine, at least."
The Book and the Ring. The Pope. Line 842.
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"Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised) Linking our England to his Italy."
The Ring and the Book. The Pope. Line 873.
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"But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?"
Balaustion's Adventure.
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"Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed,-- As, God be thanked! I do not."
The Inn Album. iv.
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"Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I 'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again."
At the "Mermaid." Stanza 10.
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""With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!"
House. x.
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"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."
Cenciaja.
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