Bliss Carman Quotes

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• Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
• Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.
• Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it…
• The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
• The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
• Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder…
• Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
• A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
• I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point…
• There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower…
• There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
• Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army…
• I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one…
• There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is…
• What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
• The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the the greatest joy in nature is the absence of man

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