William C. Bryant Quotes

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• Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
• Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
• There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with…
• The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the…
• Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....
• Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.
• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
• Ah! never shall the land forget.
• Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
• Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -
• Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.
• Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
• Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.
• The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all…
• The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by. As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear…
• Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.
• The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
• I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .
• Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
• Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully…

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