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- We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.…
- Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess…
- God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.
- The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.
- Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.
- They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its…
- Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
- The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
- What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.
- Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
- Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.
- We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker…
- Sweeter than any sungMy songs that found no tongue;Nobler than any factMy wish that failed of act.Others shall sing the song,Others shall right the wrong,-Finish…
- What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of…
- For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
- All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
- Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a…
- So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In…
- And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the…
- Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to…
- God's colors all are fast.
- Of all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.
- Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'
- For somehow, not only at Christmas, but all the long year through, the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle