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Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and…
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The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward…
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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…
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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our…
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God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good…
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I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and…
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God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall…
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And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
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Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland…
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe…
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So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the…
— Annie Besant
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
— Walter Savage Landor
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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
— Oscar Wilde
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and…
— Charles Lamb
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In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads…
— William Spencer
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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but…
— John Milton
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He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.
— Khalil Gibran
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Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.
— Mahavatar Babaji
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He who treads softly goes far.
— Dale Carnegie
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Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.
— Arthur Koestler
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