Fall Quote by Richard Henry Stoddard

“There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

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Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

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Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

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Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

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With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?

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We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of…

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Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by…

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