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.
More Quotes from Bliss Carman:
The lover of child MarjoryHad one white hour of life brim full;
Now the old nurse, the rocking sea,
Hath him to lull.
Bliss Carman
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 never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carman
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences; Though Fame is in the song.
Bliss Carman
And we perceive, not awe
But love is the great law
That binds the world together safe and whole.
Bliss Carman
Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -- to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
Bliss Carman
And what is energy,
In-working, which bids be
The starry pageant and the life of earth?
Bliss Carman
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