Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
Roam on The light we sought is shining still. Dost thou ask proof Our tree yet crowns the hill, Our Scholar travels yet the loved hillside.
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Thou waitest for the spark from heaven and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds ... Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too.
Natures great law, and the law of all mens minds To its own impulse every creature stirs Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.
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