Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Ask not of me, love, what is love Ask what is good of God above Ask of the great sun what is light Ask what is darkness of the night Ask sin of what may be forgiven Ask what is happiness of Heaven Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss Ask of thyself what beauty is.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Life's more than breath and the quick round of bloodIt is a great spirit and a busy heart.
The sole equality on earth is death.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Kindness is wisdom.
What men call accident is God's own part.
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Imagination is the air of mind.
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Who can mistake great thoughts They seize upon the mind arrest and search, And shake it bow the tall soul as by wind Rush over it like a river reeds.
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
Music tells no truths.
We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Life 's but a means unto an end that end Beginning, mean, and end to all things, God.
Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help thee on.
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories