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.
More Quotes from Bliss Carman:
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished Follow your instinct Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.Bliss Carman
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman
In the beginning God made man
Out of the wandering dust, men say;
And in the end his life shall be
A wandering wind and blown away.
Bliss Carman
This is the law of being
That links the threefold chain:
The life we give to beauty
Returns to us again.
Bliss Carman
And we perceive, not awe
But love is the great law
That binds the world together safe and whole.
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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