In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet Lessen like sound of friends' departing feet And Death is beautiful as feet of friend Coming with welcome at our journey's end.James Russell Lowell
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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In Lifes small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Knowst thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when shell say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me.
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Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
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'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love But all God's angels come to us disguised Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.
James Russell Lowell
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