Patience, when it is a divine thing, is active, not passive.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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This child is not mine as the first was I cannot sing it to rest I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast. Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she 's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
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Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
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