| Quotes |
Topic |
| Life | Saw life steadily and saw it whole. |
| Life | Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. |
| Life | They live that they may eat, but he himself eats that he may live. |
| Life | We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. |
| Light | The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. |
| Love | Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain. |
| Meeting | Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again. |
| Memory | But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. |
| Miracles | All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. |
| Nature | Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers! |
| Nightingales | Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! hark!--what pain! . . . . Again--thou hearest? Eternal passion! Eternal pain! |
| Preaching | I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Bravely! said he; for I of late have been Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread. |
| Religion | Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find. |
| Religion | The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. |
| Religion | The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. |
| Sabbath | On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou. |
| Self Knowledge | Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery. |
| Shakespeare | Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. |
| Society | This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. |
| Soul | And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. |
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