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Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of
life
, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!"
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the
life
: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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The ultimate, angels' law,
Indulging every instinct of the soul
There where law,
life
, joy, impulse are one thing!
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For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall
life
succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.
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All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a
life
of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.
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Each
life
unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.
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A man can have but one
life
and one death,
One heaven, one hell.
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How good is man's
life
, the mere living!
How fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses
Forever in joy!
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Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a
life
the sages' way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That
life
was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.
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A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer
life
of one;
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.
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God smiles as He has always smiled;
Ere suns and moons could wax and wane,
Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled
The Heavens, God thought on me His child;
Ordained a
life
for me, arrayed
Its circumstances, every one
To the minutest; ay, God said
This head this hand should rest upon
Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.
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Say not "a small event!" Why "small"?
Costs it more pain that this ye call
A "great event" should come to pass
From that? Untwine me from the mass
Of deeds which make up
life
, one deed
Power shall fall short in or exceed!
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We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a
life
; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.
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Oh child that didst despise thy
life
so much
When it seemed only thine to keep or lose,
How the fine ear felt fall the first low word
"Value
life
, and preserve
life
for My sake!"
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A book in shape but, really, pure crude fact
Secreted from man's
life
when hearts beat hard,
And brains, high-blooded, ticked two centuries since.
Give it me back! The thing's restorative
I'the touch and sight.
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He looked at her, as a lover can;
She looked at him, as one who awakes:
The past was a sleep, and her
life
began.
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…I feel for the common chord again…
The C Major of this
life
.
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But how carve way i' the
life
that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
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Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's
life
.
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I count
life
just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.
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Out of your whole
life
give but a moment! All of your
life
that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.
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Have you found your
life
distasteful?
My
life
did and does smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I save and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again.
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One and all
We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto-
Encourages the meanest who has racked
Nature until he gains from her some fact,
To state what truth is from his point of view,
Mere pin-point though it be: since many such
Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend
Come forward unabashed and haply lend
His little
life
-experience to our much
Of modern knowledge.
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Death was past,
life
not come: so he waited.
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How he lies in his rights of a man!
Death has done all death can.
And absorbed in the new
life
he leads,
He recks not, he heeds
Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike
On his senses alike,
And are lost in the solemn and strange
Surprise of the change.
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At last awake from
life
, that insane dream we take for waking now.
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Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new
life
to thee! See the Christ stand!
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Fair or foul the lot apportioned
life
on earth, we bear alike.
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Progress is
The law of
life
: man is not Man as yet.
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For
life
, with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear (believe the aged friend),
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,—
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
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Born:
May 7, 1812
Died:
December 12, 1889
(aged 77)
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