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There is a great deal of human nature in man.
This is eternal life; a life of everlasting love, showing itself in everlasting good works; and whosoever lives that life, he lives the life of God, and hath eternal life.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.
Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)
May God keep our hearts pure from that selfishness which is the root of all sin.
I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.
Sad, sad to think that the year is all but done.
Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)
Don't holla till you are out of the wood. This is a night for praying rather than boasting.
Hereward the Wake (1866)
If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep—
And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.
Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)
For men must work, and women must weep,
And there's little to earn, and many to keep,
Though the harbor bar be moaning.
Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)
The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Pain is no evil,
Unless it conquers us.
Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle,
The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
For men must work and women must weep,
And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep,
And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.
In the light of fuller day,
Of purer science, holier laws.
Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)
The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
Can never come over again.
Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)
Pray over every truth ; for though the renewed heart is not " desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.
Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.
All but God is changing day by day.
The Saint's Tragedy (1848)