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Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Chronicles and Characters (1868)
There is a pleasure which is born of pain.
The Wanderer (1859)
Those true eyes
Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise
The sweet soul shining through them.
Lucile (1860)
O be very sure
That no man will learn anything at all,
Unless he first will learn humility.
Chronicles and Characters (1868)
That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own.
Chronicles and Characters (1868)
In life there are meetings which seem
Like a fate.
Lucile (1860)
Who knows nothing base
Fears nothing known.
Chronicles and Characters (1868)
As pure as a pearl,
And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.
Lucile (1860)
Who seeks for aid
Must show how service sought can be repaid.
Chronicles and Characters (1868)
There is purpose in pain,
Otherwise it were devilish.
Lucile (1860)
Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!
Lucile (1860)
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
The Wanderer (1859)
Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.
The unknown
Is life to love, religion, poetry.
The Wanderer (1859)
When life leaps in the veins, when it beats in the heart,
When it thrills as it fills every animate part,
Where lurks it? How works it?.. we scarcely detect it.
Lucile (1860)
No life
Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.
Lucile (1860)
I loved you ere I knew you: know you now,
And, having known you, love you better still.
Chronicles and Characters (1868)
We gain
Justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.
Lucile (1860)
No true love can be without
Its dread penalty—jealousy.
Lucile (1860)
No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.
Lucile (1860)