Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be unanswered. Her feet were firmly planted on the Rock; Amid the wildest storms she stands undaunted, Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock. She knows Omnipotence has heard her prayer, And cries, "It shall be done," sometime, somewhere. Unanswered yet? Nay, do not say ungranted; Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done. The work began when first your prayer was uttered, And God will finish what He has begun. If you will keep the incense burning there, His glory you shall see sometime, somewhere.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Love is energy of life.
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
My sun sets to rise again.
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
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