SaturdayApr 04, 2026
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But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun....
The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are over; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
Life! weve been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps twill cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning; Choose thine own time; Say not Good-night; but in some brighter clime Bid me Good-morning.
And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexanders ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Times slow finger written in the dust.
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.
It is to hope, though hope were lost.
The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
We can only love what we know.
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd of his love.
Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.
When one by one our ties are torn, And friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, Oh! then how sweet it is to die!
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.
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