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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays.

No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870.

O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee To make the charmed body Almost like spirit be, And give it some faint glimpses Of immortality.

That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.