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Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul.

God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

My heart is feminine, nor can forget-- To all, except one image, madly blind; So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole, As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.

Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent, All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire.

Nor ease nor peace that heart can know, That like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe; But turning, trembles too.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.

Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken, The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.

The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.

No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.