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The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Love is sentimental measles.
Those clouds are angels' robes.
Toil is the true knight's pastime.
All but God is changing day by day.
Men must work, and women must weep.
Nothing is so infectious as example.
The world is God's world, after all.
Life is too short for mean anxieties.
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
Study nature as the countenance of God.
Love can make us fiends as well as angels.
Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.
In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.
A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.
I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands
Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.
I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.
Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.
For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.
If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.
Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?
So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
