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"Hold thou the good; define it well; For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell."
In Memoriam. liii. Stanza 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill."
In Memoriam. liv. Stanza 1.
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"But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry."
In Memoriam. liv. Stanza 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life."
In Memoriam. lv. Stanza 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God."
In Memoriam. lv. Stanza 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who battled for the True, the Just."
In Memoriam. lvi. Stanza 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance."
In Memoriam. lxiv. Stanza 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne."
In Memoriam. lxiv. Stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be."
In Memoriam. lxxiii. Stanza 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thy leaf has perish'd in the green, And while we breathe beneath the sun, The world, which credits what is done, Is cold to all that might have been."
In Memoriam. lxxv. Stanza 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"O last regret, regret can die!"
In Memoriam. lxxviii. Stanza 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds."
In Memoriam. xcvi. Stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He seems so near, and yet so far."
In Memoriam. xcvii. Stanza 6.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky!"
In Memoriam. cv. Stanza 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow!"
In Memoriam. cv. Stanza 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in!"
In Memoriam. cv. Stanza 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace!"
In Memoriam. cv. Stanza 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand! Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be!"
In Memoriam. cv. Stanza 8.
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"And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman, Defamed by every charlatan, And soil'd with all ignoble use."
In Memoriam. cxi. Stanza 6.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Some novel power Sprang up forever at a touch, And hope could never hope too much In watching thee from hour to hour."
In Memoriam. cxii. Stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Large elements in order brought, And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world-wide fluctuation sway'd, In vassal tides that follow'd thought."
In Memoriam. cxii. Stanza 4.
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"Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower."
In Memoriam. Conclusion. Stanza 10.
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"One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves."
In Memoriam. Conclusion. Stanza 36.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain