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"When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies)."
The Wanderer of Switzerland. Part v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie; Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky."
The Battle of Alexandria.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea."
The Ocean. Line 54.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Once, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man."
The Common Lot.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more."
The West Indies. Part iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive."
The World before the Flood. Canto v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past."
The Little Cloud.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past; At once the fountain, stream, and sea, They were, they are, they yet shall be."
The Little Cloud.
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"Friend after friend departs; Who hath not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end."
Friends.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Nor sink those stars in empty night: They hide themselves in heaven's own light."
Friends.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"'T is not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die."
The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years; And all that life is love."
The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Night is the time to weep, To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory where sleep The joys of other years."
The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?"
The Falling Leaf.
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"Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home."
At Home in Heaven.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!"
The Earth full of God's Goodness.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Return unto thy rest, my soul, From all the wanderings of thy thought, From sickness unto death made whole, Safe through a thousand perils brought."
Rest for the Soul.
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"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed,-- The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast."
What is Prayer?
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"Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near."
What is Prayer?
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