All Quotes · Page 103
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“I find earth not gray but rosy; / Heaven not grim but fair of hue.”
“Inscribe all human effort with one word, / Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!”
“I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.”
“When the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.”
“'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”
“Strive, and hold cheap the strain; / Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!”
“Better have failed in the high aim, as I, / Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed”
“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”
“A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.”
“The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.”
“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
“He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.”
“In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.”
“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”
“There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.”
“Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.”