Why don't you speak for yourself John?
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
Day of the Lord as all our days should be!
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
The ceaseless rain is falling fast,And yonder gilded vane,Immovable for three days past,Points to the misty main,It drives me in upon myselfAnd to the fireside gleams,To pleasant books that crowd my s...
Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Into each life some rain must fall.
Every dew-drop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.
How Beautiful is the rain!After the dust and heat,In the broad and fiery street,In the narrow lane,How beautiful is the rain!How it clatters along the roofs,Like the tramp of hoofs!How it gushes and s...
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful soundSeems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught;Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thoughtAs Hermes with his lyre in sleep profoundThe hundred wakeful e...
Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.
The nearer the dawnthe darker the night.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,and silently steal away.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.