Richard Henry Stoddard Quotes

Richard Henry Stoddard was an American critic and poet.

✵ 2. July 1825 – 12. May 1903
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Famous Richard Henry Stoddard Quotes

“A face at the window,
A tap on the pane;
Who is it that wants me
To-night in the rain?”

The Messenger at Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.”

Persian Song.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It beckons, I follow.
Good-by to the light,
I am going, O whither?
Out into the night.”

The Messenger at Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Not what we would, but what we must
Makes up the sum of living;
Heaven is both more and less than just
In taking and in giving.”

The Country Life.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.”

Speech of Love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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