“Ah, happy world, where all things live
Creatures of one great law, indeed;
Bound by strong roots, the splendid flower,—
Swept by great seas, the drifting seed!”
The Story of the Flower.
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American author 1835–1921Related quotes
"April", in Poems (1859)
Context: Awakener, come!
Fiing wide the gate of an eternal year,
The April of that glad new heavens and earth
Which shall grow out of these, as spring-tide grows
Slow out of winter's breast.
Let Thy wide hand
Gather us all — with none left out (O God!
Leave Thou out none!) from the east and from the west.
Loose Thou our burdens: heal our sicknesses;
Give us one heart, one tongue, one faith, one love.
In Thy great Oneness made complete and strong —
To do Thy work throughout the happy world —
Thy world, All-merciful, Thy perfect world.
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
Pearls of Wisdom
Remember Thee.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.”
Source: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
“A great profusion of things, which are splendid or valuable in themselves, is magnificent.”
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered. The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our idea of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.
Part II Section XIII
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
Vol II "On the Road to Salvation"
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)