“The Upper Springs and the Nether Springs; or, Life Hid With Christ In God (1882), p. 26.”
Anna Shipton (1815–1901) British religious writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 119.
“The Upper Springs and the Nether Springs; or, Life Hid With Christ In God (1882), p. 26.”
Anna Shipton (1815–1901) British religious writer
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet
No Coward Soul Is Mine (1846)
Context: p>No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven's glories shine,
And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.O God within my breast,
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life — that in me has rest,
As I — undying Life — have power in Thee!Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main...</p
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon (1648–1717) French mystic
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 543.
“O maid, while youth is with the rose and thee,
Pluck thou the rose: life is as swift for thee.”
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,<br/>et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
Ausonius (310–395) poet
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,
et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
"De Rosis Nascentibus", line 49; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 29.
“Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
"Life's Mystery", reported in Charlotte Fiske Rogé, The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song (1832), p. 544.
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist
Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
“Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
Canto XV, st. 11.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
