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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable read more
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality read more
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
Busy bees chased
the bloom chaste
Though
they crawled on her
clothes
her petals unfolded
and those held close
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Busy bees chased
the bloom chaste
Though
they crawled on her
clothes
her petals unfolded
and those held close
still ever faithful
to the sun
is the everpure rose
Whether her hue
is violet or rose
Whether she grows
in freedom or rows
ever to God
in waves arose
the love perfume
from the heart of the rose.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.
What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles read more
Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation read more
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
