All William C. Bryant Quotes
All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
William C. Bryant
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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
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Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
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Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
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The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
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The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.
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Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
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Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
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A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
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