Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands... Lectures to Young Men on Their Moral Dangers & Duties - Pagina 117door Abiel Abbot LIVERMORE - 1847 - 160 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1852 - 862 pagina’s
...— London, Feb. 1852. " Footprints that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's solemn main, — Some forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. " Let us then bo up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to... | |
| 1844 - 454 pagina’s
...our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. THE CIRCASSIAN... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 566 pagina’s
...time. Footsteps, that, perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, I. ram to labor and to wait. RURAL TALES... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pagina’s
...not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps... | |
| 1840 - 424 pagina’s
...not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. " Life is real ! life is earnest...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." It would not be easy to find a " strain in a higher mood " than this ; it is equally... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pagina’s
...to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. " Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stoiit and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating...take heart again. "Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to lal>or and to wait" — pp. 5-7.... | |
| 1840 - 424 pagina’s
...hero in the strife. " Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead ! Actvact in the living Present ! Heart within and God o'erhead...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." It would not be easy to find a " strain in a higher mood " than this ; it is equally... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pagina’s
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, thai perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." — pp. 5-7. Or that exquisite and tender poem, the "Footsteps of Angels." "When the... | |
| William Johnson Fox - 1841 - 132 pagina’s
...art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime ; And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. Jl\-l*Li... | |
| 1842 - 506 pagina’s
...quote but a portion : " Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead past bury its dead ! Aut, act in the living present ! Heart within, and God...take heart again. " Let us then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Seem to labor and to wait." The most important... | |
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