John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson. (1803–1882) |
| 6233 |
| Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor’s creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. |
| Each and All. |
| 6234 |
| I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. |
| Each and All. |
| 6235 |
| I like a church; I like a cowl; I like a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles: Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowléd churchman be. |
| The Problem. |
| 6236 |
| Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. |
| The Problem. |
| 6237 |
| Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. |
| The Problem. |
| 6238 |
| The hand that rounded Peter’s dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew. |
| The Problem. |
| 6239 |
| Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. |
| The Problem. |
| 6240 |
| Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but can not steer their feet Clear of the grave. |
| Hamatreya. |