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Bliss Carman Quotes and Quotations
Whether it be to failure or success, the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run. The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man. There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed, but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod. |