Great Throughts Treasury

"All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears."

"There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. "

"They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth."

"Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile."

"A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth."

"Beauty walks in bravest dress, and, fed with April's mellow showers, the earth laughs out with sweet May-flowers, that flush for very happiness."

"I was a dweller amid shadows grim: till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, as heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: and FREEDOM was my glittering Bride."

"Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, and, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, streams rosy warmth!"

"In this dim world of clouding cares, we rarely know, till wildered eyes see white wings lessening up the skies, the angels with us unawares."

"One sharp stern struggle and the slaves of centuries are free."

"No lie can live forever."

"O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, with energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, and hearts break in the furrow, we'll sow the golden grain Today-- the Harvest comes tomorrow."

"Some of those standards are fairly onerous even to sophisticated, highly litigious businesses."

"The best fruit loads the broken bough; and in the wounds our sufferings plow, immortal love sows sovereign seed."

"Our world oft turns in gloom, and Life both many a perilous way, yet there's no path so desolate and thorny, cold and gray, but Beauty like a beacon burns above the dark of strife, and like an Alchemist aye turns all things to golden life."

"Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, grinding life down from its mark."

"The Future, like a fruit-fuller Summer, sits ripening her Eden silently."

"The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope."

"The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn."

"The heart is like an instrument whose strings steal magic music from Life's mystic frets."

"The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, as Love comes brooding down on human hearts, with bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- curtaineth into rest the weary world-- and shuts us in with all our hid delights."

"The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood."

"The time shall come when man to man shall be a friend and brother."

"The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, and tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots O' the old immortal seed start in the furrows; and, where Love looked on with glorious eye, these quicken'd germs of everlastingness flower lusty, as of old in Paradise!"

"Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark safely through all the Deluge of the dark."

"Were truth our uttered language, Angels might talk with men."