“We are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.”
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“The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.”
“My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.”
Source: Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide
Source: The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon: Edited with Introduction, Notes & Appendixes, by Frank Maldon Robb
“Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.”
“Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.”
Source: Poems
Source: The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems
“Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.”