“The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.” HumansHeartSufferingHeavenFireTearsInstrumentsStealingGoldenHuman LifeStringsThreadRainbowWovenRobesRadianceHueSpun Book:Poems Source: Poems
“The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.” MenHumansReasonLife IsHeavenNobleHuman LifeSparks Book:The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow Source: The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow
“However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.” YearsHumansHeartSeemsAgeSpiritNightFallHeavenWalksCryFieldsWindSummerLowsDirectBlueGreenLaysConstantWaveGravesStealingOld AgeHuman LifeSicknessAutumnCheeksHarvestInfantBereavementHailShiverDampVisitation Book:Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses Source: Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses
“It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.” HumansPlayMightEarthLife IsHeavenDealsObjectsHighestGardenTasksPraiseHuman LifePlaygrounds Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton