“Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth a lie Draw on its head despair! Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers The boldest and the strongest still was I. Although so fair, Therefore from Heaven A stronger perfume unto me was given Than any blossom of the summer hours.” StillsSpiritLyingLanguageGivenHeavenHoursFlowerDespairSummerDrawsFairsStrongerStrongestCriedPerfume Book:The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems Source: The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.” FirstsSoulCharacterSufferingHeavenFireTearsSorrowMassiveGatesStrongestScarMartyrRobesSorrowfulCoronationGates Of Heaven Author:Bill Vaughan
“All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.” IfsMenMayHas BeensHeavenChristianityGreaterLandDivineSonAmbitionDeserveClaimsDeedsExceptionStrongestCreedsMaximsHigh Ambition Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think