Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
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But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is
for our sympathies, for the manner read more
But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is
for our sympathies, for the manner in which we regard it, and for
the tone in which we discuss it. What shall we say, then, with
regard to it? On which side shall we stand?
It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, read more
It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to read more
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
