 | Ida Prentice Whitcomb - American literature - 1922 - 486 pages
...some of his helpful tenets : — 235 " But to act that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day." " Know how sublime a thing it is, To suffer and be strong." " Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us,... | |
 | 1922 - 588 pages
...Milton, stuggling against the affliction of total blindness. Our Longfellow exprest it another way: Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. Let us work, let us endure the icy blasts of winter and the no less icy mental and moral sufferings... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...hopes depart. Be resolute and calm. 31 Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know erelong, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. 36 1839. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. DAYBREAK A WIND came up out of the sea, And said, " O mists, make... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 410 pages
...cast down will the higher rise. 0, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know erelong, — Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. TtxLilUofSOtr,. LONGFELLOW • — -—- - t — To renew the (harge, book must be broaghl to the desk.... | |
 | Education - 1896 - 456 pages
...children an ever changing source of pleasure and profit. Oh fear not In a world like this And thou shall know ere long; Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. — Longfellow We rise by things that are 'neath oiu feet ; By what we have mastered of good and sain ; By the pride... | |
 | United States - 1907 - 1090 pages
...hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. О fear not in a world like this, And thou shall know erelong, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong." Poetry must be judged by the power it exercises, the feeling it arouses, not solely by Us form ; and... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - Education - 1912 - 608 pages
...change the rights of men." To be angry is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. — Pope. Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. — Longfellow. Z Ul ce (5 E III û Z О û ш _j О 1 02 103 STORIES, GAMES, PLAYS RECITATIONS, MEMORY GEMS, ETC.... | |
 | 1883 - 810 pages
...we land it !" CHAPTER IX.— Without and WitMn. "Oh, fear not in a world like thifi, And thou nhalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. • LONOFELLOW. J|HEN, all their commissions executed and their business done, our party turned at... | |
 | 692 pages
...must do it yourself. J. Joy hath an undertone of pain, And even the happiest hours their sighs. A". Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. L. Labour with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone. M. Make the house where gods may... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1960 - 64 pages
...to complaining. He saw things squarely and honestly. With him I associate these lines of Longfellow: "Fear not in a world like this And thou shalt know...how sublime a thing It Is To suffer and be strong." (3) The last mountain of faith. In the closing days when departing came nearer, the serenity of faith... | |
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And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. 
