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The longest way must have its close,⁠—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XLIn context
- Justice
And worse I may be yet. The worst is not
So long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by EdgarIn context
O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in ’t!
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act V, Scene I, spoken by MirandaIn context
- Beauty
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard III (c. 1593), Act V, Scene II, spoken by RichmondIn context
Long is the way
And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
John Milton1608–1674Paradise Lost (1667), Book IIIn context
Some natural tears they dropt, but wiped them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.
John Milton1608–1674Paradise Lost (1667), Book XIIIn context
- Change
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be bless’d
Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Man (1733–1734), Epistle IIn context
O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Ode to the West Wind (1820)In context
- Nature
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Ash-Wednesday (1930), IIn context
- Age
Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
Isaac Watts1674–1748O God, Our Help in Ages Past (1719)In context
- God
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light,
In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.
Arthur Hugh Clough1819–1861Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth (1855)In context
It’s coming yet, for a’ that,
That man to man, the warld o’er,
Shall brothers be for a’ that.
Robert Burns1759–1796A Man’s a Man for A’ That (1795)In context
- Friendship
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Christmas Bells (1865)In context
- Christmas
- God
I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886“Hope” is the thing with feathers (1891), “”Hope” is the thing with feathers” (1891)In context
In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.
Arthur Hugh Clough1819–1861Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth (1855)In context