If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

The first nation to separate Christianity from government produced perhaps the most religious nation on earth.

A poem round and perfect as a star.

To be inspired - that's the secret.

It can take a surprisingly long time to get from one part of my mind to another.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

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