Quote#Solitude
Why should we faint and fear to live alone
Quote byJohn Keble · 1792–1866
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Christian Year (1827), "The Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity", p. 176..
English (original)
Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh?
— John Keble
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The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask.
When you find yourself, as I daresay you sometimes do, overpowered as it were by melancholy, the best way is to go out, and do something kind to somebody or other.
As fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
The deeds we do, the words we say,— Into still air they seem to fleet, We count them ever past; But they shall last, In the dread judgment they And we shall meet!
The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day, The primal marriage blessing, It hath not passed away.
And help us, this and every day, To live more nearly as we pray.