Lewis Morris Quotes

The passionate love of Right, The burning hate of Wrong.

Lewis Morris

The Diamond Jubilee - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - 10th edition - 1919.

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Rest springs from strife and dissonant chords beget Divinest harmonies.

Lewis Morris

Love's Suicide - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - 10th edition - 1919.

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Call no faith false which e'er hath brought Relief to any laden life, Cessation to the pain of thought, Refreshment mid the dust of strife.

Lewis Morris

Tolerance - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - 10th edition - 1919.

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The world still needs Its champion as of old, and finds him still.

Lewis Morris

The Epic of Hades - 1877 - "Herakles".

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The victories of Right Are born of strife. There were no Day were there no Night, Nor, without dying, Life.

Lewis Morris

The Ode of Evil - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - 10th edition - 1919.

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Toil is the law of life and its best fruit.

Lewis Morris

The Ode of Perfect Years - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - 10th edition - 1919.

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Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound, Young voices sing; Wreathe every door with snow-white voices round, For lo! 't is Spring! Winter has passed with its sad funeral train, And Love revives...

Lewis Morris

Life-Music - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - 10th edition - 1919.

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The love of the Right, tho' cast down, The hate of victorious Ill, All are sparks from the central fire of A boundless beneficent will.

Lewis Morris

A new Orphic Hymn - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - 10th edition - 1919.

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The wind that sighs before the dawn Chases the gloom of night, The curtains of the East are drawn, And suddenly - 't is light.

Lewis Morris

Le Vent de l'Esprit - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - 10th edition - 1919.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Lewis Morris

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