There is no failure for the good and wise:
What though thy seed should fall by the wayside
And the birds snatch it;--yet the birds are fed;
Or they may bear it far across the tide,
To give rich harvests after thou art dead."
POLITICS FOR THE PEOPLE, 1848.
(12) "What is it," says Mr. Helps, "that promotes the most and the
deepest thought in the human race? It is not learning; it is not
the conduct of business; it is not even the impulse of the
affections. It is suffering; and that, perhaps, is the reason why
there is so much suffering in the world. The angel who went down
to trouble the waters and to make them healing, was not, perhaps,
entrusted with so great a boon as the angel who benevolently
inflicted upon the sufferers the disease from which they
suffered."--BREVIA.
(13) These lines were written by Deckar, in a spirit of boldness
equal to its piety. Hazlitt has or said of them, that they
"ought to embalm his memory to every one who has a sense either
of religion, or philosophy, or humanity, or true genius."
(14) Reboul, originally a baker of Nismes, was the author of many
beautiful poems--amongst others, of the exquisite piece known in
this country by its English translation, entitled 'The Angel and
the Child.'
(15) 'Cornhill Magazine,' vol. xvi. p. 322.
(16) 'Holy Living and Dying,' ch.
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