John Vance Cheney Quotes (1848-1922)

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“Who drives the horses of the sun
Shall lord it but a day;
Better the lowly deed were done,
And kept the humble way.”

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“The rust will find the sword of fame,
The dust will hide the crown;
Ay, none shall nail so high his name
Time will not tear it down.”

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“The happiest heart that ever beat
Was in some quiet breast
That found the common daylight sweet,
And left to Heaven the rest.”

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Not in the time of pleasure
Hope doth set her bow;
But in the sky of sorrow,
Over the vale of woe.

Through gloom and shadow look we
On beyond the years!
The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.

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John Vance Cheney on Beauty

“I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.”

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John Vance Cheney on Happiness

“The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.”

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John Vance Cheney on Heart

“No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.”

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John Vance Cheney on Tears

“We look through gloom and storm-drift Beyond the years: The soul would have no rainbow Had the eyes no tears.”

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John Vance Cheney on Rainbows

“Through gloom and shadow look we On beyond the years! The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.”

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John Vance Cheney on Summer

“I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.”

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John Vance Cheney on Opportunity

“Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I take mine hour.”

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John Vance Cheney on Autumn

“A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.”

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John Vance Cheney on Wind

“The wind is awake, pretty leaves, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.”

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John Vance Cheney on Abraham Lincoln 3 quotes

“Unheralded, God's captain came As one that answers to his name; Nor dreamed how high his charge, His privilege how large.”

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