That daily the night falls; that over stresses and torments, cares and sorrows the blessing of sleep unfolds, stilling and quenchi...ng them; that every anew this draught of refreshment and lethe is offered to our parching lips, ever after the battle this mildness laves our shaking limbs, that from it, purified from sweat and dust and blood, strengthened, renewed, rejuvenated, almost innocent once more, almost with pristine courage and zeal we may go forth again--these I hold to be the benignest, the most moving of all the great facts of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of... unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »