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“Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.”

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Scene XVI, The Hesperian Sphere
Festus (1839)

“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.”

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Scene V, A Country Town
Festus (1839)
Contesto: We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things, — God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.

“I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.”

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Festus (1839)
Contesto: I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned.

“Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.”

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Scene IV, A Mountain; Sunrise. Compare: "The surest plan to make a man / Is to think him so", J. R. Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii. St. 9
Festus (1839)

“Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.”

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Proem
Festus (1839)

“They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.”

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Festus (1839)

“Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.”

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Festus (1839)

“Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from hell.”

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Festus (1839)

“Any heart turned Godward feels more joy
In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised
By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.”

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Festus (1839)

“The worst men often give the best advice.”

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Festus (1839)

“America thou half-brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.”

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Scene X, Earth's Surface
Festus (1839)

“Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life
But needs it, and may learn.”

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Festus (1839)

“While men are what they are; while they have bad
Passions to be roused up: while ruled by men;
While all the powers and treasures of a land
At beck of the ambitious, wrongs may be
Offered, with insult; yea, while rights are worth
Maintaining; freedom keeping, or life having,
So long dread I, the sword shall shine.”

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Festus (1839)

“Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.”

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Festus (1839)

“Let each man think himself an act of God,
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God;
And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds,
To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.”

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Proem
Festus (1839)

“Respect is what we owe; love what we give.”

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Festus (1839)

“Who never doubted never half believed
Where doubt there truth is—'t is her shadow.”

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Scene V, A Country Town; comparable to Alfred, Lord Tennyson "There lives more faith in honest doubt / Believe me, than in half the creeds."
Festus (1839)