Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul. Various

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СКАЧАТЬ you say—be true;

      Straightforwardly act—

      Be honest—in fact

      Be nobody else but you.

      ———

      If thou hast something, bring thy goods;

      A fair exchange be thine!

      If thou art something, bring thy soul,

      And interchange with mine.

      —Schiller, tr. by Edward Bulwer Lytton.

      ———

      However others act toward thee,

      Act thou toward them as seemeth right;

      And whatsoever others be,

      Be thou the child of love and light.

      ———

      This above all: to thine own self be true,

      And it must follow, as the night the day,

      Thou canst not then be false to any man.

      —William Shakespeare.

      ———

      My time is short enough at best,

      I push right onward while I may;

      I open to the winds my breast,

      And walk the way.

      —John Vance Cheney.

      ———

      Not in the clamor of the crowded street,

      Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,

      But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

      —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

      ———

      It becomes no man to nurse despair,

      But in the teeth of clenched antagonisms

      To follow up the worthiest till he die.

      —Alfred Tennyson.

GREATNESS

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FAME, SUCCESS, PROGRESS, VICTORY

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      A GREAT MAN

      That man is great, and he alone,

      Who serves a greatness not his own,

      For neither praise nor pelf;

      Content to know and be unknown:

      Whole in himself.

      Strong is that man, he only strong,

      To whose well-ordered will belong,

      For service and delight,

      All powers that, in the face of Wrong,

      Establish Right.

      And free is he, and only he,

      Who, from his tyrant passions free,

      By Fortune undismayed,

      Hath power upon himself, to be

      By himself obeyed.

      If such a man there be, where'er

      Beneath the sun and moon he fare,

      He cannot fare amiss;

      Great Nature hath him in her care,

      Her cause is his;

      Who holds by everlasting law

      Which neither chance nor change can flaw,

      Whose steadfast course is one

      With whatsoever forces draw

      The ages on;

      Who hath not bowed his honest head

      To base Occasion; nor, in dread

      Of Duty, shunned her eye;

      Nor truckled to loud times; nor wed

      His heart to a lie;

      Nor feared to follow, in the offense

      Of false opinion, his own sense

      Of justice unsubdued;

      Nor shrunk from any consequence

      Of doing good;

      He looks his Angel in the face

      Without a blush; nor heeds disgrace

      Whom naught disgraceful done

      Disgraces. Who knows nothing base

      Fears nothing known.

      Not morseled out from day to day

      In feverish wishes, nor the prey

      Of hours that have no plan,

      His life is whole, to give away

      To God and man.

      For though he live aloof from ken,

      The world's unwitnessed denizen,

      The love within him stirs

      Abroad, and with the hearts of men

      His own confers.

      The judge upon the justice-seat;

      The brown-backed beggar in the street;

      The spinner in the sun;

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