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Sara Teasdale
American
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About the author
Life is but thought.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Life
#Thought
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Heart
#Beauty
#Bitterness
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Words
#Actions
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Sorrow
#Joy
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Wealth
#Thoughts
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Love
#World
#Women
#Waiting
#Spring
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Life
#Wonder
#Children
#Fire
#Faces
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Heart
#Dreams
#Kiss
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Worth
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Spirit
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Beauty
#Joy
Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Old
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Life
#Nothing
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Life
#Will
#Youth
#Truth
#Eyes
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Years
#Heart
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
Sara Teasdale,
American
Author
#Result
#Wisdom
#Investigation