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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with
Every delay that postpones our joys, is long
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare
And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy because
We have been glad of yore.

The Fountain
Now no joy but lacks salt
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain

Of tears, the aftermark
Of almost too much love,
The sweet of bitter bark
And burning clove.

To Earthward, 1923
Every joy is gain, and gain is gain, however small.
And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

The Deserted Village
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