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" Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. "
The Cornhill Magazine - Page 439
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Studies in Plant and Organic Chemistry: And Literary Papers

Helen Cecilia De Silver Abbott Michael, Helen Abbott Michael - 1907 - 448 pages
...cares and doubts; All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him. All this I knew not, and I failed." Effort in any direction is better than the greatest of evils —...
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The Immortality of the Soul in the Poems of Tennyson and Browning by Henry ...

Sir Henry Jones - 1907 - 62 pages
...cares and doubts ; All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...may be. And do their best to climb and get to him. Paracelsus. Here at last, do Tennyson and Browning find a conception which is adequate to their needs....
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The Substance of Faith Allied with Science: A Catechism for Parents and Teachers

Sir Oliver Lodge - 1907 - 160 pages
...cares and doubts All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all, though weak, Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...may be. And do their best to climb and get to him." The daily toil, in city office, in factory, in ship, in mine, in home, is really a struggle for Life,...
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Fundamental Religious Principles in Browning's Poetry

Willis Duke Weatherford - 1907 - 166 pages
...and comes at once to the object of its desire. It is in every human heart, and cannot be smothered. Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...where he may be, And do their best to climb and get to him,14 so we have that within us that makes us grope upward toward our God. We may never have seen...
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Katherine Trevalyan

Louise Maunsell Field - 1908 - 366 pages
...herself was silent; a few lines from a poem she had read more than once were running through her brain. "Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him." A faint smile touched her lips ; plants might indeed try to reach the sun, but surely these people...
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Katherine Trevalyan

Louise Maunsell Field - 1908 - 364 pages
...read more than once were running through her brain. "Like plants in mines, which never saw the son, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do their best to climb and get to him." A faint smile touched her lips ; plants might indeed try to reach the sun, but surely these people...
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Idealism as a Practical Creed: Being the Lectures on Philosophy and Modern Life

Sir Henry Jones - 1909 - 320 pages
...cares and doubts; All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all, though weak; Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him.' Many poets — may I not say all poets ? — have sung of love, some of them perhaps with more exquisite...
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Idealism as a Practical Creed: Being the Lectures on Philosophy and Modern ...

Sir Henry Jones - 1909 - 330 pages
...cares and doubts; All with a touch of nobleness, despite Their error, upward tending all, though weak; Like plants in mines which never saw the sun, But...may be, And do their best to climb and get to him.' Many poets — may I not say all poets ? — have sung of love, some of them perhaps with more exquisite...
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The School Bulletin and New York State Educational Journal, Volumes 35-36

1908 - 612 pages
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Commemorative Exercises at the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Organization ...

Arcturus Z. Conrad - 1909 - 320 pages
...Mountains of this Centennial week; so much beyond the past that we are — "Like plants in mines, that never saw the sun, But dream of Him, and guess where...may be, And do their best to climb and get to Him." "John Fiske, in relating the story of the federal convention for forming the constitution of the United...
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