...Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, to Heaven has willed, we die ! Not even the tenderest heart and next our own Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh. There is a line— a terrible one, it seems to mewhen taken with the context — in Tennyson's ' Palace...

...of our nature. The longest friendship gives no authority or capability of counsel here. " Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh." There are emotions and struggles and dangers of the soul only one Eye must see, and only...

...each turn from his beloved associate, and hold converse alone with his "hermit spirit." " Not even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh." Thus it was in the hour in which Herbert and I drew near to our future home. He, who commonly had no...

...should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone — so Heaven has willed — we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh ? Each in its hidden sphere of joy or woe, Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart ; Our eyes see all around,...

...should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone — so Heaven has willed — we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh ? Each in its hidden sphere of joy or woe, Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart ; Our eyes see all around,...

...should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone — so Heaven has willed — we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh ? Each in its hidden sphere of joy or woe, Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart ; Our eyes see all around,...

...should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die d , Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh ? Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart, Our eyes...

...in Solomon, "the heart knoweth his own bitterness ;" and a poet of our time has said, — " Not even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh." Who knows all that we owe to suffering? all the multifarious things we owe to it? Who knows...

...SISTEBS. 81 are between one's inmost self and the Father of spirits ; for it is quite true that " Not even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh ;" but I was thinking of something else ; of another cause which has arisen to give birth...

...soothing as is human sympathy, it must be imperfect. " The heart knoweth its own bitterness." " Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh." It cannot pluck a rooted sorrow from the mind, nor deliver the conscience from sin, nor reach us in...