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

...Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh ? " And that again reminds us, with a difference—the difference between Madame de Stael...

...Why should »e faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh? " And that again reminds us, with a difference—the difference between Madame de Stael and...

...Lockhart, in the closing chapter of his admirable Life of Scott, quoting Keble's lines, — " Not even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh," declares considerations of this kind to have always induced him to regard with small respect any attempt...

...Sympathy. WHY should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so heaven has willed, we die ; Nor e'en 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...

...so." "Far better," said Gabrielle, quietly. "We cannot judge for one another in this world. Not even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh. We sigh to-day, and smile to-morrow — so look forward to our return to Heatherbrae, when...

...Why 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 ? ' " On glancing to the footnote to see who the wise poet of our own time might be, the reader saw,...

...yet we are for the most part solitary in our thoughts and conscience, and that " Not even the dearest heart and next our own Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh." But it is this very consciousness of spiritual solitude that enforces the higher and deeper conviction...

...fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven lias will'd, we die, Nor eveu the tenderest heart, aud next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh ? But we do so fear. We do, most of all at this season, feel the lonesomeness of existence; and so...

...heart ' of each ' knoweth its own bitterness.' There are griefs and sorrows peculiar to each of us. ' Not e'en the tenderest heart, and next our own, ' Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh.' Only let none of us expect wholly to escape tribulation. God lets us suffer and struggle that we may...