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Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
Sara Teasdale
Wisdom
Investigation
Result
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale
Heart
Years
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
Life
Truth
Eyes
Will
Youth
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
Sara Teasdale
Life
Nothing
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
Old
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
Sara Teasdale
Beauty
Joy
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
Sara Teasdale
Spirit
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale
Worth
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
Dreams
Kiss
Heart
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
Life
Children
Faces
Fire
Wonder
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
Sara Teasdale
Women
Love
Spring
Waiting
World
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Sara Teasdale
Thoughts
Wealth
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
Sara Teasdale
Joy
Sorrow
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
Sara Teasdale
Actions
Words
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale
Beauty
Heart
Bitterness