17 Quotes by Katharine Lee Bates

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.

0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

Adversity is the true school of the mind.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain....

Our academic home was simple in its appointments, – so simple that Joy-of-Life and I often merrily quoted to each other the comment of a calling freshman: “When I’m old, I mean to have a dear little house just like this one, all furnished with nothing but books.