Borrowings: A Compilation of Helpful ThoughtsDodge publishing Company, 1899 |
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... Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech . " It was a dark , chill , misty morning , like to end in rain ; one of those mornings when even happy people take refuge in their hopes . -George Eliot . Habit is a cable ...
... Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech . " It was a dark , chill , misty morning , like to end in rain ; one of those mornings when even happy people take refuge in their hopes . -George Eliot . Habit is a cable ...
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... truth is this to me , and that to thee . -Tennyson . Faith must become active through works . Deeds must spring spontaneously from the divine life within the soul . -C . W. Wendte . Actions , looks , words , -steps from the alphabet by ...
... truth is this to me , and that to thee . -Tennyson . Faith must become active through works . Deeds must spring spontaneously from the divine life within the soul . -C . W. Wendte . Actions , looks , words , -steps from the alphabet by ...
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... truth . -Pindar . You should forgive many things in others , nothing in yourself . Learn to stand in awe of thyself . -Ausonius . -Democritus . The will of the present is the key to the future , and moral character is eternal destiny ...
... truth . -Pindar . You should forgive many things in others , nothing in yourself . Learn to stand in awe of thyself . -Ausonius . -Democritus . The will of the present is the key to the future , and moral character is eternal destiny ...
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... truth spoken more truly , as if everything of obstruction , of malformation , had been trained away . Doubtful ills do plague us worst . -Emerson . -Seneca . We can finish nothing in this life ; but we may make a beginning , and ...
... truth spoken more truly , as if everything of obstruction , of malformation , had been trained away . Doubtful ills do plague us worst . -Emerson . -Seneca . We can finish nothing in this life ; but we may make a beginning , and ...
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... truth , and have begun striving for ourselves . -Carlyle . It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient . -George Eliot . To suspect a friend is worse than to be deceived -La Rochefoucauld . by him . Every great and ...
... truth , and have begun striving for ourselves . -Carlyle . It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient . -George Eliot . To suspect a friend is worse than to be deceived -La Rochefoucauld . by him . Every great and ...
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ABOU BEN ADHEM Alice Cary angel beauty Beecher better blossoms blue Bovee bring you peace Browning C. W. Wendte Canon Farrar Carlyle cloud Colton comfort Coolbrith creed dare deed divine dream E. R. Sill Ella Wheeler Wilcox Emerson eternal faith feel flower Forenoon George Eliot George Macdonald give God's Goethe grow happy heaven Helen Hunt Herbert Spencer hope Horatio Stebbins human heart infinite Ingersoll James Freeman Clarke Jean Paul La Rochefoucauld language life's light little birds sang little things live Longfellow look Lowell Macbeth man's Margaret Fuller Merchant of Venice mind morning never night noble NUMBER OLD WITH NATURE perfect Robert Browning Rochefoucauld root Ruskin silence slept smile song soul spirit star string sublime sweet Talmud tears Tennyson thee Thine Thoreau thorns Thou thought toil trust truth Victor Hugo Whittier words Wordsworth worth
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Page 69 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 38 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Page 67 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Page 60 - Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold : Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" — The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 25 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Page 24 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 51 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 18 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 27 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 49 - No life Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.