... is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. Essential Words: Book - Page 91by Edward L. Bailey - 1920Full view - About this book
| John Davy - 1836 - 436 pages
...be all spoilt by a few drops of bitter extract; and a bad temper has the same effect in life, which is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort."... | |
| 536 pages
...debased and ruined child. Thousands have realised the cad result, and have gone mourning to their graves. Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.... | |
| Sir Humphry Davy - 1839 - 508 pages
...be all spoilt by a few drops of bitter extract; and a bad temper has the same effect in life, which is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort."... | |
| 1845 - 632 pages
...comes by persuasion, not by compulsion ; fire and fagot are not God's law, but the Pope's cannon shot. Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure... | |
| 1854 - 744 pages
...winter storms arise, they fall off, and are blown away. — BISHOP REYNOLDS. HABITUAL 'KINDNESS. — Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties,...win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.— SIB H. DAV*. POETRY. TO WINTER. WHAT I though thou com'st in sable mantle clad, Yet, Winter, art thou... | |
| 1851 - 316 pages
...time, according as the various objects of benevolence shall seem to require. HABITUAL KINDNESS. — Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties,...what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. ßir H. Вату. PRESUMPTION. — A religious professor, of Antinomian sentiments, boasting to Rowland... | |
| 1847 - 828 pages
...incorrectly translated passages of the New Testament. — From Savage Life and Scenes, by GF ANOAS. Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve tlie heart, and secure... | |
| 1847 - 490 pages
...too shall "come to /ion with songs and everlasting joy upon his head." — Hannah. HABITUAL KINDNESS. LIFE is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1868 - 288 pages
...the peace the world cannot give. Alas, this prayer was much needed ! [NEW YEAR'S THOUGHTS ON LIFE. " Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and small obligations, given habitually, are what win- and preserve the heart and secure comfort."... | |
| 1850 - 358 pages
...worth having is got by sin ; nothing worth keeping is lost by serving God." Habitual Kindness. — " Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which ' smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure... | |
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