Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysCharles Scribner, 1861 - 344 pages |
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... better and write better . Toasting in the sunlight is conducive rather to reverie than thought , or I should be inclined to try it . This reluctance to commence labor , and this looking out of the window and longing for an accession of ...
... better and write better . Toasting in the sunlight is conducive rather to reverie than thought , or I should be inclined to try it . This reluctance to commence labor , and this looking out of the window and longing for an accession of ...
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... better at some times than it does at others , I can declare without reserva- tion , that no man who depends upon moods for the power to write can possibly accomplish much . I know men who rely upon their moods , alike for the disposi ...
... better at some times than it does at others , I can declare without reserva- tion , that no man who depends upon moods for the power to write can possibly accomplish much . I know men who rely upon their moods , alike for the disposi ...
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... better Christian than he was when he slipped into the mood , and no better than he will be when he slips out of it . If he really be a good Christian , his moods operate like clouds and blue sky . The sun shines all the time , and the ...
... better Christian than he was when he slipped into the mood , and no better than he will be when he slips out of it . If he really be a good Christian , his moods operate like clouds and blue sky . The sun shines all the time , and the ...
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... better understood , to bring them very much under the domain of our wills . A great deal is learned when we know what a mood is , and know that we are subject to varying frames of mind , resulting from causes which affect our health ...
... better understood , to bring them very much under the domain of our wills . A great deal is learned when we know what a mood is , and know that we are subject to varying frames of mind , resulting from causes which affect our health ...
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... better things in this world than a good face , and better things than the admiration which a good face wins . I am more and more convinced , as the years pass away , that the choicest thing this world has for a man is affection - not ...
... better things in this world than a good face , and better things than the admiration which a good face wins . I am more and more convinced , as the years pass away , that the choicest thing this world has for a man is affection - not ...
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Page 18 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 192 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 25 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Page 96 - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal - yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 9 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Page 177 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 250 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 236 - For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean.sundered fibres feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
Page 211 - It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
Page 79 - It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.