A Year of Sunshine: Cheerful Extracts for Every Day in the YearJ. R. Osgood, 1884 - 384 pages |
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... seem larger , had the true philosophy of life . It is surprising how narrow means and simple pleasures may be eked out by a little invention . Sydney Smith , that great master of human happiness , used to cry out , " Glorify the room ...
... seem larger , had the true philosophy of life . It is surprising how narrow means and simple pleasures may be eked out by a little invention . Sydney Smith , that great master of human happiness , used to cry out , " Glorify the room ...
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... seem to imagine that they are always in an amphitheatre , with the assembled world as spectators ; whereas , all the while , they are playing to empty benches . A BENEFICENT person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading ...
... seem to imagine that they are always in an amphitheatre , with the assembled world as spectators ; whereas , all the while , they are playing to empty benches . A BENEFICENT person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading ...
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... seems rather sanctified which saddens the heart not over much , and softens without withering it . H. Hooker . WHAT dost thou mean by fortune ? If mere chance , then to envy the lot of others , or to murmur at thy own , is folly ; if ...
... seems rather sanctified which saddens the heart not over much , and softens without withering it . H. Hooker . WHAT dost thou mean by fortune ? If mere chance , then to envy the lot of others , or to murmur at thy own , is folly ; if ...
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... seems to make the thorns look sharper . Our minister used to say to sister Sal ( and , when she was young , she was a rael witch , a most an everlastin ' sweet girl ) , " Sally , " he used to say , " now's the time to larn , when you ...
... seems to make the thorns look sharper . Our minister used to say to sister Sal ( and , when she was young , she was a rael witch , a most an everlastin ' sweet girl ) , " Sally , " he used to say , " now's the time to larn , when you ...
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... Be bitter in thine inn , and thou unshod To meet the flints ? - - At least it may be said , " Because the way is short , I thank thee , God ! " Elizabeth Barrett Browning . If the world seems cold to you , Kindle fires FEBRUARY 20 .
... Be bitter in thine inn , and thou unshod To meet the flints ? - - At least it may be said , " Because the way is short , I thank thee , God ! " Elizabeth Barrett Browning . If the world seems cold to you , Kindle fires FEBRUARY 20 .
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Page 60 - Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
Page 65 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand, The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 44 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Page 30 - When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book.
Page 30 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.