The Royal Path of Life: Or, Aims and Aids to Success and HappinessSouth Western Publishing House, 1881 - 600 pages |
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... object , with all the powers of his mind , and yet make his life a failure . A man may work in the dark , yet one day light shall arise upon his labor ; and though he may never , with his own lips , declare the victory complete , some ...
... object , with all the powers of his mind , and yet make his life a failure . A man may work in the dark , yet one day light shall arise upon his labor ; and though he may never , with his own lips , declare the victory complete , some ...
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... object on which to rest ; by our instinctive discernment of the true maternal love from the false - as we would discern between a lifeless statue and a breathing man ; by the hallowed emotions with which we cherish in the depths of our ...
... object on which to rest ; by our instinctive discernment of the true maternal love from the false - as we would discern between a lifeless statue and a breathing man ; by the hallowed emotions with which we cherish in the depths of our ...
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... objects , and is silent . Then pres- ently begins his use of his fingers , and he studies power -the lesson of his race . Not without design has God implanted in the mater- nal breast that strong love of their children which is felt ...
... objects , and is silent . Then pres- ently begins his use of his fingers , and he studies power -the lesson of his race . Not without design has God implanted in the mater- nal breast that strong love of their children which is felt ...
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... object of life . It stands at the end of every day's labor , and beckons us to its bosom ; and life would be cheerless and meaningless did we not discern across the river that divides it from the life beyond , glimpses of the pleasant ...
... object of life . It stands at the end of every day's labor , and beckons us to its bosom ; and life would be cheerless and meaningless did we not discern across the river that divides it from the life beyond , glimpses of the pleasant ...
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... . There is no moral object so beautiful to me as a con- scientious young man . I watch him as I do a star in the heavens ; clouds may be before him , but we know that his light is behind them and will beam again TO YOUNG MEN . 79.
... . There is no moral object so beautiful to me as a con- scientious young man . I watch him as I do a star in the heavens ; clouds may be before him , but we know that his light is behind them and will beam again TO YOUNG MEN . 79.
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Page 300 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 193 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Page 532 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 559 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Page 538 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Page 519 - ... then be sure that every unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action, will come thronging back upon thy memory and knocking dolefully at thy soul — then be sure that thou wilt lie down sorrowing and repentant on the grave, and utter the unheard groan, and pour the unavailing tear ; more deep, more bitter, because unheard and unavailing.
Page 115 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
Page 519 - If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent; if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth...
Page 343 - Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart.
Page 518 - If it has its woes, it has likewise its delights ; and when the overwhelming burst of grief is calmed into the gentle tear of recollection ; when the sudden anguish and the convulsive agony over the present ruins of all that we most loved, is softened away into pensive meditation on all that it was in the days of its loveliness — who would root out such a sorrow from the heart...