Similitudes [compiled by B.S.].Griffith and Farran, 1882 - 124 pages |
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... trees , that give it its character . Garbett . 2525252525252 IT is a part of the selfishness of human nature to have a keener memory for sorrow than for joy ; the occasional troubles often blot out of remem- brance the habitual ...
... trees , that give it its character . Garbett . 2525252525252 IT is a part of the selfishness of human nature to have a keener memory for sorrow than for joy ; the occasional troubles often blot out of remem- brance the habitual ...
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... trees , or grain , it produces briers and weeds . It is the same with man , if he is not virtuous he is likely to become vicious . DEA EATH to a good man is like passing through a dark entry , out of a little dusky room in his father's ...
... trees , or grain , it produces briers and weeds . It is the same with man , if he is not virtuous he is likely to become vicious . DEA EATH to a good man is like passing through a dark entry , out of a little dusky room in his father's ...
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... tree , Warbles sweet philosophy : " Mortal fly from doubt and sorrow , God provideth for the morrow ! " Reginald Heber . is not work that kills men , it is worry . Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear ...
... tree , Warbles sweet philosophy : " Mortal fly from doubt and sorrow , God provideth for the morrow ! " Reginald Heber . is not work that kills men , it is worry . Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear ...
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... tree . Thus faith and works together grow , No separate life they e'er can know ; They're soul and body , hand and heart : What God hath joined let no man part . Hannah More . HINE to work as well as play , TH Clearing thorny wrongs ...
... tree . Thus faith and works together grow , No separate life they e'er can know ; They're soul and body , hand and heart : What God hath joined let no man part . Hannah More . HINE to work as well as play , TH Clearing thorny wrongs ...
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... trees , we do not know their size until they are cut down . " " I'LL go down into the pit if you will hold the rope ! " exclaimed the devoted missionary Carey , when parting with Christian friends for the shores of India in 1793 . " WHO ...
... trees , we do not know their size until they are cut down . " " I'LL go down into the pit if you will hold the rope ! " exclaimed the devoted missionary Carey , when parting with Christian friends for the shores of India in 1793 . " WHO ...
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Page 89 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 15 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 109 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 55 - O'errun and trampled on: then what they do in present Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours; For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Page 2 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by...
Page 42 - OF all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is, For gift or grace, surpassing this — • He giveth His beloved, sleep...
Page 121 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Page 116 - THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears.
Page 65 - So should we live, that every hour May die as dies the natural flower, — A self-reviving thing of power ; That every thought and every deed May hold within itself the seed Of future good and future meed ; Esteeming sorrow, whose employ Is to develop, not destroy, Far better than a barren joy.
Page 14 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.