The Optimist's Good MorningLittle, Brown,, 1907 - 379 pages |
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Almighty Amen beauty birds brave CHARLES cheer courage darkness dear divine duties earth EDWARD EVERETT HALE ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ELLA WHEELER WILCOX eternal face faith Father in Heaven fear feel fellowmen flowers GEORGE GEORGE L gift give glad glory God's grace Grant hand happy heart Heavenly Father Help HENRY HENRY VAN Dyke hope human Infinite Jesus Christ JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER labor light lives look Lord mercies morning never night OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES ourselves patient peace perfect PERIN PHILLIPS BROOKS praise pray Thee prayer RALPH WALDO EMERSON rejoice shadows shine sing smile song sorrow soul strength sunshine sweet thank Thee Thee that Thou THEODORE PARKER Thine things THOMAS CARLYLE Thou art Thou dost Thou hast Thou wilt thought Thy children Thy holy Thy love Thy presence Thy spirit Thyself toil trust truth voice walk WILLIAM
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Page 93 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 114 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 346 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 80 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Page 320 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith...
Page 63 - Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love, with fear, the only God ; to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 132 - We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts today Feel the gladness of the May!
Page 218 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
Page 203 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 70 - I go to prove my soul ! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive ! what time, what circuit first, I ask not : but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive : He guides me and the bird. In his good time ! Mich.