Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysC. Scribner, 1864 - 344 pages |
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... FAITH IN HUMANITY ,. 236 LESSON XVIII . SORE SPOTS AND SENSITIVE SPOTS , ......... 250 LESSON XIX . THE INFLUENCE OF PRAISE , ... 265 LESSON XX . UNNECESSARY BURDENS ,. ..................... 278 LESSON XXI . PROPER PEOPLE AND PERFECT ...
... FAITH IN HUMANITY ,. 236 LESSON XVIII . SORE SPOTS AND SENSITIVE SPOTS , ......... 250 LESSON XIX . THE INFLUENCE OF PRAISE , ... 265 LESSON XX . UNNECESSARY BURDENS ,. ..................... 278 LESSON XXI . PROPER PEOPLE AND PERFECT ...
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... faith or skepticism , love or hate . It would appear , therefore , that there is no way by which we can surround ourselves by good society so readily as by being good ourselves . If we plant good seed , we may calculate with a great ...
... faith or skepticism , love or hate . It would appear , therefore , that there is no way by which we can surround ourselves by good society so readily as by being good ourselves . If we plant good seed , we may calculate with a great ...
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... faith in his skill , by taking it for granted that they are in a fair way to get well . It is impossible for bigots , for men of one idea , for fanatics , for those who set boundaries to themselves in religious , social , and political ...
... faith in his skill , by taking it for granted that they are in a fair way to get well . It is impossible for bigots , for men of one idea , for fanatics , for those who set boundaries to themselves in religious , social , and political ...
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... faith in the genuineness and the generation , under fa- vorable conditions , of their garden seeds ; but I object to their style of life and piety , and to every thing out- side of Shakerdom which looks like it . I object to this whole ...
... faith in the genuineness and the generation , under fa- vorable conditions , of their garden seeds ; but I object to their style of life and piety , and to every thing out- side of Shakerdom which looks like it . I object to this whole ...
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... faith ; and , in the coming world , they will learn what they do not know here ; but the question whether they are as well worth saving as some of their neighbors , may , I think , be legitimately entertained . In saying this , I mean ...
... faith ; and , in the coming world , they will learn what they do not know here ; but the question whether they are as well worth saving as some of their neighbors , may , I think , be legitimately entertained . In saying this , I mean ...
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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 182 - 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 170 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
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 182 - It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done...
Page 98 - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never can'st thou kiss, Though winning near the goal - yet do not grieve: She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss...
Page 261 - My stubborn right abide ; I set a plain man's common sense Against the pedant's pride. To-day shall simple manhood try The strength of gold and land ; The wide world has not wealth to buy The power in my right hand...
Page 169 - 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 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 220 - 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.