For Thy Good Cheer: A Collection of Helpful and Beautiful ThoughtsDodge Publishing Company, 1903 - 156 pages |
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... goes down . And this is all that life ever really means . ' " " Why do we so often prefer to believe in the necessity of suffering and weakness rather than in the possibility of strength and gladness ? - C. B. Newcomb . " Dis is a purty ...
... goes down . And this is all that life ever really means . ' " " Why do we so often prefer to believe in the necessity of suffering and weakness rather than in the possibility of strength and gladness ? - C. B. Newcomb . " Dis is a purty ...
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... goes along with being a great man , by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves . - George Eliot . " Once open the door to trouble , and its visits are three - fold ; first anticipation ...
... goes along with being a great man , by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves . - George Eliot . " Once open the door to trouble , and its visits are three - fold ; first anticipation ...
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... go . - George Klingle . A happy - tempered bringer of the best Out of the worst ; who bears with what's past cure , And puts so good a face on't - wisely passive Where action's fruitless , while he remedies In silence what the foolish ...
... go . - George Klingle . A happy - tempered bringer of the best Out of the worst ; who bears with what's past cure , And puts so good a face on't - wisely passive Where action's fruitless , while he remedies In silence what the foolish ...
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... went down As when a kingly cedar green with boughs Goes down with a great shout upon the hills , And leaves a lonesome place against the sky . - Edwin Markham . " What I aspired to be , And was not For Thy Good Cheer 33.
... went down As when a kingly cedar green with boughs Goes down with a great shout upon the hills , And leaves a lonesome place against the sky . - Edwin Markham . " What I aspired to be , And was not For Thy Good Cheer 33.
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... Go often to the house of thy friend , for weeds choke up the unused path . - Scandinavian Edda . Fame without happiness is but a sorry jest at best . What matters it to a thirsty man if his empty cup be of gold , or silver , or of ...
... Go often to the house of thy friend , for weeds choke up the unused path . - Scandinavian Edda . Fame without happiness is but a sorry jest at best . What matters it to a thirsty man if his empty cup be of gold , or silver , or of ...
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Baby-hers battle beauty begets better blessed born on Christmas Browning Charles cheer child color comes courage darkness David Starr Jordan dead deeds doth duty earth Edwin Markham Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler Emerson eternal eyes faith Fear flower fret friends friendship frown George Eliot gift give glad God's Goethe gold Goodby grow Hamilton Wright Mabie hand happy heart heaven Henry Van Dyke Henry Ward Beecher hope ideals Keep a-goin kind Labor light listen close little leaves live look Margaret Stowe mind morning nature naughty little never night o'er One-and-Twenty boy ourselves Phillips Brooks poor reap rest Richard Realf road Robert Louis Stevenson settled right shine silent smile sorrow soul spirit stars strength strong sweet tender thee thine things thou thought thyself to-day To-morrow true trust Wheeler Wilcox woman woods my Master wrong
Popular passages
Page 45 - FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe ; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Page 126 - Are you in earnest? seize this very minute — What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Page 106 - neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ? or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife ? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life ? " I would not slight this wondrous world.
Page 32 - The color of the ground was in him, the red earth; The smack and tang of elemental things...
Page 53 - Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by! Blue and crimson and white it shines, Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines. Hats off! The colors before us fly ; But more than the flag is passing by.
Page 93 - This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.
Page 107 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 96 - The cat in gloves catches no mice, as Poor Richard says. It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for, Constant dropping wears away stones; and, By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says in his almanac, the year I cannot just now remember.
Page 66 - Sail forth — steer for the deep waters only, Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me, For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
Page 63 - Labor is worship !" — the robin is singing; " Labor is worship !" — the wild bee is ringing : Listen ! that eloquent whisper upspringing Speaks to thy soul from out Nature's great heart. From the dark cloud flows the life-giving shower ; From the rough sod blows the soft-breathing flower ; From the small insect, the rich coral bower; Only man, in the plan, shrinks from his part.