For Thy Good Cheer: A Collection of Helpful and Beautiful ThoughtsDodge Publishing Company, 1903 - 156 pages |
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... poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures . We can only have the highest happiness , such as goes along with being a great man , by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the ...
... poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures . We can only have the highest happiness , such as goes along with being a great man , by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the ...
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... poor ; There towers the mountain of the Voice no less , Which who so seeks shall find ; but he who bends Intent on manna still , and mortal ends , Sees it not , neither hears its thundered lore . -Lowell . So many little faults we find ...
... poor ; There towers the mountain of the Voice no less , Which who so seeks shall find ; but he who bends Intent on manna still , and mortal ends , Sees it not , neither hears its thundered lore . -Lowell . So many little faults we find ...
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... poor , for to rate a man's wealth You must first know the state of his conscience and health . Not the humble and proud , for in life's little span Who puts on vain airs is not counted a man . Not the happy and sad , for the swift ...
... poor , for to rate a man's wealth You must first know the state of his conscience and health . Not the humble and proud , for in life's little span Who puts on vain airs is not counted a man . Not the happy and sad , for the swift ...
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... uttered this prayer : " O , Lord , de cotton am so grassy , de work am so hard , and de sun am so hot , dat I b'lieve dat dis here darkey am called to preach . " How poor are they that have not patience ! What 54 For Thy Good Cheer.
... uttered this prayer : " O , Lord , de cotton am so grassy , de work am so hard , and de sun am so hot , dat I b'lieve dat dis here darkey am called to preach . " How poor are they that have not patience ! What 54 For Thy Good Cheer.
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A Collection of Helpful and Beautiful Thoughts. How poor are they that have not patience ! What wound did ever heal but by degrees ? -Shakespeare . To the extent that faculties are cultivated the chances of success are increased ...
A Collection of Helpful and Beautiful Thoughts. How poor are they that have not patience ! What wound did ever heal but by degrees ? -Shakespeare . To the extent that faculties are cultivated the chances of success are increased ...
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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
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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.