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... , which care cannot disturb , nor pain make gloomy , nor poverty take away from us - houses built without hands for our souls to live in . -Ruskin . 7 I saw the mountains stand Silent , wonderful , and To get peace, if you do want it, ...
... , which care cannot disturb , nor pain make gloomy , nor poverty take away from us - houses built without hands for our souls to live in . -Ruskin . 7 I saw the mountains stand Silent , wonderful , and To get peace, if you do want it, ...
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... remember light is coming And a storm can never last . -J . B. Smiley . There is no music in a rest , that I know of , but there is the making of music in it . -Ruskin . Our lives are songs ; God writes the words , 22 Thoughts.
... remember light is coming And a storm can never last . -J . B. Smiley . There is no music in a rest , that I know of , but there is the making of music in it . -Ruskin . Our lives are songs ; God writes the words , 22 Thoughts.
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... Ruskin . I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how , to round off the corners . -Goethe's Mother . I am not concerned that I have no place , I am concerned how I may fit myself for ...
... Ruskin . I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how , to round off the corners . -Goethe's Mother . I am not concerned that I have no place , I am concerned how I may fit myself for ...
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... Ruskin . When you hold persistently to the successful mental state , you become a magnet drawing other people to aid you as you in return can aid them . But if you are much of the time despondent and gloomy , you be- come the negative ...
... Ruskin . When you hold persistently to the successful mental state , you become a magnet drawing other people to aid you as you in return can aid them . But if you are much of the time despondent and gloomy , you be- come the negative ...
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... Ruskin . Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day , which must be done whether you like it or not . Being forced to work , and forced to do your best , will breed in you a hundred virtues which the ...
... Ruskin . Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day , which must be done whether you like it or not . Being forced to work , and forced to do your best , will breed in you a hundred virtues which the ...
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THOUGHTS Jessie K. ]. Comp [Freeman,Sarah S. B. Joint Comp Yule,Oakland C. Fabiola Hospital Association No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 55 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 113 - To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion ; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to...
Page 53 - That he that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man hath need to be forgiven.
Page 146 - ... be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Page 122 - Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace ) and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct. And . •' can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 134 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 103 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there...
Page 100 - If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
Page 138 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Page 65 - A haze on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky, The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields, And the wild geese sailing high; And all over upland and lowland, The charm of the goldenrod — Some of us call it Autumn, And others call it God.