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... light was falling On distant dome and spire ; And I heard a low voice calling , " Come up higher , come up higher , From the lowland and the mire , From the mist of earth desire , From the vain pursuit of pelf , From the attitude of ...
... light was falling On distant dome and spire ; And I heard a low voice calling , " Come up higher , come up higher , From the lowland and the mire , From the mist of earth desire , From the vain pursuit of pelf , From the attitude of ...
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... 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.
... 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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... light pure and bright and high above the horizon . -Newell Dwight Hillis . The days come and go like muffled and veiled fig- ures sent from a distant friendly party ; but they say nothing , and if we do not use the gifts they bring ...
... light pure and bright and high above the horizon . -Newell Dwight Hillis . The days come and go like muffled and veiled fig- ures sent from a distant friendly party ; but they say nothing , and if we do not use the gifts they bring ...
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... men , sleeping , but never dead , Will rise in majesty to meet thine own ; Then shalt thou see it gleam in many eyes , Then will pure light about thy way be shed . -Lowell . Few causes age the body faster than wilful indo- lence Thoughts ...
... men , sleeping , but never dead , Will rise in majesty to meet thine own ; Then shalt thou see it gleam in many eyes , Then will pure light about thy way be shed . -Lowell . Few causes age the body faster than wilful indo- lence Thoughts ...
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... light That your soul casts in my sight , How I look to you For the good and true , The beauteous and the right . -Robert Browning . Manners impress as they indicate real power . A man who is sure of his point , carries a broad and con ...
... light That your soul casts in my sight , How I look to you For the good and true , The beauteous and the right . -Robert Browning . Manners impress as they indicate real power . A man who is sure of his point , carries a broad and con ...
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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.