The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation |
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Page 68 - rest,' Katie, that I know of : but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life-melody ; and scrambling on without counting — not that it's easy to count ; but nothing on which so much depends ever is easy. People are always talking of perseverance, and courage, and fortitude ; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, — and the rarest, too.
Page 43 - Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; And my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 229 - In every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him.
Page 106 - Do not think of your faults; still less of others' faults; in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong: honor that; rejoice in it; and, as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
Page 143 - It means the knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms, and spices ; and of all that is healing and sweet in fields and groves, and savory in meats ; it means carefulness, and inventiveness, and watchfulness, and willingness, and readiness of appliance ; it means the economy of your greatgrandmothers, and the science of modern chemists ; it means much tasting, and no wasting ; it means English thoroughness, and French art, and Arabian hospitality ; and it means, in fine, that you are to be perfectly...
Page 201 - You must either be house-wives, or house-moths ; remember that. In the deep sense, you must either weave men's fortunes and embroider them ; or feed upon, and bring them to decay.
Page 39 - Neith pointed with her arrow to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and to the west...
Page 242 - She does not merely turn the lance of Mars from Diomed ; but seizes it in both her hands, and casts it aside, with a sense of making it vain, like chaff in the wind ; — to the shout of Achilles, she adds her own voice of storm in heaven — but in all cases the moral power is still the principal one...
Page 131 - He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them, if they do it simply and 'humbly. He gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do ; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault. And we may always be sure, whatever we are doing, that we cannot be pleasing Him, if we are not happy ourselves.