 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 258 pages
...faith and hope the world will disagree ; But all mankind's concern is charity. The prize of Virtue. What, nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, la virtue's prize. , ' • Sense and modesty connected. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...faith and hope the world will disagree ; But all mankind's concern is charity. The. prize of virtue. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart- felt joy, Is virtue's prize. Sense and modesty connected. Distrustful sense with modest caution... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1828 - 128 pages
...madding' crowd's ignoble strife, Tiieir sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'*! vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their...sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limb* have borne him to thy door, Whose days are... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1897 - 318 pages
...of. 117 — 7. Men are but children of a larger growth. But is an adverb, modifying are. 117 — 8. What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's...sunshine and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. What is subject of is and object of gives and can destroy. Sunshine is in the nominative by apposition... | |
 | William Salter - Devotional calendars - 1904 - 196 pages
...all the honor lies. Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below, What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy; Never elated, while one man's opprest, Never dejected, while another's blest. Reason's whole pleasure,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 440 pages
...contention for the whole, to counsels of moderation and concession, " glory, honor, and immortality?" " What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy." But this judgment of civilization is the judgment of religion, too. You believe with the Bible, with... | |
 | Alexander Lyons - Ethics - 1909 - 58 pages
...consequences. The reward of virtue is, therefore, not bread but happiness. And this is the greatest reward. "What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's...sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize." (Ibid., IV .} One self-approving hour of such outweighs years of other recognition. Not only is this... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...vice is fed, What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? 5511 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 149 What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy — The...sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, — Is virtue's prize ; a better would you fix? Then give humility a coach and six, Justice a conqueror's sword, or truth... | |
 | Effie M. Chadsey - Happiness - 1911 - 154 pages
...loved, we could not conceive one single element of bliss which is not here. — Sir John Lubbock. THIRD What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy. — Pope. 1 I Our pleasures, like honey, should be extracted not from a few stately flowers, named... | |
 | Arminianism - 1817 - 1000 pages
...without * distinction of sect or party ; and his reward is that solid substantial peace of mind, which " Nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy." " Thus, free from the disquietudes, which perplex the breast of the wjrtier and the statesman ; free... | |
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix? 
