 | Henry Norman Hudson - Sermons, American - 1874 - 436 pages
...public quarrels lays them waste. Frankness, candour, honesty, self-restraint, sobriety of mind, and "that best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love," — how should these grow and thrive but under the gentle rule of Peace? And where can such... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...tranquil restoration ; — feelings too Of unremembered pleasure ; such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little nameless unremembered acts 35 Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift Of aspect more... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...thing that feels. Md. Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. TSntern Abbey. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Rid. That blessed mood, In which the burden of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary... | |
 | Peabody education fund - 1875 - 470 pages
...in similar condition around him. I fully believe that he did. We all understand, however, that " Of that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love," there can be no record except on high, — or in the grateful hearts of those who have been... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - Christian poetry, American - 1875 - 362 pages
...influences of home, those which come from little things, little speeches, little deeds, and little offices, "that best portion of a good man's life, his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love," are more subtile and pervading and plastic over the character, than the teachings which we... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...tranquil restoration; — feelings too Of unremember'd pleasure; such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremember'd acts Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift,... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1875 - 748 pages
...epigram: The first line of the epigram recalls another passage of Wordsworth ("Tintern Abbey"): . . . That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kiudiiesn and of love. A LESSON. If this groat world of joy and pain Revolve in one sure track; If... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1876 - 286 pages
...tranquil restoration ; — feelings too Of unremembered pleasure ; such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kinduess and of love. Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime... | |
 | International Sunday School Lessons - 1913 - 416 pages
...cheerful, overflowing. 3. By always treating them with respect, in heart, in word, and in action; by that " best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." 4. By using parents as your counselors and friends. 5. By always acting in such a way that... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...tranquil restoration :—feelings too 30 Of unremembered pleasure : such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's...unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust, 35 To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime ; that blessed mood In which the burthen... | |
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On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love. 
