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... Light of the Household . To save rather than earn . Real Friendship . A Great Mistake . The Noble Woman . Another Woman's Heart . The Pleasant Surprise . Soft Star of Love . Honour to Old Age . Peculiar Protection . Rights of Women ...
... Light of the Household . To save rather than earn . Real Friendship . A Great Mistake . The Noble Woman . Another Woman's Heart . The Pleasant Surprise . Soft Star of Love . Honour to Old Age . Peculiar Protection . Rights of Women ...
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... light , when you first bent the ear and distinguished sounds , when you first put forth the hand and brought it in contact with something else . The first two years of life , though the impres- sions and the feelings and emotions ...
... light , when you first bent the ear and distinguished sounds , when you first put forth the hand and brought it in contact with something else . The first two years of life , though the impres- sions and the feelings and emotions ...
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... heart trained to commune with God , and the soul to rise up into his light , and to plume her wings for the flight of eternal ages . A right education embraces that humility which a conscious sin- 28 BETTER THAN WEALTH . ner ought to feel ,
... heart trained to commune with God , and the soul to rise up into his light , and to plume her wings for the flight of eternal ages . A right education embraces that humility which a conscious sin- 28 BETTER THAN WEALTH . ner ought to feel ,
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... light and twilight , real jewels and those that are false , things valuable to the mind and the memory , and things useless . " 5. The fifth object of study is to cultivate the taste . " People naturally differ much as to the possession ...
... light and twilight , real jewels and those that are false , things valuable to the mind and the memory , and things useless . " 5. The fifth object of study is to cultivate the taste . " People naturally differ much as to the possession ...
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... light , and foolish things possible . In a world contain- ing the thoughts and the beautiful creations of all the past , the man or the woman who cannot carry to the common gathering at least one valuable thought ought not to be toler ...
... light , and foolish things possible . In a world contain- ing the thoughts and the beautiful creations of all the past , the man or the woman who cannot carry to the common gathering at least one valuable thought ought not to be toler ...
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Page 45 - Some high or humble enterprise of good Contemplate, till it shall possess thy mind, Become thy study, pastime, rest, and food, And kindle in thy heart a flame refined. Pray Heaven for firmness thy whole soul to bind To this thy purpose — to begin, pursue, With thoughts all fixed, and feelings purely kind ; Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all is ever due.
Page 88 - I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a...
Page 264 - Beyond all this, we may find another reason why God hath scattered up and down several degrees of pleasure and pain in all the things that environ and affect us, and blended them together in almost all that our thoughts and senses have to do with ; that we, finding imperfection, dissatisfaction, and want of complete happiness in all the enjoyments which the creatures can afford us, might be led to seek it in the enjoyment of Him " with whom there is fulness of joy, and at whose right hand are pleasures...
Page 44 - Do something — do it soon — with all thy might ; An angel's wing would droop if long at rest, And God himself, inactive, were no longer blessed.
Page 168 - make it otherwise. I write according to the thoughts I feel ; when I think upon God my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap, as it were, from my pen ; and since God has given me a cheerful heart, it will be pardoned me that I serve him with a cheerful spirit.
Page 252 - For my own part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts.
Page 149 - ... fingers, and were passed away like a shadow. What wonder then that I, who live in a day of so much greater refinement, when there is so much more to be wanted, and wished, and to be enjoyed, should feel myself now and then pinched in point of opportunity, and at some loss for leisure to fill four sides of a sheet like this? Thus, however, it is, and if the ancient gentlemen to whom I have referred, and their complaints of the disproportion of time to the occasions they had for it, will not serve...
Page 118 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 235 - I love you both," cried the inamorato — " I love you all five — I never was at Bristol — I will come on purpose to see you — what ! five women live happily together ! — I will come and see you — I have spent a happy evening — I am glad I came — God for ever bless you ; you live lives to shame duchesses.
Page 149 - ... through his fingers, and were passed away like a shadow. What wonder then that I, who live in a day of so much greater refinement, when there is so much more to be wanted, and wished, and to be enjoyed, should feel myself now and then pinched in point of opportunity, and at some loss for leisure to fill four sides of a sheet like this. Thus, however, it is ; and if the ancient gentlemen to whom I have referred, and their complaints of the disproportion of time to the occasions they had for it,...