 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1840 - 398 pages
...willing to repeat .them as 1 can, and to close with them the remarks I have been making upon Trifles. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Oh let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence ; Large bounties... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - Conduct of life - 1840 - 402 pages
...change. I am now fully convinced of the truth of the following lines from one of our best writers: " Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from these trifles springs, Oh ! let the ungentle spirit learn from thence, A small unkindness is a great... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...all. fltljr Importantr of Slviflt B. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half our mis'ry from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys...peace and ease, And few can save, or serve, but all can please, — Oh ! let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1841 - 372 pages
...our own sweet singers says — " Since trifles m;il;c the sum of human things, And half our miseries from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve,<but all may please; Oh ! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...'Tis with our judgment, as our watches ; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Kindness. * 3. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please ; O, let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, — A. small unkindnesa is a great ofense.... | |
 | H. D. - 1843 - 438 pages
...pain — Win back the soul that His fair path forsook, And mighty and eternal is thy gain ! EDMESTON. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...small unkindness is a great offence. Large bounties to bestow we wish in vain ; But all may shun the guilt of giving pain. H. MOBS. REGARD DUE TO THE FEELINGS... | |
 | Hannah More - 1843 - 412 pages
...pleased, record ; One soul-felt sigh by powerless pity given, Accepted incense ! shall ascend to heaven ! Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please;. O let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small... | |
 | Hannah More - Sunday school literature - 1843 - 1166 pages
...sigh by pow'rless pity given, Accepted incense ! shall ascend to heav'n ! ' Since trifle* make the snm of human things, And half our misery from our foibles...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; 0 let th' ungentle-spirit learn from hence, A small nnkindness... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...too much; At every trifle scorn to take offence, That, always, shows great pride, or little sense. 2 Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best gifts consist in peace and ease, And few can save, or serve, but all may please; Oh! let the ungentle... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...wound the body of a fellow-being ; and, in man}* instances, the former is the more cruel of the two Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please ; Oh ! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.... | |
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Since Trifles make the Sum of human things And half our misery from our foibles springs Since [life's best joys] consist in peace and ease And [few can] save or serve but all may please: Oh! let the [ungentle] spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness... 
