Who are the happy ones? or, Home sketches. By the author of 'Quiet thughts for quiet hours'.1875 |
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... sure ; and how you have disciplined your heart to do it I cannot think . People talk of the labours of Hercules , and think him such a wonder ; for my part , I look upon his exploits as mere child's play com- pared with yours . I had ...
... sure ; and how you have disciplined your heart to do it I cannot think . People talk of the labours of Hercules , and think him such a wonder ; for my part , I look upon his exploits as mere child's play com- pared with yours . I had ...
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... sure it is safer and better as it is ? Oh , Effie , our happiness does not depend on the abun- dance of the things which we possess . ' ' " No , Helen , perhaps not , " and she looked . gravely at her cousin as she spoke , " but it does ...
... sure it is safer and better as it is ? Oh , Effie , our happiness does not depend on the abun- dance of the things which we possess . ' ' " No , Helen , perhaps not , " and she looked . gravely at her cousin as she spoke , " but it does ...
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... sure after all that it is to be desired . But I have learnt one thing from what you call my hard lot , and that is , that the less we pursue our own happiness as such , the more surely do we find it . I think it is old Mr. Adams , of ...
... sure after all that it is to be desired . But I have learnt one thing from what you call my hard lot , and that is , that the less we pursue our own happiness as such , the more surely do we find it . I think it is old Mr. Adams , of ...
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... sure she means well by the children ; but she does not seem to me to understand them . The girls are so totally different in character , and she treats them all alike — I mean , she adopts the same system with all ; and little as I know ...
... sure she means well by the children ; but she does not seem to me to understand them . The girls are so totally different in character , and she treats them all alike — I mean , she adopts the same system with all ; and little as I know ...
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... sure I would if I could . must do it , and I am Oh , Maria , I wish I was a farmer's daughter , and had nothing to do with these horrid books . How I do envy Janet Green . She is out in the bright sun- shine all day , and never feels as ...
... sure I would if I could . must do it , and I am Oh , Maria , I wish I was a farmer's daughter , and had nothing to do with these horrid books . How I do envy Janet Green . She is out in the bright sun- shine all day , and never feels as ...
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Página 132 - For I have learned To look on Nature not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts...
Página 81 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Página 132 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
Página 77 - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins : return unto me ; for I have redeemed thee.
Página 237 - O what a glory doth this world put on For him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well performed, and days well spent ! For him the wind, ay, and the yellow leaves Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teachings. He shall so hear the solemn hymn, that Death Has lifted up for all, that he shall go To his long resting-place without a tear.