No Friend Like a SisterMacmillan, 1906 - 442 pages |
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Page 175 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 352 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 352 - But the righteous live for evermore ; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High. Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand : for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.
Page 385 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Page 34 - Until they crumble, or else grow like steel — Which kills in us the bloom, the youth, the spring — Which leaves the fierce necessity to feel, But takes away the power — this can avail, By drying up our joy in everything, To make our former pleasures all seem stale.
Page 393 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 415 - He, who for Love has undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousand-fold than one Who never loved at all ; A grace within his soul has reigned, Which nothing else can bring — Thank God for all that I have gained, By that high suffering ! SHADOWS.
Page 265 - From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad; Princes and lords are but the breath of kings; "An honest man's the noblest work. of God;" And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind.