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... never happened have chiefly made thee wretched . [ head , The sting of pain and the edge of pleasure are blunted by long expectation , For the gall and the balm alike are diluted in the waters of patience ; And often thou sippest ...
... never happened have chiefly made thee wretched . [ head , The sting of pain and the edge of pleasure are blunted by long expectation , For the gall and the balm alike are diluted in the waters of patience ; And often thou sippest ...
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... never sprang up , to mock the loose husbandry of indolence , Or the pestilence never swept away an unknown curse from among men ? Would ye crush the buzzing myriads that float on the breath of the evening ? Would ye trample the ...
... never sprang up , to mock the loose husbandry of indolence , Or the pestilence never swept away an unknown curse from among men ? Would ye crush the buzzing myriads that float on the breath of the evening ? Would ye trample the ...
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... Never fear , thou losest not thy hold , tho ' thy mouth doth not render a reason . Contend not in wisdom with a fool , for thy sense maketh much of his conceit ; [ refutation : And some errors never would have thriven , had it not been ...
... Never fear , thou losest not thy hold , tho ' thy mouth doth not render a reason . Contend not in wisdom with a fool , for thy sense maketh much of his conceit ; [ refutation : And some errors never would have thriven , had it not been ...
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... never have been profligate , but for the splendour of a A wise man scorneth nothing , be it never so small or homely , [ name . For he knoweth not the secret laws that may bind it to great effects . The world in its boyhood was ...
... never have been profligate , but for the splendour of a A wise man scorneth nothing , be it never so small or homely , [ name . For he knoweth not the secret laws that may bind it to great effects . The world in its boyhood was ...
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... never stood , finding your own footsteps ? Hath not at times some recent friend looked out an old familiar , Some newest circumstance or place teemed as with ancient memories ? A startling , sudden flash lighteth up all for an instant ...
... never stood , finding your own footsteps ? Hath not at times some recent friend looked out an old familiar , Some newest circumstance or place teemed as with ancient memories ? A startling , sudden flash lighteth up all for an instant ...
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Page 16 - Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were astonied at thee, (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men...
Page 73 - For a good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
Page 16 - Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?" Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.
Page 326 - Since the latter date my poetic powers have been, till very lately, in a state of suspended animation. But as, in my very first conception of the tale, I had the whole present to my mind with the wholeness no less than with the liveliness of a vision, I trust that I shall be able to embody in verse the three parts yet to come in the course of the present year.
Page 239 - NEVER give up! it is wiser and better Always to hope, than once to despair; Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter, And break the dark spell of tyrannical care: Never give up! or the burden may sink you— Providence kindly has mingled the cup, And in all trials or troubles, bethink you, The watchword of life must be, Never give up!
Page 167 - And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple : and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin : and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
Page 99 - A BABE in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love ; A resting place for innocence on earth ; a link between angels and men...
Page 243 - Yes, yes ; let a man, when his enemy weeps, Be quick to receive him, a friend ; For thus on his head in kindness he heaps Hot coals, — to refine and amend ; And hearts that are Christian more eagerly yearn, As a nurse on her innocent pet, Over lips that, once bitter, to penitence turn, And whisper, Forgive and forget. "MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS...
Page 30 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel ; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Page 99 - Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come...