Character and Conduct: A Book of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present AgesH. Young & sons, 1908 - 374 pages |
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... wrong , blunders , loses pro- portion , falls disastrously short of its aim , grows stiff or one - sided , or out of date- whether there be prophecies , they shall fail ; whether there be tongues , they shall cease ; whether there be ...
... wrong , blunders , loses pro- portion , falls disastrously short of its aim , grows stiff or one - sided , or out of date- whether there be prophecies , they shall fail ; whether there be tongues , they shall cease ; whether there be ...
Page 77
... wrong - doer , but they are not dead in him . They cannot die ; nothing can destroy them . And we , whose desire it should be to save men , can , if we have faith in the indestructible God in men , pierce to this immortal good in the ...
... wrong - doer , but they are not dead in him . They cannot die ; nothing can destroy them . And we , whose desire it should be to save men , can , if we have faith in the indestructible God in men , pierce to this immortal good in the ...
Page 90
... wrong and tending to destruction and ruin . " " The evils and burdens of such a temperament are half removed when a man once knows that he has it , and recognises it for a disease , -when he does not trust himself to speak and act in ...
... wrong and tending to destruction and ruin . " " The evils and burdens of such a temperament are half removed when a man once knows that he has it , and recognises it for a disease , -when he does not trust himself to speak and act in ...
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... wrong - doer does not consider beforehand the char- acter of his deed , its effects on himself and others , and its ultimate consequences . " " WE shall never be sorry afterwards for thinking twice before we speak , for counting the ...
... wrong - doer does not consider beforehand the char- acter of his deed , its effects on himself and others , and its ultimate consequences . " " WE shall never be sorry afterwards for thinking twice before we speak , for counting the ...
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... wrong or foolish deed , ' I have never thought so well of that man since then ; it was there he showed his real character , ' - as if a man's real character appeared more in one separate deed to which , perhaps , he was sorely tempted ...
... wrong or foolish deed , ' I have never thought so well of that man since then ; it was there he showed his real character , ' - as if a man's real character appeared more in one separate deed to which , perhaps , he was sorely tempted ...
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Accidie Amiel's Journal APRIL bear beautiful BERnard BosanquET better Bishop PAGET Bishop WESTCOTT blessings character CHARLES KINGSLEY cheer Christ Christian courtesy danger death DECEMBER Divine duty EMERSON evil faith faults FEBRUARY feel forget forgive friends Friendship AUGUST GEORGE ELIOT give God's Gospel of Joy grace grow habit happiness HARRIET BEECHER STOWE heart heaven HENRY DRUMMOND HENRY LATHAM human Ideal idle influence JAMES LANE ALLEN JANUARY Jesus JOHN WATSON JULY keep kind LA ROCHEFOUCAULD live look Lord AVEBURY man's MARCUS AURELIUS MARY CHOLMONDELEY means mind moral nature ness never noble NOVEMBER OCTOBER offence one's ourselves Pastor Pastorum patience perfect PHILLIPS BROOKS pleasure prayer Professor MACCUNN R. L. STEVENSON Ring ROCHEFOUCAULD selfishness SEPTEMBER silence sins sorrow soul speak spirit STOPFORD BROOKE sympathy temper temptation thee things thou thought tion true truth virtue weak words wrong
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Page 307 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Page 255 - Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 51 - No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him ; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil...
Page 242 - Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off. Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Page 307 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once: we shall hear it by and by.
Page 6 - To live content with small means ; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion ; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich...
Page 341 - This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.
Page 85 - O Almighty and most merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness keep us, we beseech thee, from all things that may hurt us; that we, being ready both in body and soul, may cheerfully accomplish those things that thou wouldest have done; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 254 - Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But...
Page 7 - To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.