Self-culture; Physical, Intellectual, Moral and Spiritual: A Course of Lectures

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Houghton Mifflin, 1908 - 446 pagina's

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Pagina 404 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for ? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Pagina 341 - And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Pagina 426 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit...
Pagina 23 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Pagina 123 - The world is too much with us: late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Pagina 190 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee...
Pagina 94 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Pagina 345 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Pagina 75 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Pagina 342 - Who, with a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not, Plays, in the many games of life, that one Where what he most doth value must be won . Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray...

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