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... course . - M'Cheyne . Prosperity is no just scale ; ad- versity is the only balance to weigh friends . - Plutarch . As the seed is more fruitful that hath been covered with snow , and the fire 2 THE VOICE OF WISDOM :
... course . - M'Cheyne . Prosperity is no just scale ; ad- versity is the only balance to weigh friends . - Plutarch . As the seed is more fruitful that hath been covered with snow , and the fire 2 THE VOICE OF WISDOM :
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Voice, J. E.. that hath been covered with snow , and the fire burneth faster that hath been pressed down with the wind , so are the hearts and souls of true Christians bettered by adversity . - Spencer . Adversity beareth fruit ...
Voice, J. E.. that hath been covered with snow , and the fire burneth faster that hath been pressed down with the wind , so are the hearts and souls of true Christians bettered by adversity . - Spencer . Adversity beareth fruit ...
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... hath of it , and every little blast will be puff- ing at it , so that the sooner and greater is the fall thereof ; so the ambitious man , the higher he climbeth , the greater is his fall . -Spencer . Fling away ambition ; By that sin ...
... hath of it , and every little blast will be puff- ing at it , so that the sooner and greater is the fall thereof ; so the ambitious man , the higher he climbeth , the greater is his fall . -Spencer . Fling away ambition ; By that sin ...
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... hath said in his heart , There is no God . They are cor- rupt ; they have done abominable works . The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognise God ...
... hath said in his heart , There is no God . They are cor- rupt ; they have done abominable works . The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognise God ...
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... hath stored it in his locker , The rough backwoodsman pon- dereth its pages in his cabin . -M . Tupper . Bible , richness of treasure in the . The Bible is like a cabinet of jewels that when you pull out one box ordrawer and search into ...
... hath stored it in his locker , The rough backwoodsman pon- dereth its pages in his cabin . -M . Tupper . Bible , richness of treasure in the . The Bible is like a cabinet of jewels that when you pull out one box ordrawer and search into ...
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Page 78 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 138 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 19 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers ; his to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel. But who with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — My Father made them all.
Page 40 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Page 102 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 113 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Page 32 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them.
Page vii - THE FOOL hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Page 37 - Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad — a personage less imposing — in the eyes of some perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
Page 145 - The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it ; so is that...