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... hath builded ! Home ! go watch the faithful dove , Sailing ' neath the heaven above us ; Home is where there's one to love ! Home is where there's one to love us ! CHARLES SWAIN . HOME . The ornaments of a home are the friends 38.
... hath builded ! Home ! go watch the faithful dove , Sailing ' neath the heaven above us ; Home is where there's one to love ! Home is where there's one to love us ! CHARLES SWAIN . HOME . The ornaments of a home are the friends 38.
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... be high or lowly , Hearts alone can make you holy . Be the dwelling e'er so small , Having love it boasteth all . " The sweetest words ear ever heard are mother , home , and heaven . HONESTY . Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey 39.
... be high or lowly , Hearts alone can make you holy . Be the dwelling e'er so small , Having love it boasteth all . " The sweetest words ear ever heard are mother , home , and heaven . HONESTY . Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey 39.
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... Heaven that made me honest , made me more Than ever king did when he made a lord . Rowe . The more honesty a man has , the less he affects the air of a saint . LAVATER . There is no sound basis of power but honesty . J. G. HOLLAND . Ay ...
... Heaven that made me honest , made me more Than ever king did when he made a lord . Rowe . The more honesty a man has , the less he affects the air of a saint . LAVATER . There is no sound basis of power but honesty . J. G. HOLLAND . Ay ...
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... as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought , the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight to Heaven . H. W. LONGFELLOW . MOTHERS . My mother's voice ! how often creep Its 56.
... as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought , the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight to Heaven . H. W. LONGFELLOW . MOTHERS . My mother's voice ! how often creep Its 56.
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... Heaven's first law and this confessed , Some are and must be greater than the rest . POPE . Science in all its discoveries , tends to the dis- covery of universal order . FLEMING . Order is the sanity of the mind , the health of the ...
... Heaven's first law and this confessed , Some are and must be greater than the rest . POPE . Science in all its discoveries , tends to the dis- covery of universal order . FLEMING . Order is the sanity of the mind , the health of the ...
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action beautiful Bible breath canst CHARLES KINGSLEY CHARLES SWAIN CHESTERFIELD child COLTON conceit COWPER Death deeds doth duty E. B. BROWNING EPICTETUS evil eyes faith fault fear FITZ-GREENE HALLECK flower forgive friends FRIENDSHIP GEORGE ELIOT give God's love grow H. W. BEECHER H. W. LONGFELLOW happy hath heaven holy honest hour idle indolence J. G. HOLLAND J. G. WHITTIER J. R. LOWELL JEREMY TAYLOR justice keep knowledge lesson light live Lord loveth man's MILTON mind MISCELLANEOUS Modesty mother N. P. WILLIS nature neighbor never noble noblest O. W. HOLMES obedience patience peace POPE pray prayer pride R. W. EMERSON revenge ROBERT BROWNING SHAKESPEARE SIR MATTHEW HALE soul spirit stars strength sweet TENNYSON thee things THOMAS FULLER thou mayst thoughts to-day to-morrow toil true trust truth virtue wisdom wise woman words
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Page 67 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 43 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Page 72 - Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Page 18 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 92 - An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Page 21 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 8 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 51 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 79 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 25 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...