The Story of My Life, Or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy YearsA.D. Worthington & Company, 1897 - 730 strani |
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Stran 520 - Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my Hymn. Thou first and chief, sole sovran of the Vale! O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars...
Stran 122 - O, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Stran 642 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself; for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church ; for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Stran 122 - So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Stran 643 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Stran 369 - ... to bless them that curse us, to do good to them that hate us, and to pray for them that despitefully use us and persecute us...
Stran 586 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Stran 647 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Stran 298 - Tis better to have loved and lost, Thau never to have loved at all.
Stran 704 - For half a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose and verse ; history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song — I have tried all. But I feel I have not said a thousandth part of what is in me. When I go down to the grave, I can say, like so (many others, 'I have finished my day's work,' but I can not say, 'I have finished my life.