Companions of My Solitude

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J.W. Parker and Son, 1857 - 284 páginas

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Página 114 - I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine; All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medicine are mine, All light of art or nature; — to my song, Victory and praise in their own right belong.
Página 96 - Be taught, O faithful Consort, to control Rebellious passion ; for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul ; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.
Página 108 - Pure religion and undefiled is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unspotted from the world...
Página 214 - But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
Página 87 - When I am assailed with heavy tribulations I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill ; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour ; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.
Página 56 - Whatever happens, do not be dissatisfied with your worldly fortunes, lest that speech be justly made to you, which was once made to a repining person much given to talk of how great she and hers had been. 'Yes, madam/ was the crushing reply, ' we all find our level at last.
Página 55 - Do not be discouraged, therefore, by a present detriment in any course which may lead to something good. Time is so precious here. " Get, if you can, into one or other of the main grooves of human affairs.
Página 82 - There was no resisting the anxious entreaty of the child ; and man and child moved off together to plant the weed in one of those plots of ground which the children walk about upon a good deal, and put branches of trees in and grown-up flowers, and then examine the roots, (a system as encouraging as other systems of education I could name) and which they call then- gardens. But the child's words ' will you plant it in my garden
Página 133 - The hissing of collected Europe, provided I knew the hissers could not touch me, would be a grateful sound rather than the reverse — that is, if heard at a reasonable distance...
Página 226 - Cathedral; the great western doors were thrown wide open right upon the market-place filled with flowers, and, in the centre aisle, not before any image, a poor woman and her child were praying. I was only there a few minutes, and these two figures remain impressed upon my mind. It is surely very good that the poor should have some place free from the restraints, the interruptions, the familiarity, and the squalidness of home, where they may think a great thought, utter a lonely sigh, a fervent prayer,...

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