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... pleasure . Chesterfield , 79 CHAPTER IV . THE CHURCH . Packet ships . The voyage . Ecclesiastical organizations . The duty of making a profession of religion . The church member's duty . Attending church meetings . The duty of the pious ...
... pleasure . Chesterfield , 79 CHAPTER IV . THE CHURCH . Packet ships . The voyage . Ecclesiastical organizations . The duty of making a profession of religion . The church member's duty . Attending church meetings . The duty of the pious ...
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... . Even if , for a season , your efforts appear to be unavail- ing , the most triumphant success will be your final accomplishment . Why do so many pass their lives in the fruitless pursuit of pleasure , and MERRIMENT IS NOT HAPPINESS . 19.
... . Even if , for a season , your efforts appear to be unavail- ing , the most triumphant success will be your final accomplishment . Why do so many pass their lives in the fruitless pursuit of pleasure , and MERRIMENT IS NOT HAPPINESS . 19.
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott. their lives in the fruitless pursuit of pleasure , and find in a dying hour that the past has been but a dream of vanity , and that the most fearful uncertainty clouds the future with gloom . It is because ...
John Stevens Cabot Abbott. their lives in the fruitless pursuit of pleasure , and find in a dying hour that the past has been but a dream of vanity , and that the most fearful uncertainty clouds the future with gloom . It is because ...
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... wears away . And when late she rises , languid and dejected , to toil painfully through the hours of the day , she is constrained to admit . that the pleasure of the moment was most dear- ly MERRIMENT IS NOT HAPPINESS . 21.
... wears away . And when late she rises , languid and dejected , to toil painfully through the hours of the day , she is constrained to admit . that the pleasure of the moment was most dear- ly MERRIMENT IS NOT HAPPINESS . 21.
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott. that the pleasure of the moment was most dear- ly bought . She is sadly disappointed in her pursuit , and yet , as she knows not where else to look for joy , she continues in a kind of submis- sive desperation ...
John Stevens Cabot Abbott. that the pleasure of the moment was most dear- ly bought . She is sadly disappointed in her pursuit , and yet , as she knows not where else to look for joy , she continues in a kind of submis- sive desperation ...
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Page 176 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering. Forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 26 - Father's will, Such love, and meekness so divine, I would transcribe and make them mine. 3 Cold mountains and the midnight air Witnessed the fervor of Thy prayer ; The desert Thy temptations knew, Thy conflict and Thy victory too. 4 Be Thou my pattern ; make me bear More of Thy gracious image here ; Then God, the Judge, shall own my name Among the followers of the Lamb.
Page 37 - Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another...
Page 126 - BLEST be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love ; The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above. 2 Before our Father's throne We pour our ardent prayers ; Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, Our comforts and our cares.
Page 100 - For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 109 - I have seen,' says this man of the world, " the silly rounds of business and pleasure, and have done with them all. I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world, and consequently know their futility, and do not regret their loss.
Page 178 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 104 - I see in this world two heaps, of human happiness and misery ; now if I can take but the smallest bit from one heap and add to the other, I carry a point. If, as I go home, a child has dropped a halfpenny, and if, by giving- it another, I can wipe away its tears, I feel I have done something. I should be glad indeed to do greater things, but I will not neglect this.
Page 177 - They know, indeed, at what hour they may beat the door of an acquaintance, how many steps they must attend him towards the gate, and what interval should pass before his visit is returned ; but seldom extend their care beyond the exterior and unessential parts of civility, nor refuse their own vanity any gratification, however expensive to the quiet of another.
Page 175 - A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.