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... smile around the village of Content , And sought with wayward feet the torrid desert of Ambition . Long time , parched and weary , I travelled that burning sand , And the hooded basilisk and adder were strewed in my way for palms ...
... smile around the village of Content , And sought with wayward feet the torrid desert of Ambition . Long time , parched and weary , I travelled that burning sand , And the hooded basilisk and adder were strewed in my way for palms ...
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... smiling beneath me , but I was wrapt in flames ; ( And I hoped , in glimmering consciousness , that all this torture was a Yet life is oft so like a dream , we know not where we are . ) [ dream- And anon , as I sat scorching , the ...
... smiling beneath me , but I was wrapt in flames ; ( And I hoped , in glimmering consciousness , that all this torture was a Yet life is oft so like a dream , we know not where we are . ) [ dream- And anon , as I sat scorching , the ...
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... smiles of heaven , and great in the stability of earth . A RULER hath not power for himself , neither is his pomp for his pride : But beneath the ermine of his office should he wear the rough hair - cloth of humility . [ ment ...
... smiles of heaven , and great in the stability of earth . A RULER hath not power for himself , neither is his pomp for his pride : But beneath the ermine of his office should he wear the rough hair - cloth of humility . [ ment ...
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... smile changeth contempt into reverence . A MAN of a haughty spirit is daily adding to his enemies : [ him : He standeth as the Arab in the desert , and the hands of all men are against A man of a base mind daily subtracteth from his ...
... smile changeth contempt into reverence . A MAN of a haughty spirit is daily adding to his enemies : [ him : He standeth as the Arab in the desert , and the hands of all men are against A man of a base mind daily subtracteth from his ...
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... smiling enemy , that openly sheatheth his weapon , But mingleth poison in secret with the sacred salt of hospitality : For pride will lie dormant in thy heart to snatch its secret opportunity , Watching , as a lion - ant , in the bottom ...
... smiling enemy , that openly sheatheth his weapon , But mingleth poison in secret with the sacred salt of hospitality : For pride will lie dormant in thy heart to snatch its secret opportunity , Watching , as a lion - ant , in the bottom ...
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Page 16 - Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were astonied at thee, (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men...
Page 73 - For a good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
Page 16 - Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?" Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.
Page 326 - Since the latter date my poetic powers have been, till very lately, in a state of suspended animation. But as, in my very first conception of the tale, I had the whole present to my mind with the wholeness no less than with the liveliness of a vision, I trust that I shall be able to embody in verse the three parts yet to come in the course of the present year.
Page 239 - NEVER give up! it is wiser and better Always to hope, than once to despair; Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter, And break the dark spell of tyrannical care: Never give up! or the burden may sink you— Providence kindly has mingled the cup, And in all trials or troubles, bethink you, The watchword of life must be, Never give up!
Page 167 - And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple : and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin : and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
Page 99 - A BABE in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love ; A resting place for innocence on earth ; a link between angels and men...
Page 243 - Yes, yes ; let a man, when his enemy weeps, Be quick to receive him, a friend ; For thus on his head in kindness he heaps Hot coals, — to refine and amend ; And hearts that are Christian more eagerly yearn, As a nurse on her innocent pet, Over lips that, once bitter, to penitence turn, And whisper, Forgive and forget. "MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS...
Page 30 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel ; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Page 99 - Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come...