 Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, "Sweat For foreheads," men say "crowns," and so we are crowned, Ay, gashed by some tormenting circle of steel...  The Smith College Monthly - Page 1851903Full view - About this book
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...work : Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease, rf. EB BROWNING — Aurora Leigh. Bk. VIII. L. 784. p=/ r L ~ t xEP ` ^ % ĞR = 5 H Ή * 9ڀ e. EB BROWNING — Aurora Leigh. Bk. III. L. 164. Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - Great Britain - 1897 - 188 pages
...straining to carry the load well-nigh not to be borne brought with it its own compensations : — " Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all ; For God in cursing gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says ' Sweat For foreheads,'... | |
 | American literature - 1898 - 436 pages
...after, And sigh for what is not." He is busy with what is, and always in manly, hearty fashion : " Get leave to work In this world— 'tis the best you get at all. Get work, get work ; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get." This is the unwritten text of... | |
 | 1890 - 386 pages
...than the dignity of work — the dignity of working for one's fellows. Well does Mrs. Browning say: "Get leave to work in this world — tis the best you get at all, for God in cursing, gives us better gifts than man in benediction." And again she says, for the encoui1agement... | |
 | Thomas Williams (of Trinity House.) - Lighthouse keepers - 1900 - 240 pages
...inmost heart, with Mrs. Browning, either then, or at any other period before his health broke down : " Get leave to work In this world, — 'tis the best you get at all ; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction." Even when he had settled in... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1902 - 784 pages
...ingrained mannerism into a style of strong simplicity which every one could understand. CHAPTER VII. WORK. Get leave to work In this world, 'tis the best you get at all; For God, in curaing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says " Sweat For foreheads;"... | |
 | William Cunningham - Christian ethics - 1902 - 168 pages
...mankind for a discipline, as if it were a mere punishment and a curse ; but that is a misconception. Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. The divine sentence has proved... | |
 | 1902 - 768 pages
...greater than the dignity of work, the dignity of working for one's fellows. Well does Mrs. Browning say: "Get leave to work ! In this world 'tis the best you get at all; For God in cursing gives us better gifts Than man in benediction." And again she says for the encouragement... | |
 | 1903 - 642 pages
...of our mentors, and " Get l-iiv.' to work In this world— tls the best you get at all, Be sure 'tia better than you work to get." When we "old alums"...be) meet together, the first question is, "What are yon doing?" Activity, productivity, is a necessity to the college woman's life, progress of some sort... | |
 | Butler Hospital - Psychiatric hospitals - 1903 - 1154 pages
...entered a shop or workroom and began to forget his woes in an enlistment of interests outside of self. " Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all ; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get." Acting upon this principle, Butler Hospital has provided workshops for both... | |
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