Eleanor Boies Tileston

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Norwood Press, 1915 - 283 sider

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Side 227 - ... and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration, whose memory a benediction.
Side 22 - Give unto thy servants that peace, which the world cannot give ; that our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee, we, being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Side 165 - Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!
Side 49 - Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name; but name is sound and echo. And the things which are much valued in life are empty and rotten and trifling, and [like] little dogs biting one another, and little children quarrelling, laughing, and then straightway weeping. But fidelity and modesty and justice and truth are fled— Up to Olympus from the wide-spread earth.
Side 49 - If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it.
Side 38 - The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay In such a jocund company!
Side 56 - And now abideth faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Side 228 - ... than itself is just as strong and authoritative in those who feel it, as the inner need of uniform laws of causation ever can be in a professionally scientific head. The toil of many generations has proved the latter need prophetic. Why may not the former one be prophetic, too ? And if needs of ours outrun the visible universe, why may not that be a sign that an invisible universe is there?

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