Collection of Papers, EtcStandard Press, 1912 - 143 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 6 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
الصفحة 4 - Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please ; O let th> ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. To spread large bounties, though we wish in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain...
الصفحة 9 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
الصفحة 9 - Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years : this we call education, which is in effect but an early custom.
الصفحة 130 - Herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim Wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
الصفحة 63 - And yet, alas ! the real ills of life Claim the full vigour of a mind prepared, Prepared for patient, long, laborious strife, Its guide experience, and truth its guard. We fare on earth as other men have fared.
الصفحة 69 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
الصفحة 117 - Sow a thought and reap an act ; sow an act and reap a habit ; sow a habit and reap a character ; sow a character and reap a destiny.
الصفحة 69 - He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper ; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
الصفحة 90 - s magic in it, Never let it lag behind ; Write thy thought, — the pen can win it From the chaos of the mind.