Human Confessions

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Forbes, 1911 - 232 oldal

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214. oldal - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
116. oldal - The wounds I might have healed ! The human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
58. oldal - Except ye turn and become as little children, ye shall in nowise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
28. oldal - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
10. oldal - O unwearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness ; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
102. oldal - And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
152. oldal - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
181. oldal - Yes, Sir : there was another fine passage too, which he struck out : "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over ; for, I found that generally what was new was false.
192. oldal - I sent my Soul through the Invisible Some letter of that After-life to spell; And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered, "I Myself am Heaven and Hell.
3. oldal - That must and shall be sung high and aloof \ Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof.

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