The book of golden gifts1865 |
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action affections Anacharsis avarice beauty better body BOOK OF GOLDEN character charms choly conceal conversation coruscation cunning dangerous declension delight desire doth earth elevated emotions endowed enemy eternal experience eyes false fame fashionable favour feeble feelings FLORAL EMBLEM flowers folly friends friendship fulness give glory GOLDEN GIFTS grace greatest hand happiness harmony hath heart heaven honour hope human imparts influence kind KINDLY LIGHT knowledge labour LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS learned less light live Lord Lord Bacon Madame de Staël mankind manners marriage matrimony melan memory ment mind mountains mysteries nature never noble o'er ourselves passions peace persons Plato pleasing pleasure Plutarch possess PRINCE CONSORT qualities racter reason repose rience says Scythian self-convictions sentiments sions sloth smiles Solon soul speak spect spirit strength sweet sympathy talents taste thee things thou thoughts tion tongue treasures truth unto virtue weakness wealth wisdom wise
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Side 19 - Give to the winds thy fears ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, God shall lift up thy head. Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears thy way; Wait thou His time, so shall this night Soon end in joyous day.
Side 70 - LEAD, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home — Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene — one step enough for me.
Side 138 - It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me : thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
Side 97 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you, that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living GOD, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein ; who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Side 129 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Side 70 - I was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou shouldst lead me on; I loved to choose and see my path; but now lead thou me on. I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, pride ruled my will: remember not past years. So long thy power hath blest me, sure it still will lead me on, o'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till the night is gone, and with the morn those angel faces smile, which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.
Side 88 - If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Side 111 - must show himself friendly : and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother...
Side 10 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality ; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.