The Optimist's Good MorningLittle, Brown, 1907 - 379 pages |
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Almighty Amen beauty birds brave CHARLES cheer courage darkness dear divine duties earth EDWARD EVERETT HALE ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ELLA WHEELER WILCOX eternal eyes faith Father in Heaven fear feel flower GEORGE GEORGE L gift give glad glory God's grace Grant hand happy heart Heavenly Father Help HENRY HENRY VAN Dyke hope Infinite Jesus Christ JOHN GREENLEaf Whittier labor life's lift light lives look Lord mind morning never night ourselves patient peace perfect PERIN PHILLIPS BROOKS praise pray Thee prayer RALPH WALDO EMERSON rejoice ROBERT BROWNING shadows shine sing smile song sorrow soul strength sunshine sweet Teach thank Thee THEODORE PARKER Thine things THOMAS CARLYLE Thou art Thou dost Thou givest Thou hast Thou wilt thought Thy children Thy holy Thy love Thy presence Thy spirit Thyself toil trust truth unto Thee vision voice walk
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Page 86 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 237 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power • Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 283 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 107 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 325 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
Page 165 - DOES the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss that inn. Shall I meet other wayfarers at night? Those who have gone before. Then must I knock, or call when just in sight? They will not keep you standing at that door. Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?...
Page 58 - Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love, with fear, the only God ; to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 243 - Be strong! We are not here to play — to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle — face it; 'tis God's gift.
Page 211 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
Page 196 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.