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... selfish ambition . The other has the testimony of a good conscience that he has lived to serve God . One has climbed the heights of power and surrounded himself with the pageants of wealth and feasts and splendor , only to die like a ...
... selfish ambition . The other has the testimony of a good conscience that he has lived to serve God . One has climbed the heights of power and surrounded himself with the pageants of wealth and feasts and splendor , only to die like a ...
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... selfishness . In the harvest - field of life , they are stalks that never headed . Morally considered , they are mere chaff and stubble . Does this seem like caricature or irony ? It is the simple truth . There are men who have no more ...
... selfishness . In the harvest - field of life , they are stalks that never headed . Morally considered , they are mere chaff and stubble . Does this seem like caricature or irony ? It is the simple truth . There are men who have no more ...
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... selfish , that he may lift you up to himself and teach you to set your affections on things above , that you may be , more than the heir of kings , more than the wielder of sceptres- God's own child . OU V. THE COMPASS OF LIFE . " A ...
... selfish , that he may lift you up to himself and teach you to set your affections on things above , that you may be , more than the heir of kings , more than the wielder of sceptres- God's own child . OU V. THE COMPASS OF LIFE . " A ...
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... selfish ambition , so inherently mean , that no poet's strains could ennoble it , and no stars or ribbons blazon over its infamy . I do not wonder , in view of the con- trast between the soul walking the earth but treading on it with ...
... selfish ambition , so inherently mean , that no poet's strains could ennoble it , and no stars or ribbons blazon over its infamy . I do not wonder , in view of the con- trast between the soul walking the earth but treading on it with ...
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... selfishness , but scudding without a helmsman before the blasts of passion and interest ? Does any man imagine that thus he will ever reach the port ? No , he needs the compass , he needs it free from all disturbing influences , he ...
... selfishness , but scudding without a helmsman before the blasts of passion and interest ? Does any man imagine that thus he will ever reach the port ? No , he needs the compass , he needs it free from all disturbing influences , he ...
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Page 103 - And darkness and doubt are now flying away ; No longer I roam in conjecture forlorn. So breaks on the traveller, faint, and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. See Truth, Love, and Mercy, in triumph descending, And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom ! On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
Page 72 - THOU art, O God ! the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Page 38 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe, From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Page 20 - A man may read a sermon, the best and most passionate that ever man preached, if he shall but enter into the sepulchres of kings. In the same Escurial where the Spanish princes live in greatness and power, and decree war or peace, they have wisely placed a cemetery where their ashes and their glory shall sleep till time shall be no more : and where our kings have been crowned, their ancestors lie interred, and they must walk over their grandsires
Page 344 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 124 - On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
Page 148 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
Page 321 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 146 - He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Page 202 - I WAITED patiently for the Lord ; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, Even praise unto our God : Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in the Lord.