Youth. Autobiography

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Phillips, Sampson, 1857
 

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Seite 146 - God keeps a niche In Heaven to hold our idols ; and albeit He brake them to our faces and denied That our close kisses should impair their white, I know we shall behold them raised, complete, The dust swept from their beauty, — glorified New Memnons singing in the great God-light.
Seite 144 - ... mild curfew shall from work assoil. God did anoint thee with his odorous oil, To wrestle, not to reign; and he assigns All thy tears over, like pure crystallines, For younger fellow-workers of the soil To wear for amulets. So others shall Take patience, labor, to their heart and hand, From thy hand and thy heart and thy brave cheer, And God's grace fructify through thee to all.
Seite 144 - WHAT are we set on earth for ? Say, to toil; Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines For all the heat o' the day, till it declines, And death's mild curfew shall from work assoil. God did anoint thee with his odorous oil, To wrestle, not to reign; and he assigns All thy tears over, like pure crystallines, For younger fellow-workers of the soil To wear for amulets. So others shall Take patience...
Seite 234 - In the coolest way, she said to her friends, ' I now know ' all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no ' intellect comparable to my own.
Seite 59 - Thou Friend, whose presence on my wintry heart Fell, like bright Spring upon some herbless plain, How beautiful and calm and free thou wert In thy young wisdom...
Seite 141 - I saw there was no self; that selfishness was all folly, and the result of circumstance; that it was only because I thought self real that I suffered ; that I had only to live in the idea of the all, and all was mine. This truth came to me, and I received it unhesitatingly; so that I was for that hour taken up into God.
Seite 12 - She was one of those fair and flower-like natures, which sometimes spring up even beside the most dusty highways of life - a creature not to be shaped into a merely useful instrument, but bound by one law with the blue sky, the dew, and the frolic birds. Of all persons whom I have known, she had in her most of the angelic, — of that spontaneous love for every living thing, for man, and beast, and tree, which restores the golden age.
Seite 24 - I loved to gaze on the roses, the violets, the lilies, the pinks ; my mother's hand had planted them, and they bloomed for me. I culled the most beautiful. I looked at them on every side ; I kissed them, I pressed them to my bosom with passionate emotions, such as I have never dared to express to any human being.
Seite 17 - Indeed, he demanded accuracy and clearness in everything: you must not speak, unless you can make your meaning perfectly intelligible to the person addressed; must not express a thought, unless you can give a reason for it, if required; must not make a statement, unless sure of all particulars - such were his rules. "But," "if," "unless," "I am mistaken," and "it may be so," were words and phrases excluded from the province where he held sway.
Seite 80 - But, as high turrets, for their airy steep, Require foundations, in proportion deep ; And lofty cedars as far upward shoot, As to the nether heavens they drive the root : So low did her secure foundation lie, She was not humble, but Humility.

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