Life Story of Hosea Ballou: For the YoungTompkins, 1854 - 128 Seiten |
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Seite 83 - If good people,' said Archbishop Usher, ' would but make goodness agreeable, and smile, instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause...
Seite 89 - The end of learning is to know ' ' God, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to
Seite 77 - That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker ; but that which makes them go away thoughtful and serious and hastening to be alone.
Seite 56 - Twelve hours a day for twenty years together," meaning to convey the idea that he himself had achieved success by the most laborious practice. Sir Joshua Reynolds said, " If you have great talents, — and great talents are what some people call genius, — industry will improve them ; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply the deficiency. Nothing is denied to welldirected labour ; nothing is to be obtained without it.
Seite 93 - The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Seite 31 - The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.
Seite 72 - ... nient for you to speak loudly, you must remember it is " inconvenient for others to hear it. "But, with regard to .manner, be careful to speak in a "soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you " have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness.
Seite 72 - ... most lovingly. It is not strange that it should have been thus, when we know the spirit which actuated the father in his home, and which he imparted to other friends for the government of children, as expressed in the following : " When giving your children commands, be careful that you speak with becoming dignity as if not only the right, but the wisdom also, to command was with you. Be cautious that you never give your commands in a loud voice, or in haste. When you have occasion to rebuke,...
Seite 84 - God, my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen ; and since God has given me a cheerful heart, it will be pardoned me that I serve him with a cheerful spirit.
Seite 65 - In life we shall find many men that are great, and some men that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.