Stray Thoughts for GirlsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1910 - 201 páginas |
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... true , and to look on an ideal life as " tall talk " is a snare of the Devil ; and in these days of common sense and higher education we need to guard against it , and to remember that " a thing may be good enough for practical purposes ...
... true , and to look on an ideal life as " tall talk " is a snare of the Devil ; and in these days of common sense and higher education we need to guard against it , and to remember that " a thing may be good enough for practical purposes ...
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... true strength of the Virtuous Woman . The strength of her modern descendant lies abroad : she is strong and admirable , she does splendid work , but there is always a tinge of excitement to help one through outside work . Things done ...
... true strength of the Virtuous Woman . The strength of her modern descendant lies abroad : she is strong and admirable , she does splendid work , but there is always a tinge of excitement to help one through outside work . Things done ...
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... true wife comes this home is always round her . The stars only may be over her head , the glowworm in the night- cold grass may be the only fire at her foot : yet home is wherever she is ; and for a noble woman it stretches far around ...
... true wife comes this home is always round her . The stars only may be over her head , the glowworm in the night- cold grass may be the only fire at her foot : yet home is wherever she is ; and for a noble woman it stretches far around ...
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... true lady says , " Somebody must do the dirty work , and why not I as well as another ? " And so she worketh willingly with her hands ; for ' common household service " is " The wageless work of Paradise . " " She bringeth her food from ...
... true lady says , " Somebody must do the dirty work , and why not I as well as another ? " And so she worketh willingly with her hands ; for ' common household service " is " The wageless work of Paradise . " " She bringeth her food from ...
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... true patriot . When the public good demanded sacrifices , she would not drag him back by insisting on his duty to his family , nor would she persuade him to rob the public stores , or time , by taking little per- quisites or shortening ...
... true patriot . When the public good demanded sacrifices , she would not drag him back by insisting on his duty to his family , nor would she persuade him to rob the public stores , or time , by taking little per- quisites or shortening ...
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Términos y frases comunes
amuse Aunt Rachel better brothers Church comfort commonplace conscience dress enjoy Epictetus esprit de corps Euclid extremes meet fault feel friends friendship George Eliot girl give God's gossip hand happiness hard harm heart holidays home duties husband ideal idle interests Italy keep kind lady Lady Jane Grey leaving school lessons live look Marcus Aurelius married matter Matthew Arnold means mind mother Mysteries of Udolpho nature never nice noble nobler noblesse oblige novels passionate book perhaps person pity pleasant pleasure poetry prayers Relief of Man's remember resolution Roger Ascham rule self-denial self-indulgence selfish sense sensible servants side silly sometimes sort soul speak spend Sunday sure talk teach tell things thought true uncon unselfish Urith Virtuous Woman wish women words wrong young yourselves
Pasajes populares
Página 170 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Página 15 - But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watched over by household gods, before whose faces none may come but those whom they can receive with love,— so far as it is this, and roof and fire are types only of a nobler shade and light, shade as of the rock in a weary land, and light as of the Pharos in the stormy sea,— so far it vindicates the name and fulfils the praise of home.
Página 24 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Página 197 - I see a glimpse of it!" cries he elsewhere: "there is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness: he can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered; bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the Godlike that is in Man, and how in the Godlike only has he Strength and Freedom?
Página 165 - He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
Página 164 - I suppose you mean the greatest love, and the greatest usefulness, and the most open communication, and the noblest sufferings, and the most exemplary faithfulness, and the severest truth, and the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds, of which brave men and -women are capable.
Página 28 - Of some sweet Future, which we after find Bitter to taste, or bind that in with fears, And water it beforehand with our tears — Vain tears for that which never may arrive ; Meanwhile the joy whereby we ought to live Neglected or unheeded disappears. Wiser it were to welcome and make ours Whate'er of good, though small, the Present brings — Kind greetings, sunshine, song of birds, and flowers, With a child's pure delight in little things; And of the griefs unborn to rest secure, Knowing that mercy...