Autobiography and Diary of Elizabeth Parsons Channing: Gleanings of a Thoughtful LifeAmerican Unitarian Association, 1907 - 304 من الصفحات |
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Alliance Branch Alliance meeting AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION asked Aunt beautiful birthday blessed Boston called charming cheerful Christ Christian Register church comfort death delightful Diary earnest ELIZABETH PARSONS Emerson faith father fear feel forget friend writes gift glad grace happy hear heard heart heaven hope human hymns inspiring interest James Freeman Clarke James Martineau Jane Austen Julius Cæsar Kindling Thoughts letter liberal Christianity light live look memory Milton mind minister Miss Channing mother never night noble Oliver Wendell Holmes pain paper patient perhaps Phillips Brooks pleasant poor pray prayer preached R. H. Dana read aloud rejoice religion religious reverence says seems sermon sister soul speak spiritual story street strong Sunday Sunday-school sympathy talk tion to-day told true trust truth Unitarian voice William Ellery Channing wish woman women wonder words wrote young
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الصفحة 69 - Childhood must pass away, and then youth, as surely as age approaches. The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honourable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artist in life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbour.
الصفحة 282 - 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.
الصفحة 63 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
الصفحة 197 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...
الصفحة 101 - I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible ; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
الصفحة 258 - Behold ! the Sea ! The sea o'erswept by clouds and winds and wings ; By thoughts and wishes manifold, whose breath Is freshness and whose mighty pulse is peace. Palter no question of the...
الصفحة 102 - Speed, die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best . . . that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
الصفحة 300 - I know the night is near at hand : The mists lie low on hill and bay, The Autumn sheaves are dewless, dry ; But I have had the day. Yes, I have had, dear Lord, the day; When at thy call I have the night, Brief be the twilight as I pass From light to dark, from dark to light.
الصفحة 104 - Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, It is the very place God meant for thee ; And shouldst thou there small scope for action see, Do not for this give room to discontent ; Nor let the time thou owest to God be spent In idly dreaming how thou mightest be, In what concerns thy spiritual life, more free From outward hindrance or impediment ; For presently this hindrance thou...
الصفحة 101 - ... fill you with shame and remorse if you heard that one of those men were dead tomorrow morning ; you who are letting your neighbor starve, till you hear that he is dying of starvation ; or letting your friend's heart ache for a word of appreciation or sympathy, which you mean to give him some day, — if you only could know and see and feel, all of a sudden, that