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Every Day of Life
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Chapter 1: The Every-Day of Life
- Place a spray in thy belt, or a rose on thy stand
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- Leave no memorial but a world made
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- What shall I do to be forever know?
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- She doeth little kindnesses
- Lowel
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- Earth’s crammed with heaven
- Mrs. Browning
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- The heavens are glassed in Merrimac
- Whittier
- The Chapel of the Hermits
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Chapter 2: Our Debt to the Past
- We see by the light of thousands of years
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- I fall not on my knees and pray
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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- O awful, sweetest Life of mine
Chapter 3: The Beatitude for the Unsuccessful
- I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in
the battle of life
- W. W. Story
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- But ah, what folly! See, he stops
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- Speak, history! Who are life’s victors?
Unroll thy long annals and say
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Chapter 4: The Blessing of Quietness
- Just when we think we‘ve fixed the golden
mean
- Margaret J. Preston
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- We mar our work for God by noise and bustle
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Chapter 5: On Being a Discourager
- Ask God to give these skill
- A. E. HaMilton
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- If I am weak and you are strong
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- A singer sang a song of tears
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- So you fell just now in the mud, poor heart!
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Chapter 6: Making Life a Song
- In the still air the music lies unheard
- Horatius Bonar
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- Our lives are songs; God writes the words
- One writes
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- We are but organs mute, till a master touches the keys
- One writes
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- Spare not the stroke! do with us as thou wilt!
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- By thine own soul’s law learn to live
Chapter 7: Life-Music in Chorus
- Walk with thy fellow-creatures; note the hush
- Lucy Larcom
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- My fairest child, I have no song to give you
- Charles Kingsley
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- Alas! How easily things go wrong
- George MacDonald
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- Then chords long silent woke beneath his touch
- Learn thou the noble lesson, O my soul
Chapter 8: Loving the Unseen Friend
- The world sits at the feet of Christ
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- I cannot know why suddenly the storm
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- My life is but a weaving
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- A little while, with tides of dark and night
Chapter 9: The Secret of Peace
- Let nothing disturb thee
- Santa Teresa’s Bookmark
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- Just to be still, though tempests break
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- How shall I quiet my heart? How shall I keep it still
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Chapter 10: In Time of Loneliness
- He never smiled so sweet before
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- Still in each heart of hearts a hidden deep
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- So long thy power has blessed me, sure it still
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- There is a mystery in human hearts
Chapter 11:The Blessedness of Not Knowing
- Still in each heart of hearts a hidden
deep
- Louise Bushnell
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- Eyes lifted to the icy north
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- Tis better to have loved and lost
- Tennyson
- In Memoriam
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- God gives us love; something to love
- Tennyson
- How will they build, these little hands?
- It may be that he keeps waiting
- I thank thee, Lord, that thou dost lay
Chapter 12: Words about Consecration
- Oh, let me give
- Frances Ridley Havergal
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- They have no place in storied page
- Sir Edwin Arnold
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- My soul was stirred; I prayed: ‘Let me
Chapter 13: The Duty of Speaking Out
- In the desert where he lies entombed
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- To me the meanest flower that blooms can give
- Wordsworth
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- Oh, many an arrow will reach the heart
- If any little word of mine
- It isn’t the thing you do, dear
- Mrs. Sangster
- Delayed till she had ceased to know
Chapter 14: Learning by Doing
- The busy fingers fly, the eyes may see
- Susan Coolidge
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- O trifling tasks so often done
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- Lo! Amid the press
- Lucy Larcome.
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- But interruptions all day long
- Susan Coolidge
- Interrupted
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Chapter 15: The Benediction of Patience
- O wait, impatient heart!
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- The hands are such dear hands
- He doth not fail
Chapter 16: Hurting the Lives of Others
- The elm was broken after many years
- Charles N. Sinnett
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- He hears one’s life-blood dripping
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Chapter 17: The Cost of Being a Friend
- All like the purchase; few the price will pay
- Katherine Philips
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- If all the gentlest-hearted friends I know
- Mrs. Browning
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- He is not worthy, so you say
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- If thou‘rt my friend, show me the life that
sleeps
Chapter 18: Our Unsuspected Perils
- Lord, I had chosen another lot
- Christina Rosetti
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- Lord, for the erring thought
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Chapter 19: The Bearing of Our Burden
- Put any burden upon me, only sustain me
- Fly-leaf, Miss Brigham’s Bible
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- If I can stop one heart from breaking
- Emily Dickinson
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- Charge not thyself with the weight of a year
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- Thy burden is God’s gift
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- Nothing that hour was altered
Chapter 20: The Influence of Companionship
- I feel that I shall stand
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- Where’er a noble deed is wrought
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- There was a star
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- There was a smile
- Our friend is an unconscious part
- What entered into thee
- Each soul whispers to herself: ‘Twere like a
breach
- Whether near or far
- One exhorts
Chapter 21: As it is in Heaven
- Like a snowy mountain peak above us
- Lucy Larcom
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- When I sit and think of heaven so beautiful and
dear
- Susan Coolidge
- Our wills are ours, we know not how
- Tennyson
- In Memoriam
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- Our wills are ours to make them thine
- This is life — to pour out love unstinted
- Father, I do not ask
Chapter 22: The Ending of the Day
- Who’s seen my day
- From “Rest, The Tranquil Hour.”
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- We should fill the hours with the sweetest things if we had
but a day
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- Take unto thyself, O Father !
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