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Strength and Beauty
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Chapter 1: Strength and Beauty
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I
said, I’ll gaze upon my Lord
- J.W.M.
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I
were so glad to be just what himself has been
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Chapter 2: The Christian and His Rights
- Life
is too short for any bitter feeling
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Chapter 3: The Voice of Strangers
- Feeling
the way—and all the way up hill
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- He
came in winter’s frost and snow
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- He
took full measure of the grief
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Chapter 4: “Sweet Will of God”
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worship thee, sweet Will of God
- F.W. Faber
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- Yet
more and more this truth doth shine
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- I
ran at his commands,
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Chapter 5: Finding One’s Soul
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children in a garden fair
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Chapter 6: Not for Self But Christ
- Lord,
we would fain some little palm branch lay
- Susan Coolidge
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- Give
me the lowest place; not that I dare
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eagle nestles near the sun
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the thousand hours me meeting
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Chapter 7: Being a Branch
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but little I can do
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Chapter 8: Shallow Lives
- The
wind that blows can never kill
- Lillie E Barr
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Chapter 9: Crowding Out the Good
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not too busy with thy work and care
- Olive E. Dana
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- Let
nothing make thee sad or fretful,
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Chapter 10: Things to Leave Undone
- I
am glad to think
- Jean Ingelow
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Chapter 11: Its Fruit in Its Season
- He
who plants a tree
- Lucy Larcom
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- What
does he plant who plants a tree?
- In one of the Psalms
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Chapter 12: The True Religion
- Religion’s
all or nothing; it is no mere smile
- Robert Browning
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- What
hand and brain went ever paired?
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- They
who tread the path of labor follow where my feet have trod;
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Chapter 13: The Beauty of the Imperfect
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God for failure, shattered hopes, lost aims,
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all our life were one broad glare
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Chapter 14: How to Meet Temptation
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comes temptation but for man to meet
- Robert Browning
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pain from out the world, what room were left
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Chapter 15: At the Full Price
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a life of barren pain
- Henry Van Dyke
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- Will
you seek it? Will you brave it?
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Chapter 16: The Blessing of Hardness
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welcome each rebuff
- Robert Browning
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- One
who never turned his back, but marched breast forward
- Robert Browning
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Chapter 17: The Ministry of Hindrances
- “O
life, so full of storm and stress,
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- Why
comes temptation but for man to meet
- Robert Browning
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- God
keeps a niche In heaven to hold our idols; and albeit
- Elizabeth Browning
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- He
lends not; but gives to the end,
- Elizabeth Browning
- Curl
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Chapter 18: In Time of Defeat
- “Have
you missed in your aim? Well, the mark is still shining;
- Ellu Wheelar Wilcose
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- “He
lost the game: no matter for that—
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- Noble
souls, through dust and heat,
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Chapter 19: The Duty of Fault-Finding
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this true nobleness I seek in vain, In woman and in man
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Chapter 20: The Duty of Laughter
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is easy enough to be pleasant
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make we moan For loss that doth enrich us, yet
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woke in the night; the stars were hid
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Chapter 21: Minding the Rests
- Thou,
Lord, art the Father of music
- F.W. Faber
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- In
every life
- One writes
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the grand oratorios of life
Chapter 22: The Cure of Weariness
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we believed, we should arise and sing
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- I
wish that when you died last May
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- No
more going out forever
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Chapter 23: Judged as We Judge
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understood. We gather false impressions
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ourselves the sunshine dwell
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we knew the cares and trials
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Chapter 24: Every Day an Easter
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Christ I touch the hand of God
- Lucy Larcom
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- These
ashes, too, this little dust
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- God
placed a duty in my hand;
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- When
bursts the rose of the spirit
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Chapter 25: The Sacredness of Opportunity
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day is done; its hours have run,
- F.W. Faber
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- Their
advent is as silent as their going;
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- Never
comes the chance that passed;
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- I
was not resolute in heart and will
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- When
I have time, the friend I love so well
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- Turn
thy face unto the wall,
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