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Chapter 1: What Is Your Life
- A
sacred burden is the life ye bear
- Frances Anne
Kemble
- Lines addressed to the Young Gentleman leaving the Lenox Academy,
Mass.
- Only the five lines quoted are available on the Web.
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- Each
drop uncounted in a storm of rain
- Hartley
Coleridge, son of S. T. Coleridge
- Not in
Vain
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- Our
many deeds, the thoughts that we have thought,
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- The
deeds we do, the words we say
- John Keeble
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Chapter 4: Help for Worried Week-Days
- If
only we strive to be pure and true,
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- Thou
cam’st not to thy place by accident:
- Archbishop
Richard Chenevix Trench
- Thou cam’st not to thy place by accident,
It is the very
place God meant for thee;
And should’st thou there small room for
action see,
Do not for this give room for discontent.
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- If
only we strive to be pure and true,
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Chapter 5: The Cure for Care
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A
step or two on winged feet,
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God’s
plans, like lilies pure and white, unfold:
- Charles E. Orr
- Sometime
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Chapter 6: Glimpses at Life’s Windows
- Our
birth is but a sleep and forgetting;
- William Wordsworth
- Ode on Intimations of Immortality
- From Recollections of Early Childhood
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- Delicate
spirits pushed away
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- Heaven’s
light for ever shines, earth’s shadows fly;
- Shelly
- Adonais.
- Stanza 52
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Chapter 7: The Marriage Altar, and After
- In
the long years liker must they grow:
- Tennyson
- The Princess
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- And
she is gone, sweet human love is gone!
- Robert Browning
- Paracelsus
- Part V: Paracelsus Attains
Chapter 8: Religion in the Home
- Sweet
are the joys of home,
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Chapter 9: The Ministry of Sorrow
- Tis
sorrow builds the shining ladder up
- James Russell Lowell
- On the Death of a
Friend’s Child
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- Through
the clouded glass
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- I
turned and clasped her close with sudden strength,
- Celia Thaxter
- Sorrow
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- If
we could push ajar the gates of life
- May Riley Smith
- Sometime
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Chapter 10: As unto the Lord
- What
would God have this sorrow do for me?
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Chapter 11: Humility and Responsibility
- Only
a thought; but the work it wrought
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- Hark,
hark! A voice amid the quiet intense!
- George MacDonald
- Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem. (1893)
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- What
are we set on earth for?
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Chapter 12: Not to Be Ministered Unto
- She
sat and wept, and with her untressed hair
- Hartley
Coleridge
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Chapter 14: Wayside Ministries
- Like
moonlight on a troubled sea
- Thomas Moore
- The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore
- Part 22 of 33
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Chapter 15: The Beauty of Quiet Lives
- Then
to his poor trade he turned
- Robert Browning
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- What
shall I do lest life in silence pass
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- Fairy
pencilings, a quaint design
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Chapter 16: Kindness That Comes Too Late
- What
use for the rope if it be not flung
- Margaret Junkin Preston
- Before
Death
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- How
much would I care for it could I know
- Margaret Junkin Preston
- Before
Death
Chapter 18: On Loving Others
- The
ill timed truth we might have kept
- Edward Rowland Sill
- The Fool’s
Prayer
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Chapter 19: Thoughtfulness and Tact
- Evil
is wrought by want of thought
- Thomas Hood
Chapter 20: Mutual Forbearance
- Not
in the clamour of the crowded street,
- Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
- The
Poets
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Chapter 21: Manly Men
- Let my early
dreams come true
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Chapter 23: Personal Beauty
- What
is beauty? Not the show
- Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt
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Chapter 24: Taking Cheerful Views
Chapter 25: Something about Amusements
- Why
should we think youth’s draught of joy
- John Keble
- Second
Sunday after Epiphany
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Chapter 26: On the Choice of Friends
Chapter 27: The Ethics of Home-Decoration
- Each
man’s chimney is his golden milestone
- Longfellow
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Chapter 28: Pictures in the Heart
- We
overstate the ills of life, and take
- Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
- Exaggeration
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Chapter 29: Losses
Chapter 30: The Service of Consecration
Chapter 31: Beautiful Old Age
- Softly,
oh softly, the years have swept by thee,
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Chapter 32: Unconscious Farewells
- If
thou dost bid they friend farewell
- Mollie E. Moore
Davis
- Counsel
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