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Show WISE WORDS "Prayer is the channel to convey ?? The blessings God designs to give." Love, faith patience-the three essentials of a happy life. There is no possible condition in which men have a right to hate. The flame of sorrow burns up some hearts, while others it purifies. Pleasure comes through toil and not by self-indulgence or indolence. Talk of fame and romance-all the glory and adventure in the world are not worth one hour of ?[domestic bliss]. The man who violently hates or ardently loves cannot avoid being in some degree a slave to the person detested or adored. Every good picture is the best of sermons and lectures. The sense informs the soul. Whatever you have, have beauty. Happy is he who has learned this one thing-to do the plain duty of the moment quickly and cheerfully, whatever it may be. Love cannot fully admit the feeling that the beloved object might die, all passions feel their object to be as eternal as themselves. By holding a very little misery quite close to our eyes we ?[entirely]lose sight of a great deal of comfort beyond which might be taken. Our bodies are the vehicle of bitter pains, and there are agonies of the soul in the presence of which the intensest physical torture is unheeded. It requires and manifests a higher style of piety, and a more intense consecration into God's service, to do well the small thing than to do well the great. As we advance in truth and Christian experience we find that earth is too poor to make us rich, too low to make us happy; so we are ready to die because we have had all there is in this ?[life]. If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should ?[?od] in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility, and if we could see the motives of friends, how Christ-like would they be. I am weary of life. Whatever path I take, I find it strewed with flints and thorns. Would that the time were come when I might depart in search of a world far different from this, wherein I feel so unhappy.-Petrarch. |