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... requires a strict account , and recalls it before he deals out another . Alas ! how many precious moments are wasted in desultory trifling , in inde- cision as to what shall next be set about , or commencing what it is impossible to ...
... requires a strict account , and recalls it before he deals out another . Alas ! how many precious moments are wasted in desultory trifling , in inde- cision as to what shall next be set about , or commencing what it is impossible to ...
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... require much mental application . From long use , we can sew or knit , or make pastry , or per- form many merely mechanical operations , without actually thinking about them ; during such per- formances the 36 SELF - IMPROVEMENT .
... require much mental application . From long use , we can sew or knit , or make pastry , or per- form many merely mechanical operations , without actually thinking about them ; during such per- formances the 36 SELF - IMPROVEMENT .
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... requires . Depend upon it , the earlier you study the grammar of patience , forbearance , self - denial , and forgiveness , the more thoroughly will its great principles be inwrought into your very frame , and the more easy will be its ...
... requires . Depend upon it , the earlier you study the grammar of patience , forbearance , self - denial , and forgiveness , the more thoroughly will its great principles be inwrought into your very frame , and the more easy will be its ...
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... is suitable to the minute circumstances of every - day life ; indeed we are more apt to be off our guard in trifles than in greater matters . Mr. Newton used to · say , " It requires as much grace to 80 SELF - DISCIPLINE .
... is suitable to the minute circumstances of every - day life ; indeed we are more apt to be off our guard in trifles than in greater matters . Mr. Newton used to · say , " It requires as much grace to 80 SELF - DISCIPLINE .
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Female excellence. · say , " It requires as much grace to bear well the breaking of a china plate , as the loss of an only child . " The peace and comfort of domestic life are broken up , not so much by violent quarrels upon im- portant ...
Female excellence. · say , " It requires as much grace to bear well the breaking of a china plate , as the loss of an only child . " The peace and comfort of domestic life are broken up , not so much by violent quarrels upon im- portant ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 223 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Seite 75 - Give me a calm, a thankful heart, From every murmur free ; The blessings of thy grace impart, And make me live to thee. 3 Let the sweet hope that thou art mine My life and death attend ; Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end.
Seite 69 - Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Seite 82 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Seite 95 - which " is the beginning of wisdom ;" for " when wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul ; discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee." " Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Seite 113 - All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to pay Such honours to thee as my numbers may...
Seite 83 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any : even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Seite 84 - But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shall be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Seite 96 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Seite 147 - O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.