The Social Mirror: A Complete Treatise on the Laws, Rules and Usages that Govern Our Most Refined Homes and Social CirclesL.W. Dickerson, 1888 - 416 ページ |
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367 ページ - Home! go watch the faithful dove, Sailing 'neath the heaven above us; Home is where there's one to love; Home is where there's one to love us!
360 ページ - In feelings, not in figures on the dial. We should count time by heart-throbs when they beat For God, for man, for duty. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
387 ページ - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth ; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace...
298 ページ - Tell me no more. I feel, I know it. How could / be unmindful of it when I thought of you?" " There is nothing," cried her friend, " no, nothing innocent or good, that dies, and is forgotten. Let us hold to that faith, or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in its cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those who loved it, and...
187 ページ - Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
298 ページ - OH, weep not for the dead! Rather, oh rather give the tear To those that darkly linger here, When all besides are fled ; Weep for the spirit withering In its cold cheerless sorrowing, Weep for- the young and lovely one That ruin darkly revels on ; But never be a tear-drop shed For them, the pure enfranchised dead. Oh, weep not for the dead...
187 ページ - ... some always speak as loud as if they were talking to deaf people; and others so low that one cannot hear them. All these...
195 ページ - Till subdued by age and illness, his conversation was more brilliant and instructive than that of any human being I ever had the good fortune to be acquainted with. His memory (vast and prodigious as it was) he so managed as to make it a source of pleasure and instruction, rather than that dreadful engine of colloquial oppression into which it is sometimes erected.
297 ページ - OFTEN the clouds of deepest woe So sweet a message bear, Dark though they seem, 'twere hard to find A frown of anger there.