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... Happy · CHAP . II . Do as you would be done unto CHAP . III . Truth CHAP . IV . The Choice , or Good and Evil · CHAP . V. What Kind of Heart have you ?. CHAP . VI . What Kind of Heart have you ? CHAP . VII . Charity • CHAP . VIII ...
... Happy · CHAP . II . Do as you would be done unto CHAP . III . Truth CHAP . IV . The Choice , or Good and Evil · CHAP . V. What Kind of Heart have you ?. CHAP . VI . What Kind of Heart have you ? CHAP . VII . Charity • CHAP . VIII ...
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... HAPPY . IF any one of my young friends will get up early in the morning and go forth among the birds , the insects , the four - footed beasts , he will see that they all seem made to be happy . The robin in singing its song , the spar ...
... HAPPY . IF any one of my young friends will get up early in the morning and go forth among the birds , the insects , the four - footed beasts , he will see that they all seem made to be happy . The robin in singing its song , the spar ...
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... the laws of instinct : he placed in each of them certain wonderful aptitudes , habits , and powers , which govern and con- trol them . Thus , obeying these laws , they fulfil the designs of God , and attain the end TO BE HAPPY . 3.
... the laws of instinct : he placed in each of them certain wonderful aptitudes , habits , and powers , which govern and con- trol them . Thus , obeying these laws , they fulfil the designs of God , and attain the end TO BE HAPPY . 3.
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... happy : but still , having made us free , he leaves us to choose evil and suffer sorrow , if we will . While God , therefore , guides the birds and fishes and insects and four - footed beasts , by their instincts , to happiness , He has ...
... happy : but still , having made us free , he leaves us to choose evil and suffer sorrow , if we will . While God , therefore , guides the birds and fishes and insects and four - footed beasts , by their instincts , to happiness , He has ...
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... happy ourselves , but we must constantly try to make others happy also . And how can we make others happy , if our manners , our looks , our words , our mode of speaking , are disagreeable ? Now proceeding upon the certainty that all my ...
... happy ourselves , but we must constantly try to make others happy also . And how can we make others happy , if our manners , our looks , our words , our mode of speaking , are disagreeable ? Now proceeding upon the certainty that all my ...
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Page 138 - Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 137 - And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
Page 138 - Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 20 - It is a tree of life to those that lay hold on it ; and the supporters thereof are happy. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace.
Page 137 - So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Page 137 - And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes ? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
Page 58 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so ; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature to.
Page 137 - And one went in and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
Page 148 - I am afraid, and if you were half as much afraid as I am, you would turn your horse's head and ride back to the camp." As they had not advanced far, the other, indignant, returned to Wellington to tell the story, and to ask for a worthier companion. " Clap spurs to your horse," was Wellington's reply, " or the business will be done by your cowardly companion before you get there.
Page 102 - In the presence of others sing not to yourself with a humming noise, nor drum with your fingers or feet.