Mordaunt Hall; Or, A September Night: A Novel, المجلد 3H. Colburn, 1849 |
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الصفحة 80 - Is there one whom difficulties dishearten, — who bends to the storm? — He will do little. Is there one who will conquer? — That kind of man never fails.
الصفحة 82 - I resolved, when beginning to read law, to make everything I acquired perfectly my own, and never to go to a second thing till I had entirely accomplished the first. Many of my competitors read as much in a day as I read in a week ; but, at the end of twelve months, my knowledge was as fresh as on the day it was acquired, while theirs had glided away from their recollection.
الصفحة 252 - E'en such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, The flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes,— and man he dies.
الصفحة 123 - It is the philosopher in the hay-field ; the hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob.
الصفحة 84 - Punctuality is important as it gains time, it is like packing things in a box ; a good packer will get in half as much more as a bad one.
الصفحة 191 - tis she or none, That I love, and love alone. Nature did her so much right As she scorns the help of art; In as many virtues dight As e'er yet embraced a heart: So much good so truly tried, Some for less were deified. Wit she hath, without desire To make known how much she hath; And her anger flames no higher Than may fitly sweeten wrath. Full of pity as may be, Though perhaps not so to me.
الصفحة 86 - I am bound to acknowledge that I have always found that my prayers have been heard and answered — not that I have in every instance (though in almost every instance I have) received what I asked for, nor do I expect or wish it. I always qualify my petitions, by adding, provided that what I ask for is for my real good, and according to the will of my Lord. But with this qualification I feel at liberty to submit my wants and wishes to God in small things as well as in great ; and I am inclined to...
الصفحة 83 - I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
الصفحة 79 - Mankind in general mistake difficulties for impossibilities. That is the difference between those who effect, and those who do not. " People of weak judgment arc the most timid, as horses half blind are most apt to start. " Burke in a letter to Miss Shackleton says : — " ' Thus much in favour of activity and occupation, that the more one has to do, the more one is capable of doing, even beyond our direct task.
الصفحة 80 - BEWARE of idleness — the listless idleness that lounges and reads without the severity of study, the active idleness for ever busy about matters neither difficult nor valuable.