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Through the grain of character goes the wise husbandman, and death is in his hand the death of the less worthy, the harmful, and the enemy that life may abound yet more and more in that which is worthy. In those fields where all things grow in their own way the weeds become the standard for all; license brings all down to the level of the lowest.
And, by the way, m' child, what in the devil's name brings yer on the street alone at this hour, say, tell me that?" and he assumed a most judicial attitude and manner. I replied, "I am going home from my work, sir." "Y-your w-what?" he growled. "My work, sir, at the theatre." "Good Lord!" he groaned, "and t-that crawlin' r-reptile couldn't let you pass, you poor little soul, you!"
In spite of his smock-frock and his straw-wisped hat, and his false whiskers, black as Erebus, she knew him for her brother. "Oh, Richard! Where have you come from? What brings you here?" "Did you know me, Barbara?" was his rejoinder. "How was it likely in this disguise? A thought crossed my mind that it might be some one from you, and even that made me sick with terror.
I have always given you the best that is in me, tried to do what was good for us both, since my misfortune crime, Lord Mallow calls it, as does the world. Never a sunrise that does not find you in the forefront of all the lighted world; never a flower have I seen that does not seem sweeter it brings thoughts of you; never a crime that does not deepen its shame because you are in the world.
Each saddle is built for four passengers, sitting dos-a-dos, back to back, two on a side, and a little shelf hangs down to support their feet. In order to diminish the climb the elephant kneels down in the road. A naked heathen brings a ladder, rests it against the side of the beast and the passengers climb up and take their seats in the saddle.
Oh the dread and amazement that the guilt of sin brings with it, when it is revealed by the God of heaven; and like to it is the sight of mercy, when it pleaseth God, who calleth us by his grace, to reveal his Son in us. Called to glory and virtue. Yea, effectual calling hath annexed to it, as its inseparable companion, the promise of thorough sanctification. Of Faith.
He that heartily confesseth his sin, is like him who having a thief or a traitor in his house, brings him out to condign punishment; but he that forbears to confess, is like him who hideth a thief or traitor against the laws and peace of our Lord the King. Q. Give me one more reason why I should confess my sins to God? Q. What frame of heart should I be in when I confess my sins?
On another occasion, the conversation turning on a name of some repute, the remark is ventured, that he is "said to know something about books," which brings forth the fatal answer "He know about books! Nothing nothing at all, I assure you; unless, perhaps, about their insides." The next slide of the lantern is to represent a quite peculiar and abnormal case.
It is only when God sends into the world a man of genius that no mountains of earth can crush, and who keeps his faith and sweetness all through his life that we learn the baseness of the thought that experience necessarily brings cynicism and selfishness.
If I have failed in the past I will try with all my soul and strength in the future. Think, every year brings us nearer the home I shall make for you. Oh, do not talk of dying!" "You don't know. I did not think of the wrong then. You were a motherless babe, then, and I was a childless mother. For you must know, you must have felt in your inmost soul that I was not your true mother."
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