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Cornish told her, hurriedly, what had happened twelve hours ago on the bank of the Queen's Canal; and the thought of the misspent, crooked life that had ended in the black waters of that sluggish tideway made them all silent for a while. For death is in itself dignified, and demands respect for all with whom he has dealings.
Ye have one comfort that I have not 'tis not your own doing. Ye've not misspent your life as I have done. What does it all show but that life is a game where each man, good or bad, takes his chance. The cards fall against you and against me without care of what we are. I can only say I take me chances as I take the rain and the sun."
Every hour he had spent on the work had been misspent; he saw it all now, and the most perfect of his faultless calculations only proved that science was a blatant fraud and a snare that had cost him all he had, his wife, his boy's future, and his own self-respect. How could he ever look at his wretched failure again?
After the coming out of the death warrant Russell laid aside much of his boldness, appeared with more gravity at prayers and expressed greater sorrow for his misspent life than he had done before.
But the people they help out here are regular Rockefellers compared with those poor creatures that your father had in his office that day." "Father says he could spend a million dollars a year on those people, and not have a misspent cent," said Delia. "What hit me hardest was the thin little children.
You forget in a moment the years which you have misspent under the intolerable burden of a monarch. Be you Pole or Russ, Briton or Ruthenian, you rejoice at the mere sight of this marvel, in a new hope, in a boundless ambition. Unconscious of what awaits you, you surrender yourself so eagerly to the sway of sentiment that you are unable to observe the perfections of your idol.
Life had been but a morning to Charlie Hubbard, but it was a glowing summer morning; its hours had not been wasted, abused, misspent; brief as they were, yet in passing they had brought blessings to himself, to his fellow-beings; and they had left to those who loved him the best consolations of memory. "Is not true love of higher price Than outward form, though fair to see?"
No retirement, no loneliness, no period of earnest and solemn meditation, can be misspent which helps us towards that goal. And therefore it was that Hilarion longed to be alone; alone with God; and with Nature, which spoke to him of God.
I laid my hand on Evadne's shoulder, and she looked up. "Ah! have you come?" she cried, her voice broken with sobs that shook her. "Is it really true? Can nothing be done? Oh, poor, poor man! What a life! What a death! A miserable, miserable, misspent life, and such an end in a moment without a word of warning and all these years when I have been beside him, silent and helpless.
Misspent moments are so much of life and character thrown away; be careful to use them all in God's service. "Here's a little poem you may learn. It may help you to control self and to value your moments as you should." Oh, my precious little moments, Gliding now so swiftly by; May I each one spend for Jesus Ere I see them past me fly.
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