Friendless and Helpless

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Emily Faithfull, 1863 - Broj stranica: 292
 

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Stranica 56 - No — man is dear to man ; the poorest poor Long for some moments in a weary life •' When they can know and feel that they have been, Themselves, the fathers and the dealers out Of some small blessings ; have been kind to such As needed kindness, for this single cause, That we have all of us one human heart.
Stranica 32 - THY neighbor ? — it is he whom thou Hast power to aid and bless ; Whose aching heart, or burning brow, Thy soothing hand may press.
Stranica 275 - Then saith he unto his disciples, ' The harvest truly is plenteous, but ' the labourers are few ; pray ye therefore the ' Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth
Stranica 32 - Tis that weary man, Whose years are at their brim, Bent low with sickness, cares, and pain — Go thou and comfort him. Thy neighbour?
Stranica 224 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee...
Stranica 32 - Oh pass not, pass not heedless by ; Perhaps thou canst redeem The breaking heart from misery — Go, share thy lot with him.
Stranica 116 - Be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." — James i. 22. TALK not of feelings, and of frames, When duties round thee lie ; They are but empty sounds, and names, — These a reality. Waste not thy life in idle dreams Of what that life should be ; But live it, — use it, — for it teems With tasks for thee and me. Talk — it is easy, — dreams are sloth, — Mere wishes idler still ; Thy heart and hand, God wants them both To love, and do His will.
Stranica 258 - Nor did he wait till to his door the voice Of supplication came, but went abroad, With foot as silent as the starry dews, In search of misery that pined unseen, And would not ask. And who can tell what sights He saw ! what groans he heard, in that cold world Below ! where Sin, in league with gloomy Death...
Stranica 80 - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound : And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined, and wanted food.
Stranica 30 - O respectable citizen, seated in your easy chair, with your feet on the fender, to hold forth on the misconduct of the people ; — very easy for you to censure their extravagant and vicious habits ; — very easy for you to be a pattern of frugality, of rectitude, of sobriety. What else should you be? Here are you surrounded by comforts, possessing multiplied sources of lawful happiness, with a reputation to maintain, an ambition to fulfil, and the prospect of a competency for your old age. A shame...

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