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" Since Trifles make the Sum of human things And half our misery from our foibles springs Since [life's best joys] consist in peace and ease And [few can] save or serve but all may please: Oh! let the [ungentle] spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness... "
The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by ... - Page 177
by Cynosure - 1837
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Things a lady would like to know concerning domestic management and expenditure

Henry Southgate - Cookbooks - 1875 - 604 pages
...oven ; then turn them out on a dish, and serve them up with melted butter or sweet sauce. AUGUST 28. ' Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from those trifles springs, Ok ! let the ungentle spirit learn from thence, A small unkindness is a great...
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Modern accomplishments; or, The march of intellect

Catherine Sinclair - 1876 - 420 pages
...foe.' CHAPTEE XI. ' Since few can save or serve, but all may please, O ! let th' ungenerous spirit leam from hence A small unkindness is a great offence ; Large bounties to bestow we wish in -fain, But all may shun the guilt of giving pain.' ' So our old friend Lady Amelia...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...unkind : Virtue is beauty ; but the beauteous, evil, Are empty trunks o'erflourish'd by the devil. Pope. the ungentle spirit learn from hence A small unkindness is a great offence. Large bounties to restore...
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The Holborn Series of Reading Books. Instructive Reader

Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...consequences. but heavy mallets such as are used by ' His scalp.— The skin of the top of paviors. TRIFLES. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please ; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small...
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The biblical museum. Old Testament, Volume 3

James Comper Gray - 1878 - 402 pages
...gentle wings. Here stay then ; for under these wings is the only safe nest.'' The value of kindness. — Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. barge bounties to restore, we wish in vain, But all may shun the guilt of giving pain. To bless mankind...
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Choice Thoughts; Or, Selections from Nearly One Hundred and Fifty Different ...

Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train. John Milton, England, 1635-1660. 83. Trifles. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please ; Oh, let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small...
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Poetical reader, by J. Martin

James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem) - 1880 - 232 pages
...trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. Oliver Goldsmith (1728 — 1774). TRIFLES. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness...
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Quiet Hours: A Collection of Poems. Second Series ...

Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1880 - 248 pages
...one day God gives to me At once — oh, may I use it faithfully ! EMMA S. WATSON. GOOD TEMPER. INCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half our...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please ; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small...
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Harper's Cyclopædia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...; My impious doubts are put to flight, For my own carpet sets me right." KINDNESS IN LITTLE THINGS. oke his dancing crest ; Saw on his helm, her virgin hands inwove, Bright stars o springs,Sinco life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please,...
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The Library of Choice Literature: Prose and Poetry Selected from ..., Volume 1

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1881 - 426 pages
...Sttaib'dity, from which we t.tke our extract] Since trifles make the sum of human things. And hilf our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ea*e. And though but few can serve, yet all may please; О let the ungentle spirit learn from hence,...
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