 | 1846 - 436 pages
...is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. GOOD TEMPER. — More. 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... | |
 | Hannah More - 1846 - 584 pages
...well-pleas'd record ; One soul-felt sigh by pow'rless pity given, Accepted incense ! shall ascend to heav'n ! Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, A/¡d though but few can serve, yet all may please ; 0 let th' ungentle-spirit learn from hence, A... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (Jun.) - Readers - 1846 - 180 pages
...importance to the kappirxtt of life. 1. SINCE trifles make the sum cf human things, And half our mis'ry from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys...peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please ; Oh ! let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Christian life - 1847 - 500 pages
...recollection of every Child ; and more especially when their Parents are no longer present to enforce it. " Since trifles make the sum of human things,...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few may serve, yet all may please : O ! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small... | |
 | 1872 - 406 pages
...Feed My sheep, but also, Feed My lambs (St. John, xxi). UNKINDNESS. trifles make the sum of human Ù) things, And half our misery from our foibles springs;...peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please; Oh, let the ungentle spirit learn from heute, A small Hnkïndhcss is a great offence. Jeaus... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...pleased, record ; One soul-felt sigh by powerless pity given, Accepted incense! shall ascend to heaven! 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 plea.;c; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small... | |
 | Joanna Hooe Mathews - 1872 - 594 pages
...to all about her path. DORA'S MOTTO. ' Love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous. ' ' Oh, let the ungentle spirit learn from hence A small unkindness is a great offence. ' DOEA'S MOTTO. TWO LITTLE SISTERS. ' OH, what a pretty 'luminated text ! ' cried little Gertrude Johnson,... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Shipley - 1873 - 408 pages
...mite, Nor care how small it be, — God is with all who serve the right, The holy, true, and free. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...misery from our foibles springs ; Since Life's best gifts consist of peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all may please ; Oh ! let the ungentle... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...SsiiaibUity, from which wa take our extract.] Since trifles make the sum of human things, And h.ilf e ea*e, And though but few can serve, yet all may plea.<e; О let the ungentle spirit learn from hence,... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1875 - 558 pages
...excellent service to morality and religion toward the close of the last century : "Since trifles are the sum of human things, And half our misery from...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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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... 
