Death Defeated: Or, The Psychic Secret of how to Keep Young

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Dr. Peebles' Institute of Health, 1900 - 216 páginas
 

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Página 9 - No more of that : — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Página 104 - No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn : Taught by that power that pities me, I learn to pity them : ' But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. ' Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong : Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Página 139 - If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
Página 57 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Página 17 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares — The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Página 167 - Tis coming up the steep of Time, And this old world is growing brighter ! We may not see its dawn sublime, Yet high hopes make the heart throb lighter. We may be sleeping in the ground, When it awakes the world in wonder ; But we have felt it gathering round, And heard its voice of living thunder, 'Tis coming ! yes, 'tis coming...
Página 159 - The faith that life on earth is being shaped To glorious ends, that order, justice, love Mean man's completeness, mean effect as sure As roundness in the dew-drop — that great faith Is but the rushing and expanding stream Of thought, of feeling, fed by all the past.
Página 192 - Oh Death ! where is thy sting ? Oh Grave ! where is thy victory ? The sting of Death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.
Página 168 - This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin; This day for all hereafter choose we holiness or sin; Even now from starry Gerizim, or Ebal's cloudy crown, We call the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down...
Página 159 - I too rest in faith That man's perfection is the crowning flower, Toward which the urgent sap in life's great tree Is pressing, — seen in puny blossoms now, But in the world's great morrows to expand With broadest petal and with deepest glow.

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