The Book of Good Cheer: A Little Bundle of Cheery ThoughtsP.F. Volland, 1909 - 64 pages |
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... come nigh ; We nod the head in greeting To many that go by- But welcome through the gateway Our few old friends and true ; Then hearts leap up , and straightway There's open house for you , Old friends , There's open house for you ...
... come nigh ; We nod the head in greeting To many that go by- But welcome through the gateway Our few old friends and true ; Then hearts leap up , and straightway There's open house for you , Old friends , There's open house for you ...
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... comes after , I have lived and toiled with men . -Rudyard Kipling . O know what you prefer , instead of humbly saying " Amen , " to what the world tells you you ought to prefer , is to have kept your soul alive . -Robert Louis Stevenson ...
... comes after , I have lived and toiled with men . -Rudyard Kipling . O know what you prefer , instead of humbly saying " Amen , " to what the world tells you you ought to prefer , is to have kept your soul alive . -Robert Louis Stevenson ...
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... our way . Whate'er there be of Sorrow I'll put off till To - morrow , And when To - morrow comes , why then ' Twill be To - day and Joy again ! -John Kendrick Bangs . To O BE honest , to be kind - to THE BOOK OF GOOD CHEER 19.
... our way . Whate'er there be of Sorrow I'll put off till To - morrow , And when To - morrow comes , why then ' Twill be To - day and Joy again ! -John Kendrick Bangs . To O BE honest , to be kind - to THE BOOK OF GOOD CHEER 19.
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... come in view , Yesterday is not for you ; Do it now . If you have a song to sing , Sing it now . Let the tones of gladness ring Clear as song of bird in spring . Let every day some music bring ; Sing it now . If you have kind words to ...
... come in view , Yesterday is not for you ; Do it now . If you have a song to sing , Sing it now . Let the tones of gladness ring Clear as song of bird in spring . Let every day some music bring ; Sing it now . If you have kind words to ...
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... comes the song . -Maltbie Davenport Babcock . HERE is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy . By being happy we sow anonymous bene- fits upon the world , which remain unknown even to ourselves , or when they are ...
... comes the song . -Maltbie Davenport Babcock . HERE is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy . By being happy we sow anonymous bene- fits upon the world , which remain unknown even to ourselves , or when they are ...
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The Book of Good Cheer: A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts Edwin Osgood Grover No preview available - 2015 |
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ain't allus beautiful begets better birds go north brave Bundle of Cheery Cheer Cheery Thoughts clouds criticise and hate dark DEEPEST WORTH earth Edward Everett Hale Ella Wheeler Wilcox faith flower forget friends gift GIT SORRY FER gittin give glad God's Gospel heart Heaven Helen Hunt Jackson Henry van Dyke Henry Ward Beecher Higginson human James Howard Kehler James Whitcomb Riley John Kendrick Bangs Keep a pullin Keep a-goin labor laughter less Lillian Whiting Little Bundle live look Lord Luck morning never night number of things old world ON'T possess PRAYER raining rain Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Browning Robert Louis Stevenson roses settled right Singin skies smiles ye wear song somewhere sorrow SORRY FER YERSELF soul strong Sun goes sweet There's open house Thomas Carlyle thou To-day weary weather Wheeler Wilcox Wiggs wind worry wrong Yesterday के
Popular passages
Page 64 - Earth's last picture is painted And the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colors have faded, And the youngest critic has died, We shall rest — and, faith, we shall need it — Lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen Shall set us to work anew!
Page 62 - Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you.
Page 59 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Page 60 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
Page 10 - If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake...
Page 20 - ... be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Page 51 - He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who...
Page 23 - The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means: a very different thing!
Page 31 - In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I hesitate to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.
Page 23 - BE strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do, and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle— face it; 'tis God's gift Be strong!