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Page 294 - The heart knoweth its own bitterness ; and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy.
Page 268 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 190 - And as the mystery tortured her sensitive spirit, she could only comfort herself with the remembrance ' that not a sparrow falleth to the ground ' without the knowledge of the Almighty Father.
Page 114 - One, who is always more ready to hear, than we are to pray, and always more willing to forgive us our sins, than we are to forsake^ them.
Page 15 - Two children, a boy and a girl, were the fruit of this union.
Page 307 - Him who hath taught my hands to war and my fingers to fight.