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... feeling of love and gratitude is a pleasant sensation , and it expands the heart of the receiver in love to the bene- factor , attended with a desire to make some return for the favour . The exercise of gratitude for gifts and benefits ...
... feeling of love and gratitude is a pleasant sensation , and it expands the heart of the receiver in love to the bene- factor , attended with a desire to make some return for the favour . The exercise of gratitude for gifts and benefits ...
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... feeling of love and gratitude is a pleasant sensation , and it expands the heart of the receiver in love to the bene- factor , attended with a desire to make some return for the favour . The exercise of gratitude for gifts and benefits ...
... feeling of love and gratitude is a pleasant sensation , and it expands the heart of the receiver in love to the bene- factor , attended with a desire to make some return for the favour . The exercise of gratitude for gifts and benefits ...
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... feelings of remorse , they said one unto another , " We are verily guilty concerning our brother , in that we saw the anguish of his soul , when he besought us , and we would not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us . " Joseph ...
... feelings of remorse , they said one unto another , " We are verily guilty concerning our brother , in that we saw the anguish of his soul , when he besought us , and we would not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us . " Joseph ...
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... feelings towards all persons ! But in order to do this at all times , we must learn to govern our tempers , our ... feeling of anger in others . A sea - captain , who wanted to conquer a habit of getting angry , concluded to keep his ...
... feelings towards all persons ! But in order to do this at all times , we must learn to govern our tempers , our ... feeling of anger in others . A sea - captain , who wanted to conquer a habit of getting angry , concluded to keep his ...
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... feeling grateful to him who has taken care of you through the night . Flowers , when you open again , spread your leaves and your sweet smell to his praise . Birds , when you awake with the morning light , warble your thanks in the ...
... feeling grateful to him who has taken care of you through the night . Flowers , when you open again , spread your leaves and your sweet smell to his praise . Birds , when you awake with the morning light , warble your thanks in the ...
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Popular passages
Page 150 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble." "They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Page 17 - Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Page 150 - Such as sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron...
Page 151 - Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Page 150 - Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men I For he hath broken the gates of brass, And cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Page 141 - I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
Page 18 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 141 - I, too much for his whistle. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Page 151 - He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Page 141 - I saw any one too ambitious of court favours, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle.