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“Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!”
“Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words.”
“With a bound, the sun of a molten fiery red cam above the horizon, and immediately thousands of little birds sang out for joy, and a soft chorus of mysterious, glad murmurs came forth from the eart...”
“I have never seen mountains before, and they fill me and oppress me so much that I could not sleep; I must keep awake this first night, and see that they dont fall on the earth and overwhelm it." [...”
“The temptation is too strong for me. Oh, Lord! where is Thy peace that I believed in, in my childhood? that I hear people speaking of now, as if it hushed up the troubles of life, and had not to b...”
“...somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out the higher excellencies in another, and so they re-acted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding ...”
“What do you expectnot indifference or ingratitude? (-Miss Benson) It is better not to expect or calculate consequences. The longer I live, the more fully I see that. Let us try simply to do right a...”
“Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; her will was strong, her sense was excellent, and people yielded to her they did not know why.”
“She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, that into a region so lovely no bale or woe could enter, but would be charmed away and disappear be...”
“By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire t...”
“The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understand more clearly the circumstances with contributed to the formation of character. The daily life ...”
“Jemima was not pretty, the flatness and shortness of her face made her almost plain; yet most people looked twice at her expressive countenance, at the eyes which flamed or melted at every trifle, ...”
“everything may be done in a right way or a wrong; the right way is to do it as well as we can, as in Gods sight; the wrong is to do it in a self-seeking spirit, which either leads us to neglect it ...”
