 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 200 sivua
...enjoying happiness ourselves, is the consciousness of having bestowed it on another. SIR WALTER SCOTT. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can love or serve, but all may plecae ; Oh, let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindnesi... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 206 sivua
...enjoying happiness ourselves, is the consciousness of having bestowed it on another. SIR WALTER SCOTT. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can love or serve, but all may please ; Oh, let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkind ness... | |
 | Churchman - 1844 - 396 sivua
...Times. SINCE life's best joys consist in peace and ease, Since few can save, or serve, but all can please, Oh ! let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence,...small unkindness is a great offence. Large bounties to bestow we wish in vain, But all may shun the guilt of giving pain ; The gentle offices of patient love,... | |
 | 1841 - 404 sivua
...little things as these. Remember the lines which tell us, and tell us truly, that ' Trifles make tho sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.' 'But surely,' continued William, 'grown up men do not feel the same awkwardness and backwardness that... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 sivua
...while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the latest minstrel sung. SCOTT. THE IMPORTANCE OF TRIFLES. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please ; 0 let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 sivua
...Superficial writers, like the mole, often fancy themselves deep, when they are exceeding near the surface. Trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles spring* ; Since life's best joys— consist in peace and MM, And few can save or serve, but all can... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 sivua
...Superficial writers, like the mole, often fancy themselves deep, when they are exceeding near the surface. Trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from oar foibles spring* ; Since life's best joys — consist in peace and ею, Anàfew can save or serve.,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 398 sivua
...writers, like the mole, often fancy themselvet deop, when they are exceeding near tl* surface. • Trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from ourfoiUes springs; Since life's best joys — consist in peace and MM, And few can jac« or serve,,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 sivua
...Superficial writers, like the mole, often fancy themselves deep, when they are exceeding near the surface. Trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from out foibles springs j Since life's best joys — consist in peace and «we, And/ew can save or serve,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 sivua
...'Tis with our judgment, as our watches ; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Kindness. 3. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please ; O, let the ungentle spirit learn from hence,— A mill unkindness.is a great offense.... | |
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Since Trifles make the Sum of human things And half our misery from our foibles springs Since [life's best joys] consist in peace and ease And [few can] save or serve but all may please: Oh! let the [ungentle] spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness... 
