I see in this world two heaps, of human happiness and misery ; now if I can take but the smallest bit from one heap and add to the other, I carry a point. If, as I go home, a child has dropped a halfpenny, and if, by giving- it another, I can wipe away... Cubes and Spheres in Human Life - Página 69por F. A. Wiggin - 1899 - 120 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Maxims - 1876 - 340 páginas
...from one heap and add to the other, I have carried a point. If a child has dropped a halfpenny, and by giving it another I can wipe away its tears, I feel I have done something. I should be glad, indeed, to do greater things, but I will not neglect this.... | |
| A. M. F. - 1877 - 420 páginas
...happiness and miseryi now, if I can take but the smallest bit from one heap and add it to the other. I carry a point. If, as I go home, a child has dropped a halfpenny, und if, by giving it another, I can wipe away its tears,* t feel I have Зонe something. I should... | |
| 1880 - 864 páginas
...he observes, " two heaps — one of human happiness and one of human misery. Now, if I can take but the smallest bit from the second heap and add to the...things, but I will not neglect such little ones as this." These little things ore what we all can do, and should. International OCTOBER 19. THE TRIUMPHS... | |
| Goldwin Smith - 1880 - 158 páginas
...happiness and misery ; now if I can take but the smallest bit from one heap and add it to the other I carry a point — if, as I go home, a child has dropped a halfpenny, and by giving it another I can wipe away its tears, I feel I have done something." There was even in him... | |
| Goldwin Smith - 1880 - 156 páginas
...happiness and misery ; now, if I can take but the smallest bit from one heap and add it to the other, I carry a point — if, as I go home, a child has dropped a half-penny, and by giving it another I can wipe away its tears, I feel I have done something." There was even in him... | |
| Franklin Johnson - 1882 - 154 páginas
...can take but the smallest bit from one and add to the other, I carry a point. If as I go home a child dropped a halfpenny, and if by giving it another I...away its tears, I feel that I have done something : and I should be glad, indeed, to do greater things ; but I will not neglect this." Quaint George... | |
| Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 páginas
...from one heap, and add to the other, I have carried a point. If a child has dropped a halfpenny, and by giving it another I can wipe away its tears, I feel I have done something. I should be glad, indeed, to do greater things, but I will not neglect this.—... | |
| Kate Sanborn - 1884 - 396 páginas
...happiness and misery. Now, if I can take but the smallest bit from one heap, and add it to the other, I carry a point. If, as I go home, a child has dropped...have done something. I should be glad, indeed, to do greater things ; but I will not neglect this. John Newton. NEVER go gloomily, man with a mind; Hope... | |
| 1886 - 216 páginas
...happiness and one of misery ; now if I can take but the smallest bit from the second heap, and add it to the first, I carry a point. If, as I go home, a child has dropped a half-penny, and by giving it another I can wipe away its tears, I feel that I have done something. JOHN NEWTON. " Patience... | |
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