This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...So I ask Thee for the daily strength, To none that ask denied, And a mind to blend with outward life, While keeping at Thy side; Content to fill a little space, If Thou be glorified. Anna L. Waring. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. William Wordsworth. There are so many causes, --we are besieged on every hand. No one can show the slightest interest in public affairs without at once becoming a marked man, and hunted as the prey of every possible cause insisting upon his cooperation. And yet this leads to distraction, to complexity, to mere dilettanteism. The bane of many of our charities, and of popular causes, political and otherwise, is dilettanteism; and this cannot be overcome unless we concentrate, trying to do justice to the one cause, or to those few causes to which we ally ourselves, --choosing them because we are in sympathy with them, and because we are fitted by capacity and experience to promote them. Justice, too, the fulfilment of one's obligations, is a part of simplicity. Felix Jtaier. Let us be content in work To do the thing we can; and not presume To fret because it's little. x E. B. Browning. To true simplicity, to perceive a truth is to begin to live it, to see a duty is to begin to do it. William George Jordan. The beautiful does not obtrude, but appears in simplicity. Krummacher. & & & Simplicity is, of all things, the hardest to be copied. Richard Steele. Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, with its boundary for ever fluctuating, so that even a German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment. The nation itself, with all its so-called internal i...