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id: 14849
author: Steinmetz, Margaret Bird
title: Leaves of Life, for Daily Inspiration
date: None
words: 69595
flesch: 89
summary: Alexander the Great born B. C. 356. For all sweet and pleasant passages in the great story of life men may well thank God; for leisure and ease and health and friendship may God make us truly and humbly grateful; but our chief song of thanksgiving must be always for our kinship with him, with all that such divinity of greatness brings of peril, hardship, toil, and sacrifice.
keywords: almighty; april; august; born; care; charles; day; days; death; earth; emerson; eyes; faith; father; fear; friend; george; glory; god; good; grant; great; hand; happiness; hath; heart; heaven; help; henry; hold; hope; james; january; jehovah; john; joy; july; life; light; look; lord; lord god; love; loving; man; march; men; mind; morning; nature; need; new; peace; power; rest; robert; seek; sir; sorrow; soul; spirit; strength; thee; things; thomas; thou; thoughts; thy; thy god; time; trust; truth; use; wait; way; william; wilt; wisdom; words; work; world; years
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item: #2 of 7
id: 23241
author: Jowett, John Henry
title: My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
date: None
words: 81835
flesch: 88
summary: 1-11. Goliath seemed to have everything on his side _except_ God. From this, and all other sinful folly, good Lord, redeem us!
keywords: = =; children; christ; day; death; evil; eyes; faith; fear; fire; glory; god; good; grace; hath; heart; holy; home; house; jesus; john; king; life; light; little; look; lord; lord god; love; man; men; mind; need; new; open; people; place; power; presence; road; self; sin; soul; spirit; spiritual; strength; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; words; work; world
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item: #3 of 7
id: 39129
author: None
title: The Optimist's Good Morning
date: None
words: 86960
flesch: 87
summary: Lead us this day deeper into the mystery of Thy life and our life and make us interpreters of life to our fellows, through Him who by His death opened for us the book of life, Jesus Christ our Lord. For in Thee O Lord, is life, and Thy life is the light of men.
keywords: amen; art; beauty; care; charles; children; christ; come; day; divine; earth; faith; father; feel; george; glad; glory; god; good; grant; hand; hast; heart; heavenly; help; henry; hope; jesus; john; joy; know; life; light; little; lives; look; lord; love; man; morning; new; o father; peace; power; presence; service; song; soul; spirit; strength; sun; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thy; time; today; trust; truth; way; william; work; world
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item: #4 of 7
id: 39648
author: None
title: Character and Conduct A Book of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages
date: None
words: 69978
flesch: 76
summary: Contemptuousness JUNE 30 Our Lord not only _told_ men that they were the children of God, that they should strive after their Father's likeness, and that they might approach nearer and nearer to being perfect as He is perfect: but, what was more than this, in every word He spake,--whether of teaching, or reproof, or expostulation, or in His passing words to those who received His mercies,--He _treated_ them as God's children. And, further, if we are going on from the mere admiration of great men to try and live like them, we are obeying one of the happiest impulses of our being.
keywords: amiel; bishop; brooks; character; children; christ; christian; day; death; duty; emerson; evil; friendship; george; god; good; happiness; heart; help; henry; human; influence; jesus; john; journal; joy; life; light; like; little; lord; love; man; men; mind; nature; people; phillips; power; prayer; self; service; sin; soul; spirit; temper; things; thought; time; truth; way; words; work; world; wrong
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item: #5 of 7
id: 45811
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
title: A Chesterton Calendar Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C.' both in verse and in prose. With a section apart for the moveable feasts.
date: None
words: 40899
flesch: 80
summary: Men are men, but Man is a woman. _' Great men like Ariosto, Rabelais, and Shakespeare fall in foul places, flounder in violent but venial sin, sprawl for pages, exposing their gigantic weakness, are dirty, are indefensible; and then they struggle up again and can still speak with a convincing kindness and an unbroken honour of the best things in the world:
keywords: april; august; charles; christian; church; day; december; dickens; earth; england; fact; february; george; god; good; heretics; idea; january; july; june; life; love; man; march; mean; men; news; november; october; orthodoxy; people; place; real; reason; september; sun; talk; things; thought; time; trifles; truth; way; world; wrong
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item: #6 of 7
id: 8534
author: Tileston, Mary Wilder
title: Daily Strength for Daily Needs
date: None
words: 73318
flesch: 85
summary: What I possess, or what I crave, Brings no content, great God, to me, If what I would, or what I have, Be not possest, and blest, in Thee; What I enjoy, O make it mine, High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.
keywords: bear; care; day; divine; duty; evil; father; fear; god; good; grace; hand; hath; heart; heaven; holy; joy; life; light; look; lord; lord god; lord thy; love; man; mind; peace; power; rest; self; soul; spirit; strength; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; thy god; time; trust; way; work; world
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item: #7 of 7
id: 9825
author: Jackson, Helen Hunt
title: A Calendar of Sonnets
date: None
words: 1353
flesch: 85
summary: These are the days when ancients held a rite Of expiation for the old year's ill, And prayer to purify the new year's will: Fit days, ere yet the spring rains blur the sight, Ere yet the bounding blood grows hot with haste, And dreaming thoughts grow heavy with a greed The ardent summer's joy to have and taste; Fit days, to give to last year's losses heed, To reckon clear the new life's sterner need; Fit days, for Feast of Expiation placed! This is the treacherous month when autumn days With summer's voice come bearing summer's gifts.
keywords: days; earth; month; winter
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