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" ... for themselves, are its idlers. How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is one fond heart a fountain of gladness, making every thing in its vicinity to freshen into smiles. Its effect on stern natures... "
Hertha - Page 141
by Fredrika Bremer - 1856 - 383 pages
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Hertha, tr. by M. Howitt, Volume 133

Fredrika Bremer - 1856 - 462 pages
...father and daughter in one common bitter pain. Yes — blessed are they who can thus weep together ! • Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects...to the beams of heaven. Old Mr. Falk felt it to be so, and he raised his head, as he said in the gentlest voice which his daughter had ever heard from...
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The Golden Gems of Life, Or, Gathered Jewels for the Home Circle

Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1880 - 686 pages
...freshen into smiles. Its effect on stern natures is like the Spring rain, which melts the icy covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven. In the intercourse of social life it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly—and...
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The Golden Gems of Life: Or, Gathered Jewels for the Home Circle

Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 pages
...freshen into smiles. Its effect on stern natures is like the Spring rain, which melts the icy covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven. In the intercourse of social life it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...(joetlte. Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven. — Fredrika Bremer. A language which the dumb can speak, and the deaf can understand. — Bovee. We...
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Kern Genealogy

Peter Edward Kern - 1917 - 556 pages
...far-off Northland ; its effect on stern natures is like the spring rain, which melts the icy covering of the earth and causes it to open to the beams of Heaven. In conclusion, my dear brother, I wish to thank you for the great pains you have taken in writing so...
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