Life Interpreted Through Color

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Elizabeth Towne Company, 1926 - Color - 82 pages
 

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Page 6 - MY GARDEN A GARDEN is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot — The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not — Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool? Nay, but I have a sign: Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Page 4 - Truth is within ourselves ; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness ; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception — which is truth. A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Binds it, and makes all error : and to KNOW Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Page 50 - We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade. The tissue of the Life to be We weave with colors all our own, And in the field of Destiny We reap as we have sown.
Page 60 - The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the Power; but they who do not the thing have not the power.
Page 14 - The low and dark horizon lifts, To light the scenic terror shifts ; The breath of a diviner air Blows down the answer of a prayer: That all our sorrow, pain, and doubt A great compassion clasps about, And...
Page 31 - You are sick, that's sure," — they say: "Sick of what?" — they disagree. " 'Tis the brain," — thinks Doctor A ; " 'Tis the heart," — holds Doctor B. "The liver— my life I'd lay!" "The lungs!
Page 11 - Oh ye who seek to solve the knot ! Ye live in God, yet know him not. Ye sit upon the river's brink, Yet crave in vain a drop to drink. Ye dwell beside a countless store, Yet perish hungry at the door.
Page 81 - And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age ; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
Page 26 - Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into the full realisation of your own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.
Page 7 - We are still ignorant of the true character of electricity; indeed, to me, after all the years I have spent in studying electricity, it is more a mystery now than ever.

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