 PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o:er thee swell and throng ; They will condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done, And faints...  The Christian Pioneer - Page 751866Full view - About this book
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 266 pages
...self I dread, I love His precept more. i6 1833. i836. John Henry Newman. FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. 4 But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1905 - 270 pages
...That o'er thee swell and throng; They will condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. 4 But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious...hard service must be done, And faints at every woe. 8 Faith's meanest deed more favour bears, Where hearts and wills are weigh'd, Than brightest transports,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1906 - 446 pages
...the thoughts control, That o'er thee swell and throng, They will condense within thy soul, And swell to purpose strong. But he who lets his feelings run...Shrinks when hard service must be done, And faints at eveiy woe. And what is true of moral purpose is equally true of literary impressions. It is the age... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1906 - 444 pages
...into something capable of striking the eye and the imagination. As Dr. Newman long ago said : Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control, That o'er thee...and throng, They will condense within thy soul, And swell to purpose strong. But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard... | |
 | Helen Arnold - 1906 - 112 pages
...shining through the boughs of the tall elms that made a deep nest for the gardener's cottage. 31. Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee swell and throng. They will condense within the soul And change to purpose strong. 32. Hundreds of broad-headed, short-stemmed, widebranched oaks,... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...imagination until the prime of life was past. A graceful poet and a great moralist said: — "Prune them thy words; the thoughts control That o'er thee swell...condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong." This lesson Ruskin never learned until he was growing gray, and even now he only observes it so long... | |
 | Henry Joseph Corbett Knight - 1907 - 236 pages
...commits itself wholly to it ; and retrospect interprets the past as the making of the future. . . . The thoughts control That o'er thee swell and throng...will condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong.1 And I doubt not, because He was man, it was so with the Lord. The human will learned its obedience... | |
 | 1908 - 610 pages
...QUANTITIES must be sold at a reduced price by Jobbers. Did you know that? FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT. Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...And faints at every woe, Faith's meanest deed more fever bears Where hearts and wills are weig'd, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which bloom... | |
 | Thomas Banks Strong, William Sanday - 1908 - 956 pages
...before our minds in making our selection may be taken as expressed in Newman's well-known lines: Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...hard service must be done, And faints at every woe. The qualities that \ve have looked for most have been simplicity, directness, and genuineness of religious... | |
 | Charles Henry Robinson - 1908 - 132 pages
...speaking of the connection which exists between careless thought and weak action says : — Prune well thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee swell...when hard service must be done, And faints at every woe.2 The control of thought is the most difficult form of self control. To it may the statement of... | |
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