“Our most exalted feelings are not meant to
be the common food of daily life. Contentment is more satisfying than
exhilaration; and contentment means simply the sum of small and quiet
pleasures. We ought not to seek high joys. We may be bright without
transfiguration. The even flow of constant cheerfulness strengthens; while
great excitements, driving us with fierce speed, both rack the ship and end
often in explosions. If we were just ready to break out of the body with
delight, I know not but we should disdain many things important to be done. Low
measures of feeling are better than ecstasies, for ordinary life. God sends his
rains in gentle drops, else flowers would be beaten to pieces.” H. W. Beecher.
Friday, March 14, 2014
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