You have your own share of
what causes fireside silence, aversion, disappointment, and dislike; and,
with God's help, say that you will patiently submit to what may not now
be mended. And then, the sterner the battle the nobler will the victory
be; and the lonelier the fight, the more honour to him who flinches not
from it. In your patience possess ye your souls.
What a beautiful, instructive, and even impressive sight it is to see a
nurse patiently cherishing her children! How she has her eye and her
heart at all their times upon them, till she never has any need to lay
her hand upon them! Passion has no place in her little household,
because patience fills all its own place and the place of passion too.
What a genius she displays in her talks to her children! How she cheats
their little hours of temptation, and tides them over the rough places
that her eye sees lying like sunken rocks before her little ship! How
skilfully she stills and heals their impulsive little passions by her
sudden and absorbing surprise at some miracle in a picture-book, or some
astonishing sight under her window! She has a thousand occupations also
for her children, and each of them with a touch of enterprise and
adventure and benevolence in it.
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