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"I am all attention."
"That if people would gather up each day the blessings that are
scattered like unseen pearls about their feet, the world would be
rich in contentment."
"I don't know about that, Agnes; I've been studying for the last
half hour over this very proposition."
"Indeed! and what is the conclusion at which you have arrived?"
"Why, that discontent with the present, is a law of our being,
impressed by the Creator, that we may ever aspire after the more
perfect."
"I am far from believing, Edward," said his wife, "that a
discontented present is any preparation for a happy future. Rather,
in the wooing of sweet Content to-day, are we making a home for her
in our hearts, where she may dwell for all time to come--yea,
forever and forever."
"Beautifully said, Agnes; but is that man living whose heart asks
not something more than it possesses--who does not look to a coming
time with vague anticipations of a higher good than he has yet
received?"
"It may be all so, Edward--doubtless is so--but what then? Is the
higher good we pine for of this world? Nay, my husband.


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