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... once light - hearted and confi- dent . No one can teach ethics who is not anchored to faith , and every one who has strong faith has cause to be full of zeal and of rejoicing . Therefore her classes can abound in animation and in ...
... once light - hearted and confi- dent . No one can teach ethics who is not anchored to faith , and every one who has strong faith has cause to be full of zeal and of rejoicing . Therefore her classes can abound in animation and in ...
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... once told him that because he had been a bad boy the sun would no longer shine for her , and she thereupon proceeded to draw down the dark curtain . To his mind , it was a transparent combination of foolishness and cheating . All his ...
... once told him that because he had been a bad boy the sun would no longer shine for her , and she thereupon proceeded to draw down the dark curtain . To his mind , it was a transparent combination of foolishness and cheating . All his ...
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... under ten , no disputed questions of right and wrong should be discussed . I once heard a teacher ask a small girl whether it was nobler in case of a fire to rescue your father or your child . The question TO THE TEACHER xxi.
... under ten , no disputed questions of right and wrong should be discussed . I once heard a teacher ask a small girl whether it was nobler in case of a fire to rescue your father or your child . The question TO THE TEACHER xxi.
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... once that they are not substitutes for right - doing , but only one among the reinforcements of right - doing . Character grows mainly in two ways : through work well done , and through the contagious example of people whom we love and ...
... once that they are not substitutes for right - doing , but only one among the reinforcements of right - doing . Character grows mainly in two ways : through work well done , and through the contagious example of people whom we love and ...
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... once asked a child of five years what she and her sister were good for , and she at once replied , " Why , we are good helpers for you . " Independence of attitude has not usually de- veloped at this age ; children are conscious of them ...
... once asked a child of five years what she and her sister were good for , and she at once replied , " Why , we are good helpers for you . " Independence of attitude has not usually de- veloped at this age ; children are conscious of them ...
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Page 43 - I'll tell thee. He is called by thy name, For He calls himself a Lamb; He is meek and He is mild, He became a little child. I a child and thou a lamb, We are called by His name, Little lamb, God bless thee!
Page 32 - And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.
Page 206 - Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you? Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Page 207 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 121 - Days of plenty and years of peace; March of a strong, land's swift increase; Equal justice, right and law, Stately honor and reverend awe; Sign of a nation, great and strong To ward her people from foreign wrong: Pride and glory and honor, — all Live in the colors to stand or fall.
Page 195 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill!
Page 32 - And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said. This is one of the Hebrews
Page 232 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Page 234 - A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. Nor even shall be wanting here The palm, the lily, and the spear, * The symbols that of yore Saint Filomena bore.
Page 219 - America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.