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... caused work , even the humblest , to be looked upon by all earnest , good men not as a disgrace , but as a sacred duty ; and , more than this , it has elevated our entire conception of manhood by itself , without rank and wealth , as ...
... caused work , even the humblest , to be looked upon by all earnest , good men not as a disgrace , but as a sacred duty ; and , more than this , it has elevated our entire conception of manhood by itself , without rank and wealth , as ...
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... You cannot call him a man who has no feeling for others , and who heeds not what sorrow he causes , so long as he can gratify his desires . He who in this way hardens all within himself and petrifies his WANTED - A MAN ! 35.
... You cannot call him a man who has no feeling for others , and who heeds not what sorrow he causes , so long as he can gratify his desires . He who in this way hardens all within himself and petrifies his WANTED - A MAN ! 35.
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... cause abrupt , unpolite behaviour . At breakfast , at luncheon , at dinner , more or less in the evening , at night , in the morning - all " marriage . " There is generally greater harmony when a husband's duties necessitate his 52 ...
... cause abrupt , unpolite behaviour . At breakfast , at luncheon , at dinner , more or less in the evening , at night , in the morning - all " marriage . " There is generally greater harmony when a husband's duties necessitate his 52 ...
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... cause . The wife gets up and goes off to give a direction to her servants while her husband is in the middle of a sentence ; if he were any other gentleman she would at least say , " Excuse me for a moment . " The wife comes into the ...
... cause . The wife gets up and goes off to give a direction to her servants while her husband is in the middle of a sentence ; if he were any other gentleman she would at least say , " Excuse me for a moment . " The wife comes into the ...
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... cause women to weep , for " God counts their tears . " Of course women may use their tears in an im- proper , cowardly manner to induce men to walk aside from the path of duty ; and there are those who have recourse to melting moods to ...
... cause women to weep , for " God counts their tears . " Of course women may use their tears in an im- proper , cowardly manner to induce men to walk aside from the path of duty ; and there are those who have recourse to melting moods to ...
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Page 173 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 202 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.
Page 128 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 25 - Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?
Page 230 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 228 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 238 - Think, every morning when the sun peeps through The dim, leaf-latticed windows of the grove, How jubilant the happy birds renew Their old, melodious madrigals of love ! And when you think of this, remember, too, 'Tis always morning somewhere, and above The awakening continents, from shore to shore, Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.
Page 282 - I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom ; and to lay hold on folly , till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Page 232 - Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.
Page 130 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.