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Let us use the provisions of our benevolent Benefactor without abusing them , and render to Him that gratitude which is His due . Banish all inordinate desires after wealth — if you gain an abundance , be discreetly liberal ...
Let us use the provisions of our benevolent Benefactor without abusing them , and render to Him that gratitude which is His due . Banish all inordinate desires after wealth — if you gain an abundance , be discreetly liberal ...
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PURE benevolence is one of those amiable qualities of the human breast , that imparts pleasure to its possessor , and those who receive the benefits bestowed . It is of a modest and retiring nature , and renders its gifts more valuable ...
PURE benevolence is one of those amiable qualities of the human breast , that imparts pleasure to its possessor , and those who receive the benefits bestowed . It is of a modest and retiring nature , and renders its gifts more valuable ...
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It has often rendered desperate , but has rarely softened a morose disposition . It has sometimes prostrated the energies of a child , but never gives them a healthy vigor . Too much pruning endangers a shrub , more than the shade of a ...
It has often rendered desperate , but has rarely softened a morose disposition . It has sometimes prostrated the energies of a child , but never gives them a healthy vigor . Too much pruning endangers a shrub , more than the shade of a ...
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Curiosity in children , is the grand lever of nature , to raise them from the quarry of ignorance , and needs the fulcrum of a - patient teacher , to render it efficient . It 5 CHILDREN . 33.
Curiosity in children , is the grand lever of nature , to raise them from the quarry of ignorance , and needs the fulcrum of a - patient teacher , to render it efficient . It 5 CHILDREN . 33.
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patient teacher , to render it efficient . It is the mainspring of improvement , and if suffered to rust from neglect , impairs the motion of the machinery of the mind . Indifference or rebuke , destroys its elasticityto answer all ...
patient teacher , to render it efficient . It is the mainspring of improvement , and if suffered to rust from neglect , impairs the motion of the machinery of the mind . Indifference or rebuke , destroys its elasticityto answer all ...
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things: Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | The author, 1848 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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