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... comes to me and offers to plane and varnish the table so that it shall be as good as new . " Here we see the self - same energy turned from waste to construction , from evil to good . A boy's desire to use tools and to impress his ...
... comes to me and offers to plane and varnish the table so that it shall be as good as new . " Here we see the self - same energy turned from waste to construction , from evil to good . A boy's desire to use tools and to impress his ...
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... come those that age after age has loved and treasured . These include some of the legends of India brought together in the Jataka Tales , the Greek legend of Prometheus the fire - bringer , the tender spiritual record of St. Francis of ...
... come those that age after age has loved and treasured . These include some of the legends of India brought together in the Jataka Tales , the Greek legend of Prometheus the fire - bringer , the tender spiritual record of St. Francis of ...
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... come to heroic incidents of loy- alty . We need for our help vivid scenes of right action under difficulty . I have given the story of self - control and self - reliance in the wreck of the steamship Republic and the patriotism of ...
... come to heroic incidents of loy- alty . We need for our help vivid scenes of right action under difficulty . I have given the story of self - control and self - reliance in the wreck of the steamship Republic and the patriotism of ...
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... comes . For a moment , at least , we see loyalty face to face and swear allegiance to it . The next point of importance in ethical teaching is to make this vision of the right act lasting . I have tried to do this by giving a number of ...
... comes . For a moment , at least , we see loyalty face to face and swear allegiance to it . The next point of importance in ethical teaching is to make this vision of the right act lasting . I have tried to do this by giving a number of ...
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... come across are written on the principle that to mention a virtue im- pressively is to make it grow . But gardeners plant their young trees , dig about the roots , and water them day after day . Therefore I say : Never give brief ...
... come across are written on the principle that to mention a virtue im- pressively is to make it grow . But gardeners plant their young trees , dig about the roots , and water them day after day . Therefore I say : Never give brief ...
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Page 30 - And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.
Page 41 - I'll tell thee: Little Lamb, 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 204 - 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 205 - 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 193 - 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 30 - 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 230 - 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 232 - 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 217 - America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.
Page 199 - Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. How "the fellow by the name of Rowan" took the letter, sealed it up in an oil-skin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disappeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the other side of the island, having traversed a hostile country on foot, and delivered his letter to Garcia, are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail. The point I wish to...