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... thought and quickened imagination . I believe that ethical teaching at its best is a quickening spirit , a call to the soul , a life creating life . Among the greatest citi- zens of my state , I number one who from boyhood has saturated ...
... thought and quickened imagination . I believe that ethical teaching at its best is a quickening spirit , a call to the soul , a life creating life . Among the greatest citi- zens of my state , I number one who from boyhood has saturated ...
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... thought . " If I could but make their work easier , or give the hungry ones food , or the thirsty a drink ! " And as the day passed , and the Cloud became larger , this wish to do something for the people of earth was ever greater in ...
... thought . " If I could but make their work easier , or give the hungry ones food , or the thirsty a drink ! " And as the day passed , and the Cloud became larger , this wish to do something for the people of earth was ever greater in ...
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... thought made her suddenly marvelously big and strong and powerful . Never had she dreamed that she could be so big . Like a mighty angel of blessing she stood above the earth , and lifted her head and spread her wings far over the ...
... thought made her suddenly marvelously big and strong and powerful . Never had she dreamed that she could be so big . Like a mighty angel of blessing she stood above the earth , and lifted her head and spread her wings far over the ...
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... thought he had never met such a pleasant - spoken woman . Then he asked her where she lived ; and she said far away by the sea that lay still in bright , summer days , for the children to bathe and play in it . And Tom longed to go and ...
... thought he had never met such a pleasant - spoken woman . Then he asked her where she lived ; and she said far away by the sea that lay still in bright , summer days , for the children to bathe and play in it . And Tom longed to go and ...
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... thought , the right chimney , he came down the wrong one , and found himself standing on the hearth - rug in a room ... thought Tom to himself . And then he thought , " Are all people like that when they are washed ? " And he looked at ...
... thought , the right chimney , he came down the wrong one , and found himself standing on the hearth - rug in a room ... thought Tom to himself . And then he thought , " Are all people like that when they are washed ? " And he looked at ...
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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...