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... and BE CONSISTENT TO THE LAST : CONTENTMENT . ' Tis better to be lowly
born And range with humble livers in content , Than to be perk'd up in a
glistening grief , And wear a golden sorrow . - Shakespeare . CONTENTMENT is
felicity .
... and BE CONSISTENT TO THE LAST : CONTENTMENT . ' Tis better to be lowly
born And range with humble livers in content , Than to be perk'd up in a
glistening grief , And wear a golden sorrow . - Shakespeare . CONTENTMENT is
felicity .
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... education - and with a better prospect of success at the start , because he is
much better stocked with common information , without which , a man is a poor
helpless animal . ELOQUENCE . That I may not stand alone in my EDUCATION .
59.
... education - and with a better prospect of success at the start , because he is
much better stocked with common information , without which , a man is a poor
helpless animal . ELOQUENCE . That I may not stand alone in my EDUCATION .
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Much may be effected by cultivation - we should learn to command our feelings
and act prudently in all the ordinary concerns of life — this will better prepare us
to meet sudden emergencies with calmness and fortitude . If we permit our ...
Much may be effected by cultivation - we should learn to command our feelings
and act prudently in all the ordinary concerns of life — this will better prepare us
to meet sudden emergencies with calmness and fortitude . If we permit our ...
Page 219
In private conversation , much will be said , but it should be better said than it
usually is . Too much light , unprofitable , uninstructive conversation ; generally
occurs , more especially among professors of religion , of whom better things are
...
In private conversation , much will be said , but it should be better said than it
usually is . Too much light , unprofitable , uninstructive conversation ; generally
occurs , more especially among professors of religion , of whom better things are
...
Page 271
If this hint of nature was better observed , it would be of vast benefit to our race .
That too much is said , none will deny . We should have less and wiser talk -
more and better work , in every department of life , from the domestic circle , up to
the ...
If this hint of nature was better observed , it would be of vast benefit to our race .
That too much is said , none will deny . We should have less and wiser talk -
more and better work , in every department of life , from the domestic circle , up to
the ...
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or, One Hundred and Two Essays on the Nature of Men and Things |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | L.C. Judson, 1849 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 19 Nov 2015 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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