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 : with an Appendix ... |
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... heart with good thoughts , that there be no room for bad ones . Drinking water , neither makes a man sick nor in debt , or his wife a widow . Prosperity gains a thou- sand intimates , adversity often shows us that not one of them is a ...
... heart with good thoughts , that there be no room for bad ones . Drinking water , neither makes a man sick nor in debt , or his wife a widow . Prosperity gains a thou- sand intimates , adversity often shows us that not one of them is a ...
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... hearts in whining sympathy , and rolls off at the end of the tongue . They feel deeply for the mis- fortunes of others , and say to them , be ye fed , warmed , and clothed , but from their abundance , do not contrib- ute one cent , like ...
... hearts in whining sympathy , and rolls off at the end of the tongue . They feel deeply for the mis- fortunes of others , and say to them , be ye fed , warmed , and clothed , but from their abundance , do not contrib- ute one cent , like ...
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... heart , and looks beyond the skies for approval and reward . It never opens , but seeks to heal the wounds inflicted by misfortune - it never harrows up , but strives to calm the troubled mind . Like their Lord and Master , the truly ...
... heart , and looks beyond the skies for approval and reward . It never opens , but seeks to heal the wounds inflicted by misfortune - it never harrows up , but strives to calm the troubled mind . Like their Lord and Master , the truly ...
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... heart . So deep does the calumniator sink in the murky waters of deg radation and infamy , that , could an angel apply an Archimedean moral lever to him , with Heaven for a fulcrum , he could not , in a thousand years , raise him to the ...
... heart . So deep does the calumniator sink in the murky waters of deg radation and infamy , that , could an angel apply an Archimedean moral lever to him , with Heaven for a fulcrum , he could not , in a thousand years , raise him to the ...
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... hearts , as the increasing love of parents to their children , en- hanced by the arduous and protracted care , necessary to sustain and bring them up . The mother , who is worthy of that endearing name , finds a new impetus to urge her ...
... hearts , as the increasing love of parents to their children , en- hanced by the arduous and protracted care , necessary to sustain and bring them up . The mother , who is worthy of that endearing name , finds a new impetus to urge her ...
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