You and I: Or, Living Thoughts for Our Moral, Intellectual and Physical Advancement, by Leading Thinkers of To-day |
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... line will run across your property . If the law enters , he will resort to bribery or fraud or violence . His contract will give him an advantage through some technicality , and against all fairness he will exact the last pound of flesh ...
... line will run across your property . If the law enters , he will resort to bribery or fraud or violence . His contract will give him an advantage through some technicality , and against all fairness he will exact the last pound of flesh ...
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... lines , meddlesome pugs , invading chickens , unreasoning children . We must not carry talk from one house to another , nor allow other people to do it in our hearing . We must not listen , and then we shall not hear . People , as a ...
... lines , meddlesome pugs , invading chickens , unreasoning children . We must not carry talk from one house to another , nor allow other people to do it in our hearing . We must not listen , and then we shall not hear . People , as a ...
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... line of thought is also essential , for endless monotony will wear away the fibres of the brain . The human body is like an engine ; it will stand a good deal of wear and tear with little attention , but with proper care these bodies of ...
... line of thought is also essential , for endless monotony will wear away the fibres of the brain . The human body is like an engine ; it will stand a good deal of wear and tear with little attention , but with proper care these bodies of ...
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... line of grace in a curved spine ? Did Nimrod get up in the morn- ing with a furred tongue , or was he tormented with dyspep- sia ? Had Esau the gout or hepatitis ? Imagine how the tough old patriarchs would have looked if asked to sub ...
... line of grace in a curved spine ? Did Nimrod get up in the morn- ing with a furred tongue , or was he tormented with dyspep- sia ? Had Esau the gout or hepatitis ? Imagine how the tough old patriarchs would have looked if asked to sub ...
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... lines of expe- rience , close thought , professional conflicts , business excitement , hopes blasted and hopes realized , have chiselled a few lines upon his face and brought the brilliancy of sobriety to his eye , then , if pure , he ...
... lines of expe- rience , close thought , professional conflicts , business excitement , hopes blasted and hopes realized , have chiselled a few lines upon his face and brought the brilliancy of sobriety to his eye , then , if pure , he ...
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Popular passages
Page 651 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 117 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 491 - God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Page 297 - O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before ! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more.
Page 606 - And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Page 606 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Page 675 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.
Page 325 - And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.
Page 607 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 477 - He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city.