You and I: Or, Living Thoughts for Our Moral, Intellectual and Physical Advancement, by Leading Thinkers of To-day |
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... person . As we are endowed with a sense and a love of physical beauty , so also have we an ideal of moral , intellectual and social beauty . Man seeks a triple perfection : first , intellectual , which no creature below him aspires to ...
... person . As we are endowed with a sense and a love of physical beauty , so also have we an ideal of moral , intellectual and social beauty . Man seeks a triple perfection : first , intellectual , which no creature below him aspires to ...
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... person through the entire sweep of life ; the same as a boy in play ; the same as a man in business ; the same as a veteran lingering on the shore of time . And he will always be the same , and not another . Ten thousand cycles hence ...
... person through the entire sweep of life ; the same as a boy in play ; the same as a man in business ; the same as a veteran lingering on the shore of time . And he will always be the same , and not another . Ten thousand cycles hence ...
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... persons , circumstances and things surrounding him . He does not come into the world , as some philosophers have held , with a mind like a blank sheet of white paper , on which we may write whatever we choose , but with a mind written ...
... persons , circumstances and things surrounding him . He does not come into the world , as some philosophers have held , with a mind like a blank sheet of white paper , on which we may write whatever we choose , but with a mind written ...
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... person , weak in body and feeble in health , can appear to advantage on the rostrum , in public places , or in the social circle . While phys- ical development should be sought as a means of health , which is the most important object ...
... person , weak in body and feeble in health , can appear to advantage on the rostrum , in public places , or in the social circle . While phys- ical development should be sought as a means of health , which is the most important object ...
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... the coldest weather . A person may live for days without food ; but deprive him of air , even for a few moments , and you deprive him of life itself . Breathe deeply ; very few people do this as much as they should . As 38 YOU AND I.
... the coldest weather . A person may live for days without food ; but deprive him of air , even for a few moments , and you deprive him of life itself . Breathe deeply ; very few people do this as much as they should . As 38 YOU AND I.
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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.