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... are necessary adjuncts to the moral and social training of every individual who would attain the highest culture in these directions . That structure M297220 endures longest the foundation of which is most securely laid. III BJ1548.
... are necessary adjuncts to the moral and social training of every individual who would attain the highest culture in these directions . That structure M297220 endures longest the foundation of which is most securely laid. III BJ1548.
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... directions for your behavior , I prefer to turn your thoughts , first to the formation of noble character , afterward offering a few simple directions having particular reference to your conduct toward each other . Let me first arouse ...
... directions for your behavior , I prefer to turn your thoughts , first to the formation of noble character , afterward offering a few simple directions having particular reference to your conduct toward each other . Let me first arouse ...
Page 80
... directions may be of use : -Avoid curiosity respecting other people , which is usually a mark of poor breeding . Do not listen , if you can help it , to any family affairs , or to any account of the mistakes and follies of other people ...
... directions may be of use : -Avoid curiosity respecting other people , which is usually a mark of poor breeding . Do not listen , if you can help it , to any family affairs , or to any account of the mistakes and follies of other people ...
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... direction determined by reading Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry . A well told tale is life in the concrete , yet lifted above the accidents which so often interrupt the moral tenor of events , and disappoint honest and deserving ...
... direction determined by reading Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry . A well told tale is life in the concrete , yet lifted above the accidents which so often interrupt the moral tenor of events , and disappoint honest and deserving ...
Page 120
... direction , to the total neglect of other needs of the mind . How easy it is to become a confirmed novel reader , and to lose all relish for more nourishing literature ; to read the magazines and daily papers , and scarce ever complete ...
... direction , to the total neglect of other needs of the mind . How easy it is to become a confirmed novel reader , and to lose all relish for more nourishing literature ; to read the magazines and daily papers , and scarce ever complete ...
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Signal Lights: A Library of Guiding Thoughts by Leading Thinkers of To-Day ... John Heyl Vincent No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 639 - 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 113 - 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 479 - 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 287 - 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 594 - 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 663 - 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 595 - 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 465 - He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city.
Page 594 - 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 473 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.