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... souls . Good people in sound bodies are worth more for work and companionship than good people in diseased bodies . They are less morbid , more reasonable , more cheerful , more active , more useful . The pulpit ought to preach more ...
... souls . Good people in sound bodies are worth more for work and companionship than good people in diseased bodies . They are less morbid , more reasonable , more cheerful , more active , more useful . The pulpit ought to preach more ...
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... soul . Old as the first man , it is as new " as the last born infant , whose wail , falling on the mother's ear , implores her tender care and train- ing . " The ablest minds of every nation have thoughtfully pondered the great theme ...
... soul . Old as the first man , it is as new " as the last born infant , whose wail , falling on the mother's ear , implores her tender care and train- ing . " The ablest minds of every nation have thoughtfully pondered the great theme ...
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... soul . Do our young men and young ladies so regard it when they are getting an education ? An educa- tion of what ? Simply of the mind , while the body is neglected , and this process goes on till it has sapped the very life from the ...
... soul . Do our young men and young ladies so regard it when they are getting an education ? An educa- tion of what ? Simply of the mind , while the body is neglected , and this process goes on till it has sapped the very life from the ...
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... soul with touches of thought , feeling , love , care and grand resolves . The youth , just fledged as a professional man , must wait years until the lines of expe- rience , close thought , professional conflicts , business excitement ...
... soul with touches of thought , feeling , love , care and grand resolves . The youth , just fledged as a professional man , must wait years until the lines of expe- rience , close thought , professional conflicts , business excitement ...
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A Library of Guiding Thoughts. slaves to some pernicious , soul - destroying habit . Let us free ourselves from everything that impedes our progress towards our high ideal manhood or womanhood , of form and health , and have for our ...
A Library of Guiding Thoughts. slaves to some pernicious , soul - destroying habit . Let us free ourselves from everything that impedes our progress towards our high ideal manhood or womanhood , of form and health , and have for our ...
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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.