A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self-culture and CharacterFleming H. Revell Company, 1900 - 319 sider |
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... dream and its task . Deep heart - hungers are quickened within the people , and then some patriot , reformer , or hero , is raised up to feed the aspiration . Afterward history stores up these noble achievements of yesterday as soul ...
... dream and its task . Deep heart - hungers are quickened within the people , and then some patriot , reformer , or hero , is raised up to feed the aspiration . Afterward history stores up these noble achievements of yesterday as soul ...
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... dreams of some knight coming to lift her out of poverty , and her reverie mocks and con- sumes her woe . The laborer digging in his ditch sweetens his toil and rests his weariness by the dream of the humble home labor and love will some ...
... dreams of some knight coming to lift her out of poverty , and her reverie mocks and con- sumes her woe . The laborer digging in his ditch sweetens his toil and rests his weariness by the dream of the humble home labor and love will some ...
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... dream . His humble cottage while he slept lifted up its thatched roof and became a noble mansion . The one room and small became many and vast . The little windows became arched and beauti- ful , looking out upon vast estates all his ...
... dream . His humble cottage while he slept lifted up its thatched roof and became a noble mansion . The one room and small became many and vast . The little windows became arched and beauti- ful , looking out upon vast estates all his ...
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... dreams , God builds His sanctuary in the soul . The vision the heart sees is really the pattern by which God works . These fulfill the transformation wrought in the peasant's dream . noble ministry , ideals Among these let us When the ...
... dreams , God builds His sanctuary in the soul . The vision the heart sees is really the pattern by which God works . These fulfill the transformation wrought in the peasant's dream . noble ministry , ideals Among these let us When the ...
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... dream of the prophet and seer is con- firmed in the light of modern knowledge . " Each new discovery , " says John Fiske , " but places man upon a higher pinnacle than ever , and lights the future with the radiant color of hope ...
... dream of the prophet and seer is con- firmed in the light of modern knowledge . " Each new discovery , " says John Fiske , " but places man upon a higher pinnacle than ever , and lights the future with the radiant color of hope ...
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aspirations beauty behold Benedict Arnold body brain called character child civilization conscience Daniel Webster Dante death deeds divine dream earth earth house enthusiasm face facial tissues faculties fire forests forward friends friendship fruit genius George Eliot gift hand happiness Harriet Tubman harvests hath heart hero hour human ideals Iliad imagination intellectual invented Jean Valjean Jesus Christ journey liberty life's lifted man's value manhood memory ment mental midst mind moods moral mountains multitudes Muretus nature ness never night noble orator overmastering palace passed passion pathway Phidias Plato poet realm reason rich right living scholar secret Silas Marner skill slave society Socrates song soul soul's stand strange strength sweet teachers tells things thinking thoughts thousand thousand summers tion to-day toil treasure tree truth unto vast vision divine wealth Wendell Phillips wrought yesterday young youth
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Side 76 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Side 76 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Side 234 - 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.
Side 32 - Sow an act, and you reap a Habit ; Sow a habit, and you reap a Character; Sow a character, and you reap a Destiny.
Side 225 - To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion ; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to...
Side 193 - A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness or our misery.
Side 287 - Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light ; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Side 225 - ... to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly: to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
Side 98 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Side 234 - We need to be reminded every day, how many are the books of inimitable glory, which, with all our eagerness after reading, we have never taken in our hands. It will astonish most of us to find how much of our very industry is given to the books which leave no mark, how often we rake in the litter of the printing-press, whilst a crown of gold and rubies is offered us in vain.