A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self-culture and CharacterFleming H. Revell Company, 1900 - 319 sider |
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Side 15
... forward and the solemn procession moves up the aisles , men and women cast into the vase their gifts of gold and silver and pearls and lace and rich textures . The well- born child seems to be such a vase , unspeak- ably beautiful ...
... forward and the solemn procession moves up the aisles , men and women cast into the vase their gifts of gold and silver and pearls and lace and rich textures . The well- born child seems to be such a vase , unspeak- ably beautiful ...
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... forward , fetter generations yet unborn . " Blood tells , " says science . But blood is the radical element put out at compound in- terest and handed forward to generations yet unborn . The second measure of a man's value to society is ...
... forward , fetter generations yet unborn . " Blood tells , " says science . But blood is the radical element put out at compound in- terest and handed forward to generations yet unborn . The second measure of a man's value to society is ...
Side 26
... are the men who take off the chariot wheels for God's advancing hosts . When one comes to the front who has skill in allaying friction , all Skill in society begins a new forward march . personal 26 A Man's Value to Society.
... are the men who take off the chariot wheels for God's advancing hosts . When one comes to the front who has skill in allaying friction , all Skill in society begins a new forward march . personal 26 A Man's Value to Society.
Side 27
... forward march . personal carriage has much to do with a man's value . Integrity enhances human worth . Iniquities devastate a city like fire and pestilence . Social wealth and happiness are through right living . Goodness is a commodity ...
... forward march . personal carriage has much to do with a man's value . Integrity enhances human worth . Iniquities devastate a city like fire and pestilence . Social wealth and happiness are through right living . Goodness is a commodity ...
Side 29
... forward by an unmeasured possibility . Personality may be enlarged and enriched . It has been said that Cromwell was the best thing England ever produced . And the mission of Jesus Christ is to carry each up from littleness to full ...
... forward by an unmeasured possibility . Personality may be enlarged and enriched . It has been said that Cromwell was the best thing England ever produced . And the mission of Jesus Christ is to carry each up from littleness to full ...
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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.