A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self-culture and CharacterFleming H. Revell Company, 1900 - 319 sider |
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... Friendship Conscience and Character . The Uses of Books and Reading XII The Science of Living with Men XIII The Revelators of Character XIV Making the Most of One's Self . · 143 · · 165 189 Visions that Disturb Contentment · • 213 ...
... Friendship Conscience and Character . The Uses of Books and Reading XII The Science of Living with Men XIII The Revelators of Character XIV Making the Most of One's Self . · 143 · · 165 189 Visions that Disturb Contentment · • 213 ...
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... with the grandeur and enduring strength , of Alpine mountains . Character is like every other structure - nothing tests it like extremes . When friendship and love have enriched man , and deepened all the secret springs of his 49 Character.
... with the grandeur and enduring strength , of Alpine mountains . Character is like every other structure - nothing tests it like extremes . When friendship and love have enriched man , and deepened all the secret springs of his 49 Character.
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... - ress . The vision of conscience reveals new possibilities of character , and these give duty . The vision of the heart reveals new possibili- ties of friendship , and these give the home . 50 A Man's Value to Society.
... - ress . The vision of conscience reveals new possibilities of character , and these give duty . The vision of the heart reveals new possibili- ties of friendship , and these give the home . 50 A Man's Value to Society.
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Studies in Self-culture and Character Newell Dwight Hillis. ties of friendship , and these give the home . As the sun standing upon the horizon orbs it- self , first in each dewdrop , and afterward iifts the whole earth forward , so the ...
Studies in Self-culture and Character Newell Dwight Hillis. ties of friendship , and these give the home . As the sun standing upon the horizon orbs it- self , first in each dewdrop , and afterward iifts the whole earth forward , so the ...
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... friendship , occupa- tion , travel , books , marriage , and chiefly heart- hungers . These yearnings within are the springs of all man's progress without . Some- times philosophers say that the history of civ- ilization is the history ...
... friendship , occupa- tion , travel , books , marriage , and chiefly heart- hungers . These yearnings within are the springs of all man's progress without . Some- times philosophers say that the history of civ- ilization is the history ...
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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.