The Quest of Happiness: A Study of Victory Over Life's TroublesGrosset & Dunlap, 1902 - 549 páginas |
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... tongue as keen as steel , and with no more sympathy in his veins than if his blood were molten iron ; a manufacturer or mer- chant , who , from his inner private office , plots against his own workmen , reminding us of a great fat ...
... tongue as keen as steel , and with no more sympathy in his veins than if his blood were molten iron ; a manufacturer or mer- chant , who , from his inner private office , plots against his own workmen , reminding us of a great fat ...
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... tongue . Once this soldier's anger was kindled , he poured forth fiery words like lurid lava . No man surpassed him for courage and skill , but Comfortas was often tried because he filled the camp with dissension and strife . His ...
... tongue . Once this soldier's anger was kindled , he poured forth fiery words like lurid lava . No man surpassed him for courage and skill , but Comfortas was often tried because he filled the camp with dissension and strife . His ...
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... him as they would have mourned for none save Comfortas himself . And all men remembered him as that Charos who carried honey in his tongue . CHAPTER VII HAPPINESS THROUGH CONVERSATION AND THE CULTIVATION OF THE [ 178 ] FOREWORD.
... him as they would have mourned for none save Comfortas himself . And all men remembered him as that Charos who carried honey in his tongue . CHAPTER VII HAPPINESS THROUGH CONVERSATION AND THE CULTIVATION OF THE [ 178 ] FOREWORD.
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... tongue made known all public events , when orators enacted and proclaimed all laws , when all children and youth were instructed , not through books , but through conversation , men came to feel that an evil tongue was a fire and a ...
... tongue made known all public events , when orators enacted and proclaimed all laws , when all children and youth were instructed , not through books , but through conversation , men came to feel that an evil tongue was a fire and a ...
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... tongue with sweetness for those who loved the right , and to clothe his tongue with sharp stings for those who loved error and wrong . Now all that has gone forever . The news- paper , travelling to all homes , has made unneces- sary ...
... tongue with sweetness for those who loved the right , and to clothe his tongue with sharp stings for those who loved error and wrong . Now all that has gone forever . The news- paper , travelling to all homes , has made unneces- sary ...
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The Quest of Happiness: A Study of Victory Over Life's Troubles Newell Dwight Hillis Vista completa - 1913 |
The Quest of Happiness: A Study of Victory Over Life's Troubles Newell Dwight Hillis Vista completa - 1902 |
Términos y frases comunes
Alexander Stephens Angel asked beauty become bishop of Arles burn Charles Lamb Charos child Comfortas daugh death divine duty dwarf dwell Epictetus eyes father fellows fortune Fra Angelico fruit genius gifts give God's gold golden hand hath heart hero honor hour immortal immortal book inequalities intellect John Ruskin justice and truth king labor laws lends life's living look man's marriage moral named Nature nerve ness never night one-tal pain palace passed pathy Paul Plato poet poor poverty quest of happiness realm rich sense sing slaves Socrates soldier song sorrow soul spirit stand stone street stroke and stride suffering sweet sympathy talent task teacher tells things thought throne tion to-day toil tongue treasures tree trouble unhappiness unto victory Wandering Jew wealth Wendell Phillips wisdom wise woman women words young youth
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Página 357 - Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his...
Página 165 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 484 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Página 283 - Lastly : although there was no definite religious sentiment mingled with it, there was a continual perception of Sanctity in the whole of nature, from the slightest thing to the vastest ; — an instinctive awe, mixed with delight ; an indefinable thrill, such as we sometimes imagine to indicate the presence of a disembodied spirit.
Página 201 - What is the real good?" I asked in musing mood, "Order," said the law court; "Knowledge," said the school; "Truth," said the wise man; "Pleasure," said the fool; "Love," said the maiden; "Beauty," said the page; "Freedom," said the dreamer; "Home," said the sage; "Fame," said the soldier; "Equity," the seer. Spake my heart full sadly "The answer is not here.
Página 317 - THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Página 165 - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it.
Página 318 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Página 197 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Página 349 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble ; therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though the waters thereof roar, and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swellingthereof.
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College Women who Express Futility: A Study Based on Fifty Selected Life ... Pauline Park Wilson Knapp Vista de fragmentos - 1950 |