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... Longfellow . If there is any person to whom you feel dislike , that is the person of whom you ought never to speak . -R . Cecil . The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand , as in what direction we are moving . -Oliver ...
... Longfellow . If there is any person to whom you feel dislike , that is the person of whom you ought never to speak . -R . Cecil . The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand , as in what direction we are moving . -Oliver ...
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... it . -Shakespeare . Then a voice within his breast Whispered , audible and clear : " Do thy duty ; that is best ; Leave unto the Lord the rest ! " -Longfellow . " There are loyal hearts , there are spirits brave Thoughts 25.
... it . -Shakespeare . Then a voice within his breast Whispered , audible and clear : " Do thy duty ; that is best ; Leave unto the Lord the rest ! " -Longfellow . " There are loyal hearts , there are spirits brave Thoughts 25.
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... dewdrops , which give such a depth to the morning meadows . -Emerson . Being all fashioned of the self - same dust , Let us be merciful as well as just . -Longfellow . " The man who never makes mistakes loses a great Thoughts 29.
... dewdrops , which give such a depth to the morning meadows . -Emerson . Being all fashioned of the self - same dust , Let us be merciful as well as just . -Longfellow . " The man who never makes mistakes loses a great Thoughts 29.
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... ; All things are passing ; God never changeth ; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things ; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting ; Alone God sufficeth . -Longfellow . H Alice Cary E spoils his house and throws his 56 Thoughts.
... ; All things are passing ; God never changeth ; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things ; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting ; Alone God sufficeth . -Longfellow . H Alice Cary E spoils his house and throws his 56 Thoughts.
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... spot , with no finer outlook , no clearer vision , no stim- ulated desires for that which is better and higher , it is in no sense a good book . -Anna Warner . Silence is a great peacemaker . -Longfellow . Each act Thoughts 57.
... spot , with no finer outlook , no clearer vision , no stim- ulated desires for that which is better and higher , it is in no sense a good book . -Anna Warner . Silence is a great peacemaker . -Longfellow . Each act Thoughts 57.
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Page 55 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 113 - 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...
Page 53 - That he that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man hath need to be forgiven.
Page 146 - ... be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Page 122 - Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace ) and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct. And . •' can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 134 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 103 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there...
Page 100 - If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
Page 138 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Page 65 - A haze on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky, The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields, And the wild geese sailing high; And all over upland and lowland, The charm of the goldenrod — Some of us call it Autumn, And others call it God.