Fibre & Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries in the Cotton and Woolen Trade, Volume 23

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Page 733 - Wise men have said are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, And what he brings, what need he elsewhere seek ? Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself...
Page 777 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 793 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Page 675 - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Page 656 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 725 - Belshazzar celebrated his drunken feast in the sanctified vessels of the temple. It was a sorry house, and not worth the naming, which had not somewhat of this furniture in it, though it were only a fair large cushion, made...
Page 818 - We learn -wisdom from failure much more than from success ; we often discover what will do, by finding out •what will not do ; and probably he who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Page 847 - Her in the palace, at her loom she found; The golden web her own sad story crown'd, The Trojan wars she weaved (herself the prize) And the dire triumphs of her fatal eyes.
Page 793 - Make few special acquaintances. Never try to appear what you are not. Observe good manners. Pay your debts promptly. Question not the veracity of a friend. Respect the counsel of your parents. Sacrifice money rather than principle. Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks. Use your leisure for improvement.
Page 678 - Come, thick night! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell. That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry. Hold, hold!

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