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... hand . If thou desire to be held wise , be so wise as to hold thy tongue . - Quarles . Profane swearing seems to be as much a part of every - day life as the use of language itself . The ador- able name of Jesus is blasphemed . Who has ...
... hand . If thou desire to be held wise , be so wise as to hold thy tongue . - Quarles . Profane swearing seems to be as much a part of every - day life as the use of language itself . The ador- able name of Jesus is blasphemed . Who has ...
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... hand , nothing disgusts the average man more than to hear some one prating about his own abil- ities . " Pshaw ! " he says , " the fellow is all the time talking about himself . " So you must be careful to avoid the subject of your own ...
... hand , nothing disgusts the average man more than to hear some one prating about his own abil- ities . " Pshaw ! " he says , " the fellow is all the time talking about himself . " So you must be careful to avoid the subject of your own ...
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We cannot stay thy footsteps , Time ! Thy flight no hand may bind , Save His whose foot is on the sea , Whose voice is on the wind ; Yet when the stars from their bright spheres Like living flames are hurled , Thy mighty form will sink ...
We cannot stay thy footsteps , Time ! Thy flight no hand may bind , Save His whose foot is on the sea , Whose voice is on the wind ; Yet when the stars from their bright spheres Like living flames are hurled , Thy mighty form will sink ...
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... hand to the fallen , or defend The right against a single envious strain , My life , though bare , Perhaps , of much that seemeth dear and fair To us on earth , will not have been in vain . The purest joy , Most near to heaven , far ...
... hand to the fallen , or defend The right against a single envious strain , My life , though bare , Perhaps , of much that seemeth dear and fair To us on earth , will not have been in vain . The purest joy , Most near to heaven , far ...
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... hand no noble action done . -Jacob Bobart . He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own . - Confucius . Those who are quite satisfied , sit still and do nothing ; those who are not quite satisfied , are the ...
... hand no noble action done . -Jacob Bobart . He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own . - Confucius . Those who are quite satisfied , sit still and do nothing ; those who are not quite satisfied , are the ...
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Page 119 - Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar ; The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch
Page 161 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 159 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust...
Page 60 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time...
Page 159 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 155 - That withers away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.
Page 33 - O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.
Page 52 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 159 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 161 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...