 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Conduct of life - 1884 - 648 pages
...some other line of conduct is nearer right. The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution ; who resists the sorest temptations...who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns. Some persons are great only in their ability to do evil. Such appears to have constituted... | |
 | Phrenology - 1884 - 750 pages
...as one " who chooses right with the most invincible resolution ; who resists the sorest temptation from within and without ; who bears the heaviest burdens...who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns ; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering." The ambitious... | |
 | Charles Edward Bolton - Anthologies - 1884 - 414 pages
...chooses right with the most invincible resolution ; who resists the sorest temptations from within ; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns ; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering." HOW ARE... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Religion - 1885 - 488 pages
...man in the beggar. To him the greatest man was he who conformed most nearly to the divine image. " The greatest man is he who chooses the right with...temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burden cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Religion - 1885 - 490 pages
...resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burden cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless...on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering." Save only the words of Jesus in the Gospels, I know of nothing, in the whole compass of human literature,... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...Fortune's malice overthrow my stato, My Mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. JFJtlrtitutte. — Channing. THE greatest man is he who chooses the right with...temptations from within and without ; who bears the heaviesi burdens cheerfully ; who is the calmest in storms, and whose reliance on Truth, on Virtue,... | |
 | Military Service Institution of the United States - Generals - 1886 - 118 pages
...man : " One who chooses right with the most invincible resolution ; who resists the sorest temptation from within and without ; who bears the heaviest burdens...who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns ; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering." PROFESSOR... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 252 pages
...propitious Heaven Takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, And doubles all its blessings. Greatness. THE greatest man is he who chooses the right with...who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully ; who is the calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering. CJianning.... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - Quotations, English - 1890 - 426 pages
...force of thought, moral principle, and love ; and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. The greatest man is he who chooses the right with...without ; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully ; and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. THOMAS CHALMERS (1780-1847)... | |
 | Frances E. Finch, Frank James Sibley - Biography & Autobiography - 1888 - 600 pages
...The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolutions ; who resists the severest temptations from within and without ; who bears the...storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering. Tried by this standard, the... | |
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The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without ; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully ; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menace and frowns ; whose... 
