The Conduct of LifeHoughton Mifflin, 1888 - 308 pages |
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... hands and feet , he has but one pair . So he has but one future , and that is already predetermined in his lobes and described in that little fatty face , pig - eye , and squat form . All the privilege and all the legislation of the ...
... hands and feet , he has but one pair . So he has but one future , and that is already predetermined in his lobes and described in that little fatty face , pig - eye , and squat form . All the privilege and all the legislation of the ...
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... hands were stronger , and it came . Iron was deep in the ground and well combined with stone , but could not hide from his fires . Wood , lime , stuffs , fruits , gums , were dispersed over the earth and sea , in vain . Here they are ...
... hands were stronger , and it came . Iron was deep in the ground and well combined with stone , but could not hide from his fires . Wood , lime , stuffs , fruits , gums , were dispersed over the earth and sea , in vain . Here they are ...
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... hands and remain bystanders ; or are only dragged in by the humor and vivacity of those who can carry a dead weight . The first wealth is health . Sickness is poor - spirited , and cannot serve any one it must husband its resources to ...
... hands and remain bystanders ; or are only dragged in by the humor and vivacity of those who can carry a dead weight . The first wealth is health . Sickness is poor - spirited , and cannot serve any one it must husband its resources to ...
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... hands , and church- men and men of refinement , it seems agreed , are not fit persons to send to Congress . Politics is a deleterious profession , like some poisonous handi- crafts . Men in power have no opinions , but may be had cheap ...
... hands , and church- men and men of refinement , it seems agreed , are not fit persons to send to Congress . Politics is a deleterious profession , like some poisonous handi- crafts . Men in power have no opinions , but may be had cheap ...
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... hands and legs ; as if poor decayed formalists of law and order can- not run like wild goats , wolves , and conies ... hand are as well found among the malignants . ' Tis not very rare , the coinci- dence of sharp private and political ...
... hands and legs ; as if poor decayed formalists of law and order can- not run like wild goats , wolves , and conies ... hand are as well found among the malignants . ' Tis not very rare , the coinci- dence of sharp private and political ...
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Page 206 - Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Page 97 - I think sometimes, — could I only have music on my own terms; — could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, — that were a bath and a medicine.
Page 166 - When we reflect on their persuasive and cheering force; how they recommend, prepare, and draw people together; how, in all clubs, manners make the members ; how manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth; that, for the most part, his manners marry him, and, for the most part, he marries manners; when we think what keys they are, and to what secrets ; what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character they convey; and what divination is required in us, for the reading of this fine telegraph,...
Page 164 - There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force, that, if a person have them, he or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius. Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess.
Page 29 - The day of days, the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things, to the omnipresence of law — sees that what is must be, and ought to be, or is the best.
Page 18 - It was a poetic attempt to lift this mountain of Fate, to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say : " Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Page 229 - There will be a new church founded on moral science, at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematics of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shawms or psaltery, or sackbut; but it will hav« heaven and earth for its beams and rafters ; science for symbol and illustration ; it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
Page 202 - We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer, — the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons...
Page 74 - The one prudence in life is concentration ; the one evil is dissipation ; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Every thing is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.
Page 150 - Tis very certain that Plato, Plotinus, Archimedes, Hermes, Newton, Milton, Wordsworth did not live in a crowd, but descended into it from time to time as benefactors : and the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul, in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude. The high advantage of...