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... keep them to yourself . Those who have clear vision and stalwart strength of mind should guide the rest of the world . The advancement of all human beings con- cerns every individual . The safety and comfort of the top of the pyramid ...
... keep them to yourself . Those who have clear vision and stalwart strength of mind should guide the rest of the world . The advancement of all human beings con- cerns every individual . The safety and comfort of the top of the pyramid ...
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... keep me from forgetting the lady , about whom gath- ered still other legends than the glamour of the theatre At all events , she was planted from that moment so firmly in my mind that when , as a more developed youngster , after an ...
... keep me from forgetting the lady , about whom gath- ered still other legends than the glamour of the theatre At all events , she was planted from that moment so firmly in my mind that when , as a more developed youngster , after an ...
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... keep down expenses . Here is where the difference appears between the great idealist and the chipped - off reformers who disgrace the name . So unworldly was he , so completely devoted to his mission of preaching the greatness of truth ...
... keep down expenses . Here is where the difference appears between the great idealist and the chipped - off reformers who disgrace the name . So unworldly was he , so completely devoted to his mission of preaching the greatness of truth ...
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... keep it under lock and key . I had one once , for I was in the country and there were mice . The cook had the imprudence to leave upon the table a poulet that she had just pur- chased ; the cat carried it off , no morsel of it was ever ...
... keep it under lock and key . I had one once , for I was in the country and there were mice . The cook had the imprudence to leave upon the table a poulet that she had just pur- chased ; the cat carried it off , no morsel of it was ever ...
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... keeping his farm in order , he found it impossible . His children , too , were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody . His son Rip , an urchin begotten in his own likeness , promised to inherit the habits , with the old ...
... keeping his farm in order , he found it impossible . His children , too , were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody . His son Rip , an urchin begotten in his own likeness , promised to inherit the habits , with the old ...
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Page 623 - O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Page 295 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 585 - customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favorite tree : Another came, nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood, was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 583 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command. The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Page 341 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat -oppressed brain?
Page 622 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 584 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
Page 295 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 582 - Await alike th' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of Death...
Page 56 - On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.