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... their strength In furthest striving action . GEORGE ELIOT . Character is higher than intellect . A great soul will be strong to live as well as to think . The American Scholar . CHARITY CONTENTMENT . The alms most precious man can give ΙΟ.
... their strength In furthest striving action . GEORGE ELIOT . Character is higher than intellect . A great soul will be strong to live as well as to think . The American Scholar . CHARITY CONTENTMENT . The alms most precious man can give ΙΟ.
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... action done . ADRIAN . Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life . SIR PHILIP SIDNEY . What do we live for if not to make life less difficult to each other . GEORGE ELIOT . We can do more good by being good than in ...
... action done . ADRIAN . Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life . SIR PHILIP SIDNEY . What do we live for if not to make life less difficult to each other . GEORGE ELIOT . We can do more good by being good than in ...
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... action , whether foul or fair , Is ever done , but it leaves somewhere A record written by fingers ghostly , As a blessing or a curse ; but mostly , In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it , till at ...
... action , whether foul or fair , Is ever done , but it leaves somewhere A record written by fingers ghostly , As a blessing or a curse ; but mostly , In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it , till at ...
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... action and conduct of the child , for her good example is of much greater importance in the house . SAMUEL SMILES . Nor is a true soul ever born for naught , Wherever any such hath lived and died , There hath been something , fortune ...
... action and conduct of the child , for her good example is of much greater importance in the house . SAMUEL SMILES . Nor is a true soul ever born for naught , Wherever any such hath lived and died , There hath been something , fortune ...
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... actions are weighed . Bible . The desire of knowledge , like the thirst for riches , increases ever with the acquisition of it . STERNE . One never knows that he knows anything till he finds himself able to tell others of it . BRAINERD ...
... actions are weighed . Bible . The desire of knowledge , like the thirst for riches , increases ever with the acquisition of it . STERNE . One never knows that he knows anything till he finds himself able to tell others of it . BRAINERD ...
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Wisdom of the Wise: Pithy and Pointed Sayings of the Best Authors Caroline Louisa Hunt No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 67 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 43 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Page 72 - Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Page 18 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 92 - An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Page 21 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 8 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 51 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 79 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 25 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...