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... pains to enter into the minds and feelings of others . Be interested in what they want to talk about . Let your interest be deep and sincere . Adopt the right tone , temper , and reticence in your conversation . You should accustom ...
... pains to enter into the minds and feelings of others . Be interested in what they want to talk about . Let your interest be deep and sincere . Adopt the right tone , temper , and reticence in your conversation . You should accustom ...
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... pains- taking preliminary work , and hence they fre- quently stand before an audience with little information of value to impart to their hear- ers . Their poverty of thought can not be long disguised in flamboyant rhetoric and sesqui ...
... pains- taking preliminary work , and hence they fre- quently stand before an audience with little information of value to impart to their hear- ers . Their poverty of thought can not be long disguised in flamboyant rhetoric and sesqui ...
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... painful duty In the last analysis I am encouraged to go on I point with pride On the other hand ( with gesture ) I hold The vox populi Be that as it may I shall not detain you As the hour is growing late Believe me We view with alarm As ...
... painful duty In the last analysis I am encouraged to go on I point with pride On the other hand ( with gesture ) I hold The vox populi Be that as it may I shall not detain you As the hour is growing late Believe me We view with alarm As ...
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... such cutting , such useless pain . The touchy and sensitive temper , which takes offence at a word ; the irritable temper , which finds offence in everything whether intended or not ; the violent temper 141 THOUGHTS ON TALKING.
... such cutting , such useless pain . The touchy and sensitive temper , which takes offence at a word ; the irritable temper , which finds offence in everything whether intended or not ; the violent temper 141 THOUGHTS ON TALKING.
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... pain have these caused in the hearts of men , if we could but sum up their results ! How many a soul have they ... pain caused by ill - temper must , I verily believe , if added together , outweigh all other pains that men have to bear ...
... pain have these caused in the hearts of men , if we could but sum up their results ! How many a soul have they ... pain caused by ill - temper must , I verily believe , if added together , outweigh all other pains that men have to bear ...
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Page 154 - He makes light of favours while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort; he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him, and interprets everything for the best. He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayings for arguments, or insinuates evil which he dare not...
Page 134 - SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought.
Page 153 - The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast;— all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make every one at their ease and at home.
Page 153 - Hence it is that it is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself.
Page 155 - He knows the weakness of human reason as well as its strength, its province and its limits. If he be an unbeliever he will be too profound and largeminded to ridicule religion or to act against it; he is too wise to be a dogmatist or fanatic in his infidelity. He respects piety and devotion; he even supports institutions as venerable, beautiful or useful to which he does not assent; he honours the ministers of religion and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or denouncing them.
Page 122 - The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary : he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Page 50 - My friends, this is the first time I ever met this in the Bible, but I accept it as an evidence of the assertion that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Page 156 - He respects piety and devotion ; he even supports institutions as venerable, beautiful, or useful, to which he does not assent ; he honors the ministers of religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or denouncing them. He is a friend of religious toleration, and that, not only because his philosophy has taught him to look on all forms of faith with an impartial eye, but also from the gentleness and effeminacy of feeling, which is the attendant on civilization...
Page 152 - Poets that prick up their ears at their own hideous braying are no better than Asses. Critics in general are venomous Serpents that delight in hissing, and some of them who have got by heart a few technical terms without knowing their meaning are no other than Magpies. I myself, who have crowed to the whole town for near three years...