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... fellow walks into almost any kind of a trap . Most accidents are caused by too much haste . The man who gets up ... fellow who had just become of age , and whose father , a wealthy cattle buyer and the owner of several farms , had pur ...
... fellow walks into almost any kind of a trap . Most accidents are caused by too much haste . The man who gets up ... fellow who had just become of age , and whose father , a wealthy cattle buyer and the owner of several farms , had pur ...
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... fellow had worked himself to death . He had not only left a $ 7,000 well - stocked farm , all clear , but he had ... fellows happened that way , courted and married the widow and the farm , together with the $ 5,000 insurance collected ...
... fellow had worked himself to death . He had not only left a $ 7,000 well - stocked farm , all clear , but he had ... fellows happened that way , courted and married the widow and the farm , together with the $ 5,000 insurance collected ...
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... fellow was fond of race horses , he went to the race track to double his money . In the first race there were eight or ten ponies , and in trying to pick the win- ner , he lost . He tried again and again , with but little better success ...
... fellow was fond of race horses , he went to the race track to double his money . In the first race there were eight or ten ponies , and in trying to pick the win- ner , he lost . He tried again and again , with but little better success ...
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... fellows once rushed into a country bank , all out of breath , and said to the old banker , whom he knew , " Loan me a dollar just for a minute . " THE OLD GENTLE- MAN , who had seen such fellows before , slowly raised his eyes from the ...
... fellows once rushed into a country bank , all out of breath , and said to the old banker , whom he knew , " Loan me a dollar just for a minute . " THE OLD GENTLE- MAN , who had seen such fellows before , slowly raised his eyes from the ...
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... fellow - a giant in strength , who weighed over 250 pounds and stood six feet six , and who could handle three ordinary men - went into the bark woods to load up his sleigh . The snow was five or six feet deep on the level , which also ...
... fellow - a giant in strength , who weighed over 250 pounds and stood six feet six , and who could handle three ordinary men - went into the bark woods to load up his sleigh . The snow was five or six feet deep on the level , which also ...
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A Pound of Brains: Thirty Years' Observation of Horse Sense (1908) George M. Fadner No preview available - 2008 |
A Pound of Brains: Thirty Years' Observation of Horse Sense (1908) George M. Fadner No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 411 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 15 - I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 15 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 83 - Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait; Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock, unbidden, once at every gate. If sleeping, wake. If feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 34 - For men are prone to go it blind Along the calf-paths of the mind, And work away from sun to sun To do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, And out and in, and forth and back, And still their devious course pursue. To keep the path that others do.
Page 16 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 412 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 33 - Since then two hundred years have fled, And, I infer, the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale. The trail was taken up next day By a lone dog that passed that way; And then a wise bell-wether sheep Pursued the trail o'er vale and steep. And drew the flock behind him, too, As good bell-wethers always do.
Page 18 - If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing...
Page 411 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife...