The Building Laws of Human Character; Or, Every Man's Monitor ...W.H. McCarthy, 1903 - 163 pages |
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... affections , And the huge army of the world's desires . -Shakespeare . By a right character I mean one that would make a man a vital co - operative force in all that would tend to build up society , and to aid in the onward movement of ...
... affections , And the huge army of the world's desires . -Shakespeare . By a right character I mean one that would make a man a vital co - operative force in all that would tend to build up society , and to aid in the onward movement of ...
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... affection may degenerate into weak- ness . It is the will which is the source of greatness , where those motives reside which lead us to action . For man in himself is inert , like matter , and does not act unless he is impelled to ...
... affection may degenerate into weak- ness . It is the will which is the source of greatness , where those motives reside which lead us to action . For man in himself is inert , like matter , and does not act unless he is impelled to ...
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... affections . As a great portion of our happiness depends on our neighbors and acquaintances . it is of importance that we acquire the temper and manners which will render such agreeable . A sense of justice should be the foundation of ...
... affections . As a great portion of our happiness depends on our neighbors and acquaintances . it is of importance that we acquire the temper and manners which will render such agreeable . A sense of justice should be the foundation of ...
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... affections , or envelop us in selfish enjoyments . Ofttimes , excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse ; As patches , set upon a little breach , Discredit more in hiding of the fault , Then did the fault before it ...
... affections , or envelop us in selfish enjoyments . Ofttimes , excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse ; As patches , set upon a little breach , Discredit more in hiding of the fault , Then did the fault before it ...
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... affection . Give not thy tongue too great a liberty , lest it take thee prisoner . A word unspoken is , like the sword in the scabbard , thine ; if vented , thy sword is in another's hand . If thou desire to be held wise , be so wise as ...
... affection . Give not thy tongue too great a liberty , lest it take thee prisoner . A word unspoken is , like the sword in the scabbard , thine ; if vented , thy sword is in another's hand . If thou desire to be held wise , be so wise as ...
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Page 119 - Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar ; The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch
Page 161 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 159 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust...
Page 60 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time...
Page 159 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 155 - That withers away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.
Page 33 - O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.
Page 52 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 159 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 161 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...