A Man's value to societyF.H. Revell, 1899 - 327 pages |
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aspirations beauty behold body brain character Charles Lamb child conscience Daniel Webster Dante David Hume death divine dreams earth enthusiasm eyes face facial tissue faculty fire flowers forests forward friends friendship fruit fulfill genius George Eliot gold hand happiness Harriet Tubman harvests hath heart hero hour human hunger ideals imagination intellectual invisible bands J. G. Holland Jean Valjean journey liberty life's lifted living look lover speaks man's value manhood marks memory ment mental midst mind moral multitudes Muretus nature ness never night noble one's orator overmastering palace passed passion pathway Phidias Plato poet realm reason revelation rich scholar secret Silas Marner skill slave society song soul soul's stands strength sweet tells things thoughts thousand tion to-day toil treasure tree unto vast vision divine voice wealth Wendell Phillips wrought young youth
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Page 56 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 56 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 24 - Sow an act, and you reap a Habit ; Sow a habit, and you reap a Character; Sow a character, and you reap a Destiny.
Page 194 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Page 71 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 239 - Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light ; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Page 155 - A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness or our misery.
Page 194 - We need to be reminded every day, how many are the books of inimitable glory, which, with all our eagerness after reading, we have never taken in our hands. It will astonish most of us to find how much of our very industry is given to the books which leave no mark, how often we rake in the litter of the printing-press, whilst a crown of gold and rubies is offered us in vain.
Page 155 - If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light, our obligations are yet with us. We cannot escape their power, nor fly from their presence. They are with us in this life, will be with us at its close, and in that scene of inconceivable solemnity, which lies yet...
Page 50 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.