Diamond DustF. Pitman, 1865 - 192 pages |
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... morality , it is usual to say , Is there any harm in doing this ? This question may sometimes be answered by asking ourselves another , Is there any harm in leaving it alone ? THERE is no lie that many men will not believe : there is no ...
... morality , it is usual to say , Is there any harm in doing this ? This question may sometimes be answered by asking ourselves another , Is there any harm in leaving it alone ? THERE is no lie that many men will not believe : there is no ...
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... is the oxygen of the moral world . Too pure in itself for the depravity of man , but mixed with other elements , it is adapted to the every - day purposes of life . " WHY do you drug your wine ? " a 12 DIAMOND DUST .
... is the oxygen of the moral world . Too pure in itself for the depravity of man , but mixed with other elements , it is adapted to the every - day purposes of life . " WHY do you drug your wine ? " a 12 DIAMOND DUST .
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... moral dignity to the level of his subjects , so manifold and so great are the impediments . OUR home is not always where we are , but where we wish to be . LIFE is a moment stolen from eternity . MEMORY , the daughter of Attention , is ...
... moral dignity to the level of his subjects , so manifold and so great are the impediments . OUR home is not always where we are , but where we wish to be . LIFE is a moment stolen from eternity . MEMORY , the daughter of Attention , is ...
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... moral scruples . If every one will but do his duty as an individual , and will be but courageous and sufficient in the sphere of his immediate calling , there need be no fear for the weal of the whole . SELF - WILL will break the world ...
... moral scruples . If every one will but do his duty as an individual , and will be but courageous and sufficient in the sphere of his immediate calling , there need be no fear for the weal of the whole . SELF - WILL will break the world ...
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... moral nature , like too fastidious a taste in diet , impairs enjoyment . Those are best constituted for happiness whose refinement is of the average quality , congenial to the age in which they live . To become an able man in any ...
... moral nature , like too fastidious a taste in diet , impairs enjoyment . Those are best constituted for happiness whose refinement is of the average quality , congenial to the age in which they live . To become an able man in any ...
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Page 56 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 176 - Genius, unexerted, is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." There may be epics in men's brains, just as there are oaks in acorns, but the tree and the bark must come out before we can measure them.
Page 116 - It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity...
Page 123 - Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Page 5 - Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others ; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven. Hang early plummets upon the heels of pride, and let ambition have but an epicycle and narrow circuit in thee. Measure not thyself by thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave : and reckon thyself above the earth, by the line thou must be contented with under it.
Page 108 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them...
Page 106 - NONE are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them ; such persons covet secrets, as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
Page 151 - When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost; and, lo ! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
Page 55 - 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. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Page 24 - Books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason ; — they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.