Jasper Douthit's Story: The Autobiography of a PioneerAmerican Unitarian association, 1909 - 225 pages |
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Page 8 - I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own.
Page 45 - Toombs said, which he did not say, " that he would call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill...
Page 8 - Religion ! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford.
Page 84 - Let your light so shine before men, that others seeing your good works, may glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Page 190 - No foot of land do I possess, Nor cottage in the wilderness.' "When the partitioners of the estate set apart this Lithia Springs ground to my share, I was grateful in a sense, yet, in another sense, I was a little unhappy that I could not now honestly sing the old song.
Page 163 - Then he goes on to warn his hearers how there is always a counterfeit in this world of the noblest message and teaching. Thus there are two freedoms — the false, where a man is free to do what he likes ; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
Page 14 - Here, more than in any other area, "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.
Page 141 - What shall it profit a man though he gain the whole world and lose his own soul.
Page 45 - With malice toward none; and charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.