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... HONOR OF ANTON SEIDL , LOTOS CLUB Dinner in Honor of Rear Admiral Schley , ADDRESS TO THE ACTORS ' FUND OF AMERICA , THE CHILDRen of the STAGE , ADDRESS TO THE PRESS Club , · THE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE LITERATURE , CONVENTION of the ...
... HONOR OF ANTON SEIDL , LOTOS CLUB Dinner in Honor of Rear Admiral Schley , ADDRESS TO THE ACTORS ' FUND OF AMERICA , THE CHILDRen of the STAGE , ADDRESS TO THE PRESS Club , · THE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE LITERATURE , CONVENTION of the ...
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... honor . The influence of the Hero author increases every day , and there are more copies of the " Age of Reason " sold in the United States , than of any work written in defence of the Christian relig- ion . Hypocrisy , with its forked ...
... honor . The influence of the Hero author increases every day , and there are more copies of the " Age of Reason " sold in the United States , than of any work written in defence of the Christian relig- ion . Hypocrisy , with its forked ...
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... honors . There can be no more pitiable sight than a scientist in the employ of superstition dishonoring himself without assisting his master . But there are a multitude of brave and tender men who give their honest thoughts , who are ...
... honors . There can be no more pitiable sight than a scientist in the employ of superstition dishonoring himself without assisting his master . But there are a multitude of brave and tender men who give their honest thoughts , who are ...
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... honor , and happiness . The best thing to do under the circumstances is moral . The highest possible standard is human . We put our- selves in the places of others . We are made happy by the kindness of others , and we feel that a fair ...
... honor , and happiness . The best thing to do under the circumstances is moral . The highest possible standard is human . We put our- selves in the places of others . We are made happy by the kindness of others , and we feel that a fair ...
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... honor ? " They worked and wrought with all of labor's royal sons that every pledge the Nation gave might be redeemed . And their great leader , having put a shining band of friendship — a girdle of AFTER DINNER SPEECHES . 83.
... honor ? " They worked and wrought with all of labor's royal sons that every pledge the Nation gave might be redeemed . And their great leader , having put a shining band of friendship — a girdle of AFTER DINNER SPEECHES . 83.
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Page 250 - Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you," applies to all who would help others to gain their liberty.
Page 391 - Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word, but in the night of death, hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Page 391 - ... can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath,
Page 14 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 400 - The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest. We know that through the common wants of life — the needs and duties of each hour — their grief will lessen day by day, until at last this grave will be to them a place of rest and peace — almost of joy. There is for them this consolation : The dead do not suffer. If they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the...
Page 390 - ... lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still. While yet in love with life and raptured with the world he passed to silence and pathetic dust.
Page 429 - What custom wills, in all things should we do't The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heaped For truth to over-peer.— CorManus.
Page 390 - He added to the sum of human joy, and were everyone to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep to-night beneath a wilderness of flowers "Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.
Page 389 - I am going to do that which the dead often promised he would do for me. The loved and loving brother, husband, father, friend, died where manhood's morning almost touches noon, and while the shadows still were falling towards the West.