Conduct as a Fine Art: The Laws of Daily ConductHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 |
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... least , from these pages . A line drawn between education at home and education in the school- room is surely somewhat artificial when the subject is such a matter as the right direction of the whole life . The distinction between the ...
... least , from these pages . A line drawn between education at home and education in the school- room is surely somewhat artificial when the subject is such a matter as the right direction of the whole life . The distinction between the ...
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... least for the majority of these ethical talks , for , like every other social institution , it has its moral law which must be observed by all its members in order to attain its end . The plainly visible chief function of the public ...
... least for the majority of these ethical talks , for , like every other social institution , it has its moral law which must be observed by all its members in order to attain its end . The plainly visible chief function of the public ...
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... least that the moral law is inscribed in the nature of man , that its facts are a part of the facts of human nature , and that obedience to it is in the line of the true development of human nature . We live under moral law as we live ...
... least that the moral law is inscribed in the nature of man , that its facts are a part of the facts of human nature , and that obedience to it is in the line of the true development of human nature . We live under moral law as we live ...
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... least , to show his gratitude for all that his mother does for him in her love for her boy . When he gets to school he remembers that he is there to study ; he puts all his mind on his book ; the lesson comes easy , he recites well ...
... least , to show his gratitude for all that his mother does for him in her love for her boy . When he gets to school he remembers that he is there to study ; he puts all his mind on his book ; the lesson comes easy , he recites well ...
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... easier . She perseveres and conquers the difficulties , one by one . By " sticking to it " and prac- tising and practising , she establishes what are called " lines of least resistance ; " her fingers move 48 THE LAWS OF DAILY CONDUCT .
... easier . She perseveres and conquers the difficulties , one by one . By " sticking to it " and prac- tising and practising , she establishes what are called " lines of least resistance ; " her fingers move 48 THE LAWS OF DAILY CONDUCT .
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Page 125 - THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Page 143 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 106 - FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works : in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
Page 85 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 86 - That is no true alms which the hand can hold; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; But he who gives but a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite...
Page 15 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 94 - Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered; bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the Godlike that is in Man, and how in the Godlike only has he Strength and Freedom?
Page 143 - New times demand new measures and new men ; The world advances, and in time outgrows The laws that in our fathers' day were best; And, doubtless, after us, some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.
Page 45 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee.