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... brave and tender men who give their honest thoughts , who are true to nature , who give the facts and let consequences shirk for themselves , who know the value and meaning of a truth , and who have bravely tried the creeds by ...
... brave and tender men who give their honest thoughts , who are true to nature , who give the facts and let consequences shirk for themselves , who know the value and meaning of a truth , and who have bravely tried the creeds by ...
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... shores of intellectual discovery , they are sirens , and in the forests that the brave thinkers are now penetrating , they are the wild beasts , fanged and monstrous . You cannot reform these weeds . Sirens cannot be changed 22 MISCELLANY .
... shores of intellectual discovery , they are sirens , and in the forests that the brave thinkers are now penetrating , they are the wild beasts , fanged and monstrous . You cannot reform these weeds . Sirens cannot be changed 22 MISCELLANY .
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... brave and honest man , is filled with brave and honest thoughts . The arguments it presents can not be answered by all the theologians in the world . The author is convinced that the universe is natural , that man is naturally produced ...
... brave and honest man , is filled with brave and honest thoughts . The arguments it presents can not be answered by all the theologians in the world . The author is convinced that the universe is natural , that man is naturally produced ...
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... brave enough and tender enough to meet and bear the facts and fortunes of this world . The men who declare that woman is the intellectual in- ferior of man , do not , and cannot , by offering themselves in evidence , substantiate their ...
... brave enough and tender enough to meet and bear the facts and fortunes of this world . The men who declare that woman is the intellectual in- ferior of man , do not , and cannot , by offering themselves in evidence , substantiate their ...
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... brave comrades wrote with swords . Grander than the Greek , nobler than the Roman , the soldiers of the Republic , with patriotism as shoreless as the air , battled for the rights of others , for the nobility of labor ; fought that ...
... brave comrades wrote with swords . Grander than the Greek , nobler than the Roman , the soldiers of the Republic , with patriotism as shoreless as the air , battled for the rights of others , for the nobility of labor ; fought that ...
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الصفحة 250 - Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you," applies to all who would help others to gain their liberty.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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,
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.