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الصفحة 30
... tell what we are going to think at any future time . Evidently , the food of thought — its very warp and woof — is furnished through the medium of the senses . If we open our eyes , we cannot help seeing . If we do not stop our ears ...
... tell what we are going to think at any future time . Evidently , the food of thought — its very warp and woof — is furnished through the medium of the senses . If we open our eyes , we cannot help seeing . If we do not stop our ears ...
الصفحة 32
... tell us that insanity is not a disease of the soul , but of the brain ; that the soul is perfectly untouched ; but that the instrument with which , and through which , it manifests itself , is impaired . The fact , however , seems to be ...
... tell us that insanity is not a disease of the soul , but of the brain ; that the soul is perfectly untouched ; but that the instrument with which , and through which , it manifests itself , is impaired . The fact , however , seems to be ...
الصفحة 43
... tell the result of her investigations . She has been quick to discover contra- dictions . She appreciates the humorous side of the stupidly solemn . Her heart protests against the cruel , and her brain rejects the childish , the ...
... tell the result of her investigations . She has been quick to discover contra- dictions . She appreciates the humorous side of the stupidly solemn . Her heart protests against the cruel , and her brain rejects the childish , the ...
الصفحة 48
... herself without telling the charge that has been made against her . This , of itself , gives a kind of cur- rency to slander . To speak of the suspicion that has crawled across her path , is to plant the seeds 48 MISCELLANY .
... herself without telling the charge that has been made against her . This , of itself , gives a kind of cur- rency to slander . To speak of the suspicion that has crawled across her path , is to plant the seeds 48 MISCELLANY .
الصفحة 50
... tell them that they will be sup- plied with good food , that they will have comfortable beds and warm clothing , and they ask , " What more do you want ? " These people have not , however , solved the problem . If girls , as a rule ...
... tell them that they will be sup- plied with good food , that they will have comfortable beds and warm clothing , and they ask , " What more do you want ? " These people have not , however , solved the problem . If girls , as a rule ...
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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.