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... eyes . - NUMBERS x . 29-31 . XXIV THE GIFT OF YOUTH • Let no man despise thy youth . - 1 TIMOTHY iv . 12 . XXV PAGE 243 · 256 266 · 276 THE IMMORTALITY OF MEMORY The memory of the just is blessed : but the name of the wicked shall rot ...
... eyes . - NUMBERS x . 29-31 . XXIV THE GIFT OF YOUTH • Let no man despise thy youth . - 1 TIMOTHY iv . 12 . XXV PAGE 243 · 256 266 · 276 THE IMMORTALITY OF MEMORY The memory of the just is blessed : but the name of the wicked shall rot ...
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... into his tent one by one , grasped their hand and looked right into their eyes without a word ; and they went out all Napoleons , ready to die for him if need be . It is one of the noblest things in human nature THE GIFT OF INFLUENCE 13.
... into his tent one by one , grasped their hand and looked right into their eyes without a word ; and they went out all Napoleons , ready to die for him if need be . It is one of the noblest things in human nature THE GIFT OF INFLUENCE 13.
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... eye . The doer of it all in the Egyptian prison was a very obscure person at the time . The men and things that make the big- gest splash in the world are sometimes the least im- portant . It is not always the man you praise who does ...
... eye . The doer of it all in the Egyptian prison was a very obscure person at the time . The men and things that make the big- gest splash in the world are sometimes the least im- portant . It is not always the man you praise who does ...
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... eyes and unpraised by blatant voices ? Take the common sphere of a mother's influence . How many men will admit that all the good in them they owed to the example or teaching or mem- ory of their mother , and whatsoever of good they ...
... eyes and unpraised by blatant voices ? Take the common sphere of a mother's influence . How many men will admit that all the good in them they owed to the example or teaching or mem- ory of their mother , and whatsoever of good they ...
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... eyes to the infinite mystery that enfolds every subject of knowledge . Why , then , not give up the fruitless quest , and the vain soaring into the empyrean , which ends only in " pursuit of wind " ? Stick to the regions which are more ...
... eyes to the infinite mystery that enfolds every subject of knowledge . Why , then , not give up the fruitless quest , and the vain soaring into the empyrean , which ends only in " pursuit of wind " ? Stick to the regions which are more ...
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Page 28 - But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Page 272 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 63 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 300 - Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. " Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Page 282 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity ; who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it: time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself.
Page 282 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 2 - For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Page 187 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Page 303 - A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Page 138 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me. And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark: And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...