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... live on the heights together . There he works at a great chime of bells which is to realize his highest ideal of art . Men come to call him back to his duty ; he refuses , and is told that some time the sound of his sunken bell will ...
... live on the heights together . There he works at a great chime of bells which is to realize his highest ideal of art . Men come to call him back to his duty ; he refuses , and is told that some time the sound of his sunken bell will ...
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... live along the inner circle of the Stamboul walls and gather the fragrant fruit from the historic fields where Arabs , Persians , Tartars , Crusaders , Russians , Bulgarians , Goths , and Ottomans encamped in turn when laying siege to ...
... live along the inner circle of the Stamboul walls and gather the fragrant fruit from the historic fields where Arabs , Persians , Tartars , Crusaders , Russians , Bulgarians , Goths , and Ottomans encamped in turn when laying siege to ...
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... live as have their ancestors for count- less generations , or lacking sufficient en- terprise to establish a more permanent home on terra firma , still inhabit wooden cottages built over the water . Whether necessitated by the struggle ...
... live as have their ancestors for count- less generations , or lacking sufficient en- terprise to establish a more permanent home on terra firma , still inhabit wooden cottages built over the water . Whether necessitated by the struggle ...
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... live is eventually to me the place where I am to work out my own salvation . liberal and progressive , prosperous world may be the worst kind for my purpose . Material prosperity is the most dangerous enemy of the soul . Neither ...
... live is eventually to me the place where I am to work out my own salvation . liberal and progressive , prosperous world may be the worst kind for my purpose . Material prosperity is the most dangerous enemy of the soul . Neither ...
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... live in the atmosphere of your lofty theme , not make a grab at it or mount on stilts to reach it . It is the difference between a bird and a flying - trapeze performer . The lack is thus religious , one of spiritual culture and ...
... live in the atmosphere of your lofty theme , not make a grab at it or mount on stilts to reach it . It is the difference between a bird and a flying - trapeze performer . The lack is thus religious , one of spiritual culture and ...
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Page 362 - What! do I fear myself? there's none else by Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here? No. Yes; I am: Then fly: what! from myself? Great reason why; Lest I revenge. What! myself upon myself? Alack! I love myself. Wherefore? for any good That I myself have done unto myself? O! no: alas! I rather hate myself For hateful deeds committed by myself.
Page 9 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, "See, this is new"? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 145 - THERE is NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
Page 97 - I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.
Page 362 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Page 356 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 276 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 145 - There is no wealth but life — -life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings...
Page 321 - Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot or leave it bare, When he might build him a proud temple there A name, that long shall hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high...
Page 330 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.