The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... in ostentation , though it brings them no happiness , confers happiness on the humbler folk they employ . Acquisitive power scarce ever coëxists with : power to enjoy the money - maker resembles a The Marriage of Completion . 43.
... in ostentation , though it brings them no happiness , confers happiness on the humbler folk they employ . Acquisitive power scarce ever coëxists with : power to enjoy the money - maker resembles a The Marriage of Completion . 43.
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... brings the water from the depths of the earth to quench the people's thirst . . . but has no palate of its own . I ... bring perfect happiness ; and clearly it is in the highest degree conducive to health of mind and body . What a man ...
... brings the water from the depths of the earth to quench the people's thirst . . . but has no palate of its own . I ... bring perfect happiness ; and clearly it is in the highest degree conducive to health of mind and body . What a man ...
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... to claim for its own intuitions superiority over their hard - won experience . The reason of all this is clear enough : because we have E contracted the span of life , we bring our children The Marriage of Completion . 49.
... to claim for its own intuitions superiority over their hard - won experience . The reason of all this is clear enough : because we have E contracted the span of life , we bring our children The Marriage of Completion . 49.
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Edward James Mortimer Collins. contracted the span of life , we bring our children forward too rapidly , and just when they are at the stage for beginning to learn , they have made up their minds about every- thing . Even if wisdom comes ...
Edward James Mortimer Collins. contracted the span of life , we bring our children forward too rapidly , and just when they are at the stage for beginning to learn , they have made up their minds about every- thing . Even if wisdom comes ...
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... men can seldom live so freely as those who devote their faculties to making money out of the world ; but the whirligig of time brings in his revenges , ' and Plutus does not permanently get the 68 The Secret of Long Life .
... men can seldom live so freely as those who devote their faculties to making money out of the world ; but the whirligig of time brings in his revenges , ' and Plutus does not permanently get the 68 The Secret of Long Life .
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Página 32 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 94 - And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day — Ah ! do not we, wanderer ! await it too ? Yes, we await it! — but it still delays, And then we suffer! and amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne; And all his store of sad experience he Lays bare of wretched days...