The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... hand , as the statue grows to perfection in the marble . What there is excellent in him will become hers , though in a softened and feminine form as a great oak by the water side looks the same yet lovelier as reflected in the tranquil ...
... hand , as the statue grows to perfection in the marble . What there is excellent in him will become hers , though in a softened and feminine form as a great oak by the water side looks the same yet lovelier as reflected in the tranquil ...
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... bottle of hock close at hand . If I drank green tea or laudanum instead of hock , I should not offend my critics by writing of wine and ale . But , then , what would my books be like ? Again ; the Athenæum ( March 25 , 1871 ) Politics . 61.
... bottle of hock close at hand . If I drank green tea or laudanum instead of hock , I should not offend my critics by writing of wine and ale . But , then , what would my books be like ? Again ; the Athenæum ( March 25 , 1871 ) Politics . 61.
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... hand of Apollo . The art of money - making , like all other arts , is apt to master its possessor : the man who has made . his million in the City bows down and wor- ships the God MILLION . It is not so with those of the first force ...
... hand of Apollo . The art of money - making , like all other arts , is apt to master its possessor : the man who has made . his million in the City bows down and wor- ships the God MILLION . It is not so with those of the first force ...
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... a thing well done , do it yourself . ' I , on the other hand , say , never do yourself what you can get some one else to do ; ut see that it is done . Thanks to 6 the multiplication of books , any man of culture may Aristology . 73.
... a thing well done , do it yourself . ' I , on the other hand , say , never do yourself what you can get some one else to do ; ut see that it is done . Thanks to 6 the multiplication of books , any man of culture may Aristology . 73.
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... hand . If you sleep badly , dear reader , either your mind or your diges- tion is troubled . Now , as to trouble of mind advice is useless ; if you are in love , why , gather your rosebud as soon as possible ; if you are in debt , fight ...
... hand . If you sleep badly , dear reader , either your mind or your diges- tion is troubled . Now , as to trouble of mind advice is useless ; if you are in love , why , gather your rosebud as soon as possible ; if you are in debt , fight ...
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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...