Stories of Achievement, Volumen1Asa Don Dickinson Doubleday, Page, 1916 |
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... precept ; by life and literature ; by friends and neighbors ; by the world we live in as well as by the spirits of our forefathers , whose legacy of good words and deeds we inherit . But great , unquestion- ably 28 Stories of Achievement.
... precept ; by life and literature ; by friends and neighbors ; by the world we live in as well as by the spirits of our forefathers , whose legacy of good words and deeds we inherit . But great , unquestion- ably 28 Stories of Achievement.
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... neighbors have them ; give formal parties which you dread in advance , and are glad to have over ? Do you live on a scale which is deter- mined by the desire to keep up appearances and outshine your rivals , rather than by any genuine ...
... neighbors have them ; give formal parties which you dread in advance , and are glad to have over ? Do you live on a scale which is deter- mined by the desire to keep up appearances and outshine your rivals , rather than by any genuine ...
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... neighbor feel ? Do you treat other people as mere means to your own ends ? Do you try to get as much as possible out of others , and give as little in return ? Then you are a selfish brute ; defective in the social graces , and your ...
... neighbor feel ? Do you treat other people as mere means to your own ends ? Do you try to get as much as possible out of others , and give as little in return ? Then you are a selfish brute ; defective in the social graces , and your ...
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... neighbors or with his happiness in life A man says , for instance , when the repentant fit is heavy upon him : " It's all wrong for me to lie abed in the morning as I do . During the coming year I'll do better . I'll get up at 6:45 ...
... neighbors or with his happiness in life A man says , for instance , when the repentant fit is heavy upon him : " It's all wrong for me to lie abed in the morning as I do . During the coming year I'll do better . I'll get up at 6:45 ...
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... neighbor has less to say for itself than a resolution to make at least one call per week . A resolution to take better care of one's health has less chance of holding its own against the Resolutions - Good and Bad 109.
... neighbor has less to say for itself than a resolution to make at least one call per week . A resolution to take better care of one's health has less chance of holding its own against the Resolutions - Good and Bad 109.
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Página 13 - TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Página 77 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark, by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day.
Página 108 - This feast was the end of the old year and the beginning of the new.
Página 14 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Página 78 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Página 24 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 72 - I concluded at length that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous was not sufficient to prevent our slipping, and that the contrary habits must be broken and good ones acquired and established before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.
Página 87 - In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself ; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history ; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.
Página 86 - I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner ; the conversations I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction ; I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevailed with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right.
Página 20 - Even despotism does not produce its worst effects so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.