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... eat think of that , and every time you sit down to your dinner , ladies and gentlemen , say solemnly , before you ask a blessing , ' How much work have I done to - day for my dinner ? ' But the proper way to enforce that order on those ...
... eat think of that , and every time you sit down to your dinner , ladies and gentlemen , say solemnly , before you ask a blessing , ' How much work have I done to - day for my dinner ? ' But the proper way to enforce that order on those ...
Page 91
... eat better , but actually find some of their first real satisfaction in life as the result of discovering that they could visit the orthopedic ward of a hospital regularly , tell stories to the crippled children and bring them little ...
... eat better , but actually find some of their first real satisfaction in life as the result of discovering that they could visit the orthopedic ward of a hospital regularly , tell stories to the crippled children and bring them little ...
Page 110
... eating too much is the bane of the race , but they appreciate very well that there are a great many people , especially among the better - to - do classes , who eat more than is good for them . It is just the people who have least ...
... eating too much is the bane of the race , but they appreciate very well that there are a great many people , especially among the better - to - do classes , who eat more than is good for them . It is just the people who have least ...
Page 111
... eats too much and who like to be constantly insisting that people are destroying their lives by over- eating , but I know very well that considerably more than half of humanity eat more than is good for them . I know , too , that about ...
... eats too much and who like to be constantly insisting that people are destroying their lives by over- eating , but I know very well that considerably more than half of humanity eat more than is good for them . I know , too , that about ...
Page 112
... eating , and the observance of ecclesiastical regulations as to the modification of food . The reduction in meat eating and the production to some extent of a taste for the white rather than the dark foods generally , for butter and ...
... eating , and the observance of ecclesiastical regulations as to the modification of food . The reduction in meat eating and the production to some extent of a taste for the white rather than the dark foods generally , for butter and ...
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Page 289 - ... tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
Page 167 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 289 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time.
Page 236 - But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 237 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, That Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 289 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 305 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 166 - AUSTERITY OF POETRY. That son of Italy who tried to blow ', Ere Dante came, the trump of sacred song, In his light youth amid a festal throng Sate with his bride to see a public show. Fair was the bride, and on her front did glow Youth like a star ; and what to youth belong — Gay raiment, sparkling gauds, elation strong. A prop gave way ! crash fell a platform ! lo, 1 Giacoponc di Todi.
Page 28 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 151 - ... so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.