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... situations, Is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.—W. Humboldt. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.—E. H. Chapin. Nothing ever happens but once in this world. What I.
... situations, Is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.—W. Humboldt. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.—E. H. Chapin. Nothing ever happens but once in this world. What I.
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... Chapin. He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.—Fielding. He that has no cross will ...
... Chapin. He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.—Fielding. He that has no cross will ...
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... Chapin. Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring; it lays in ambush and waits. Such is the mature fruit. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in ...
... Chapin. Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring; it lays in ambush and waits. Such is the mature fruit. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in ...
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... Chapin. Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay.—Colton. The soul that suffers is stronger than the soul ...
... Chapin. Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay.—Colton. The soul that suffers is stronger than the soul ...
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... Chapin. There are three classes into which all the women past seventy years of age I have ever known, were divided: that dear old soul; that old woman; that old witch.—Coleridge. That which is called dotage, is not the weak point of all ...
... Chapin. There are three classes into which all the women past seventy years of age I have ever known, were divided: that dear old soul; that old woman; that old witch.—Coleridge. That which is called dotage, is not the weak point of all ...
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