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... Dissimulation Dissipation Distance Distinction Distrust Diversion Docility Doctrine Dogmatism Doing Well Domestic Doubt Dreams Dress Drinking Drunkenness Duels Dullness Duty E. Early Rising Earnestness Earth Eating Eccentricity Echo ...
... Dissimulation Dissipation Distance Distinction Distrust Diversion Docility Doctrine Dogmatism Doing Well Domestic Doubt Dreams Dress Drinking Drunkenness Duels Dullness Duty E. Early Rising Earnestness Earth Eating Eccentricity Echo ...
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... duty.—A. Maclaren. What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of selfdiscipline.—H. P. Liddon. Natural abilities can almost compensate for the ...
... duty.—A. Maclaren. What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of selfdiscipline.—H. P. Liddon. Natural abilities can almost compensate for the ...
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... duties?—they are the perfecting of ourselves, and the happiness of others.—Kant. High aims and lofty purposes are the wings of the soul aiding it to mount to heaven. In God's word we have a perfect standard both of duty and character ...
... duties?—they are the perfecting of ourselves, and the happiness of others.—Kant. High aims and lofty purposes are the wings of the soul aiding it to mount to heaven. In God's word we have a perfect standard both of duty and character ...
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... duty of selfgovernment; and she has proved that this may be done by education and the diffusion of knowledge. She holds out an example a thousand times more encouraging than ever was presented before to those ninetenths of the human ...
... duty of selfgovernment; and she has proved that this may be done by education and the diffusion of knowledge. She holds out an example a thousand times more encouraging than ever was presented before to those ninetenths of the human ...
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... duty than ourselves, but truth and right to them and to us are one and the same thing.—E. H. Chapin. Anger. Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.—Pythagoras. The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him ...
... duty than ourselves, but truth and right to them and to us are one and the same thing.—E. H. Chapin. Anger. Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.—Pythagoras. The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him ...
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