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... Help Heroism History Holidays Holiness Home Honesty Honor Hope Hospitality House Housewife Humanity Humility Humor Hunger Hurry Husband Hypocrisy I. Ideals Ideas Idleness Ignorance IllNature Ills Imagination Imitation Immodesty.
... Help Heroism History Holidays Holiness Home Honesty Honor Hope Hospitality House Housewife Humanity Humility Humor Hunger Hurry Husband Hypocrisy I. Ideals Ideas Idleness Ignorance IllNature Ills Imagination Imitation Immodesty.
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... honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.—Mallet God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears that they may read aright his providence and his commandments.—T. L. Cuyler. If Affliction.
... honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.—Mallet God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears that they may read aright his providence and his commandments.—T. L. Cuyler. If Affliction.
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... very lust of dominion which was first encouraged only as the best means of obtaining it.—Colton. To be ambitions of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but Ambition.
... very lust of dominion which was first encouraged only as the best means of obtaining it.—Colton. To be ambitions of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but Ambition.
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... honors to be descended from the great and good—They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.—Ben Jonson. Good blood—descent from the great and good, is a high honor and privilege.—He that lives worthily of it ...
... honors to be descended from the great and good—They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.—Ben Jonson. Good blood—descent from the great and good, is a high honor and privilege.—He that lives worthily of it ...
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... honor from our descendants than from our ancestors; thinking it better to be nobly remembered than nobly born; and striving so to live, that our sons, and our sons' sons, for ages to come, might still lead their children reverently to ...
... honor from our descendants than from our ancestors; thinking it better to be nobly remembered than nobly born; and striving so to live, that our sons, and our sons' sons, for ages to come, might still lead their children reverently to ...
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action Apothegms Aristotle atheism beauty become Beecher believe better Bible blessing body Chapin character Christ Christian Cicero Colton conscience danger death deeds desire devil divine doth duty earth Edwards Eliot enemy eternal everything evil faith fear feel flowers folly fool genius George Eliot give glory God’s grace greatest grow habit happiness hath heart heaven holy honor hope human idle ignorance Jeremy Taylor Joshua Reynolds kind knowledge labor learning liberty light live look man’s mankind marriage men’s mind moral nature never noble one’s opinion ourselves passions perfect person philosophy pleasure Plutarch principles Proverb Publius Syrus reason religion rich Rochefoucauld sense Shakespeare Simmons sorrow soul speak spirit temper thee Theodore Parker things thou thought today true truth vice virtue Voltaire Washington Allston weak wisdom wise word