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... Heirs Hell 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.
... Heirs Hell 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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... hope to achieve it; but he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, only reaps, from the hopes which he sows, a harvest of barren regrets.—Bulwer. Not failure, but low aim, is crime.—J. R. Lowell. Aim at perfection in everything, though ...
... hope to achieve it; but he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, only reaps, from the hopes which he sows, a harvest of barren regrets.—Bulwer. Not failure, but low aim, is crime.—J. R. Lowell. Aim at perfection in everything, though ...
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... hope to win by it?—Shakespeare. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.—Swift As dogs in a wheel, or squirrels in a case, ambitious men still climb and climb ...
... hope to win by it?—Shakespeare. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.—Swift As dogs in a wheel, or squirrels in a case, ambitious men still climb and climb ...
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Tryon Edwards. what we hope for: expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.—Home. Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation ...
Tryon Edwards. what we hope for: expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.—Home. Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation ...
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... hope to be with in eternity.— Duller. It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another; therefore let men take heed of their company.—Shakespeare. Frequent intercourse and ...
... hope to be with in eternity.— Duller. It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another; therefore let men take heed of their company.—Shakespeare. Frequent intercourse and ...
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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