“ Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio. ”
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“ We have been brought up to think that there can be nothing better than virtue, than duty, than strictly following the precepts of a good religion. ”
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“ The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. ”
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“ But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. ”
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“ All the best work is done the way that ants do things — by tiny but untiring and regular additions. ”
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“ Only one English poet of our own day, and that a minor one, has attempted to make the poem of four lines a specialty - that is William Watson. ”
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“ But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. ”
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“ I feel like a white granular mass of amorphous crystals — my formula appears to be isomeric with Spasmotoxin. My aurochloride precipitates into beautiful prismatic needles. My Platinochloride develops octahedron crystals, — with a fine blue florescence… ”
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“ Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics. ”
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“ Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics. ”
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“ A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove to-day on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ”
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“ We have been brought up to think that there can be nothing better than virtue, than duty, than strictly following the precepts of a good religion. ”
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“ There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others. ”
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“ We have been brought up to think that there can be nothing better than virtue, than duty, than strictly following the precepts of a good religion. ”
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“ It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. ”
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“ There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others. ”
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“ A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove to-day on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ”
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“ At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language. ”
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“ For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. ”
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“ But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. ”
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“ To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. ”
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“ The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. ”
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“ We have been brought up to think that there can be nothing better than virtue, than duty, than strictly following the precepts of a good religion. ”
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“ The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation. ”
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