The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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Page 295
... moral elements , and stim- ulating aspirations , and meditations on the unknown . WALT WHITMAN , Democratic Vistas ... moral . This moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep , that it takes a great deal of ...
... moral elements , and stim- ulating aspirations , and meditations on the unknown . WALT WHITMAN , Democratic Vistas ... moral . This moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep , that it takes a great deal of ...
Page 383
... moral grounds which persuaded the North . The difference here is immense . In human history a moral victory is always a disaster , for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished . The triumph of sin in 1865 would have ...
... moral grounds which persuaded the North . The difference here is immense . In human history a moral victory is always a disaster , for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished . The triumph of sin in 1865 would have ...
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... Moral : You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward . Ibid . , " The Bear That Could Let It Alone " One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to ...
... Moral : You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward . Ibid . , " The Bear That Could Let It Alone " One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to ...
Contents
of Americans | 9 |
a Look at the Country | 65 |
What We Live By | 113 |
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