Dollars and Sense: A Story in Four ActsGorham Press, 1915 - 109 pages |
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Page 109 - There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.
Page 32 - Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
Page 13 - A MIGHTY pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss ; But, of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.
Page 101 - I will build an academy in every town, and endow it,— a college in every state, and fill it with able professors ; I will crown every hill with a place of worship, consecrated to the promulgation of the Gospel of peace...
Page 90 - A man would have no pleasure in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in Heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.
Page 101 - Give me the money that has been spent in war, and I will purchase every foot of land upon the globe. I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens would be proud.
Page 77 - Here crumbling lies, beneath this mould, A man, whose sole delight was gold ; Content was never once his guest, Though thrice ten thousand fill'd his chest ; For he, poor man, with all his store, Died in great want — the want of more.
Page 90 - CThe most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Page 42 - However brilliant an action it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Page 43 - ... union of so much delicacy, there is no part of his conduct I would sooner single out, than to observe him in his resentments. And this not upon the maxim frequently advanced, " that the best friends make the bitterest enemies...