Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... gifts God offers her that she may learn the power and the charm that like a new dawn radiating of the deep of space , her new- born being is . The fair girl who repels inter- ference by a decided and proud choice of in- fluences , so ...
... gifts God offers her that she may learn the power and the charm that like a new dawn radiating of the deep of space , her new- born being is . The fair girl who repels inter- ference by a decided and proud choice of in- fluences , so ...
Page 32
... gifts and the melody they bring to the epithala- mium . Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex , nor person , nor par- tiality , but which seeketh virtue and wisdom everywhere , to the end of increasing virtue and ...
... gifts and the melody they bring to the epithala- mium . Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex , nor person , nor par- tiality , but which seeketh virtue and wisdom everywhere , to the end of increasing virtue and ...
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... gift of per- petual youth , and the like , are alike the en- deavor of the human spirit “ to bend the shows of things ... gifts are capricious and not to be trusted ; that who seeks a treasure must not speak ; and the like I find true in ...
... gift of per- petual youth , and the like , are alike the en- deavor of the human spirit “ to bend the shows of things ... gifts are capricious and not to be trusted ; that who seeks a treasure must not speak ; and the like I find true in ...
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... gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous in actual and ...
... gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous in actual and ...
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... gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultiva- tion ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half pos- session . That which each can do best , none but his Maker can ...
... gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultiva- tion ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half pos- session . That which each can do best , none but his Maker can ...
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