Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 14
... young men who never ripened , or whose performance in actual life was not extraordi nary . When we see their air and mien , when we hear them speak of society , of books , of religion , we admire their superiority ; they seem to throw ...
... young men who never ripened , or whose performance in actual life was not extraordi nary . When we see their air and mien , when we hear them speak of society , of books , of religion , we admire their superiority ; they seem to throw ...
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... young person , " Always do what you are afraid to do . " A simple manly character need never make an apology , but should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion , when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy ...
... young person , " Always do what you are afraid to do . " A simple manly character need never make an apology , but should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion , when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy ...
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... young , yet forsakes not the old , or rather suffers no one who is truly its servant to grow old , but makes the aged par- ticipators of it not less than the tender maiden , though in a different and nobler sort . For it is a fire that ...
... young , yet forsakes not the old , or rather suffers no one who is truly its servant to grow old , but makes the aged par- ticipators of it not less than the tender maiden , though in a different and nobler sort . For it is a fire that ...
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... philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love , without being tempted to unsay , as treasonable to nature , aught derogatory to the social instincts , For , though 22 LOVE .
... philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love , without being tempted to unsay , as treasonable to nature , aught derogatory to the social instincts , For , though 22 LOVE .
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... young women , and withers the hope and affection of human nature by teaching that marriage sig- nifies nothing but a housewife's thrift , and that woman's life has no other aim . But this dream of love , though beautiful , is only one ...
... young women , and withers the hope and affection of human nature by teaching that marriage sig- nifies nothing but a housewife's thrift , and that woman's life has no other aim . But this dream of love , though beautiful , is only one ...
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