Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 78
... character , so that he may justify himself to their eyes for doing what he does . If the labor is trivial , let him , by his thinking and character , make it liberal . Whatever he knows and thinks , whatever in his apprehension is worth ...
... character , so that he may justify himself to their eyes for doing what he does . If the labor is trivial , let him , by his thinking and character , make it liberal . Whatever he knows and thinks , whatever in his apprehension is worth ...
Page 86
... character does evermore publish itself . It will not be concealed . It hates darkness , -it rushes into light . The most fugitive deed and word , the mere air of doing a thing , the intimated purpose , expresses character . If you act ...
... character does evermore publish itself . It will not be concealed . It hates darkness , -it rushes into light . The most fugitive deed and word , the mere air of doing a thing , the intimated purpose , expresses character . If you act ...
Page 153
... character of the several individuals in his circle of friends ? No man . Yet their acts and words do not disappoint him . In that man , though he knew no ill of him , he put no trust . In that other , though they had seldom met ...
... character of the several individuals in his circle of friends ? No man . Yet their acts and words do not disappoint him . In that man , though he knew no ill of him , he put no trust . In that other , though they had seldom met ...
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