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Page 78
... Less . How can Less not feel the pain ; how not feel indig- nation or malevolence towards More ? Look at those who have less faculty , and one feels sad and know not well what to make of it . Almost 78 COMPENSATION .
... Less . How can Less not feel the pain ; how not feel indig- nation or malevolence towards More ? Look at those who have less faculty , and one feels sad and know not well what to make of it . Almost 78 COMPENSATION .
Page 87
... less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the bet- ter we like him , Timoleon's victories are the best victories , which ran and flowed like Homer's verses , Plutarch said . When we see a soul whose acts are all regal , graceful and ...
... less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the bet- ter we like him , Timoleon's victories are the best victories , which ran and flowed like Homer's verses , Plutarch said . When we see a soul whose acts are all regal , graceful and ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of na- ture over will in all practical life . There is less in- tention in history than we ascribe to it . We impute deep - laid far - sighted plans to Cæsar and Napoleon ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of na- ture over will in all practical life . There is less in- tention in history than we ascribe to it . We impute deep - laid far - sighted plans to Cæsar and Napoleon ...
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