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Character and Conduct: A Book of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past ... - Page 7
by Constance M. Whishaw - 1908 - 374 pages
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The Conquered World: And Other Papers

Robert Forman Horton - 1898 - 140 pages
...will in quenching their thirst see looking into their eyes a soul that utters these brave words: " To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to...little less ; to make upon the whole a family happier by his presence; to renounce where that shall be necessary, and not to be embittered; to keep a few...
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The Photographic Times: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted ..., Volume 31

1899 - 678 pages
...statue in San Francisco, was amply fulfilled in this life whose quiet close we have just witnessed : "To be honest, to be kind; to earn a little and to...presence; to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered; to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same grim...
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The Literary World, Volume 30

1899 - 480 pages
...which is engraved upon his memorial at San Francisco : To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, anc to spend a little less; to make upon the whole a family...to renounce when that shall be necessary, and not to be embittered ; to keep a few Iriends, but thes< without capitulation — above all, on the same...
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Dawn, Volume 1

1914 - 436 pages
...for his presence ; to denounce vJhen that shall be necessary, and not be embittered—to keep a fevJ friends, but these Without capitulation ; above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends vJith himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy." knock the entire...
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A Christmas Sermon

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 42 pages
...of patience. There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life ; each must be smilingly unravelled. To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and...capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to 8 keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He...
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Modern Achievement, Volume 1

1900 - 484 pages
...a-sorrowing," said poor Richard. Writing of his ideal of a perfect life, Robert Louis Stevenson said : " To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to spend a little less ; to make, on the whole, a family happier bf his presence ; to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to...
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Thoughts

Jessie K. Freeman, Ladies of Fabiola Hospital Association, Fabiola hospital association, Oakland, Calif - 1901 - 182 pages
...divine ; Be what thou prayest to be made ; Let the great Master's steps be thine. — Horatio Bonar. To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to...presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition,...
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Heaven, Home and Happiness

Mary Lowe Dickinson, Myrta Lockett Avary - 1901 - 426 pages
...a-sorrowing," said poor Richard. Writing of his ideal of a perfect life, Robert Louis Stevenson said : " To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to spend a little less ; to make, on the whole, a family happier by his presence ; to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to...
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Thoughts

Jessie K. Freeman, Ladies of Fabiola Hospital Association, Fabiola hospital association, Oakland, Calif - 1901 - 196 pages
...upon the whole, a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation ; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself, here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy....
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Philosophy and Life: And Other Essays

John Henry Muirhead - 1902 - 290 pages
...summary of the whole duty of man than the following ? "To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and spend a little less, to make (upon the whole) a family...and not be embittered; to keep a few friends, but that without capitulation. Above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself. Here...
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