The Ways of Life: Showing the Right Way and Wrong Way, Contrasting the High Way and the Low Way, the True Way and the False Way, the Upward Way and the Downward Way, the Way of Honor and the Way of Dishonor |
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... object . There is this peculiarity in such men - they overdo their attentions , and overstrain their pretensions and professions . They are everlasting cour-- tiers , sickening to men of honest hearts . There is an inbred meanness in ...
... object . There is this peculiarity in such men - they overdo their attentions , and overstrain their pretensions and professions . They are everlasting cour-- tiers , sickening to men of honest hearts . There is an inbred meanness in ...
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... object , a temporary arrangement , the opposite of an eter- nal principle of right . How , then , can there be any Policy in Honesty ? He who is honest from Policy is dishonest . Honesty is best ; but it is not the best Policy , for ...
... object , a temporary arrangement , the opposite of an eter- nal principle of right . How , then , can there be any Policy in Honesty ? He who is honest from Policy is dishonest . Honesty is best ; but it is not the best Policy , for ...
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... object and its shadow , the sun and its glory , the soul and body , mind and its outward actions , love and its face of sweetness . And on this account men have associated the two so closely together , as often to mistake the one for ...
... object and its shadow , the sun and its glory , the soul and body , mind and its outward actions , love and its face of sweetness . And on this account men have associated the two so closely together , as often to mistake the one for ...
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... and touch material things . We then contemplate and comprehend something of the actions , objects , and uses of our fellows about us ; and these bring us to a contemplation of our experiences , FICTION . 83 . of what we feel , know.
... and touch material things . We then contemplate and comprehend something of the actions , objects , and uses of our fellows about us ; and these bring us to a contemplation of our experiences , FICTION . 83 . of what we feel , know.
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... object in every novel , and the color of the author's spirit . If both are good , such as God approves , read ; and as he reads , let written fact with life's experience be compared well ; then Fact on his soul will pour its stream of ...
... object in every novel , and the color of the author's spirit . If both are good , such as God approves , read ; and as he reads , let written fact with life's experience be compared well ; then Fact on his soul will pour its stream of ...
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