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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... Philosophy - Luck and Dishonesty - Pluck is the One Thing Needful - There is Luck only in Pluck -How Luck is Lost - Pluck and Reform - Wealth and Honors Useless unless Earned - Labor and Luck .. ... 51-63 Lecture Six . THEORY AND ...
... Philosophy - Luck and Dishonesty - Pluck is the One Thing Needful - There is Luck only in Pluck -How Luck is Lost - Pluck and Reform - Wealth and Honors Useless unless Earned - Labor and Luck .. ... 51-63 Lecture Six . THEORY AND ...
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... when we at- tempt to put Pleasure in the place of Principle , happiness in the place of obedience , we commit a great error , both in our philosophy and in our life , and one productive of un- 12 GOING TO CHURCH FOR PLEASURE . told evils .
... when we at- tempt to put Pleasure in the place of Principle , happiness in the place of obedience , we commit a great error , both in our philosophy and in our life , and one productive of un- 12 GOING TO CHURCH FOR PLEASURE . told evils .
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... philosophy , thought , research , reason . In this age men struggled to be great by the might of their minds and the skill of their hands . Poets , sculptors , painters , philosophers , orators , statesmen , writ- ers , and mechanics ...
... philosophy , thought , research , reason . In this age men struggled to be great by the might of their minds and the skill of their hands . Poets , sculptors , painters , philosophers , orators , statesmen , writ- ers , and mechanics ...
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... philosophy . But why are they honest ? Is it because they love Honesty ; because it is an eternal principle of right ; be- cause they value right above all things else , and will cling to it and live by it for its own sake ? Is it ...
... philosophy . But why are they honest ? Is it because they love Honesty ; because it is an eternal principle of right ; be- cause they value right above all things else , and will cling to it and live by it for its own sake ? Is it ...
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... philosopher , and prepares the ground on which it sows ; Might stalks on like madness , reckless of every thing but the end sought . Right is a lamb , cropping buds and flowers to make itself more beau- tiful ; Might is a tiger prowling ...
... philosopher , and prepares the ground on which it sows ; Might stalks on like madness , reckless of every thing but the end sought . Right is a lamb , cropping buds and flowers to make itself more beau- tiful ; Might is a tiger prowling ...
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