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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... sense only . Primarily , man is made for Principle . The end of his being is to do right , to be holy in heart and righteous in life . He was not made to be happy ; that would be but a poor end for such a being as man . Just to be happy ...
... sense only . Primarily , man is made for Principle . The end of his being is to do right , to be holy in heart and righteous in life . He was not made to be happy ; that would be but a poor end for such a being as man . Just to be happy ...
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... sense , and is as useless as it is dissipating . Such a life is a shallow pool of small circumference , with sandy shore and slimy bottom . We all of us , doubtless , exhibit much silly living for Pleasure . We eat , and drink , and ...
... sense , and is as useless as it is dissipating . Such a life is a shallow pool of small circumference , with sandy shore and slimy bottom . We all of us , doubtless , exhibit much silly living for Pleasure . We eat , and drink , and ...
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... sense . There is much of this in the world . It is Show without Substance . We see not a little of this same puff - ball pretense in matters of morality . There are scores of mock philan- thropists in every community . They talk large ...
... sense . There is much of this in the world . It is Show without Substance . We see not a little of this same puff - ball pretense in matters of morality . There are scores of mock philan- thropists in every community . They talk large ...
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... sense is put upon the pillory , while twad- dle and moonshine are raised to distinction ; where genius lies in the gutter , and ignorance soars to the skies ; where virtue is incarcerated in prison , while vice is courted and wooed by ...
... sense is put upon the pillory , while twad- dle and moonshine are raised to distinction ; where genius lies in the gutter , and ignorance soars to the skies ; where virtue is incarcerated in prison , while vice is courted and wooed by ...
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... sense . Moral courage is the right arm of reform . True reformers are the men of Pluck . All men should be reformers . Life , when properly understood , is one great work of reform . Reform is but another word for improvement , progress ...
... sense . Moral courage is the right arm of reform . True reformers are the men of Pluck . All men should be reformers . Life , when properly understood , is one great work of reform . Reform is but another word for improvement , progress ...
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