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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... Youth , and Manhood - We have too Little Faith in the Possible -We Fail to Reach the Attainable - No Rest short of That - Men are Un- conscious of their Highest Capacities - Knowledge and Culture Within the Reach of All - Eternal ...
... Youth , and Manhood - We have too Little Faith in the Possible -We Fail to Reach the Attainable - No Rest short of That - Men are Un- conscious of their Highest Capacities - Knowledge and Culture Within the Reach of All - Eternal ...
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... is at the bottom of more dishonesty , wickedness , and moral cor- ruption than any thing else . It sows its seeds in youth- ful minds just at that visionary season when judgment 60 THERE IS LUCK ONLY IN PLUCK . has not.
... is at the bottom of more dishonesty , wickedness , and moral cor- ruption than any thing else . It sows its seeds in youth- ful minds just at that visionary season when judgment 60 THERE IS LUCK ONLY IN PLUCK . has not.
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... youth , and he knows not how to use them . They will prove his ruin . Steal money , steal a million of dollars , and lock it in your own coffers , and with it you steal a curse . You will be poorer than before . No man knows how , or ...
... youth , and he knows not how to use them . They will prove his ruin . Steal money , steal a million of dollars , and lock it in your own coffers , and with it you steal a curse . You will be poorer than before . No man knows how , or ...
Page 83
... youth , a very interesting and a very danger- ous period in every one's life . It is made both interesting and dangerous by the opening world of Fiction . With childish blood yet frolicking in his veins ; with many sights and facts just ...
... youth , a very interesting and a very danger- ous period in every one's life . It is made both interesting and dangerous by the opening world of Fiction . With childish blood yet frolicking in his veins ; with many sights and facts just ...
Page 90
... youth ; not uncultured mind ; but wisdom and sage experience . Here is a rock on which many a well - meaning sailor will split . Who shall tell him which is which ? He may not heed the voice of wisdom . But this one rule may serve him ...
... youth ; not uncultured mind ; but wisdom and sage experience . Here is a rock on which many a well - meaning sailor will split . Who shall tell him which is which ? He may not heed the voice of wisdom . But this one rule may serve him ...
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