Hopes and Helps for the Young of Both Sexes: Relating to the Formation of Character, Choice of Avocation, Health, Amusement, Music, Conversation, Cultivation of Intellect, Moral Sentiment, Social Affection, Courtship, and Marriage |
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... friends of youth may , and will , encourage and advise them , through books , lectures , lessons , examples , and every known means of assistance ; but depend upon it , young men and SELF - MADE OR NEVER MADE . 21 women ,
... friends of youth may , and will , encourage and advise them , through books , lectures , lessons , examples , and every known means of assistance ; but depend upon it , young men and SELF - MADE OR NEVER MADE . 21 women ,
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... and pluck and eat ; when anger would rise in clamorous affray , ambition hold a lawless reign by unjust means ; when avarice can bargain in fraud , and fill its coffers in an hour , 3 1e 1s Cure , is TIR [ 62er sense.
... and pluck and eat ; when anger would rise in clamorous affray , ambition hold a lawless reign by unjust means ; when avarice can bargain in fraud , and fill its coffers in an hour , 3 1e 1s Cure , is TIR [ 62er sense.
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... and pluck and eat ; when anger would rise in clamorous affray , ambition hold a lawless reign by unjust means ; when avarice can bargain in fraud , and fill its coffers in an hour , 36 THE FIRST LESSON OF YOUTH . then to say.
... and pluck and eat ; when anger would rise in clamorous affray , ambition hold a lawless reign by unjust means ; when avarice can bargain in fraud , and fill its coffers in an hour , 36 THE FIRST LESSON OF YOUTH . then to say.
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... means control . The drunkard reforms when he controls his appetite ; the libertine , when he controls his lust ; the thief , when he masters his covetous desire . The great work of human reform , in all its length and breadth , its ...
... means control . The drunkard reforms when he controls his appetite ; the libertine , when he controls his lust ; the thief , when he masters his covetous desire . The great work of human reform , in all its length and breadth , its ...
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... means something . It is charged with eternal significance . It is big with sublime realities . Every step is a word ... mean it is grand . If it is mean to any , he makes it so . God made it glorious . Its channel He paved with diamonds ...
... means something . It is charged with eternal significance . It is big with sublime realities . Every step is a word ... mean it is grand . If it is mean to any , he makes it so . God made it glorious . Its channel He paved with diamonds ...
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