Duties of Young Men

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Phillips, Sampson, 1853 - 203 pages
 

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Page 76 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme ; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 71 - There is none In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart.
Page 93 - The law is the standard and the guardian of our liberty; it circumscribes and defends it; but to imagine liberty without a law, is to imagine every man with his sword in his hand, to destroy him who is weaker than himself; and that would be no pleasant prospect to those who cry out most for liberty.
Page 123 - ... length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective positions, having a candle by me.
Page 84 - I've laid me flat along; And while gust followed gust more furiously, As if to sweep me o'er the horrid brink, And I have thought of other lands, whose storms Are summer flaws to those of mine, and just Have wished me there ; — the thought that mine was free Has checked that wish, and I have raised my head, And cried in thraldom to that furious wind : Blow on ! This is the land of liberty ! TELL AMONG THE MOUNTAINS — KNOWLES.
Page 20 - ... anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man ; it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed.
Page 126 - If the riches of both Indies, if the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet, in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
Page 160 - ... pleasure, sportive butterflies searching for gaudy flowers. Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity ; these thoughts and motives within you stir the pulses of a deathless spirit. Act not, then, as mere creatures of this life who for a little while are to walk the valleys and the hills, to enjoy the sunshine and to breathe the air, and then pass...
Page 55 - Now, sir, you touch Upon the point. This man of half a million Had all these public virtues which you praise : But the poor man rung never at his door ; And the old beggar, at the public gate, Who, all the summer long, stands, hat in hand, He knew how vain it was to lift an eye To that hard face. Yet he was always found Among your ten and twenty-pound subscribers, Your benefactors in the newspapers.
Page 45 - ... convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over ; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

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