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... speak , but smoked his pipe incessantly . His adherents , however ( for every great man has his adherents ) , perfectly understood him , and knew how to gather his opinions . When anything that was read or related displeased him , he ...
... speak , but smoked his pipe incessantly . His adherents , however ( for every great man has his adherents ) , perfectly understood him , and knew how to gather his opinions . When anything that was read or related displeased him , he ...
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... speak his mind , and gathering round him , he proceeded as follows : Friends , says he , and neighbors , the taxes are in- deed very heavy , and if those laid on by the govern- ment were the only ones we had to pay , we might the more ...
... speak his mind , and gathering round him , he proceeded as follows : Friends , says he , and neighbors , the taxes are in- deed very heavy , and if those laid on by the govern- ment were the only ones we had to pay , we might the more ...
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... speak to him ; you will make poor , pitiful , sneaking excuses , and by degrees come to lose your veracity , and sink into base , downright lying ; for , as Poor Richard says , The second vice is lying , the first is running into debt ...
... speak to him ; you will make poor , pitiful , sneaking excuses , and by degrees come to lose your veracity , and sink into base , downright lying ; for , as Poor Richard says , The second vice is lying , the first is running into debt ...
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... speak we shook so ) , " Are they beaten ? Are they beaten ? ARE they beaten ? " Wait a while . " - O the trembling and the terror ! for too soon we saw our error : 85 They are baffled , not defeated ; we have driven them back in vain ...
... speak we shook so ) , " Are they beaten ? Are they beaten ? ARE they beaten ? " Wait a while . " - O the trembling and the terror ! for too soon we saw our error : 85 They are baffled , not defeated ; we have driven them back in vain ...
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... speak to tell us ; but ' t was one of our brave fellows , 135 As the homespun plainly showed us which the dying soldier wore . For they all thought he was dying , as they gathered round him crying , ― And they said , " Oh , how they'll ...
... speak to tell us ; but ' t was one of our brave fellows , 135 As the homespun plainly showed us which the dying soldier wore . For they all thought he was dying , as they gathered round him crying , ― And they said , " Oh , how they'll ...
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Page 52 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Page 37 - To him who in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 37 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 83 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil. Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 229 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 82 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main; The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming Lair.
Page 39 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 49 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears ; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting, that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 376 - Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics.
Page 373 - Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition, still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.