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... possible to few , that is to exem- plify and encourage what is possible to all . When asked what improvement he could suggest in the actual constitution of the universe , a pessimist re- plied : " I would make health as catching as dis ...
... possible to few , that is to exem- plify and encourage what is possible to all . When asked what improvement he could suggest in the actual constitution of the universe , a pessimist re- plied : " I would make health as catching as dis ...
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... at home as contented as possible . But I am myself again ; and reason , and , I think I may say , con- science , tell me to still press forward ; and press for- ward I must . " -- Nov. 29 , 1847 : " Well , it BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xliii .
... at home as contented as possible . But I am myself again ; and reason , and , I think I may say , con- science , tell me to still press forward ; and press for- ward I must . " -- Nov. 29 , 1847 : " Well , it BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xliii .
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... possible phases , represents man's threefold rela- tion , through thought , feeling , and deed , to the Universal Power and Life . Feeling , or senti- ment , is one of the three essential elements of religion , which must always appear ...
... possible phases , represents man's threefold rela- tion , through thought , feeling , and deed , to the Universal Power and Life . Feeling , or senti- ment , is one of the three essential elements of religion , which must always appear ...
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... possible , of their law of relation . This method is now applied to the study of history , of language , and literatures ; and there is no reason why it should not be applied to all the phenomena of religion . For science is simply sys ...
... possible , of their law of relation . This method is now applied to the study of history , of language , and literatures ; and there is no reason why it should not be applied to all the phenomena of religion . For science is simply sys ...
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... possible it is that the Shepherd should allow his flocks to suffer want , with such satiety of supply at hand in meadow and stream for all hunger and thirst . Hence , lest we go astray with the idea that the Hebrew poet was thinking ...
... possible it is that the Shepherd should allow his flocks to suffer want , with such satiety of supply at hand in meadow and stream for all hunger and thirst . Hence , lest we go astray with the idea that the Hebrew poet was thinking ...
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Page 349 - Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Page 338 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all ; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life.
Page 337 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 349 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 353 - For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead : otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Page 342 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 339 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just, and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way to all — gives hope to all, and consequent energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.
Page 348 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Page 45 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 148 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.