 | Addison Peale Russell - Conduct of life - 1875 - 416 pages
...President Lincoln. — Virtue does not take pupils. — Passages from Souvestre and Mencius. — Thousands hacking at the branches of evil, to one who is striking at the root. — A passage from Thoreau. — Right, too rigid, hardens in to wrong. — Anecdote of a malicious... | |
 | 1883 - 410 pages
...charitable institutions could lay to heart the following extract from Henry Thoreau's " Walden" : — " There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil, to one who is striking at the root ; and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the... | |
 | Pharmaceutical industry - 1915 - 464 pages
...Pfeiffer Chemical Co., St. Louis, in a large territory. Gelatin Glycerin Water THERE are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. WORKING FORMULAS Compressed Tablets Which Readily Disintegrate. The addition of 10 to 20 per cent of... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - Authors, American - 1890 - 340 pages
...partial and transitory act " in which there is frequently too large an admixture of self-consciousness. " There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most... | |
 | First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Calif. Ladies - Quotations, English - 1891 - 96 pages
...leads us with sweet music to the goal Where kindred hands stretch out to thine and mine. _ /. S. Woods. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil, to one who is striking at the root. —Thorcau. If you loved only what were worth your love, Love were clear gain, and wholly well for... | |
 | Jane Addams, Robert Archey Woods, James O. S. Huntington - Charity - 1893 - 292 pages
...which there is frequently too large an admixture of self-consciousness." Then, quoting from Thoreau, " there are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1893 - 550 pages
...saw that it would be a greater charity to bestow on me a flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...goodness in things evil, would men observingly distil it out. — Shakespeare. There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. — Thoreau. With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good ; but it seems... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1897 - 348 pages
...would be a greater charity to bestow 6H -»^ea flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him. 'jShere are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most... | |
 | Fabiola hospital association - Literature - 1899 - 94 pages
...leads us with sweet music to the goal Where kindred hands stretch out to thine and mine. —js Woods. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil, to one who is striking at the root. —Tkoreau. If you loved only what were worth your love, Love were clear gain, and wholly well for... | |
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives... 
