Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, with Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers |
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... Death only is still . Life is move- ment . Nor can it be done to any purpose on an unchanging level . We go up or down , and develop the best or worst of us in the journey . Some of these writers tell of the struggle of men . Struggles ...
... Death only is still . Life is move- ment . Nor can it be done to any purpose on an unchanging level . We go up or down , and develop the best or worst of us in the journey . Some of these writers tell of the struggle of men . Struggles ...
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... death . The progenitor of the human race , while yet sinless , had Heaven's sign manual , work , given him to do . Paradise was his , " to dress it and keep it . " His subsequent sin and expul- sion from Eden made no change in this ...
... death . The progenitor of the human race , while yet sinless , had Heaven's sign manual , work , given him to do . Paradise was his , " to dress it and keep it . " His subsequent sin and expul- sion from Eden made no change in this ...
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... death , where all must pass . Alas ! when this particular man departed from the earth , he left all those millions simply to perpetuate his family name ; while his soul entered the eternal realm , leaving no beneficent record to endear ...
... death , where all must pass . Alas ! when this particular man departed from the earth , he left all those millions simply to perpetuate his family name ; while his soul entered the eternal realm , leaving no beneficent record to endear ...
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... death ; saw it done by authority of the Government . What the effect was upon him , he himself when United States senator has told . In an address given at Philadelphia , in 1863 , during the dark days of the civil war , he said ...
... death ; saw it done by authority of the Government . What the effect was upon him , he himself when United States senator has told . In an address given at Philadelphia , in 1863 , during the dark days of the civil war , he said ...
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It was said of William Wilberforce at his death , that " he had gone to God with the shackles of eight hundred thousand West India slaves in his hands , " but Henry Wilson , the poor bond boy , had been one of the chief agents in ...
It was said of William Wilberforce at his death , that " he had gone to God with the shackles of eight hundred thousand West India slaves in his hands , " but Henry Wilson , the poor bond boy , had been one of the chief agents in ...
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