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... dollars we have gained or by the general good we have done in the world ? Having been blessed with the good things of life , shall we appropriate them all unto self and its belittling ends , or shall we generously and wisely appropriate ...
... dollars we have gained or by the general good we have done in the world ? Having been blessed with the good things of life , shall we appropriate them all unto self and its belittling ends , or shall we generously and wisely appropriate ...
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... dollars . Nearly all of them began life in poverty , and , reckoned by a commercial standard , they have been eminently success- ful men . Very many of them are noble specimens of Christian manhood , and are bravely carrying on the ...
... dollars . Nearly all of them began life in poverty , and , reckoned by a commercial standard , they have been eminently success- ful men . Very many of them are noble specimens of Christian manhood , and are bravely carrying on the ...
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... dollar to relieve earth's wretchedness . Do not understand me as decrying wealth . Not so ! It is not in itself an evil but a good . It can only become an evil when its possessor hoards it , to his own and others ' hurt . Wrong use will ...
... dollar to relieve earth's wretchedness . Do not understand me as decrying wealth . Not so ! It is not in itself an evil but a good . It can only become an evil when its possessor hoards it , to his own and others ' hurt . Wrong use will ...
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... dollar per day , and he who can earn ten dollars a day is a very great exception . Yet , if Adam had lived to this hour , and had earned ten dollars a day , and had worked every day , including Sabbaths , for all of the past six ...
... dollar per day , and he who can earn ten dollars a day is a very great exception . Yet , if Adam had lived to this hour , and had earned ten dollars a day , and had worked every day , including Sabbaths , for all of the past six ...
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... dollar he could call his own , in a book to fit him for a wished - for course in a village academy ; and , enter- ing the academy , he then worked for a blacksmith outside of school hours to pay for his board , often rising at four o ...
... dollar he could call his own , in a book to fit him for a wished - for course in a village academy ; and , enter- ing the academy , he then worked for a blacksmith outside of school hours to pay for his board , often rising at four o ...
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