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... labor , serving not merely as a medium of exchange but as a basis of credit as well ; that it cannot be created by an act of the Legislature ; that dreams cannot be coined , and that only labor , in some form , can put , upon the hand ...
... labor , serving not merely as a medium of exchange but as a basis of credit as well ; that it cannot be created by an act of the Legislature ; that dreams cannot be coined , and that only labor , in some form , can put , upon the hand ...
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... labor that degrades , in any work that leaves a stain , in any business the mention of which is liable to redden the cheek , seems to be a destruc- tion of the foundation of hope , a destruction of the future ; it seems to be a ...
... labor that degrades , in any work that leaves a stain , in any business the mention of which is liable to redden the cheek , seems to be a destruc- tion of the foundation of hope , a destruction of the future ; it seems to be a ...
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... labor . I have given one reason ; there is another . The work of a domestic is never done . She is liable to be called at any moment , day or night . She has no time that she can call her own . A woman who works by the piece can take a ...
... labor . I have given one reason ; there is another . The work of a domestic is never done . She is liable to be called at any moment , day or night . She has no time that she can call her own . A woman who works by the piece can take a ...
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... labor for their daily bread , in avocations that require only bodily strength , are re- garded as failures . It is this fact that stabs like a knife . And yet in the conclusion drawn , there is but little truth . Some of the noblest and ...
... labor for their daily bread , in avocations that require only bodily strength , are re- garded as failures . It is this fact that stabs like a knife . And yet in the conclusion drawn , there is but little truth . Some of the noblest and ...
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... labor ; fought that mothers might own their babes , that arrogant idleness should not scar the back of patient toil , and that our country should not be a many - headed mon- ster made of warring States , but a Nation , sovereign , great ...
... labor ; fought that mothers might own their babes , that arrogant idleness should not scar the back of patient toil , and that our country should not be a many - headed mon- ster made of warring States , but a Nation , sovereign , great ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Admiral AMERICAN SECULAR UNION ANTON SEIDL babes beautiful become believe better Bible born brain brave called charity Christ Christian church civilized CLUB Colonel Ingersoll Comstock laws courage creed Cuba dead death dream Elizur Wright enemies eternal fact favor fear feel fellow-men filled Freethought genius GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE give gods greatest hands happiness heart heaven honest thought honor hope human race husband idea imagination infinite inspired intellectual intelligence Jehovah kill kind knew labor Lawrence Barrett liberty Lincoln lived millions mind miracles Monroe doctrine moral nation National Liberal League nature never orthodox Paine perfect poor Professor Briggs question reason religion religious Republic Roscoe Conkling Sabbath sacred savage soul Spain superstition tears tell thing Thomas Paine thousands tion TRIBUTE true truth Wagner wife Winfield Scott Schley woman women words wrong
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Página 250 - Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you," applies to all who would help others to gain their liberty.
Página 391 - Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word, but in the night of death, hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Página 391 - ... can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath,
Página 14 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Página 400 - The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest. We know that through the common wants of life — the needs and duties of each hour — their grief will lessen day by day, until at last this grave will be to them a place of rest and peace — almost of joy. There is for them this consolation : The dead do not suffer. If they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the...
Página 390 - ... lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still. While yet in love with life and raptured with the world he passed to silence and pathetic dust.
Página 429 - What custom wills, in all things should we do't The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heaped For truth to over-peer.— CorManus.
Página 390 - He added to the sum of human joy, and were everyone to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep to-night beneath a wilderness of flowers "Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.
Página 389 - I am going to do that which the dead often promised he would do for me. The loved and loving brother, husband, father, friend, died where manhood's morning almost touches noon, and while the shadows still were falling towards the West.