. . . they had courage without which, men are as the standing straw in an unreaped field in winter but having become like the hooded pine, that keepeth green in frost, and hath the bounding blood in all its icy branches.
. . . they had courage without which, men are as the standing straw in an unreaped field in winter but having become like the hooded pine, that keepeth green in frost, and hath the bounding blood in all its icy branches.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
Being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care.
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
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