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... TO RENDER ONE'S SELF USELESS XVII . THE INEXCUSABLENESS OF EXCUSES XVIII . CHANGING THE PAST . THE SAFETY OF DANGER LIVING IS DYING 127 139 153 . 163 XIX . 173 XX . 183 I. THE COMFORT OF CHRISTIAN PARADOXES . The law of 8 CONTENTS .
... TO RENDER ONE'S SELF USELESS XVII . THE INEXCUSABLENESS OF EXCUSES XVIII . CHANGING THE PAST . THE SAFETY OF DANGER LIVING IS DYING 127 139 153 . 163 XIX . 173 XX . 183 I. THE COMFORT OF CHRISTIAN PARADOXES . The law of 8 CONTENTS .
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... In this light of duty , it is a blessed thing to become useless through having been useful until usefulness is no longer a necessity in one's sphere . XVII . THE INEXCUSABLENESS OF EXCUSES . There is positively 152 PRACTICAL PARADOXES .
... In this light of duty , it is a blessed thing to become useless through having been useful until usefulness is no longer a necessity in one's sphere . XVII . THE INEXCUSABLENESS OF EXCUSES . There is positively 152 PRACTICAL PARADOXES .
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Henry Clay Trumbull. XVII . THE INEXCUSABLENESS OF EXCUSES . There is positively no excuse for making excuses — excuses for doing wrong or for failing to do right . A defense of one's course as absolutely correct is one thing . A con ...
Henry Clay Trumbull. XVII . THE INEXCUSABLENESS OF EXCUSES . There is positively no excuse for making excuses — excuses for doing wrong or for failing to do right . A defense of one's course as absolutely correct is one thing . A con ...
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... excuse for wrong - doing can ever justify the wrong , and no excuse for fail- ing to perform a positive duty can ever justify that failure , every excuse will inevitably fall below its aim , and so bring its framer into ridicule or ...
... excuse for wrong - doing can ever justify the wrong , and no excuse for fail- ing to perform a positive duty can ever justify that failure , every excuse will inevitably fall below its aim , and so bring its framer into ridicule or ...
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... excuse - making is not good sense in excuse- making . No practice in the business can save one from making a fool of himself in that business . A justifying reason for inability to do what would otherwise have been done , is a very dif ...
... excuse - making is not good sense in excuse- making . No practice in the business can save one from making a fool of himself in that business . A justifying reason for inability to do what would otherwise have been done , is a very dif ...
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Page 166 - And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, The cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, • My great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, And praise the name of the Lord your God, That hath dealt wondrously with you : And my people shall never be ashamed.
Page 63 - Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may apprehend that for which also I was apprehended by Christ Jesus.
Page 68 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 51 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 105 - Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives!
Page 168 - Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing ; now it shall spring forth ; shall ye not know it ? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Page 29 - Two are better than one ; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Page 166 - Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
Page 38 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, "See, this is new?" it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 50 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds...