The Children of Good Fortune: An Essay in MoralsHoughton, Mifflin, 1905 - 405 páginas |
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The Children of Good Fortune: An Essay in Morals Charles Hanford Henderson Visualização completa - 1905 |
The Children of Good Fortune: An Essay in Morals Charles Hanford Henderson Visualização completa - 1905 |
The Children of Good Fortune: An Essay in Morals Charles Hanford Henderson Visualização completa - 1905 |
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Página 220 - Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.
Página 92 - So that no school can avoid taking for the ultimate moral aim a desirable state of feeling called by whatever name — gratification, enjoyment, happiness.
Página 218 - Our nervous systems have (in Dr. Carpenter's words) grown to the way in which they have been exercised, just as a sheet of paper or a coat, once creased or folded, tends to fall forever afterward into the same identical folds.
Página 169 - The best man is he who most tries to perfect himself, and the happiest man is he who most feels that he is perfecting himself...
Página 220 - We speak, it is true, of good habits and of bad habits; but, when people use the word "habit," in the majority of instances it is a bad habit which they have in mind. They talk of the smoking-habit and the swearing-habit and the drinking-habit, but not of the abstention-habit or the moderation-habit or the courage-habit. But the fact is that our virtues are habits as much as our vices.
Página 397 - John Percyfield is twisted of a double thread — • delightful, wise, sunshiny talks on the lines laid down by the Autocrat, and an autobiographical love story. It is full of wisdom and of beauty, of delicate delineation, and of inspiring sentiment." New York Times. " Its merits will rank it among the few sterling books of the day.
Página 137 - Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had something in itself beautiful, elevating, and meritorious in them; as if the British Philistine would have only to present himself before the Great Judge with his twelve children, in order to be received among the sheep as a matter of right!
Página 364 - Bible, (the law spoken of in the text,) declared that, if he had his life to live over again, he would spend it in the study of the Word of God.
Página 125 - He was told to sell all that he had and give to the poor; and we are told that he went away sorrowing.