Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty tho
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Could any death be so horrible as birth? Or any decrepitude so awful as childhood in a happy united God-fearing family?
The parents who wish to lead a quiet life I would say: Tell your children that they are very naughty--much naughtier than most chi
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If there could be such a thing as the Mammon of Righteousness Christina would have assuredly made friends with it.
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. Things must not be done in him which are venial in the week-day classes. H
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime. A man at five and thirty should no more re
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether
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Theorists may say what they like about a man's children being a continuation of his own identity, but it will generally be found t
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A clergyman, again, can hardly ever allow himself to look facts fairly in the face. It is his profession to support one side; it i
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The old saying of Buffon's that style is the man himself is as near the truth as we can get--but then most men mistake grammar for
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