The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern
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Opportunities for All Who Were not Born Tired. Page 325.
Discipline. One Reason of the Prosperity of the Present Era--Obey Orders--How the Wonders have been Piled Up--Metaphor of the Organ and Its Pipes and Reeds--Sound Your Pipe only in Your Proper Turn, and You will hear Beautiful Music. Page 332. Books. We Multiply Our Sensations by Books--Everyone Can have a Library--Books are the Best of Friends--Charm of a Well-Read Comrade--Bindings--A Book as Great a Thing as a Battle--Importance of Some Battles--Our Eyes--How to Judge a Book Rightly--Large Type--Need of Handy Volumes--Aid Others, as a Duty. Page 337. Friendship. Reason of the Melancholy Tone which Pervades the Great Writings of the Ages on this Subject--Man Expects to Get More than He Gives--How a man Prepares the Nostrum called Friendship--Unsuccessful Substitution of Selfishness for a Mother's Love--What is Possible in the way of Ordinary Friendship--Spot Friendship--Let us not Rail against Friendship. Page 345. |
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