A Literary Find

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private circulation, 1914 - 63 páginas
 

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Página 34 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone, For the brave old earth must borrow its mirth— But has trouble enough of its own.
Página 24 - The bravest battle that ever was fought! Shall I tell you where and when ? On the maps of the world you will find it not : 'Twas fought by the mothers of men.
Página 11 - He's true to God who's true to man ; wherever wrong is done, To the humblest and the weakest, 'neath the all-beholding sun, That wrong is also done to us ; and they are slaves most base, Whose love of right is for themselves, and not for all their race.
Página 57 - People who have been living in a Ghetto for a couple of centuries are not able to step outside merely because the gates are thrown down, nor to efface the brands on their souls by putting off the yellow badges. The isolation imposed from without will have come to seem the law of their being.
Página 36 - The gay, the young, — alas that they Should ever bend beneath thy sway ! Look on the cheek the rose might own, The smile around like sunshine thrown ; The rose, the smile, alike are thine, To fade and darken at thy shrine. And what must love be in a heart All passion's fiery depths concealing, Which has in its minutest part More than another's whole of feeling.
Página 29 - National Commissioner of Labor, said : The lack of direct political influence constitutes a powerful reason why women's wages have been kept at a minimum.
Página 11 - There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it." In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by "rests," and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune.
Página 43 - Here, wait a minute. Congress passed this act that encroaches upon my right as a sovereign citizen of the United States." That was the purpose of the Court, and that is what it did until it was fixed. Mr. BUFFETT. Then you think that the Declaration of Independence pledge that said "All just governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed, ' has been pretty largely abridged of late.
Página 51 - ... gifts, and to subordinate their individuality, have been based upon false theories, and have produced an artificial and unjust relation of the sexes in modern society. 4. That self-government in the home and the State is the inalienable right of every normal adult, and the refusal of this right to women has resulted in social, legal, and economic injustice to them, and has also intensified the existing economic disturbances throughout the world.
Página 27 - ... there is no instance on record of any class possessing power without abusing it, we may easily understand how it was that the people of India, condemned to poverty by the physical laws of their climate, should have fallen into a degradation from which they have never been able to escape.

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