 For every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action ; and that while tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement...  American Humorists - Página 96por Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1883 - 192 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1911 - 644 páginas
...universities ; and many other persons distinguished in all walks of life. CHAPTER XXXI CHARAOTEKISTICS " Tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous...goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life. How far are his own life and deed in accordance with what he preaches ? The only conclusive... | |
 | Martha Tarbell - 1911 - 496 páginas
...shall stand. Prov. 12.7. Beware of the man who does not translate his words into deeds. Roosevelt. Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lowly action. James Russell Lowell. If we do not turn our beliefs into practice they will not long... | |
 | Hermann Henry Schroeder - 1911 - 296 páginas
...Let him keep in his own mind, and impress on the minds of his pupils, this thought of Lowell's: "For every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single bodily action; and that while tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents... | |
 | 1911 - 170 páginas
...apples, etc., is about 31 inches high. 20 " For we that live to please, must please to live." 21 " Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world ircigh less than a single lovely action." 22 " No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may... | |
 | Joseph Collins - 1920 - 340 páginas
...sentiment and whose conduct conforms to sentiment is mentally and morally unhealthy. As Lowell says: "Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful...the world weigh less than a single lovely action." Decisions, plans of action, conduct conditioned by or founded in sentiment can be followed safely only... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LONGFELLOW — Psalm of Life. (See also BYRON, under FATE) 18 shall not die, and cannot be LOWELL — Among my Books. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists. (See also BAILEY, under ADVICE) 19 Nil... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1913-1914 : Glynn) - 1926 - 1328 páginas
...Heroes and heroism help the poor, and therein, Herbert Spencer says, lies the essence of altruism. All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely act. In the words of Schiller, when " the moor has done his work, the moor may go," and when the final... | |
 | 1952 - 1054 páginas
...revolution. Jan Masaryk: Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes. James Russell Lowell: Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful...the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Louis Brandeis: Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's... | |
 | 1901 - 502 páginas
...of the race, and have forced into prominence many a man who would otherwise have remained unknown. Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful...achievement of the will, and a quality of life.— LOWELL. day has twice as many golden hours as those of other men. He is to be pitied whose house is... | |
 | James P. Hanigan - 1986 - 244 páginas
...by one of my former students. The saying reflects both the inspiration and the hope for this book. "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action." We read a similar idea in the Scriptures: "Our love is not to be just words or mere talk, but something... | |
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