 | 1862 - 582 trang
...are young, and have the world before you : learn to stoop as you go through it, and you will avoid many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my...upon people by their carrying their heads too high." HUMILITY, LEADS TO EXALTATION. — In the evening of the day that Sir Eardley Wilmot was appointed... | |
 | 1863 - 858 trang
...against the beam. He was a man who never missed an occasion of giving instruction; and upon this he eaid to me — You are young, and have the world before...often think of it when I see pride mortified, and misfortune brought upon people by carrying their heads too high." HARDNESS OF THE RICH MAN'S ENTERING... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 668 trang
...the beam. He was a man that never missed any occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, You are young, and have the world before you ; STOOP us you (jo through it, and you will miss many hard thumps. This advice, thus beat into my head, has... | |
 | 1865 - 138 trang
...until his head struck against the beam with considerable force. "There," said the Doctor, laughing, "you are young, and have the world before you ; stoop as you go through it, and you may miss many hard thumps." Nearly seventy years after, the recipient of this counsel wrote:— " This... | |
 | James Parton - 1865 - 672 trang
...the beam. He was a man that never missed any occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, You are young, and have the world before you ; STOOP as you </o thruwjh it, ami you will m iss i»<«•«// hard thumps. This advice, thus beat into my head,... | |
 | 1866 - 368 trang
...me, ' Yon are young, and have the World before you ; STOOP as y ou go through it, and you will mij's many hard Thumps,' This Advice, thus beat into my Head, has frequently been of Ufe to me ; and I often think of it, when I fee Pride mortified, and Misfortunes brought upon People... | |
 | 1866 - 358 trang
...Advice, thus beat into my Head, has frequently been of Ufe to me ; and I often think of it, when I fee Pride mortified, and Misfortunes brought upon People by their carrying their Heads too high." This Moral, fo eflentially good in itfelf, does not need the high Recommendation of a Franklin, though... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - 1893 - 330 trang
...beam. He was a man that never missed any occasion of giving instruction ; and, upon this, he said, ' You are young, and have the world before you. Stoop...mortified, and misfortunes brought, upon people by carrying their heads too high." Before honor is humility. ii. SPARE MOMENTS. A boy, poorly dressed,... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1893 - 282 trang
...young, and have the 1 The name of this book, written by the Rev. Cotton Mather, was Essays to do Good. world before you ; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps." Franklin says that this sensible advice, which was thus beat into his head, was of great use afterward... | |
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This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high. 
