item: #1 of 16 id: 14312 author: Trine, Ralph Waldo title: What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness date: None words: 45333 flesch: 68 summary: great life in the world's history, among those living and among the so-called dead, and tell me if in _ This is a great law that but few who would have great power and influence seem to recognize, or, at least, that but few seem to act upon. keywords: conditions; day; fact; fellow; forces; god; good; law; life; lives; love; man; men; mind; nature; power; principle; self; service; soul; things; thought; time; way; work; world cache: 14312.txt plain text: 14312.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 14679 author: Soulsby, Lucy Helen Muriel title: Stray Thoughts for Girls date: None words: 49139 flesch: 72 summary: I find, on comparing your suggestions, that there are thirty-eight things to avoid in home life (which suggests complexity); however, each of you was to confine her attention to three virtues and three failings, so in giving you my own likes and dislikes, I will not dwell on more than three. The girl who does that has left the riddle of home life unsolved: she was meant to wrestle with that difficulty till she wrung from it the blessing, the peace which comes only from self-conquest and acceptance of all the circumstances of her life. keywords: books; day; duty; feel; friends; girls; god; good; help; home; lessons; life; love; mind; mother; need; new; people; person; pleasure; reading; right; school; self; sunday; talk; things; thought; time; use; want; way; woman; work; world cache: 14679.txt plain text: 14679.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 19432 author: Mapes, Victor title: Heart and Soul by Maveric Post date: None words: 75761 flesch: 66 summary: There are a lot of other men around me, about the same as I am. Among other things, they saw a Chinaman smoking opium and this gave rise to a desire on her part to experience the sensation for herself. keywords: boy; character; children; consideration; day; experience; faith; father; feelings; good; heart; individual; influence; intellect; interest; kind; life; love; man; matter; men; mind; mother; nature; new; people; point; present; principle; purpose; question; reason; right; school; science; scientific; self; sort; soul; things; time; way; women; world cache: 19432.txt plain text: 19432.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 2541 author: Smiles, Samuel title: Character date: None words: 120133 flesch: 67 summary: As woman is not woman until she has known love, neither is man man. Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. keywords: action; admiration; books; business; character; children; control; country; courage; day; death; discipline; duty; education; example; experience; family; father; footnote; form; french; friend; genius; god; good; habit; hand; happiness; having; heart; history; home; honour; human; husband; individual; influence; kind; knowledge; life; literature; lives; living; lord; love; man; manner; means; men; mind; mother; nature; new; people; persons; pleasure; power; public; qualities; read; real; respect; right; saying; says; science; self; sense; sir; society; soul; spirit; strength; study; success; suffering; temper; things; thought; time; truth; virtue; want; way; wife; wisdom; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 2541.txt plain text: 2541.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 26334 author: Lecky, William Edward Hartpole title: The Map of Life Conduct and Character date: None words: 99514 flesch: 51 summary: It is not surprising that a profession which inevitably leads to such things should have excited scruples among many good men. The well-known confession of Darwin that his intense addiction to science had destroyed his power of enjoying even the noblest imaginative literature represents a danger to which many men who have achieved much in the higher and severer forms of scientific thought are subject. keywords: age; belief; cases; catholic; character; church; circumstances; class; conditions; country; death; degree; desire; duty; education; england; english; evil; form; general; good; government; habits; happiness; history; human; influence; interests; judgment; kind; knowledge; law; life; lives; man; means; measure; men; mind; money; moral; nations; nature; new; object; opinion; party; place; pleasure; position; power; public; question; right; self; society; state; subject; tendency; things; thought; time; truth; war; work; world cache: 26334.txt plain text: 26334.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 28875 author: Hillis, Newell Dwight title: A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character date: None words: 65675 flesch: 75 summary: Sometimes philosophers say that the history of civilization is the history of great men. But God, who hath appointed visions unto great men, doth set each lesser human life between its dream and its task. keywords: age; beauty; body; books; brain; character; child; christ; city; conscience; day; death; divine; earth; face; friends; friendship; genius; god; good; hand; happiness; heart; history; home; hour; human; ideals; imagination; knowledge; law; life; living; love; man; memory; men; mind; nature; new; power; reason; right; said; secret; self; sin; skill; society; soul; strength; sun; things; thoughts; time; treasure; tree; value; vision; way; wealth; world; years; young; youth cache: 28875.txt plain text: 28875.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 34200 author: Bates, Loïs title: Story Lessons on Character-Building (Morals) and Manners date: None words: 39573 flesch: 91 summary: Little child with eyes so blue, What has mother done for you? Taught your little feet to stand, Led you gently by the hand, Perhaps you think it is only grown-up people who can be brave, but that is not so; little children can be brave also, as you will see from this story of a little boy, about whom we read in the papers not long ago, and who lived not far from London. keywords: blackboard; boy; boys; children; day; door; girl; good; home; kind; lady; lesson; little; man; mother; people; queen; round; school; story; things; thought; time; way cache: 34200.txt plain text: 34200.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 36695 author: Hillis, Newell Dwight title: Right Living as a Fine Art A Study of Channing's Symphony as an Outline of the Ideal Life and Character date: None words: 5819 flesch: 77 summary: Great men are as open as glass bee-hives and as transparent as the sunbeams, for they are conscious of their enormous reserves. But small men use lying artifices and disguises to protect themselves. keywords: art; beauty; channing; character; culture; god; ideal; life; man; men; nature; soul; stars; youth cache: 36695.txt plain text: 36695.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 36993 author: Jordan, Furneaux title: Body, Parentage and Character in History: Notes on the Tudor Period date: None words: 24510 flesch: 65 summary: If King Henry, however, had had no wife at all, the Reformation would have come no more slowly than it did; if he had had, like King Solomon, seven hundred wives, it would have come no more quickly. Momentous changes in sixteenth century 1 Many characters given to noted persons 3 A great number given to Henry 3 The character given in our time 6 Attempt to give an impartial view 8 Need of additional light 14 NOTE II.--THE RELATION OF BODY AND PARENTAGE TO CHARACTER. keywords: bodily; character; circumstance; cruelty; elizabeth; father; good; great; henry; history; importance; king; life; little; love; man; mary; men; note; organisation; people; self; temperament; thought; time cache: 36993.txt plain text: 36993.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 41501 author: Atkinson, William Walker title: How to Read Human Nature: Its Inner States and Outer Forms date: None words: 29879 flesch: 59 summary: This Quality manifests in a strong desire to read character, discern human motives, interpret feelings and thoughts, and to _know_ men and women thoroughly. Instead of studying the philosophy or metaphysics of character, or even its general psychology, let us in this particular volume devote our attention to the elements which go to form the character of each and every person, so that we may understand them when we meet them in manifested form. keywords: character; desire; expression; eyes; face; fact; feeling; fig; figure; form; group; hand; head; human; illustration; inner; mental; mind; motive; nature; outer; person; qualities; quality; self; state; temperament; things; vital cache: 41501.txt plain text: 41501.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 455 author: Parlette, Ralph Albert title: The University of Hard Knocks date: None words: 38939 flesch: 90 summary: But they have served and overcome and developed great lives with the poor, crude tools at their command. We get life from life, not from laboratories, and we have life more abundantly as our lives touch greater lives. keywords: barrel; book; boy; bump; children; day; education; father; good; hard; home; knocks; lecture; life; look; man; money; new; ones; people; place; right; school; shake; south; things; time; today; town; want; way; work; world; years cache: 455.txt plain text: 455.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 60484 author: Washington, Booker T. title: Character Building Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskegee Institute date: None words: 56931 flesch: 73 summary: When other people were failing in all parts of the country, the evidence of this man's character, his regard for truth and honest dealing, caused money to come into his bank when it was being withdrawn from others. You can get the most out of this Conference by putting into practice this effort to make other people happy. keywords: country; day; education; good; home; house; individual; institution; kind; life; man; matter; men; money; pay; people; person; place; race; school; south; students; things; time; way; women; work; world; year cache: 60484.txt plain text: 60484.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 6168 author: Baldwin, James title: Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories date: None words: 32072 flesch: 96 summary: I'll tell a tale how Farmer John A little roan colt bred, sir, Which every night and every morn He watered and he fed, sir. Said Neighbor Joe to Farmer John, You surely are a dolt, sir, To spend such time and care upon A little useless colt, sir. Said Farmer John to Neighbor Joe, I bring my little roan up Not for the good he now can do, But will do when he's grown up. Many great men were glad to call him their friend, and even kings asked his advice and were amused by his fables. keywords: boy; caliph; children; city; country; day; father; footnote; good; home; horse; king; little; man; men; mother; people; place; time; way; wolf; years; young cache: 6168.txt plain text: 6168.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 6655 author: Fitzhugh, Percy Keese title: Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures date: None words: 38838 flesch: 85 summary: From various windows and doors the neighbors watched them too, and some congratulated themselves that their own rents were paid, while others wondered what would become of poor Tom now. He had been reared in a home of wealth and that atmosphere which poor Tom could not overcome his fear of did not trouble Roy at all. keywords: away; bennett; boy; boys; camp; connover; day; ellsworth; father; good; half; hand; house; john; little; man; mary; mrs; o'connor; patrol; ravens; right; roy; scout; scoutmaster; silver; slade; temple; tent; thing; thought; time; tom; troop; way; yer cache: 6655.txt plain text: 6655.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 6911 author: Jordan, William George title: The Majesty of Calmness; individual problems and posibilities date: None words: 11533 flesch: 70 summary: In throwing the individual thus back upon himself it is not shutting his eyes to the stimulus and light and new life that come with the warm pressure of the hand, the kindly word and the sincere expressions of true friendship. The man who is calm has his course in life clearly marked on his chart. keywords: calmness; failure; happiness; hurry; individual; influence; life; living; man; men; nature; new; power; reliance; self; success; world cache: 6911.txt plain text: 6911.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 8450 author: Ware, Mary G. (Mary Greene) title: The Elements of Character date: None words: 55277 flesch: 59 summary: True religious life consists in doing the will of God every moment of our lives. this is attempted, is an added impediment to its performance; and until it is accomplished, there is no safety for the Character, for each year is adding additional force to careless or evil habits of thought and affection, and consequently of external life. keywords: affections; character; charity; evil; faith; form; god; good; heart; heaven; human; imagination; life; lord; love; man; manners; men; mind; moral; nature; persons; power; self; society; soul; things; thought; time; truth; use; way; words; world cache: 8450.txt plain text: 8450.txt