item: #1 of 17 id: 10417 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others date: None words: 28295 flesch: 74 summary: The old-time prejudice of business men against the man who had done time was chiefly on account of his incompetence, and not his record. If you can work and are willing to work, business men will not draw the line on you. keywords: age; business; day; desire; fact; god; good; help; life; love; man; men; mind; nature; need; people; place; religion; right; self; sergeant; society; soul; spirit; sunday; sympathy; things; time; tom; truth; way; work; world; years cache: 10417.txt plain text: 10417.txt item: #2 of 17 id: 12887 author: Fairbanks, Douglas title: Laugh and Live date: None words: 32127 flesch: 81 summary: Therein lies the difference between the _genius_ and a _commonplace_ man. Great men may have no time to fritter away but they have plenty of leisure for men worth while--_the pushers and the thinkers_. keywords: action; body; books; chapter; courage; day; experience; fact; fairbanks; fellow; good; heart; laugh; life; living; man; matter; means; men; mind; order; people; personality; real; right; self; success; things; thought; time; way; work; world cache: 12887.txt plain text: 12887.txt item: #3 of 17 id: 13316 author: Boethius title: The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy date: None words: 99742 flesch: 65 summary: Quod uero quisque potest, in eo ualidus, quod uero non potest, in hoc imbecillis esse censendus est. Quod enim sensibile uel imaginabile est, id uniuersum esse non posse; aut igitur rationis uerum esse iudicium nec quidquam esse sensibile, aut quoniam sibi notum sit plura sensibus et imaginationi esse subiecta, inanem conceptionem esse rationis quae quod sensibile sit ac singulare quasi quiddam uniuersale consideret. keywords: absolute; ac non; accidents; adam; age; aliae; aliquid; aliud; ante; aristotle; atque; aut; autem; bear; beatitudinem; believe; blessedness; bodies; body; boethius; bona; boni; bonorum; bonum; bonum est; bonum quod; caelum; canst; cause; ceteris; change; chiefest; christ; codd; condition; constat; corpus; course; cuius; cum; cum igitur; cum uero; cuncta; cur; d quod; death; definition; dei; deo; desire; deum; deus; deus est; dicitur; dictum est; didst; difference; dignities; diuina; divinity; dost; dost thou; doth; doubt; ea quae; eadem; eam; earth; ego; eis; eius; end; enim; enim esse; enim quae; enim quod; eo quod; eorum; eos; erit; error; esse; esse non; esse quae; esse qui; esse quod; est; est ad; est enim; est et; est igitur; est uel; et cum; et esse; et ex; etenim; etiam; eutyches; evil; eyes; facere; facit; faith; fall; fame; father; felicity; fieri; filius; fit; flesh; followeth; force; foreknowledge; form; formam; forth; fortune; fuerit; fuisse; fuit; future; genus; glory; god; godhead; good; goodness; great; greek; grief; ground; habere; habet; haec; hanc; hand; happiness; hath; heaven; hic; hoc; holy; homines; hominum; homo; huiusmodi; human; hunc; i.e.; idcirco; igitur; iii; illa; ille; illi; illud; infra; inquam; inquit; inter; ipsa; ipse; ipsum; ipsum esse; ita; ita est; itaque; iure; judge; judgment; kind; knowledge; law; licet; life; light; living; mali; man; manhood; manifest; manifestum est; manner; mary; materia; matter; mayest; means; men; mentis; mihi; mind; minime; miserable; misery; modo; mortal; motion; nam; nam et; nam quod; nam si; namque; naturam; nature; nec; necesse; necesse est; necessity; needs; neque; neque enim; nestorius; nihil; nihil est; nisi; nomen; non; non de; non enim; non est; non ex; non igitur; non ita; non modo; non possunt; non potest; non sunt; nonne; nos; nulla; number; nunc; omne; omnia; omnibus; omnino; omnium; opinion; order; pariter; pass; pater; paulo; people; person; personam; philosophy; phoebus; place; plato; pleasure; posse; possit; possunt; post; potentia; potest; potius; power; present; prorsus; prouidentia; providence; punishment; quae; quae cum; quae de; quae si; quae sunt; quae uero; quaedam; quality; quasi; quem; qui; qui quod; qui uero; quia; quibus; quidem; quidem esse; quin; quis; quisque; quod; quod cum; quod est; quod igitur; quod non; quod quidem; quod si; quod sunt; quod uel; quod uero; quoniam; quoniam non; quoque; quorum; quos; quoth; quoth i.; race; ratione; reason; rebus; rei; relation; rerum; respect; rest; reward; riches; rursus; saepe; sanctus; secundum; sed; sed ad; sed cum; sed de; sed esse; sed ex; sed haec; sed hoc; sed non; sed quae; sed quod; sed quoniam; sed si; semper; sese; si enim; si haec; si igitur; si non; si quidem; sibi; sic; sine; sint; sit; sort; soul; species; spirit; spiritus; stars; state; sua; subject; substance; substantia; sui; suis; summum; sunt; supra; tamen; tantum; term; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; tibi; time; trinity; truth; tuae; tum; ubi; uel; uel si; uelut; uera; uero; uero atque; uero esse; uero est; uero non; uidetur; uitae; una; unam; union; unity; unum; unus; ut et; ut non; ut quae; ut si; uti; utrisque; vii; virtue; way; ways; white; wicked; wickedness; wilt; world cache: 13316.txt plain text: 13316.txt item: #4 of 17 id: 14328 author: Boethius title: The Consolation of Philosophy date: None words: 43378 flesch: 76 summary: But if they are not able to fulfil their promises, and, moreover, lack many good things, is not the happiness men seek in them clearly discovered to be a false show? Yet, while other things are content with their own, ye who in your intellect are God-like seek from the lowest of things adornment for a nature of supreme excellence, and perceive not how great a wrong ye do your Maker. keywords: boethius; didst; dost; earth; end; evil; eyes; fortune; god; good; happiness; hath; high; knowledge; life; man; men; mind; nature; necessity; order; power; present; providence; reason; song; supreme; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; virtue; way; wicked; world cache: 14328.txt plain text: 14328.txt item: #5 of 17 id: 14988 author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius title: Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth date: None words: 182249 flesch: 67 summary: These were all great men. The consuls maintained, with the greatest energy, that rule which so much conduces to the power of our nobles and great men, that the acts of the commons of the people shall not be binding, unless the authority of the patricians has approved them. keywords: account; air; appears; authority; bear; bodies; body; book; case; cicero; city; commonwealth; country; day; death; deity; desire; discourse; divine; earth; epicurus; evil; eyes; fear; fire; form; fortune; glory; gods; good; government; great; greek; grief; heat; human; jupiter; justice; kind; king; knowledge; laws; life; look; lust; lælius; man; manner; means; men; mind; miserable; motion; nature; opinion; order; pain; parts; people; philosophers; philosophy; place; plato; pleasure; point; power; present; public; question; reason; regard; rest; right; scipio; sea; sense; soul; speak; stars; state; stoics; subject; sun; things; thought; time; truth; universe; use; virtue; war; way; wisdom; words; world cache: 14988.txt plain text: 14988.txt item: #6 of 17 id: 19063 author: Anonymous title: Little Alice's Palace; or, The Sunny Heart date: None words: 8655 flesch: 83 summary: It seemed as if she could see him bending graciously down towards her, as her Sunday-school teacher had often represented him to her; and then she thought of Him who was upon the earth, and who took up little children in his arms and blessed them; and she put out her hands towards the heavens, saying earnestly, Me, too, dear Saviour: bless me too! Sunny little girl! keywords: alice; child; father; home; little; lolly; maddie; mother cache: 19063.txt plain text: 19063.txt item: #7 of 17 id: 19696 author: Schauffler, Robert Haven title: The Joyful Heart date: None words: 41991 flesch: 69 summary: I realize that mine is not the popular side of this question and that an occasional poet with an income may be found who will even argue against giving incomes to other poets. Jean Finot is right: True happiness is so much the greater and deeper in the proportion that it embraces and unites in a fraternal chain more men, more countries, more worlds. keywords: achievement; age; american; art; artist; arts; auto; body; book; business; city; comrade; country; day; energy; enthusiasm; exuberance; fact; genius; good; hand; health; heart; joy; kind; life; living; man; master; men; mind; music; new; people; person; physical; piano; poetry; poets; power; proxy; reason; self; sort; soul; spirit; things; think; thought; time; vitality; way; work; world cache: 19696.txt plain text: 19696.txt item: #8 of 17 id: 28524 author: Warner, Susan title: Nobody date: None words: 160569 flesch: 91 summary: The village was at the south end of the island, as Miss Lois said. I_ call weeds, who know no better--but Miss Lois tried to make me see the beauty of the sumach and all the rest of it. keywords: air; armadale; barclay; believe; care; caruthers; charity; country; course; day; deal; dear; dillwyn; eyes; face; family; fire; girl; going; good; grandmother; half; head; help; home; house; julia; know; lady; laughing; lenox; let; life; lois; long; look; looking; lothrop; madge; man; marx; mean; miss; mother; mrs; new; people; philip; place; pleasure; question; rest; right; room; shampuashuh; sister; sort; table; talk; things; thought; time; tom; want; way; wishart; woman; words; work; world cache: 28524.txt plain text: 28524.txt item: #9 of 17 id: 38564 author: Isle, June title: Happy Hearts date: None words: 4080 flesch: 89 summary: Little children went in a great company, when he was buried, and threw flowers into his grave. It was when I was a young girl that I attended the funeral of little Fritz. keywords: children; good; joshua; mrs; payson cache: 38564.txt plain text: 38564.txt item: #10 of 17 id: 45975 author: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock title: The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak date: None words: 31518 flesch: 83 summary: Now he began to understand why he failed, and that he always should fail--that, in fact, he was not like other little boys; and it was of no use his wishing to do as they did, and play as they played, even if he had had them to play with. I wonder why I had you at all; I wonder why I was born at all, since I was not to grow up like other little boys. keywords: boy; child; cloak; day; dolor; eyes; godmother; good; illustration; king; life; nurse; people; prince; prince dolor; things; thought; time; tower; travelling; woman; world cache: 45975.txt plain text: 45975.txt item: #11 of 17 id: 46159 author: Dunham, Curtis title: Two in a Zoo date: None words: 17989 flesch: 85 summary: CHAPTER V Said the fat white grub to the new spoon hook, With a cynical smile and a scornful look: Pray accept my very best wishes. Said Sultan: Not for this suspicious, thieving, ill-conditioned creature, but for all the loyal inhabitants of the Menial World shall the answer be given. keywords: boy; caliph; eyes; grandfather; illustration; kelly; mahmoud; man; people; pickerel; pool; princess; pwit; sparrow; toots cache: 46159.txt plain text: 46159.txt item: #12 of 17 id: 46777 author: Fletcher, Horace title: Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought date: None words: 37788 flesch: 62 summary: Happiness is not dependent upon wealth, and wealth does not necessarily bring happiness, but both are dependent upon _good-habit-of-thought_; for _good-habit-of-thought_ develops _appreciation_, which is the measure of all wealth, and _appreciation_ leads to the _habit-of-feeling_ and the _habit-of-action_ which produce happiness. We will therefore define fear as _an expression of fearthought_. FEARTHOUGHT. keywords: anger; appreciation; body; cause; children; conditions; death; disease; evil; experience; fearthought; forethought; god; good; growth; habit; happiness; life; love; man; means; men; mind; nature; new; point; power; present; result; self; suggestion; things; time; view; way; worry cache: 46777.txt plain text: 46777.txt item: #13 of 17 id: 49724 author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe title: Snow-White; or, The House in the Wood date: None words: 23752 flesch: 96 summary: Dwarfs didn't ought to eat them, any more than children. When you leave this kinds of child alone, it runs away, that's what it does; and Miss Tylers isn't any kind of persons to leave this kinds of child wiz, anyhow, and so I told them at first. keywords: child; dwarf; eyes; green; house; kind; man; mark; place; right; snow; story; things; time; tree; way; white; wiz cache: 49724.txt plain text: 49724.txt item: #14 of 17 id: 54254 author: None title: The Search After Hapiness [sic]: A Tale date: None words: 9208 flesch: 62 summary: Henry O'Donell was a nobleman of great consequence in the city and a peculiar favourite with the governor, before whose glance his stern mind would bow and at his command O'Donell's selfwill would be overcome, and while playing with the young princes he would forget his usual sullenness of demeanour; the days of his childhood returned upon him and he would be as merry as the youngest, who was gay indeed. day he arrived at the mountain which overlooked the city it was a beautiful evening in the month of September and the full moon was shedding her traquil light on all the face of nature the city was lying in its splendour and magnificence surrounded by the broad stream of the Guadima the palace was majestically towering in the midst of it and all its pillars and battlements eemed in the calm light of the moon as if they were transformed into siver by the touch of a fairys wand O'Donell staid not long to contemplate this beautiful scene but decending the mountain he soon crossed the fertile plain which led to the city and entering the gates he quickly arrived at the palace without speaking to any one he entred the iner court of the palace by a seecret way with which he was acquainted and then going up a flight of steps and crossing a long gallery he arrived at the Kings private apartment the door was half open he looked and beheld 2 very handsome young men sitting together and reading he instantly recgonized them and was going to step forward when the door opened and the Great Duke entred O'Donell could contain himself no longer but rushing in he threw himself at the feet of his Grace O'Donell is this you exclaimed the Duke it is my most noble master answered O'Donell almost choking with joy the young princes instantly embraced him while he almost smothered them with [9] caresses after a while they became tranquil and then O'Donell at the request of the Duke related all his adventures since he parted with them not omiting the condition on which he was now in the palace when he had ended a loud voice was heard saying that he was free from his promise and might spend the rest of his days in his native city sometime after this as O'Donell was walking in the streets he met a gentleman who he thought he had seen before but could not recolect where or under what circumstances after a little conversation he discovered that he was ALexander Delancy that he was now a rich merchant in the city of Paris and high in favour with the emperor Napoleon as may be suposed they both were equally delighted at the discovery they ever after lived hapily in their seperate cities and so ends my little tale. keywords: cave; city; delancy; light; man; o'donell; palace; time cache: 54254.txt plain text: 54254.txt item: #15 of 17 id: 59329 author: Smith, April title: Birthright date: None words: 18331 flesch: 88 summary: Kirk was aware of her efforts and aware that in another mood he would have appreciated her charm, but he felt too sick and miserable to respond. Remembering her piquant, laughing face later in his cabin, Kirk thought morosely of the long train of girls he had known in the past. keywords: children; cortland; eyes; face; good; jerwyn; kirk; look; people; planet; ross; things; thought; time; way; years cache: 59329.txt plain text: 59329.txt item: #16 of 17 id: 6100 author: Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) title: Pollyanna Grows Up date: None words: 77550 flesch: 89 summary: Jimmy Pendleton Pollyanna saw several times during that first month. Poor little Pollyanna! keywords: aunt; away; boy; carew; child; chilton; course; day; dear; eyes; face; game; girl; going; good; half; help; home; jamie; jimmy; john; look; love; man; mrs; pendleton; pollyanna; right; sadie; tell; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; young cache: 6100.txt plain text: 6100.txt item: #17 of 17 id: 62758 author: Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) title: The Clean Heart date: None words: 107574 flesch: 88 summary: The mood and hue Mr. Wriford had glimpsed when, looking down from the barrier as Mr. Puddlebox overtook him, and crying down to him: I thought you'd stopped, he had seen Mr. Puddlebox blink and heard him say: You're unkind, boy. It's wonderfully comforting, said Mr. Puddlebox; and Mr. Wriford laughed again and in a voice that contrasted very thinly with the volume of Mr. Puddlebox's gave forth as requested: keywords: arms; arthur; bickers; boy; boys; captain; cliff; day; days; dear; door; end; essie; eyes; face; feet; gentleman; god; good; half; hands; happiness; head; hold; house; laugh; left; life; look; loony; love; man; mind; moment; morning; mrs; night; pennyquick; place; puddlebox; room; school; sea; thing; thought; time; voice; want; water; way; week; words; work; wriford; young cache: 62758.txt plain text: 62758.txt