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The Ifs of Life: Day 14 readings from "Character And Conduct" - January 14
Readings for January 14 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"The Ifs of Life"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n263/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_301
Authors featured today:
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.
Lord Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury
Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
Quoted today:
Dugald Stewart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Stewart
David Hume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume
"Over the Teacups" https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2689
Image:
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. c. 1879
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr_c1879.jpg
"The Ifs of Life"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n263/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_301
Authors featured today:
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.
Lord Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury
Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
Quoted today:
Dugald Stewart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Stewart
David Hume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume
"Over the Teacups" https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2689
Image:
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. c. 1879
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr_c1879.jpg
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Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n217/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_200
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"The Hallowing of Work"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n87/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_70
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"Un-self-consciousness"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n309/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_292
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https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumo00lathgoog
https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumor00lathuoft
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"Influence of Great Men"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n39/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_20
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Socrates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
Herbert Spencer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer
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"False Impressions"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n199/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_182
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"Rebuking"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n365/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_349
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Henry Latham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Latham
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"Invalids"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n103/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_87
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"A Noble Life"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n21/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_3
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Image: Richard Chenevix Trench, December 1, 1863
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"Quarrels"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n123/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_106
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