Centennial History of Missouri: (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the Union, 1820-1921, Volume 4S. J. Clarke publishing Company, 1921 - Missouri |
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Page 224 - He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children ; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose...
Page 106 - Let me live in a house by the side of the road Where the race of men go by — The men who are good and the men who are bad As good and as bad as I.
Page 810 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 662 - God, but dazzling with shining qualities in the view of men, it may be that all his other services had better have been forborne, and he had passed inactive and unnoticed through life. It is a dictate of wisdom, therefore, as well as feeling, when a man, eminent for his virtues and talents, has been taken away, to collect the riches of his goodness and add them to the treasury of human improvement. The true Christian liveth not for himself, and dieth not for himself; and it is thus, in one respect,...
Page 384 - ... seen by him. In short one witness may give testimony that reads In print, here as If falling from the lips of an angel of light, and yet not a soul who heard It, nisi believed a word of It; and another witness may testify so that It reads brokenly and obscurely In print and yet there was that about the witness that carried conviction of truth to every soul who heard him testify.
Page 204 - Forrester gives his political allegiance to the republican party which he has supported since age conferred upon him the right of franchise.
Page 610 - In no profession is there a career more open to talent than in that of the law, and in no field of endeavor is there demanded a more careful preparation, a more thorough appreciation of the absolute ethics of life, or of the underlying principles which form the basis of all human rights and privileges. Unflagging application...
Page 780 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS...
Page 415 - In 1758 he was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of the law in Braintree.
Page 904 - He is an important factor in business circles and his popularity is well deserved, as in him are embraced the characteristics of an unbending integrity, unabating energy, and industry that never flags.