Book/Printed Material About people,
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Image 81 of About people, STRIVING. "5 impersonal keeps it ever deepening, as not self, but others’ good, is its universe. Over both preside conscientiousness, keen, quick, observant. It is the sensitive plate on which impressions are…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 82 of About people, 76 ABOUT PEOPLE. guesses at the sweetness which les hidden in the nooks of sentiment below their rugged exterior. No trait of character is more necessary or prominent than truthfulness. Without it…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 83 of About people, STRIVING. | for the sake of the universe, a paltry, short- sighted means of defence. It is language that binds us all together; by it we understand and depend upon each other;…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 84 of About people, 8 - ABOUT PEOPLE. of a household, as well as strangers, should observe the law of meum and tuum. Um- brellas are borrowed and lost, books are returned dog-eared. We steal another’s…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 85 of About people, STRIVING. 79 many feminine friendships are also partner- ships. But it is equally found among the relations of married people and of men with men. We also steal each other’s reputation by…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 86 of About people, 80 ABOUT PEOPLE. honest praise is never the hollowness of idle compliment; it is glad tribute gladly paid. It passes along the by-ways of life, and divines those hearts which are not…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 87 of About people, STRIVING. SI thus one grows again into unconsciousness, where it is best for peace’s sake to remain; conscious of his purpose, unconscious of the way of obtaining it. But peace and purpose…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 88 of About people, 82 | ABOUT PEOPLE. in mockery of the new; we are not creators, but takers, each wanting something more than he has, no one ever reaching the height of his social ambition.…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 89 of About people, STRIVING. 83 and ability to bear the joy or sorrow of life, and thus freedom. Men and women alike need it, for the more that one sees of life the less perceptible…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 90 of About people, 84. ABOUT PEOPLE. Self-control also gives ability for promptness and the observance of order; the first, though formed as a habit, can soon become a prin- ciple, and so ennoble the wearisomeness…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 91 of About people, STRIVING. 85 things which orderly habit seems to make im- perative, since some higher good to others re- quires instant performance. Such neglect, however, is but the fulfilment of order, which seeks…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 92 of About people, 86 ABOUT PEOPLE. manded time, or quickly, by what is termed impulse, which is, in truth, instant self-posses- sion, acute presence of mind. How slovenly is most performance, while the great forces…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 93 of About people, STRIVING. 87 the whole posture showing the making of a thought ! Continued, persistent application bends time and material to its purpose. Through it the money-market might replace the term specu- lation…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 94 of About people, 88 ABOUT PEOPLE. consists largely in working for other people in their way, not ours. Too often we like to make them happy by the method that gives us the least trouble,…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 95 of About people, STRIVING. 89 in keeping at bay, by watchful, tender care, death, which seeks our beloved. The helpless soldier sang : — “T lay me down to sleep With little thought.or care Whether…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 96 of About people, go "ABOUT PEOPLE. “My half day’s work is done, And this is all my part; I give a patient God My patient heart, “And grasp his banner still; Though all its blue…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 97 of About people, STRIVING. { gt! heaven is use, too. That glory Biss not with life. Then ‘‘ Trust in all things high” dwells within us, and, as we trust others, we make ourselves worthy…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 98 of About people, Q2 ABOUT PEOPLE. trust fa/’ more than we think we do, we could not endure the misery of others. Immortality ‘finds strong ground for belief in our trust that our longings cannot…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 99 of About people, STRIVING. 93 ce is foolish by falling below, Not coming above what God will show; His commonest thing hides a wonder vast To whose beauty our eyes have never past.” It is…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 100 of About people, 94 ABOUT PEOPLE. places trust in the unrolled plan of life assigned him, seeking use in grand or humble guise as his goal, girding himself with a mighty will to bring forth…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 103 of About people, LOYALTY AND LIBERALITY. es and liberality are habits of thought transmuted into modes of action. In the modern desire to be free from prejudice we are losing loyalty ; because truth is…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 104 of About people, 98 ABOUT PEOPLE. others, we hesitate to affirm what is good in our own opinion, our very charity often caus- ing our disloyalty. Loyalty involves the relations between our- selves and some…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 105 of About people, LOVALIY AND LIBERALIT Y, 99 loyalty, cluster action, organization; the thought crystallizing into creed and deed. Unquestioning enthusiasms and _ friendships develop loyalty at an early age, when its declarations are apt…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 106 of About people, 100 ABOUT PEOPLE. the idea of ought in that of liberality, as if our right ought to prove another’s- wrong, and to compel him to adopt our ideas. Liberality” must adjust the…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 107 of About people, LONALTYOAND LIBERALIT Y. IOI or indifference, which latter is the tempter’s own device for cheating one into laziness. Clear, definite convictions result from the union of liberality and loyalty. When loyalty stands…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 108 of About people, 102 ABGOT PHROPLE. agnostic may be as loyal as the Christian. The arrogance of an exclusive sectarianism demands omniscience, but patience and humil- > ity constantly say, ‘‘ Not yet;” and refuse…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 109 of About people, GOVALTY AND LIBERALIT Y. 103 organizations, and form minor associations with the false battle-cry of liberality. When liberality is considered as a product of the heart, as a gift of temperament and…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 110 of About people, 104 ABOUT PEOPLE. will is destroyed. The freedom we claim for ourselves is owed in return. Each finds the practical answer by his own gauge of intui- tion and experience. The world-wide…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 111 of About people, LOYALTY AND LIBERALITY. 105 does not yet know whether to characterize her words and acts as inconsistent or liberal. The puzzle has begun which will haunt him for years, until he, too,…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 112 of About people, 106 ABOUT PEOPLE. in God and the inspiration of the Bible, When the Constitution was framed, in 1787, it read: ‘‘ No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 113 of About people, LOVALTY AND LIBERALITY. 107 ‘¢ Theologia Germanica,” the schoolmen and priests with Columbus and Galileo. In the reaction from mysticism and church theology the claim to eternal life has been founded on…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 114 of About people, 108 ABOUT PEOPLE. generous towards those who, in a spirit of rev- erence to all:truth, feel they have not yet proved a God. If one, himself, holds a stead- fast belief in…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 115 of About people, LOVTALIY AND LTIBERALTTY. 109 divine obligation to love one another on earth? It is hard to do neither, but the more we know the easier will it be. One’s own mental strength…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 116 of About people, IIO ABOUT PLOPLE: who has never been ordained.” A very nar- row distinction, exclaim those who stand out- side; a very real one, say those who stand within. It isin minor matters…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 117 of About people, LOVALIY AND LIGELRALIT Y. 1 gin in some use or fear, the outward utility of politeness, though not yet making its valua- tions aright, must keep pace with inward rec- ognition of…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 118 of About people, 112 ABOOT PEOPLE. certain standard of manner and dress. They accept or outlaw one another by the number of buttons on gloves, the shape of bonnets, and a Greek or French ‘‘tournure.”…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 119 of About people, LOVALTY AND LIBERALITY. ETS and speak first? The one who is most liberal, who knows that cordiality takes no more time than rudeness. Want of liberality and excess of loyalty to one’s…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
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Image 120 of About people, 114 ABOUT PEOPLE. wealtny as the latter are in them. A certain old lady, who in her days of eyesight had been in a printer’s office and later was supported by charity,…- Contributor: Wells, Kate Gannett
- Date: 1885
About this Item
Title
- About people,
Names
- Wells, Kate Gannett, 1838-1911.
Created / Published
- Boston, J. R. Osgood and company, 1885.
Contents
- Average people.--Individuality.--Striving.--Loyalty and liberality.--Transitional woman.--Personal influence.--Who's who.--Caste in American society.
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 233 p. 15 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- PS3158.W615 A65
Library of Congress Control Number
- 31029359
OCLC Number
- 2775316
Online Format
- online text
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