Word: duller
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...text,- "Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth." To get a vivid idea of God and of our duty toward Him, we must keep him in our hearts from our youth up. The days of childhood are days of impressions. As we grow older our perceptions become duller, and our lives are less easily molded. Wax must be stamped when it is warm. Whenever a man raises an ideal late in life, he always regrets the possibility of achievement which might have been his, had he awakened sooner. If we begin early to follow the example of Christ...
...whether it is worth while to make animals suffer for the benefit of all mankind. Dr. Bowditch proved that it is. There is no moral objection, because we often expose those we love to some pain that they may gain from the results obtained. Why should animals so much duller be spared? We use animals for all other purposes, for food and clothing, and even for enjoyment and sport. The physiologist is certainly not so cruel as the sportsman. He takes every precaution to kill his victim with the least pain. Indeed, so painless are his methods that the death...
...sallied forth thus alone. To which Lighthead replied, "I go to the College Harvard." "Nay," quoth the dame, "'tis a naughty place. Prithee turn back." But Lighthead, still with his burden on his back, went forward, and on the morning of the second day he reached a city duller than the grave. And Lighthead, somewhat weary, did partake of refreshment and the nut-brown ale; and asking of the carle who kept the inn, he learned that the place was hight Vanity Fair, and in it was Harvard...