Word: path
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Very happy I thought myself; very happy I doubtless was. The old world had become new to me. That homeward ride over the red path of the sunset waters was a track of Paradise. But let that pass. I am not to write a love story...
...lonely path I tread...
...peculiarities must be carefully guarded against. The more amiable they are, the more dangerous they are. Your motto must be 'upward and onward," even at the cost of every feeling of real kindness, courtesy, and friendship. These are only peculiarities and eccentricities. They must be brushed aside from your path with stern determination. Those who say you have no soul are envious. Do not mind them. Remember that "The lot of the unenvied is not enviable." Last in place, but first in importance, remember that, as the purpose of words is to conceal thought, so the purpose of manners...
...DOWN the umbrageous path...
...while along the icy path he strayed...