Word: truthfully
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Both, however, believed, above all other things, that life is God within the souls of men, both gave their own lives to impress this great truth upon men, both were so catholic in spirit that their mourners count themselves of every and even of no religious belief, and both were characterized by a divine simplicity. Their noble natures were at home upon the heights,-the passionate fervor of the one, and the solid tranquillity of the other were but the natural expression of their souls...
...that it is immaterial what a man believes. This is a most demoralizing and hurtful way to look at a very serious subject. No one who stops to think will deny that it is a matter that comes near to us, and one about which we must learn the truth if it be possible. Truth upon the matter must come to us largely by faith. We can give no mathematical proof of the existence of God, but still we are sure of it. We are conscious of it just as we are of our own existence. What we must...
...superstitions in regard to the best way of applying strength to an oar; but when one reflects that distinguished physicians recommend certain remedies and other equally renowned doctors denounce the same remedies one is forced to confess that the only scientific way to decide upon the truth of various theories is to resort to scientific study and experiment...
There are some whose lives are all play; they look on nothing as serious. Then there are those who take the artistic view; the world is a group of pictures to them. The truth is, life is not all work or all play and this distinction between the two is what I draw...
...Crusoe" In it is displayed his absolute command of the carpentry of nature, - his power of inventing circumstantial details which have an overwhelming sense of reality about them. His works have little humor about them, and lack sparkle, but they have always simplicity, sympathy, and this unquestionable air of truth...