This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... honour your engagements. Let the people say of you, "One man; one word." He is not a man, who has none; but a changing misleading phantom, that vanishes at touch or pressure. If we knew the strength, the nobility, the beauty, and the benefit of truth, we would cleave to it, as the ivy to the oak. Truth is the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... honour your engagements. Let the people say of you, "One man; one word." He is not a man, who has none; but a changing misleading phantom, that vanishes at touch or pressure. If we knew the strength, the nobility, the beauty, and the benefit of truth, we would cleave to it, as the ivy to the oak. Truth is the salvation of the world. It is the friend of all, even of whom it strikes. Wounds made by truth heal and cleanse; caresses of falsehood poison and kill. If we love fellow-men, friends, countrymen, or family, let us always tell them the truth. To he to any one, even to be agreeable, is to treat him as an enemy; it is equivalent to giving him false money for true, poison for food. Let us honour truth by serving it cheerfully. If it is possible to smile, let us not speak it sharply, or with a scowling face. Many bear truth like those awkward porters, who cannot move along with their burdens without hitting foreheads, staving in eyes, or trampling the feet of pedestrians. Do not be like them. Do not serve truth with "a face too imperiously majestic," as Montaigne says. To serve truth rightly, and to make it agreeable to those who hear us, let us choose scrupulously our time and our words. Let us try to unite to truth, tact and propriety, benevolence and charity. XI RESPECT LIFE LIFE is the wonder of wonders. Man can neither create it nor understand it, though he may have a harmful or a salutary influence over it. The greatest harm one may do life is to destroy it, but of that it seems that only a coward or a criminal would be capable. That is a mistake. One does not need to have par-ticularly ferocious instincts to destroy life. He needs but to forget to watch over himself. We notice that man, from youth up, has a perverse tendency call...
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