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A Few Thoughts for a Young Man

(Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Few Thoughts for a Young Man I feel a Vivid and a peculiar pleasure in addressing the young gentlemen of this society. Enrolled among the members of the Boston Mercantile Library Association, there are, at the present time, as I am i

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“The laws by which the winds blow, and the tides of the ocean, like a vast clepsydra, measure, with inimitable exactness, the hours of ever-flowing time; the laws by which the planets roll, and the sun vivifies and paints; the laws which preside over the subtle combinations of chemistry, and the amaz…”

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“The laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore.”

— Horace Mann, amazon.com

Tagged: Nature vs. God, Moral and nature

“He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.”

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Tagged: Temptation, Sin

“Whether a young man shall reap pleasure or pain from winning the objects of his choice, depends, not only upon his wisdom or folly in selecting those objects, but upon the right or wrong methods by which he pursues them. Hence, a knowledge what to select and how to pursue, is as necessary to the hig…”

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