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...thankless of all passions. On the same principle, be much with your inferiors; then shall you set a guard about your contentment, and live unruffled in your own mind. Let your movements be slow and well considered. The connection of mind and body is a subtle one, and a quiet body will do much to make the mind quiet also. If a case of distress presents itself, relieve the sufferer, if you can do so conveniently; for the loss of money or of time is well repaid by the contentment of your mind which you thus protect. But this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER OF CONGRATULATION. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

...must bring this letter to an abrupt termination, as I hear him now screaming "'Rah! 'Rah! 'Rah!" in the next room, and must go and quiet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLORED RACE. | 12/18/1874 | See Source »

...Bowdoin Orient is improving. In speaking of the last summers sensation at the White Mountains, the student waiter, it says: "He learns to hand a chair with quiet dignity, and to present a plate of soup with courtly grace; and at night, when the dishes have been washed, and the napkins all folded, he clothes himself in a broadcloth coat and joins the ladies in a social dance. His bearing throughout is one of modest independence and dignified humility. The ladies beam upon him, - it is a life of romance; the guests fee him, - it is a life of profit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...thing,-not French polish,-in short, graduates should marry,-receive their marriage certificate and matriculation papers at the same time (I hope to get them next week, shall be admitted as a student in full standing about a week after graduating),-in fact, the thing for me is a quiet life,-'love in a cottage,' and 'the narrow, narrow house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW WE WENT TO EUROPE. | 6/19/1874 | See Source »

...poem on "Nosorora" or some such sonorously named female, the whole idea and gist of which is that a girl was going to have a spread and was drowned just before partaking of it. This original plot is clothed in seventeen verses of "full-orbed moon," "castle gray," "quiet stream," "gloomy pall," etc., etc. How long will it be before students will learn that mere permutation of high-sounding epithets to form metre is not poetry? The paper is under the management of a new board, which begins its duties with an editorial, the first part of which contains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

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