Viavi hygiene for women, men and children

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Philadelphia Viavi Company, 1905 - 610 pages

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Page 157 - Considered individually, these atoms are so small that they can be seen only with the aid of a powerful microscope, if at all.
Page 78 - She always expected us to do well; and after a long and beautiful life, when she was sitting in sunshine calm and sweet at eighty-seven years of age, she said to one who asked what she would have done differently as a mother if she had her life to live over again, ' I should blame less and praise more.
Page 78 - I am human, and whatever touches humanity touches me,' could not have been more worthy to utter the words than was this Methodist cosmopolite who spoke them to me within a few days of her ascent to heaven. She had no pettiness. It was the habit of her mind to study subjects from the point of harmony. She did not say, 'Wherein does this Baptist or this Presbyterian differ from the creed in which I have been reared ?' But it was as natural to her as it...
Page 79 - To my mind the jewel of her character and method with her children was that she knew how without effort to keep an open way always between her inmost heart and theirs; they wanted no other comforter; everybody seemed less desirable than mother. If something very pleasant happened to us when we were out playing with other children, or spending an afternoon at a neighbor's, we would scamper home as fast as our little feet would carry us, because we did not feel as if we had gained the full happiness...
Page 79 - The nearer I appro'ach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me.
Page 582 - Eyes, ears took in their dole, Brain treasured up the whole; Should not the heart beat once, "How good to live and learn"?
Page 78 - There have been Napoleonic wills, but unbalanced by strong power of thought and sentiment — they were like a cyclone or a wandering star. It takes force centrifugal and force centripetal to balance and hold a character to the ellipse of a true orbit.
Page 72 - God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race — to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections; to give our souls higher aims, and to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion ; to bring round our fire-side bright faces and happy smiles, and loving tender hearts. My soul blesses the Great Father every day that He has gladdened the earth with little children.
Page 79 - ... welcome, and nourish it in the fruitful atmosphere of love, trust and approbation. "With such a mother my home life was full of inspiration; she encouraged every out-branching thought and purpose. When I wished to play out-of-doors with my brother, and do the things he did, she never said, ' Oh, that is not for girls !' but encouraged him to let me be his little comrade; by which means he became the most considerate, chivalric boy I ever knew, for mother taught him that nothing could be more...
Page 221 - We find also loss of sleep, intense headaches, pain on the top of the head and at the base of the...

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