we meet other birds of passage and hear of former ones,—and so we live together one precious minute of recognition and divinity, amid cheerful fluttering of the wings and joyous chirping, and, in our imagination, go to seek adventures for out on the ocean not less proud than he is himself.
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To strip onsely.—To part with some of our property, to waive our rights, gives delight if it denotes great wealth. In that category we must place generosity.
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Weak sects.—Those sects which are conscious that they will ever be weak but after a few intelligent adherents, wishing to make up in quality for what they lack in quantity. This involves a great danger for intelligent minds.
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Evening judgment.—He who reviews his day's and life's work when he is weary and worn out, generally arrives at a melancholy conclusion: this, however, is not the fault of day and life, but of weariness. In the midst of our work, and even our pleasures, we usually find no leisure to muse over life and existence: but should this for once actually happen, we should no
