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They are, without exception, opposed to any political interposition of the government, in regard to slavery as it exists in the states. For, although they feel and see that the canker of the moral disease is affecting all parts of the confederacy, they believe that the remedy lies with yourselves alone.
"Now, if you don't mind straddling a fence, sir, I'll show you the other end," said the captain, imperturbably leading the way, and Canker, half-dazed yet wholly in command of his stock of blasphemy, followed.
If we heed not fathers and mothers and teachers, we should not heed, Nanna, no, not if one came from the dead to warn us." "That is an awful truth, David." "And one must speak truth to heal a wounded soul. If there be a canker in the body, you know well the doctor must not spare the sharp knife. But I would not put away hope for Vala no, indeed!" "Why, David? Oh, why?"
To all ordinary eyes the inventor now appeared to be on the high road to fortune; but there was a fatal canker at the root of this seeming prosperity, and in a few years the fabric which he had so laboriously raised crumbled into ruins.
The truth, on a close examination, proved to be, that the true genuine heapers really heaped for themselves; that it was in fact neither for friend nor child, but to gratify an inordinate appetite of their own. Nor was I much surprised after this to see these yellow hoards at length canker, and the rust of them become a witness against the hoarders, and eat their flesh as it were fire.
Ever hear of 'Big Pete'?" The Stranger confessed his ignorance, and the other settled back in his chair and lighted a fresh cigar. "I'll tell you about him, then. You know that a snake is a queer proposition in a menagerie. They get sore mouths canker the fakirs call it and won't eat, and then, if you've got any investment in 'em you want to get it out mighty quick, for they are no orchids.
It was a period of wild, uncontrollable passion, and the survivors of the old aristocracy hated the man of genius who had risen to power from the ranks of the people to take the place of the Bourbons. This was the canker that stimulated their enmity. Had the Duc d'Enghien kept himself aloof from conspirators, and been willing to recognize the facts he would never have been molested.
If to leave this world be as real as to love it then there must be a meaning in the meeting and the parting of life. If that love were deceived in death, then the canker of this deceit would eat into all things, and the stars would shrivel and grow black. The Cloud said to me, "I vanish"; the Night said, "I plunge into the fiery dawn." The Pain said, "I remain in deep silence as his footprint."
Youth has generous impulses, has not yet been soured by disappointments, has not yet found out the cynicism of the world, has not become infected by the canker of covetousness. It has made no enemies, is not corrupted by success, is not daunted by failure. A score of years later some or all of these things will have happened to a man.
She entered then, as it were, the lists with this rival, a memory rather, so she thought, than a corporeal being; and her eye grew brighter, her step statelier, in the excitement of the contest, the anticipation of the triumph. For what diamond without its flaw? What rose without its canker?
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