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Where art thou when thou art not present to thyself? and when thou hast overrun all things, what hath it profited thee, thyself being neglected? If thou wouldst have peace and true unity, thou must put aside all other things, and gaze only upon thyself. Then thou shalt make great progress if thou keep thyself free from all temporal care.
Pinkerton, it is said, have the power to see direct to the hearts of men through the shams and artifices by which they seek to hide their true characters, and you are the only man who can assist me. Oh, I wish I were back on the sea, far away from all my troubles. I should care but little if I never returned."
When I relieved Hood a dragoon officer of their own regiment they did not like the change, and I understood that they somewhat contemptuously expressed this in more ways than one, in order to try the temper of the new "Leftenant," but appreciative and unremitting care, together with firm and just discipline, soon quieted all symptoms of dissatisfaction and overcame all prejudice.
She had sent for him herself, and had asked him to purchase it, saying that she, with her husband, was going to live at a distance, and that they did not care about taking it with them. He remembered having asked her where she was going, but she evaded any reply. He could tell no more.
Both Arthur and I were desirous to accompany them, but we felt much too weary to move. "You must take care not to get into the midst of the macaws' nests, else you may find yourselves attacked as we were," observed Arthur.
They all enjoyed, in fine, while I somehow but wastefully mused which was after all my form of enjoyment; I was shy for it, though it was a truth and perhaps odd enough withal, that I didn't really at all care for gems, that rubies and pearls, in no matter what collocations, left me comparatively cold; that I actually cared for them about as little as, monstrously, secretly, painfully, I cared for flowers.
He looked at the solemn black thing raised on trestles before the pulpit with an emotion which he could not himself understand. "That man 'ain't treated me well enough for me to care anything about him," he kept urging upon himself.
There was a harvest festival going on, and the County Agricultural Committee had taken the opportunity to celebrate the successful gathering of the crops, and the part taken in it by the woman land-workers under their care.
They care more about good horses than good cooks, and in most cases prefer doing without kitchen stuff rather than be troubled with a garden. Freedom of discourse and ease of manner characterize the social meetings of our bachelor aristocracy "over the hills."
"Isn't it nice," said Corny, "that he isn't a queen, to be taken care of, and we can just pay him and come away, and not have to think of him any more?" We agreed to that, but I said I thought we ought to go and take one more look at our old queen before we left. Mrs.
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