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As he depends only upon himself, it is necessary that he be sufficient for everything. All creation is his property; but he finds in it as many hindrances as helps. He must surmount these obstacles with the single strength that God has given him; he cannot reckon on any other aid than chance and opportunity. No one reaps, manufactures, fights, or thinks for him; he is nothing to any one.
The horse now hoes the corn, digs the potatoes, mows the grass, rakes the hay, reaps the wheat, and threshes and winnows it; and every day adds new machinery to the farmer's stock, to supersede the clumsy implements which once bound him to his hard and never-ending toil.
And yet the quest of beauty, like the quest of truth, reaps its surest reward when it is disinterested as well as keen; and the true lover of human-kind will often draw his most exquisite moments from what to most men seems but the shadow of a joy.
The first fruits, therefore, that he reaps in the world of spirits are cares and fear both operations of the reason; not of sensuousness, but of a reason that mistakes its object and applies its categorical imperative to matter.
I believe that this is man's fate only as long as he sows to the flesh, and of the flesh reaps corruption. I believe that if he will Strive upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die;
We find it a goodly settlement, and you can picture in your mind the happiness Fabens enjoys, as he brings each new acre to the harrow, and reaps the rewards of his manly toils. You remain a whole month in his hospitable home. You miss many comforts and luxuries, found in country and town, at the present day.
Kaylajan came forward and caught up the Prince and Kurajan snatched Up the King and the twain flew back with them to Gharib, who caused beat them till they fainted Then the Marids returned to the Shirazian camp and, drawing their swords, which no mortal man had strength to wield, fell upon the Misbelievers and Allah hurried their souls to the Fire and abiding-place dire, whilst they saw no one and nothing save two swords flashing and reaping men, as a husbandman reaps corn.
One odd fellow there reaps showers of applause for no other exhibition of ability than that of looking intensely stupid, for he seldom utters a word; but assumes an appearance of unfathomable vacuity that is inimitable.
Some who tend on him that reaps Fastest, pile it into heaps; And the little gleaners follow Them again, with whoop and halloo When they find a hand of ears More than falls to their compeers.
Yet in our own Italy, saith the proverb, 'He who sows land reaps more care than corn. It were different," continued the father, after a pause, and in a more resolute tone, "if I had some independence, however small, to count on, nay, if among all my tribe of dainty relatives there were but one female who would accompany Violante to the exile's hearth, Ishmael had his Hagar.
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