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There are marriages that are failures just as there are artistic and literary careers that are failures, and there are diamond leaves to reward the work and waiting of old maids, just as there are diamond leaves to reward the Hildegardes who use their yardsticks.
Seems to me nowadays the church is built at a different angle from the Sermon on the Mount an' things is measured by the world's yardsticks till there ain't much sense in callin' it a church at all. Ef you'd seen the way Squire Higgins' girls sot down on poor little Matildy Jones this afternoon, just because her father sells fish!
And today we salute our unseen Allies in occupied countries the underground resistance groups and the armies of liberation. They will provide potent forces against our enemies, when the day of the counter- invasion comes. Through the development of science the world has become so much smaller that we have had to discard the geographical yardsticks of the past.
Her feet seemed to know the way, which was not over long, and she arrived without mishap at the gate. Here she was amazed to see two elderly men, evidently merchants, for they were dressed much like her uncle the goldsmith, approach two gayly dressed gentlemen and, stopping them on the street, proceed to measure their swords and the width of their extravagant ruffs with two yardsticks.
Greatness is not measured in any material terms. It is not measured in inches, dollars, acres, votes, hurrahs, or by any other of the world's yardsticks or barometers. Greatness is measured in spiritual terms. It is education. It is life expansion. We go up from selfishness to unselfishness. We go up from impurity to purity. We go up from unhappiness to happiness.
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