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A class roll filled with 0's is not the kind of evidence a teacher covets as to his skill in teaching. Notice the intercourse between the teachers and those scholars who are admitted on all hands to be strictly and conscientiously correct in their behavior. See what a pleasure it affords the instructor to have to deal with such pupils.
Thus it is that he covets nothing, for there is nothing which is not contained in everything, and everything is his. IV. "This," say you, "is the very thing that I wanted! I have caught you! I shall be glad to see how you will extricate yourself from the toils into which you have fallen of your own accord.
None do so but the man who has it not, and who knows that he covets it in vain. Sour grapes sour grapes for he may not touch the vintage.
"What reason have they for so damnable a deed?" he cried, between incredulity and indignation. "Their overweening ambition. Marius covets Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye's estates." "And to gain his ends he would not stop at murdering me? Is it, indeed, the truth you tell me?" "I pledge my honour for the truth of it," answered Garnache, watching him closely. Florimond looked at him a moment.
And this feeling is the prelude to actual defeat and the bitter self-accusations that must inevitably follow. I may have seemed to labour these simple points, but every old golfer will bear me out in saying that a proper regard for the essence of this advice is the first necessity for the man who covets honours in the golfing world.
A Church in which, week by week, services should be devoted, not to the iteration of abstract propositions in theology, but to the setting before men's minds of an ideal of true, just, and pure living; a place in which those who are weary of the burden of daily cares, should find a moment's rest in the contemplation of the higher life which is possible for all, though attained by so few; a place in which the man of strife and of business should have time to think how small, after all, are the rewards he covets compared with peace and charity.
And, to borrow a saying now in every man's lips, and which, I think, our good scops will take care that our children's children shall learn by heart, since he covets our Saxon soil, 'seven feet of land' in frank pledge to him for ever!"
And oh, by the way Then I know what's coming an' what I can do for 'em I do, for I confess, lady, that I hanker for a little bit o' flattery and a few words o' praise I'm not entitled to. I don't covet any man's money or at least not enough to damn me into hell on that account. Finding's keeping, and a bet's a bet, but I don't covet money more than that dog o' mine covets fleas.
"But have you told this finest, warmest, dearest creature that he shall be rewarded with the prize he covets?" "No, Grace. I have told him nothing of the kind. I think he understands it all now. If he does not, it is not for the want of my telling him. I don't suppose any lady was ever more open-spoken to a gentleman that I have been to him." "And why have you sent him away disappointed?
Whilst men in the outer world are subject to the gentle influences of love, or the sterner impulses of ambition or avarice, hoping, coveting, longing, and desiring, he neither hopes, nor desires, nor covets anything.
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