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He wants to hurt them. Upon that hate it is easy to trade. A certain section of what is called the Socialist press and the Socialist literature in Europe is no doubt great-minded; it seeks to carve a better world out of the present. But much of it is socialist only in name. Its spirit is Anarchistic.
He would resent an affront to himself, or interpose to redress a wrong offered to another, as boldly and freely as any knight that ever set lance in rest; but he lacked that peculiar excess of coolness and great-minded selfishness, which invariably distinguish gentlemen of high spirit.
With a tenderness for his position worthy of all respect, the Countess spared his feelings by totally ignoring his presence; whereat he, unaccustomed to such great-minded treatment, retired to bed, a hater of his kind. Harriet and Caroline went next.
How she thanked him in her heart for the things he had left unsaid, those things which clear-eyed and great-minded folk, high or humble, always understand. There was no selfish lamenting, no reproaches, none of the futile banalities of the lover who fails to see that it is no crime for a woman not to love him. The thing he had said was the thing she most cared to hear.
Such great-minded women as she had met or read of had always left on her the impression that reputation for them was a matter of the spirit, having little to do with sex. From her own feelings she knew that reputation, for a simple woman, meant to stand well in the eyes of him or her whom she loved best.
With a tenderness for his position worthy of all respect, the Countess spared his feelings by totally ignoring his presence; whereat he, unaccustomed to such great-minded treatment, retired to bed, a hater of his kind. Harriet and Caroline went next.
I begin to think I was not as big a fool as I thought I was, and that it was foolish of me to ever think my folly was " Johnson interrupted him. "Then you bought a bunch of sheep. Son, you can't realize how great-minded it is of me to overlook that slip of yours!
Now really and truly the good man alone is entitled to honour; only if a man unites in himself goodness with these external advantages he is thought to be more entitled to honour: but they who have them without also having virtue are not justified in their high estimate of themselves, nor are they rightly denominated Great-minded; since perfect virtue is one of the indispensable conditions to such & character.
I'm afraid, Hanna, that I'll have to go to bed; I feel that I'm hardly able to sit up." Hanna once more pressed her to her heart and wept. "Don't cry, Hanna dear don't cry for me; the bitterest part of my fate will be partin' from you." Hanna here pressed her again and wept aloud, whilst her spotless and great-minded sister consoled her as well as she could.
The compressed energy of the man under his conscious display of a great-minded deference to the claims of family ties and duties, intoxicated him.
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