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'I had to part them, Masther Richard. 'You want money, Nan, he said, and his heart smote him. 'I'm not cold when I'm near you, Masther Richard. Poor thing! Her mother had not given her the best education. I believe she was a bit of a thief, and she could tell fibs with fluency and precision. The woman was a sinner; but her wild, strong affections were true, and her heart was not in pelf.
His father says he hasn't the slightest idea of the value of money; it's just so much beans or shells or knives or trading pelf with him; something to exchange for what he calls the real things of life. Why, when he was a boy in fact, until he was almost grown his father couldn't trust Billy with a cent." "Who said that Billy or the king?" "His father, of course.
I do not go quite this far, but from the time Scheffer rebuked the Princess of Orleans by refusing to reply to her saucy tongue there was a perfect understanding between them. The young woman listened respectfully if he spoke, and when he painted followed his work with eager eyes. At last she had met one who was not intent on truckling for place and pelf.
In seeking after friendship we do not court the beasts of the fields and the fowls of the air as the hermit does, but we seek man; not man, but men; not this little society or faction, but embrace all mankind in the issue. If we seek for love it is not love for pelf or power, but love for man and God.
Have they lived on greed, or a desire for pelf or power, or out of human desire for adulation and praise? Or have they lived because of man's needs, and out of human wants?" If we probe to the bottom we will find this the corner-stone of all laudable ambitions, because man needs man, and needs help into a higher plane of usefulness and activities.
One may fall but he falls by himself Falls by himself with himself to blame; One may attain and to him is the pelf, Loot of the city in Gold of Fame; Plunder of earth shall be all his own Who travels the fastest and travels alone. Wherefore the more ye be holpen and stayed Stayed by a friend in the hour of toil, Sing the heretical song I have made His be the labour and yours be the spoil.
They came forward, the tears running down their cheeks, crying indeed so piteously that even Stanley began to weep bitterly himself. "I have not done this," he sobbed, "for power or pelf. Not the hope of reward, but the love of God hath moved me."
"When I think on the world's pelf May the shame fa' and the blethrie o 't." Burden of old Scottish Song.
Marx went out into the open air. Ah, Sir! no doubt your words are true, but were they Jews who crucified the Saviour?" "And this crime is daily avenged," replied Lopez. "How many wicked, how many low souls, who basely squander divine gifts to obtain worthless pelf, there are among my people!
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