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Go out upon the world; be just to all, nor withhold your generosity from those who are worthy of it. Be sure, too, that you make the objects of your pursuit in all cases square with justice. Let your purposes be unvarying, nor be presumptuous to your equals.
All the while his premonition of the approach of doom grew more darkly oppressive. The trail of the artist is discernible across his thoughts. In his troubled imagination he identified his own situation with that of the protagonist in tragedies on the theme of fate. He did not withhold his thoughts from the supreme instance.
"Do not call it 'accursed' until you know more," urged Septimus May. "You have indeed charity," answered the other. "Why withhold charity? We must approach the subject in the only spirit that can disarm the danger. These inquirers who seek to solve the mystery are not concerned with my son's death, only the means that brought it about.
"I am bound not to withhold from her that John Jarndyce answered my letter in his usual manner, addressing me as 'My dear Rick, trying to argue me out of my opinions, and telling me that they should make no difference in him.
Woo her as Tarquin did Lucretia, and she will yield not as the Roman matron, but as a Mexican woman give her consent when she can no longer withhold it. What is it, cabo?" The interrogatory is addressed to a corporal who has ridden alongside, and halts, saluting him. "Colonel, the alferez sends me to report that the Indian is no longer with us." "What! the man Manuel?" "The same, colonel."
They say the payment of a bad debt delights a merchant a thousand times more than the settlement of fifty good ones. The truth of this assertion became apparent in the present case. Mademoiselle Marguerite thought the man was going to beg "Madame la Comtesse to do him the favor to withhold a portion of the small amount."
The momentary excitement made her look so handsome that Keene's glance could not withhold admiration; but there was no sympathy in it, any more than in his cold, quiet tones. "No, don't despise her," he said. "She could scarcely be expected to wait for a corporal in the Scottish regiment.
These two imputed acts are stated as the reasons which have induced His Catholic Majesty to withhold his ratification from the treaty, to obtain explanations respecting which it is repeated that an envoy would be forthwith dispatched to the United States.
For my part, I shall withhold from neither the Congress nor the people any fact or report, past, present, or future, which is necessary for an informed judgment of our conduct and hazards. I shall neither shift the burden of executive decisions to the Congress, nor avoid responsibility for the outcome of those decisions. I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.
Lands wrested from the helpless they consign to the robber. I am in possession; and doubt whether, even according to your code, I ought to resign. I certainly ought not according to my own. I will acknowledge to you that I think well of the man who claims the property I withhold. But I cannot think so well of him as of myself: for I cannot be so well acquainted with his thoughts as with my own.
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