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Title: Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hill, Thomas E. (Thomas Edie), 1832-1915
Subjects: Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hill Standard Book Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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A quiet conscience rests in thunder, but restand guilt live far asunder. He that wont be counseled cant be helped. Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. What is serving God? Tis doing good toman. Time enough always proves little enough-He that cannot bear with other peoples pas-sions, cannot govern his own. He that by the plow would thrive, himselfmust either hold or drive. He that keeps his shop, his shop will keep him. Jeffersons Ten Rules. TAKE things always by the smooth handle.Never spend your money before you haveit. We seldom repent of having eat«n too little. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst, and cold. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. Put not off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. Never trouble another for what you can doyourself. Never buy what you dont want because it ischeap. How much pain the evils have cost us that neverhave happened. When angrj*. count ten before you speak; if veryangry, count a hundred. i ? —^: 132 SCIENTISTS AND KEFOKMEBS.
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Leading Minds Who Have Been Identified witli the Worlds Progress. ^ V^-^rZ^ r^/iC^XE of the famous philosophers and warriors of\ \tl ancient Greece, Socrates, was born at Athens,470 years before Christ. He followed theprofession of a sculptor in his youth, andafterwards served as a soldier and dis-tinguished himself in the battles of Tanagraand Deliura. As a philosopher he placedtemperance at the foundation of every virtue,believing that men should eat to live ratherthan live to eat. As a senator, he was (asLewes says) one of the very few examplesof inflexible justice of whom we have record, able at once to resistthe power of tyrants and defy the despotism of mobs. Inreligion he taught the existence and rule of the Supreme God andthe immortality of the soul. His disciples were numerous and illu.*-trious. In his life he was consistent with his doctrines, but could notavoid the ridicule and persecution of his contemporaries. When aboutseventy years of age he was accused of contemning th

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