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" I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with... "
Evolution and Human Values - Page 117
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Mr. Carnegie's Conundrum: £40,000,000 what Shall I Do with It?

William Thomas Stead - Industrialists - 1900 - 196 pages
...Cromwell possessed in such a special manner. Mr. Carnegie is like the cattle whom Walt Whitman praised, " They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins." A good digestion; and an easy conscience, or at least a conscience not haunted by sense of sin, probably...
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A Manual of Ethics

John Stuart Mackenzie - Ethics - 1901 - 508 pages
...blight. So, too, a mere animal is incapable of such a fall as we find in man. As Walt Whitman says,— " They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...God ; Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented i Cf. Marshall's Principles of Economics, pp. 6—« and 361. With the mania of owning things ; Not...
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Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London ...

Charles Stewart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1901 - 222 pages
...irreverent : "I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. They do not whine about their condition; they do not lie awake...discussing their duty to God; not one is dissatisfied, or demented with the mania of owning things." The following passage, characteristic of Mrs Oliphant,...
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Lay Sermons

Earl John Francis Stanley Russell Russell - Agnosticism - 1902 - 260 pages
...and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Notes. 243 Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is...
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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman - 1902 - 940 pages
...manuscript reading of lines in this stanza: " I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied. . . . Not one takes medicine or is demented with the mania of owning things." Lines n and 12, 1855: read " I do not...
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The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman: Leaves of grass

Walt Whitman - 1902 - 388 pages
...manuscript reading of lines in this stanza: "I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisf1ed. . . . Not one takes medicine or is demented with the mania of owning things." Lines n...
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THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

WILLIAM JAMES - 1902 - 566 pages
...not sweat and whine about their condition. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with...thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." l No natural pagan could have written these well-known lines. But on...
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Poems of Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

Walt Whitman - 1902 - 380 pages
...they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them sometimes an hour at a stretch. 193. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, No one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another,...
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Walt Whitman's Poetry: A Study & a Selection

Edmond Holmes - 1902 - 152 pages
...animals are to be preferred to men in that they have no sense either of imperfection or of shame. " They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...do not make me sick discussing their duty to God." » * It will be said that such passages as this embody a reaction from the extreme of self-abasement,...
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the ...

William James - Abstraction - 1902 - 560 pages
...not sweat and whine about their condition. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with...to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of yean ag°. Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." l No natural pagan could have written...
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