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  • And though it saw him poorer than he believed himself in the morning, by nearly a thousand dollars, he was richer in feeling -- richer in the heart's unwasting possessions -- than he had ever been in his life.

    Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous

  • And in it she would find her courage and her inspiration, as well as an unwasting sympathy for those she taught.

    Rezánov 1906

  • It is the law of the patient sun that everything under it shall decay, and if by reason of some swift calamity, some fiery cataclysm, the perishable shall be overtaken by a fate that fixes it in unwasting arrest, it cannot be felt that the law has been set aside in the interest of men's happiness or cheerfulness.

    Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

  • It is the law of the patient sun that everything under it shall decay, and if by reason of some swift calamity, some fiery cataclysm, the perishable shall be overtaken by a fate that fixes it in unwasting arrest, it cannot be felt that the law has been set aside in the interest of men's happiness or cheerfulness.

    Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

  • Never for such a sum was bought so rich a treasure of delightful and unfading recollections, always cheering and inspiring -- an unwasting music which has murmured and echoed through a life.

    From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 George William Curtis 1858

  • None of his smaller poems are love poems; and _Evangeline_ is a tale, not of fiery romance, but of affection "that hopes and endures and is patient", of the unwasting "beauty and strength of woman's devotion", of the constantly tried and tested virtue that makes up the happiness of daily life.

    Literary and Social Essays George William Curtis 1858

  • A heart naturally warm, defrauded of all natural objects on which to expend its living fervor, a mind naturally strong confined within close and narrow limits, an energy concentrated and unwasting, capable of carrying its possessor through every emergency and every trial -- these characteristics of a lonely woman, however poor and unconnected she might be, have sometimes drawn us away from attractive themes.

    Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Caroline Lee Hentz 1828

  • And the education which trains [41] [men] up, conduces greatly to virtue, for to have reverence is wisdom, and it possesses an equivalent advantage, viz. to perceive what is fitting by one's mind, where report bears unwasting glory to life. [

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

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