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A Lost Opportunity by Leo Tolstoy

Published On Tuesday, February 08, 2011. Under: Featured, Tolstoy, Leo.
A Lost Opportunity by Leo Tolstoy      "Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother      sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?" . . . .      "So likewise shall My heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye      ...

An Old Acquaintance by Leo Tolstoy

Published On Sunday, January 02, 2011. Under: Featured, Tolstoy, Leo.
An Old Acquaintance by Count Leo Tolstoy 1887 (Prince Nekhiludof Relates how, during an Expedition in the Caucasus, he met an Acquaintance from Moscow) Our division had been out in the field. The work in hand was accomplished: we had cut a way through the forest, and each day ...

The Candle by Leo Tolstoy

Published On Sunday, November 28, 2010. Under: Featured, Tolstoy, Leo.
The Candle by Leo Tolstoy      "Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye and a      tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not      evil."—ST. MATTHEW V. 38, 39. It was in the time of serfdom—many years before ...

GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS by Leo Tolstoy

Published On Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Under: Featured, Tolstoy, Leo.
GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS  by Leo Tolstoy   In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own. Aksionov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow, full of fun, and very fond of singing. When quite ...

THREE QUESTIONS by Leo Tolstoy

Published On Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Under: Tolstoy, Leo.
THREE QUESTIONS by Leo Tolstoy It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid; and, above all, if he always knew what was ...

HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED? by Leo Tolstoy

Published On Tuesday, March 09, 2010. Under: Tolstoy, Leo.
Painting by Vladimir Makovsky HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED? If you have trouble with formatting click here. I An elder sister came to visit her younger sister in the country. The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a peasant in the village. ...