Routine and Ideals: By Le Baron Russell BriggsHoughton, Mifflin, 1904 - 232 páginas |
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... Talks and is printed here with the permission of Mr. William T. Reid ; " Harvard and the Individual " is re- printed from the Boston Transcript with the permission of Mr. E. H. Clement ; and " Mater Fortissima " has appeared in the ...
... Talks and is printed here with the permission of Mr. William T. Reid ; " Harvard and the Individual " is re- printed from the Boston Transcript with the permission of Mr. E. H. Clement ; and " Mater Fortissima " has appeared in the ...
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... talk that colleges unfit their stu- dents for those daily duties which might chafe a mind that has tasted intellectual joy . No college can make everybody unselfish and wise ; yet among human powers for unselfishness and wisdom I know ...
... talk that colleges unfit their stu- dents for those daily duties which might chafe a mind that has tasted intellectual joy . No college can make everybody unselfish and wise ; yet among human powers for unselfishness and wisdom I know ...
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... music . Have you found out that Nature is always talking to you , es- pecially when you are alone , though she has not the gift of articulate speech ? Have you found out what that great gray old ocean CHILDREN OF CONCORD 73.
... music . Have you found out that Nature is always talking to you , es- pecially when you are alone , though she has not the gift of articulate speech ? Have you found out what that great gray old ocean CHILDREN OF CONCORD 73.
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... talk for one who can think ; but thousands can think for one who can see . To see clearly is poetry , prophecy , and religion all in one . " This man who walked your streets , and loved them , spoke with a voice that is rare in any race ...
... talk for one who can think ; but thousands can think for one who can see . To see clearly is poetry , prophecy , and religion all in one . " This man who walked your streets , and loved them , spoke with a voice that is rare in any race ...
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... . People talk a good deal about loss of dignity ; but the one sure way of losing dignity is through constant fear of losing it . I like that story of President Roosevelt which says that , as he 130 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS.
... . People talk a good deal about loss of dignity ; but the one sure way of losing dignity is through constant fear of losing it . I like that story of President Roosevelt which says that , as he 130 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS.
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Página 17 - The great thing, then, in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...
Página 123 - And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough.
Página 85 - Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told : Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old. Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow, And through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.
Página 17 - There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all. If there be such daily duties...
Página 71 - Let me go where'er I will I hear a sky-born music still : It sounds from all things old, It sounds from all things young, From all that's fair, from all that's foul, Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something sings.
Página 81 - Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.
Página 84 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 76 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Página 67 - Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 111 - Because a man has shop to mind In time and place, since flesh must live, Needs spirit lack all life behind, All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive, All loves except what trade can give?