Routine and Ideals: By Le Baron Russell BriggsHoughton, Mifflin, 1904 - 232 páginas |
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... worth having at any price , and that for which no money can pay . All of us know a few who give this latter kind of service , and know what they are to us , and to every one with whom they deal . These are the people who are " there ...
... worth having at any price , and that for which no money can pay . All of us know a few who give this latter kind of service , and know what they are to us , and to every one with whom they deal . These are the people who are " there ...
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... worth living . " In summer or winter , " said the proud ad- vertisement of an old steamboat line , " In summer or winter , in storm or calm , the Commonwealth and the Plymouth Rock invariably make the passage ; ' and this should be the ...
... worth living . " In summer or winter , " said the proud ad- vertisement of an old steamboat line , " In summer or winter , in storm or calm , the Commonwealth and the Plymouth Rock invariably make the passage ; ' and this should be the ...
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... worth while to spend four years in Harvard College , merely to have known such a man as he . Not many years ago a big country boy named Adelbert Shaw entered Har- vard College as a special student . He had been fitting himself for ...
... worth while to spend four years in Harvard College , merely to have known such a man as he . Not many years ago a big country boy named Adelbert Shaw entered Har- vard College as a special student . He had been fitting himself for ...
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... a few prizes may be given to attractive loaf- ers ; but in the long run the Harvard public insists on some form of achieve- ment . No individual who does anything worth doing , and does it with all his might THE INDIVIDUAL 61.
... a few prizes may be given to attractive loaf- ers ; but in the long run the Harvard public insists on some form of achieve- ment . No individual who does anything worth doing , and does it with all his might THE INDIVIDUAL 61.
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By Le Baron Russell Briggs Le Baron Russell Briggs. worth doing , and does it with all his might , need be lost in the crowd at Har- vard ; and , taken for all in all , Harvard is the best place I know for the indi- vidual youth ...
By Le Baron Russell Briggs Le Baron Russell Briggs. worth doing , and does it with all his might , need be lost in the crowd at Har- vard ; and , taken for all in all , Harvard is the best place I know for the indi- vidual youth ...
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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?