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Page 221 - For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
Page 219 - If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise...
Page 222 - Recovering from his emotion, he pronounced, with affectionate dignity, the benediction, " the Lord bless thee and keep thee ; the Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee ; the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Page 166 - Example. I have been thinking: about this some thirty years or more My idea was that if we could get a good school here and get the children interested it would help Moralize the country. If we can bring our children to see the error of liquor we -can squash it.
Page 137 - O they are the lines the Flint Men made, To guard their wondrous towns. Trackway and Camp and City lost, Salt Marsh where now is corn; Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease, And so was England born! She is not any common Earth, Water or wood or air, But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye, Where you and I will fare.
Page 151 - One person, from inattention, or attending only in the wrong place, overlooks half of what he sees ; another sets down much more than he sees, confounding it with what he imagines, or with what he infers; another takes note of the kind of all the circumstances, but being inexpert in estimating their degree, leaves the quantity of each vague and uncertain...
Page 141 - ... the group subtleties of men, is as requisite as a similar knowledge of materials. If we are to have a saving solution of this broad engineering problem of conservation in production, the men who tackle it must be initially aggressive in spirit and keen of mind ; they must be deeply versed in science ; they must have a thorough and intimate knowledge of men and materials; their instruction in the humanities must give them breadth of vision, and the resultant breadth of tolerance; and they must...
Page 220 - For the good which I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I practice.
Page 77 - More time will be devoted than in other colleges to aesthetical study, to the principles on which the fine arts are founded, to the art of drawing and the science of perspective, to the examination of the great models of painting and statuary, to a familiar acquaintance with the works of the great musical composers, and to the acquisition of musical skill.
Page 7 - Culture is the habit of mind instinct with purpose, cognizant of a tendency and connection in human achievement, able and industrious in discerning the great from the trivial.