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...should never be forgotten, is here, as under all conditions of mortal existence, an impossi bility. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we ilo: so also in intellectual matters, in conversation, in reading, which is more precise and careful...

...was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself. r. BURKE— OH Pitt's First Speech. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. a. CARLYLE— Essays. Goethe's Helena. It is in general more prolitable to reckon up our defects than...

...THINKERS. ACTION. Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice. ( Whittier. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. (Carlyle. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are...

...Daniel shall be your defense, and the heaven of Daniel your everlasting home. LOT THE SELF-SEEKER. ' Every-where in life the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do." — CARLTLE. "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose Hs life for my sake...

...(it is to be found in the first volume of his " Miscellanies "), Thomas Carlyle said wisely, that " everywhere in life the true question is not what we...conversation, it is not what we receive, but what we give." Therefore the student of these two Fausts, comparing them, observing the significant contrasts...

...Goethe's bands. To read an author, we must be able to see his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. Goethe's works especially...

...not for love.—Shakespeare. 3. Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.— Lowell. 4. Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do.—Carlyle. 5. To think often, and never retain it so much as one moment, is a very useless s"ort...