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... price all have to pay for intelligence and intellectual excellence . Do not expect to accomplish in a few weeks the work of a year , or in a few months the work of a lifetime . Study in a regular and systematic way , and lay your plans ...
... price all have to pay for intelligence and intellectual excellence . Do not expect to accomplish in a few weeks the work of a year , or in a few months the work of a lifetime . Study in a regular and systematic way , and lay your plans ...
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... price all have to pay for success in mental culture as well as in the ordinary business of life . You may not possess great means and opportunities of im- provement . You may not have a great library , or a fine picture gallery , or ...
... price all have to pay for success in mental culture as well as in the ordinary business of life . You may not possess great means and opportunities of im- provement . You may not have a great library , or a fine picture gallery , or ...
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... price to be paid for mental excel- lence . Diligent culture alone will secure this intellectual elevation . If you wish to excel in anything you must make up your mind to hard work in that special depart- ment , whether in science or ...
... price to be paid for mental excel- lence . Diligent culture alone will secure this intellectual elevation . If you wish to excel in anything you must make up your mind to hard work in that special depart- ment , whether in science or ...
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... price for the glorious article . Spiritual excellence is higher than mental excellence . Goodness of heart and life must ever be regarded as greater and grander than talent or genius or scholarship or general intelligence . This view ...
... price for the glorious article . Spiritual excellence is higher than mental excellence . Goodness of heart and life must ever be regarded as greater and grander than talent or genius or scholarship or general intelligence . This view ...
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... price people pay for it . Not the mere elevation of circumstances and surroundings , for these are not you , nor any part of you , but the acci- dents of your existence ; not to be undervalued , disregarded , and despised , but not an ...
... price people pay for it . Not the mere elevation of circumstances and surroundings , for these are not you , nor any part of you , but the acci- dents of your existence ; not to be undervalued , disregarded , and despised , but not an ...
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Page 31 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways ; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
Page 134 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God...
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Page 32 - For that indirect self-preservation which we call gaining a livelihood, the knowledge of greatest value is— Science. For the due discharge of parental functions, the proper guidance is to be found only in— Science. For that interpretation of national life, past and present, without which the citizen cannot rightly regulate his conduct, the indispensable key is— Science. Alike for the most perfect production and highest enjoyment of art in all its forms, the needful preparation is still— Science....
Page 53 - We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
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Page 25 - ... a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world...
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