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... highest character must not scorn hard work . Probably the original difference between one mind and another is not so great as is generally supposed and taken for granted . Certainly there is a wide and palpable difference . But there is ...
... highest character must not scorn hard work . Probably the original difference between one mind and another is not so great as is generally supposed and taken for granted . Certainly there is a wide and palpable difference . But there is ...
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... highest cultivation . While it should be remem- bered to the honour of the aristocracy , that many of them toil hard in parliament , and furnish valuable contributions to science and literature , and indeed this order gave Bacon to the ...
... highest cultivation . While it should be remem- bered to the honour of the aristocracy , that many of them toil hard in parliament , and furnish valuable contributions to science and literature , and indeed this order gave Bacon to the ...
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... highest perfection of human nature . Again he says , if a man gets a fresh and free play of the best thoughts upon his stock notions and habits , he has got culture . ' Yes ; culture of a certain and valuable kind ; but not the only ...
... highest perfection of human nature . Again he says , if a man gets a fresh and free play of the best thoughts upon his stock notions and habits , he has got culture . ' Yes ; culture of a certain and valuable kind ; but not the only ...
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... highest human reason , the strength of will , the fullest developed powers of the mind , all fail before the severe temptations of life . It is only necessary to think of the men we have known , and to read the biographies of literary ...
... highest human reason , the strength of will , the fullest developed powers of the mind , all fail before the severe temptations of life . It is only necessary to think of the men we have known , and to read the biographies of literary ...
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... highest ' light and sweetness ' come from Christianity , and are seen in the God - man , who is the Model - man for all time and nations . We go to Plato and the highest and most cultured Greeks , and among many sublime and beautiful ...
... highest ' light and sweetness ' come from Christianity , and are seen in the God - man , who is the Model - man for all time and nations . We go to Plato and the highest and most cultured Greeks , and among many sublime and beautiful ...
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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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