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... talent and tact , have , by a kind of blundering luck , marvellously prospered , rapidly made their way to inde- pendence , or become merchant princes ; while others , of finer qualities — of better heads and better hearts — have had a ...
... talent and tact , have , by a kind of blundering luck , marvellously prospered , rapidly made their way to inde- pendence , or become merchant princes ; while others , of finer qualities — of better heads and better hearts — have had a ...
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... talents , in opposition to a weak and unmanly leaning upon foreign resources and assistance . These qualities , blended and combined , will wonderfully help men through the world . But if they do not possess them in some tolerably good ...
... talents , in opposition to a weak and unmanly leaning upon foreign resources and assistance . These qualities , blended and combined , will wonderfully help men through the world . But if they do not possess them in some tolerably good ...
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... talent , without book - learning ; but it is not for us to say how high they might have risen had they but attended to regular and systematic self - culture . Men obtain know- ledge by hard effort , and not by intuition alone . And the ...
... talent , without book - learning ; but it is not for us to say how high they might have risen had they but attended to regular and systematic self - culture . Men obtain know- ledge by hard effort , and not by intuition alone . And the ...
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... talent be acquired . All the education in the world cannot give the natural aptitude men call genius . Culture cannot make an imbecile into a philosopher , or convert a real may simpleton into a man of sense and prudence . There NEED OF ...
... talent be acquired . All the education in the world cannot give the natural aptitude men call genius . Culture cannot make an imbecile into a philosopher , or convert a real may simpleton into a man of sense and prudence . There NEED OF ...
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... talent or extinguishing natural genius , rather acts as a stimulus . Only recollect that Hugh Miller was a stonemason ; and without the privilege of university education , he raised himself by his own efforts to the peerage of intellect ...
... talent or extinguishing natural genius , rather acts as a stimulus . Only recollect that Hugh Miller was a stonemason ; and without the privilege of university education , he raised himself by his own efforts to the peerage of intellect ...
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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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