The Making of Character: Some Educational Aspects of EthicsMacmillan, 1900 - 226 pages |
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Page 214 - and having writ, Moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit Will lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Page 30 - The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.
Page 147 - a dozen more to say that the children of this world are wiser than the children of light. Some to declare that like draws to like, and others that extremes meet: a host to persuade us that to hesitate is to be lost, and we are almost
Page 147 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man — be virtuous, be religious — be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Page 47 - day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
Page 73 - may have no trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Page 33 - In his cool hall, with haggard eyes The Roman noble lay; He drove abroad in furious guise Along the Appian way. He made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crowned his brow with flowers, No easier nor no quicker passed The impracticable hours.
Page 27 - ebb has come, so that knowledge may be got and a habit of skill acquired — a headway of interest, in short, secured, on which afterward the individual may float. There is a happy moment for fixing skill in drawing, for making boys collectors in natural
Page 206 - I may assume that the Awful Author of our being is the author of our place in the order of existence; and that, having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but according to His, He has in and by that disposition, virtually subjected us to act the part which belongs to the place assigned us.
Page 97 - while our whole life is scarce sufficient to gain the friendship of a few persons, man stands at all times in need of the co-operation and assistance of great multitudes."* It is