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Page 244 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 244 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Page 245 - He teaches who gives, and he learns who receives. There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are ; a transfusion takes place ; he is you and you are he ; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
Page 249 - They are free, and they make free. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward when we arrive at the precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books excepting the transcendental and extraordinary. If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought, to that degree that he forgets the authors and...
Page 251 - We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Page 249 - I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success — taking their own tests of success. I say this polemically, or in reply to the inquiry, Why not realize your world? But far be from me the despair which prejudges the law by a paltry empiricism; since there never was a right endeavor but it succeeded. Patience and patience, we shall win at the last.
Page 248 - But never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick. The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the Creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine. The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body.
Page 229 - All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Page 222 - It is the iron band of poverty, of necessity, of austerity, which, excluding them from the sensual enjoyments which make other boys too early old, has directed their activity in safe and right channels, and made them, despite themselves, reverers of the grand, the beautiful, and the good.
Page 246 - Our culture therefore must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace...
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| Title | The New Fraternity: A Novel of University Life American Fiction, 1774-1920 |
| Author | George Frederick Gundelfinger |
| Publisher | New Fraternity, 1916 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 301 pages |
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