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... perfect Union . But it was a school where periods of hardship , excitement and danger were followed by relaxation and lassitude , when the open door and the siren's song invited to things forbidden and unlawful . The bad ways that the ...
... perfect Union . But it was a school where periods of hardship , excitement and danger were followed by relaxation and lassitude , when the open door and the siren's song invited to things forbidden and unlawful . The bad ways that the ...
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... perfect , ' oda ( oida ) , to know . And as the beginning of speech must have been in the use of some simple words , expressive of the action of the senses , by which the mind connects with the physical world ; and as sight is far the ...
... perfect , ' oda ( oida ) , to know . And as the beginning of speech must have been in the use of some simple words , expressive of the action of the senses , by which the mind connects with the physical world ; and as sight is far the ...
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... perfect image of a blade of grass or a mountain range , grains of sand tossed in the surf on the sea's shore or worlds rolling in the depths of space . And wonderful to relate , thou dost reveal to the eye of the expert the very ...
... perfect image of a blade of grass or a mountain range , grains of sand tossed in the surf on the sea's shore or worlds rolling in the depths of space . And wonderful to relate , thou dost reveal to the eye of the expert the very ...
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... perfect , become the mould and measure for perfecting man , moving on the lines of evolution , the lines of progress , where every step in advance yields the pleasure of memory and the pleas- ures of hope , the sweetness of victory ...
... perfect , become the mould and measure for perfecting man , moving on the lines of evolution , the lines of progress , where every step in advance yields the pleasure of memory and the pleas- ures of hope , the sweetness of victory ...
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... Perfect virtue comes from the practice of perfect virtue . " And this accords with the maxims that Practice makes perfect " and as " Custom makes law , " Habit comes to rule man's life . 66 In this great law of nature lies the assurance ...
... Perfect virtue comes from the practice of perfect virtue . " And this accords with the maxims that Practice makes perfect " and as " Custom makes law , " Habit comes to rule man's life . 66 In this great law of nature lies the assurance ...
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action afar shall speak Aristeia Aristotle assurance of certainty beautiful beginning behoof forever called Christian Christmas civilization Decemvirs dedicate this day eidolon Epictetus Eternal Seats evil faith Founder GOETHE Grecian Greek GUEST CHAMBER Head Master heart heaven hence to grace Heraclitus highest holds his Sacred honor idea Ideal and Real idol JOHN HOWARD PAYNE Julian calendar Lacedaemon Latin Law and Order lego Lesson in Wisdom LIVING AGE LOGOS AND LOVE Logos invited guests lowly board man's MARCUS AURELIUS MAX MÜLLER mind Mithras moral nature pearl of price philosopher PLATO PROLOGUE PYTHAGORAS reason RELIGION OF LOGOS renewal Roman Roman calendar Sacred Festival School of Law self-control set the Student's sing its palinode Socrates Socratic School soul spirit Student's Calendar Surely their names sweet thee thence afar things thou thought tion token thereof true right truth universe unto winter solstice word WORLD'S ORDER Year's Day
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Page 183 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 129 - Two men I honour, and no third. First, the toilworn Craftsman that with earth-made Implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand; crooked, coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue indefeasibly royal, as of the Sceptre of this Planet. Venerable too is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence; for it is the face of a Man living manlike.
Page 70 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 127 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Page 124 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it...
Page 171 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Page 171 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 129 - If the poor and humble toil that we have Food, must not the high and glorious toil for him in return, that he have Light, have Guidance, Freedom, Immortality? These two, in all their degrees, I honour; all else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow whither it listeth.
Page 63 - The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury.
Page 111 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.