Work and Play: Talks with StudentsPilgrim Press, 1900 - 208 pages |
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ability acquire aims amusements appetite aspiration asso athletics become better carried CASTLES IN SPAIN cation cerning character college boy college days culture daily danger Daniel Webster delight dents develop discipline dream drink Duke of Wellington earnest effort ence energies enthusiasm Eton exer exercise fail faith fortunate foundation friends gained Garfield give glad Gladstone gymnasium hand honor hope ical ideal important impulse influence inspiration intel INTELLECTUAL GROWTH interest kink knowledge lege lems less lessons lives look mand manhood manly ment mental mind moral muscles Napoleon nature ness never one's pathy physical politics possible purpose quicken quire reserve power result SAMUEL JOHNSON says sleep soul strength strong sure teach temptations thee things tion train true truth ture uncon unconsciously vigor WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE yield young youth
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Page 133 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Page 36 - The law of nature is that a certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it.
Page 137 - thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave the low vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than
Page 145 - It is related by Emerson that, whenever Lord Chatham spoke, those who listened felt that there was something finer in the man than anything which he said, and additional weight was thereby given to every sentence which he uttered. History abounds in records of men whose deeds bear no
Page 20 - I would the great world grew like thee, Who growest not alone in power And knowledge, but by year and hour, In reverence and in charity.
Page 129 - He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed,
Page 194 - physical exclusively, and you have an athlete or a savage; the moral only, and you have an enthusiast or a maniac ; the intellectual only, and you have a diseased oddity—it may be a monster. It is only by wisely training all three together that the complete man is formed.
Page 95 - a poor, miserable wretch, who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice which reproduces it.
Page 97 - count it, kind heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among the