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Page 208 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 180 - With that, methought, a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me, and howled in mine ears Such hideous cries, that, with the very noise, I trembling waked, and, for a season after, Could not believe but that I was in Hell ; Such terrible impression made my dream.
Page 199 - The knowledge that a man can use is the only real knowledge; the only knowledge that has life and growth in it and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones.
Page 13 - On the other hand, here is John Marshall, whose mind seems to be little else than a mountain of barren and stupendous rocks, an inexhaustible quarry, from which he draws his materials and builds his fabrics, rude and Gothic, but of such strength that neither time nor force can beat them down ; a fellow who would not turn off a single step from the right line of his argument, though a Paradise should rise to tempt him...
Page 191 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 183 - We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitationrooms 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 184 - Hence some for love, and some for jealousy, For grim religion some, and some for pride, Have lost their reason : some for fear of want, Want all their lives ; and others every day For fear of dying suffer worse than death.
Page 186 - I have been struck with the number of faces which told in strong lines of the burdens that had to be borne. I have been struck, too, with the large proportion of gray-haired men ; and inquiries have brought out the fact that with you the hair commonly begins to turn some ten years earlier than with us. Moreover, in every circle I have met men who had themselves suffered from nervous collapse due to stress of business, or named friends who had either killed themselves by overwork, or had been permanently...
Page 9 - The world stands aside for the man who has a program, a mission, a calling to do that which he feels a throbbing compulsion within him to do. Stoutly affirm your ability to do what you undertake; every affirmative strengthens your position.
Page 141 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.