The Phi Gamma Delta, Volum 7

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1884
 

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Pàgina 89 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Pàgina 83 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Pàgina 153 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Pàgina 195 - That copies of these resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased and to the various daily and scientific journals.
Pàgina 93 - Neither man nor animal, and yet no monster, but a being in whom both races meet on friendly ground.
Pàgina 195 - While we bow in humble submission to the will of Him who doeth all things well...
Pàgina 110 - Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as He loves us better too.
Pàgina 91 - Behind us, behind each one of us, lie Six Thousand Years of human effort, human conquest : before us is the boundless Time, with its as yet uncreated and unconquered Continents and Eldorados, which we, even we, have to conquer, to create; and from the bosom of Eternity there shine for us celestial guiding stars.
Pàgina 3 - ... quiescent for ever. A Midsummer Night's Dream is the second inscription on the luminous column of his renown. Othello, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night, are engraven in characters of light on its base. Other minds have had their infancy, their maturity, and their decline. In other intellects, even the most resplendent, we observe the unfoldings of genius, as of the gradual unfolding of the morning's light, its maturity as of the full blaze of noon, and its decline and decay as the twilight of evening...
Pàgina 4 - I AM about to describe in extrao • dinary species of mind, perplexing to all the French modes of analysis and reasoning, all-powerful, excessive, master of the sublime as well as of the base ; the most creative mind that ever engaged in the exact copy of the details of actual existence, in the dazzling caprice of fancy, in the profound...

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