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Page 17 - What is man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed ? A beast; no more. Sure, He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused." —"Hamlet.
Page 153 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. Knowledge comes
Page 18 - servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, to be turned to any kind of work, to spin the gossamers as well as
Page 18 - whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; one who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 52 - Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see, Thy honourable mettle may be wrought From that it is disposed: Therefore, 'tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes. For who so firm that cannot be seduced ? " —"Julius Casar,
Page 89 - Happy he With such a mother; faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, He shall not bind his soul with clay.
Page 3 - Attending Physician, Neurological Department, New York Orthopedic Hospital and Dispensary. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY JOHN H. MUSSER, MD Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON COPYRIGHT. 1901, BY WB SAUNDERS & COMPANY REGISTERED AT STATIONERS
Page 18 - forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with the great and fundamental truths of nature and the laws of her operations; one whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience;
Page 98 - lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize with clay. As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature, will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.