Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...made the ideal of self, though this perhaps was the most important element. It was the whole being of a man, body, thought, sensations, - a combination of all the elements which made the individual. The Brahman was the great self, the ultimate ground of all creative energy. The chief aim of the Brahman philosophy was to unite the self with this great self or Brahman. When this stage had been reached, transmigration ceased, and the delusive assertion of individuality died away. Eternal peace was achieved when the believer could say "Thou art Thou...
...testimony also to the dignity, fairness, patience and sound judgement with which President Eliot has invariably discharged the difficult duties of the chair. In his function as moderator of debate, in the presentation of his own views, and in the appointment of committees, he has made it his constant aim to have all opinions justly represented, and to secure the consideration of every important question from all reasonable points of view. He has endured, without flinching, the most wearisome prolongations of debate. He has never left a doubt in any mind of his absolute devotion to the good...
...books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. Remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation to a central object of constant and growing interest. This method forces upon us the necessity of thinking, which...
There are so many who aspire to be Daniel Websters, and Edwin Forests, and Phillips Brooks's, that it is almost to be feared the supply may ultimately come to exceed the demand. The examples of such men too often tend to mislead the rising generation, who aim at the result, but do not place a just value on the means by which such a result is obtained. Daniel Webster did not become great by merely imitating some one else. He had great gifts of a certain kind, and used them to the full; but the power to impress other...
This early work has the appearance of youth, it seems undeveloped, unfinished in style, but it brings with these qualities the fire, earnestness and frankness of youthful enthusiasm. The constant aim of these independent workers was to paint what they saw as they saw it. Art in this early period of the Renaissance is comparable to a great uncut diamond which appears in the sixteenth century cut and ready for polish, but it is not until the seventeenth century that we see the jewel in its perfection. After the seventeenth century the diamond degenerates into a mere imitation...